Nigeria Customs just signed a deal that changes how your goods clear the border. Here is what it actually means for you.

Nigeria Customs, AfCFTA and a private security and customs firm signed an agreement in Lagos this month to connect customs systems across African countries. On paper that sounds like government talk. On the ground it means one thing for you: clearing your goods at the border is meant to get faster and less dependent on who you know at that particular checkpoint.I am not telling you to celebrate yet. I am telling you to watch it, because this is exactly the kind of change that catches SME exporters off guard six months later when the rules shift and nobody told them early.If you are moving goods across any West African border in the next year, this is the update you cannot afford to miss while you are busy running the actual business.The full weekly signal, with what changed, what it means for your sector, and what to do about it before your competitor finds out, lives inside GROWTH. ...