Nigeria Customs Service, (NCS) has impounded some bullet-proof vehicles from a park in Ikoyi, Lagos. According to the Customs, the operation was based on intelligence reports and ownership of the vehicles remains a mystery as nobody has come forward to claim them. Mohammed Garba, the Customs Area Controller, FOU, said similar vehicles were also seized […]
Read More Nigeria Customs Tincan Island Port Command at the weekend, handed over 2 x 40ft containers laden with different types of tramadaol tablets. They include 240 cartons of New Royal Tramadol Hydrochloride 225mg tablets, 240 dartons of Double Extra Strong Tramadol 200mg, 240 cartons of Super Power Tramadol Hydrochloride, 70 cartons of Ibamol – Diclofenac Sodium […]
Read More The Area Controller, Onne Customs Command, Port Harcourt, Bashir Abubakar has reiterated the command’s readiness to surpass its revenue collection target of ₦112, 500, 626, 038 for 2017. At a press briefing on the command’s activities for the third quarter of the year, Abubakar said the command generated a total of ₦71, 826, 387, 566.98 […]
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War against illegal trades within the country took another turn as the Compliance Team which was established by the Comptroller General of Nigeria Customs Service, Colonel Hameed Ibrahim Ali (rtd), to combat crime has made more seizures of ₦135.33 million few days after it generated over ₦1 billion from seizures. The Zone ‘C’ team led […]
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Nigeria’s Vice President, Prof Yemi Osinbajo Tuesday assured the business community and Nigerians in general that the challenge of multiple Customs checkpoints, especially along the eastern axis will be looked into as government remains committed to creating a conducive investment climate in the country. The Vice President who gave the assurance in Abuja at the […]
Read More A total of 3,665 vehicles with duty paid value of ₦13.164 billion were seized by the Nigeria Customs Service between 2015 and 2017, the Comptroller-General of Customs, Col. Hameed Ali (retd.), has said.. Ali stated this in a lecture on ‘Problems of smuggling and its consequences on the Nigerian Economy: The way out’, at the […]
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The Nigeria Customs Service, Federal Operations Unit, Zone ‘A’ has impounded 11 smuggled exotic vehicles with a duty paid value of ₦125.4 million. Disclosing this to journalists in Lagos on Wednesday, the Controller, NCS FOU, Zone ‘A’, Mohammed Uba, also stated that eight suspects had been arrested in connection with 128 seizures. He said that […]
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Rice smugglers carrying out their activities through the creeks have been warned to desist or be ready to face prosecution by the Western Marine Command, WMC, of Nigeria Customs Service, NCS, as the command has increased measures in the region to curtail illicit items from coming in through the waterways. A maritime stakeholder from Oke-Odan […]
Read More The Nigeria Customs Service, Zone B, Kaduna, has generated over 75 per cent of its revenue target for 2017, outgoing coordinator of the zone, Assistant Controller of Customs, Aminu Dahiru, has said. Dahiru said in an interview shortly handing over to the new zonal coordinator, that the command had a revenue target of ₦24 billion […]
Read More The Seme Area Command of Nigeria Customs Service (NCS), last month generated ₦701 million. The Anti- Smuggling unit of the Command also made 48 seizures with a duty paid value of ₦32.9 million for the month under review. The amount raked in August was ₦202 million in excess of the amount generated in July 2017. […]
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Nigeria’s top official was scheduled to meet the Turkish ambassador Friday after hundreds of rifles allegedly from Turkey made it to the west African country this week falsely labelled as plumbing materials. It was the fourth time this year Nigerian customs officers had intercepted illegal arms shipments from Turkey at the nation’s ports, a customs […]
Read More Nigeria Customs Service boss, yesterday, said that less than 5 per cent of importers obey the laws guiding importation of goods into the country, thereby creating problems for the organisation in the clearance. Speaking at an interactive event of the 45th Annual General Meeting (AGM) of the Manufacturers Association (MAN) in Lagos, the Controller General […]
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