Nigeria Minister of Finance Mrs. Kemi Adeosun, on Tuesday, tasked the Director-Generals of Customs and African Union Commission to bring on board the issue of 0.2% import levy and come out with the guidelines for its implementation. She based the call for the implementation on making it a permanent source of funding for implementation by […]
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The revenue target of the Nigeria Customs Service for 2016 fell by ₦216.5bn, the Comptroller-General of Customs, Col. Hameed Ali (retd), told the House of Representatives on Wednesday in Abuja. This was a dip of 23.11 per cent as against the original target of N937.3bn set for the year. The agency only succeeded in collecting […]
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Comptroller-General of Customs, retired Col. Hameed Ali, has announced that HND holders on salary Grade Level GL 07 in the service will move to GL 08 and a supplementary budget will be made for their salary arrears. He also announced the promotion of 3,487 senior officers. Ali said this during the decoration of the newly […]
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Last month, the Association of Nigerian Licensed Customs Agents (ANLCA) and the National Association of Government Approved Freight Forwarders (NAGAFF) jointly issued a 21-day ultimatum to the Federal Government to address corruption in the ports or risk ground the ports and borders from (April 10) by withdrawing their services, Sunnews report. The associations, in a […]
Read More Vehicle dealers in the country will now enjoy the privilege of clearing their cars from the ports and paying the duty later going by a new policy approved by the Federal Government for the Nigeria Customs Service. The implication of the new policy, according to the service, is that people can clear their vehicles from […]
Read More Total of 3,190 vehicles were seized by the Nigeria Customs Services in 2015 and 2016 , amounting to 7.75 billion Naira. This; as part of its anti-smuggling activities, figures obtained from the agency showed. The 3,190 vehicles for the two-year period, according to the NCS, have a total duty paid value of N7.75bn The figures are […]
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The Senate Committee on Customs, Excise and Tariff, has commenced investigation into alleged over N4 trillion revenue leakage in the Nigeria Customs Service between 2006 and 2016. The Chairman of the committee, Sen. Hope Uzodinma, made this known in an interview with newsmen on Sunday in Abuja. He said that the committee would stop at […]
Read More Seized vehicles with duty paid value worth over N6bn are wasting away in various Customs warehouses and premises across the country, following the suspension of auction by the Nigeria Customs Service since August 2015. According to correspondent, the vehicles numbering over 2,000 units, most of which were seized by the NCS as part of its […]
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The Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) has said it generated a total sum of N256.4 billion revenue between January and December 2016 from one of the largest port in the Nation – Tin-Can The Customs Area Controller, Comptroller Yusuf Bashar, disclosed this in a statement made available to newsmen on Thursday in Lagos by the Public Relations […]
Read More Forty-three jumbo bags of cannabis worth N250m smuggled into the country from Ghana have been seized along Agbara/Badagry road by the Nigeria Customs Service. The Western Marine Command of the NCS disclosed this in a statement. It quoted the Controller of the command, Yusuf Umar, as saying that the seizure was made possible following a […]
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