One of the anti-smuggling units of the Nigeria Customs Service, NCS, has intercepted contraband goods with Duty Paid Value, DPV of ₦531 million in three weeks. Known as the Federal Operations unit, FOU, Zone A, the unit disclosed that it also recovered the sum of ₦252.1 million from importers who under-declared their consignments during the […]
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In a single haul in Lagos, the Nigeria Customs Service has made a seizure of high profile vehicles valued at ₦1.374 billion. The Comptroller General of the NCS, Col. Hameed Ali, (Rtd), disclosed this in Lagos on Tuesday while showing 37 assorted Sports Utility Vehicles and used cars seized by the service to journalists. Ali […]
Read More The Oyo/Osun Command of Nigeria Customs Service has raked in ₦8.8 billion (approximately ₦9 billion) in the first half of 2017 fiscal year, notwithstanding economic recession slowing down commercial activities in the country. The Command also made 57 seizures of various prohibited items like textile materials, foreign rice, footwear, vehicles and bales of second hand […]
Read More Apapa Area Command has announced that a total of ₦165,743,266,107.71 revenue was collected for the first half of the year. In a statement, the command’s Public Relations Officer (PRO), Ms Nkeiru Nwala, said that the amount represents 49.0 per cent collection on target for the year 2017. When compared with the total collection during the […]
Read More The Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) has vowed to arrest and prosecute those it described as undesirable elements who invaded the recently launched e-auction platform to make fraudulent and unrealistic bids with the sole intent of polluting the system. The Public Relations Officer of Customs, Joseph Attah, who disclosed this in Abuja yesterday said the management […]
Read More To douse the controversy surrounding Nigeria Customs Service e-auction policy over difficulty encountered in accessing its e-auction portal, the service spokesman, Mr Joseph Attah, yesterday admitted the system locked out some people at the expiration of the allotted time. He also insisted that some banks are still having interswitch challenges but that the challenge would […]
Read More The Nigeria Customs Service on Monday unveiled an electronic auction platform by which cargoes that had been forfeited to the Federal Government could be sold to Nigerians through a transparent bidding process. The unveiling of the e-auction platform was performed at the headquarters of the NCS by the Comptroller-General of Customs, Col. Hameed Ali (retd.). […]
Read More The Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) and the Rice Farmers Association of Nigeria (RIFAN) have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to stop rice smuggling through land borders in the country. The MoU was conceived following strong indications that over 99 per cent of rice smuggled into the country are unfit for human consumption. President of […]
Read More The Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) will sell seized goods from Saturday when its auction online portal is opened. Its Public Relations Officer (PRO), Mr Joseph Attah, said the goods would be sold to the highest bidders. Attah, a Deputy Comptroller of Customs, also said the NCS has embarked on campaigns on the trade facilitation programme […]
Read More Two commands of the Nigeria Customs Service, NCS, on seizure rampage raked in about ₦136.6 billion revenue, with the large haul coming from the Apapa Command which intercepted among other items unprocessed wood export. The command raised over ₦136 billion between January and May this year, while Federal Operations Unit, FOU, Zone “A”, the anti-smuggling […]
Read More The Nigeria Custom Service (NCS), Niger Area Command, said it had collected about ₦1.2 billion as revenue from January to May 2017. The area command comprised of Niger, Kogi and Kwara. The Public Relations Officer of the command, ASC Lomba Benjamin, disclosed this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Minna […]
Read More The Area Controller in charge of the Nigeria Customs Service, Federal Operations Unit, Zone ‘A’, Ikeja, Uba Mohammed, has stated that some Nigerians do not see anything wrong with smuggling. Mohammed said no matter the efforts put in by the government to check smuggling, some people would still go ahead and smuggle because they considered […]
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