Nigeria is set to export its home-grown customs modernization model across the continent after the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) adopted the nation’s electronic customs system as the template for a $3.1 billion continental project. The Infrastructure Concession Regulatory Commission (ICRC) disclosed this in Abuja on Tuesday, describing the development as a major validation of Nigeria’s public-private partnership (PPP) framework. The indigenous solution, originally developed for the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS), will now support trade across approximately 50 African nations, serving a single market of 1.3 billion people. The announcement comes shortly after the ICRC chief conducted a compliance inspection of the project’s central system, B’Odogwu—a Unified Customs Management System currently transforming NCS operations. Commending the achievement, AfCFTA Secretary-General Wamkele Mene stated that the progress recorded under Nigeria’s customs modernization program gave the continental body full confidence to replicate the framework across Africa.