About Export Handbook
A reference for people exporting from Nigeria for the first time. Not a consultancy, not a registration agent, and not for sale.
Why this exists
The guidance that ranks for these questions is mostly published by logistics firms and company-registration agencies, and it shares one failure: it goes concrete on process and vague on money. One widely-read guide states ₦20,000 as the “official” NEPC fee. NEPC’s own portal says ₦13,500. Another declines to publish any figure at all and tells you to go and look it up yourself.
Meanwhile the checklist everybody references — the actual list of documents and who issues each one — is almost never printed. So we print it.
The rule we work to
Every fee, validity period, deadline and document list on this site is read from the issuing agency’s own website or its own published document. Never from another blog, never from an agent’s quote, never from memory.
When an agency does not publish a figure, we do not substitute one. We say it is unpublished, show what we checked, and tell you who to ask. That is why the phytosanitary certificate page has no fee on it.
What the stamps mean
The stamp is never decoration. It is the honest state of the page’s central fact.
What we do not do
- We do not register anyone with NEPC, or sell any service related to these documents.
- We are not affiliated with NEPC, NEPZA, NACCIMA, NAQS, NAFDAC, SON, the Nigeria Customs Service or the Central Bank of Nigeria.
- We do not publish earnings claims. Nobody can tell you what a container will make you.
- We do not cover crude oil and gas exports, which run under a different regulator and a different set of deadlines.
Corrections
Government fees change, and pages go stale. If a figure here is wrong, or you have paid a fee we list as unpublished, tell us — corrections are the point. See our editorial policy for how we handle them.