The Nigerian border closure has spun for over two months now. The development has triggered rounds of official engagements between the governments of Ghana and Nigeria to get it resolved. The issue keeps biting businesses and other allied services by the day. At the DVIP station at the Khromenko Marsegueau, drivers and their mates were idling as they waited for passengers to come on board. At 3pm, the first seven passenger car for the day was yet to be full. Head of operations here, David Olušegun says business has been slow. He says they've now load only a car instead of two a day. The closure of the border has affected us drastically since August. We have been finding very difficult to comply with our customer. I mean those who normally bring goods to us because of the closure of the border, the number of reduced drastically. It's only little to have the mind that, okay, let me just try my luck. It is, on that may be, they go to my enter, so my no enter, he just try your luck. So the closure of the border has affected us even beyond what you can be for now. The old time in the night is very dry. I was not like that before. Normally we would normally load twice a day, more than night. But now, even this is the first bus now. We are loading it for nights. I'm supposed to go this morning, but because there is no passenger. So we are pushing it to the night. Which was not like that before. Michael Ubiagua treats in a bitumen syrup and he has very slim hope of transporting some of his products to Nigeria. He says he has to transport fewer goods as a result of the directive which is worrying his business. For the take more than 100 cut off, but now we are taking it 5 cut off, 10 cut off, 20 cut off, it's no much like that. And the money that used to take it nice higher than before. Because of closing of the border. No, for here we are paying much money here to carry it. Yeah, from taking more than for something cut off. Yeah, like 3 months ago, I take 100 to 200 cut off in a month. Unfortunately for Lu Shegun, a customer is demanding his goods which has been seized at the border for a couple of days now. Some of the companies to trade with police, we have to beg them that it's not our thoughts. It is the closure of the border. And some reason they told us, the reason they told us about the way out. Even when I am talking to Yuna, I am supposed to travel to Lagos to Semé. To go and find out I can build some of the goods. Because Yuna, they came yesterday, they would see Communion on Friday. They came on Friday. I beg them that they would give me like 3D for this so that I can see the way out. If it is what I can solve, I would call them that CCCC. But if it is not what I can solve, they have to come back for negotiation that's okay. Let's not do amulet to you by your goods so that I will know what to do from back. All this, they were not like this before. At the ABC Travels, which is located at Caprice, in Accra, we were met with virtually an empty bar stamina with frustrated passengers. Also, there were packs of goods yet to be transported to Nigeria. An agent at a transport station who wants to stay anonymous says their business has been greatly affected. Anytime you came to ABC Temno, you saw a lot of people here by interkids. People who have come to Ghana to buy and to go and sell back home in Nigeria or to go in Berlin. But because of this closure, especially for those going to Nigeria, we are unable to come here in the numbers. In that the loaded item, the stuff they buy from Ghana to Nigeria is being... It's been deemed as contraband by the Nigerian government for now. These goods belong to this woman and she has been unable to take them to Nigeria. This has visibly made her unhappy. The agent also confirmed the low levels of passenger turnout at the station. What we do is that we... Now from August to date, we are gravitating towards or moving towards the Christmas festivities in and as such we are expecting more turnout, more high turnout or an upstage in the passenger levels. But because of this decision by government, by the Nigerian government, we think that our turnout has not been so encouraging. Before we are moving about two buses in a day, one long 52-seater bus and a pro possibly two other sprinters. But now we can hardly move as sprinter. The maximum you will get on a 52-seater bus will be about 15% for 52-seater bus, which is not too good for business. You are looking at your road expenses, you are looking at your driver allowance, you are looking at other expenses that you can carry, fueling everything on the road is not too good for us. We think that we are hard hit by this decision by the government. Although transport operators have been badly hit by this new directive, they are in treating all in Sunday especially passengers who want to travel from Ghana into Nigeria to do so freely without any hinders. Reporting for City News, my name is SquareCoo Adiyama Anza.