Editorial and Fact-Check Policy

Sourcing

Fees, validity periods, deadlines, required documents and issuing agencies come from the agency’s own domain or its own published document — nepc.gov.ng, naqs.gov.ng, customs.gov.ng, cbn.gov.ng, nafdac.gov.ng, son.gov.ng, or the relevant body’s own site. Every page lists the sources it was built from.

When we will not publish a number

If a figure cannot be traced to the agency that charges it, it does not appear here as a figure. We state that it is unpublished and describe what we checked. A number you cannot source is a number that will be wrong at the counter.

Statutory fees versus agents’ fees

Wherever money is mentioned we separate what the government collects from what a service provider charges. Bundling the two is the most common way first-time exporters are overcharged.

Dating and re-verification

Every page carries the date its figures were last read from source, shown in the stamp. Pages covering fees and deadlines are re-verified at least quarterly, and any page whose source document is revised is re-checked when we learn of the revision.

Corrections

Report an error through contact. Verified corrections are applied to the page and the verification date is updated. Where a correction changes a figure a reader may have acted on, the change is noted on the page rather than made silently.

Independence