Nigeria customs
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Get import & export customs regulations, restricted items and food restrictions before travelling to Nigeria. Items allowed to import is 284mL of perfume. Prohibited items is Live or dead birds, including frozen poultry. Some of restricted items are All pharmaceutical must be in hand luggage and declared on arrival.
Import Regulations
Free to import items into Nigeria
Tobacco
- 200 grams of all tobacco products.
Other items
- 284mL of perfume.
- Unused personal goods and gifts up to a value of NGN50,000. This does not include jewellery, photographic equipment, electronic and other luxury goods.
- Personal effects such as clothing, jewellery, cameras, and toys. Jewellery should be declared in writing to avoid problems at departure.
- Pilgrims may bring in a reasonable amount of Zamzam water for personal use.
Prohibited items into Nigeria
- Live or dead birds, including frozen poultry.
- Pork and beef.
- Bird eggs.
- Refined vegetable oils and fats.
- Cane or beet sugar, and chemically pure sucrose.
- Cocoa butter, powder and cakes.
- Spaghetti and noodles.
- Fruit juice in retail packs.
- Water, including mineral and aerated containing added sugar or sweeteners.
- Bagged cement.
- Specific medicines are prohibited, including paracetamol, chloroquine, multivitamins and aspirin. For further information, please visit the Nigeria Customs ServiceImport Prohibition List.
- Waste pharmaceuticals.
- Soaps and detergents.
- Mosquito repellent coils.
- Retreaded tyres.
- Corrugated paper and paper boards.
- Telephone recharge cards and vouchers.
- Carpets and textile floor coverings.
- Hollow glass bottles with a capacity exceeding 150mL.
- Ball point pens.
Restricted items into Nigeria
- All pharmaceutical must be in hand luggage and declared on arrival.
- Plants and seeds must be declared or checked in advance with the Plant Quarantine Service.
- Cats and dogs need a health certificate and proof of rabies certificate issued at place of origin.
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Export Regulations
Free to export items from Nigeria
No rules presentProhibited items from Nigeria
- Maize.
- Timber.
- Raw hides and skins.
- Scrap metals.
- Unprocessed rubber latex and rubber lamps.
- Artefacts and antiquities.
- Wildlife classified as endangered species and their derivative products, including crocodiles, elephants, lizards, eagles, monkeys, zebras, and lions.
Restricted items from Nigeria
No rules presentNigeria visa advice
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