Yaounde, Cameroon Africa. (Cameroon News) – Nigeria has closed its land border stopping movement of people and goods from its States like Yobe, Borno, Plateau and Niger States that have boundary with Far North Cameroon.

President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan of the Federal Republic of Nigeria decreed a State of emergency in the northern and central Nigerian States to contain the spread of attacks by the Islamic Boko-Haram sect from spilling over to neighbouring countries and to seek ways of combating the Islamic sect.

Members of the sect have in the past months launched deadly attacks on government services and Christian groupings, calling on all Christians to leave the northern part of Nigeria.

The Governor of the Far North Region of Cameroon, Joseph Beti Assomo, the most affected by the closure of the land border with Nigeria on January 10, 2012 in the regional headquarters, Maroua summoned a meeting during which officials brainstormed on ways of cushioning the effects of the crisis.

Henceforth, Cameroon government will seek ways of stimulating the local industries in the area and also double surveillance along the borders to check the smuggling of petrol from Nigeria.

Government sources say the closure of Nigeria’s land boundary with Far North Cameroon has negatively affected the collection of Customs revenue.

The revenue collected in the Logone and Chari Division in the first 10 days of January 2012 stands at FCFA 2 million, compared to FCFA 19 million in the same period in 2011.

Should the crisis continue, government sources say, the FCFA 6 billion, the General Directorate of Customs has assigned the Far North Region in 2012, will not be attained.

The economy of the Far North Region is equally negatively affected. The region no longer exports goods such rice, maize and onion to Nigeria that has been bringing in an annual income of about FCFA 6.5 billion.