Category: Custom

The Nigeria Customs Service (NCS)patrol team from Federal Operations Unit, Zone A, Lagos, was attacked by smugglers on Saturday afternoon, during an operation along Shagamu Interchange in Ogun State.  The Ag. Controller of the Unit, Hussein Ejibunu disclosed ...

By Moses Ebosele, ebosele@hotmail.com  — The Nigeria Customs Service (NCS)has commended Toyota Nigeria Limited (TNL) for “paying appropriate duty always“.    Speaking at a ceremony in Abuja where Toyota Nigeria honoured NCS as ...

The Nigeria Customs Service (NCS), on Tuesday, in Abuja, released its report on verification of privately-owned airplanes in the country and threatened to impound 29 jets over non-payment of statutory import duties.   Addressing Journalists, &nb...

Between August 26 and September 29, 2021, the Zone B unit of the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) seized smuggled gunpowder, Indian Hemp, rice and other goods    Customs comptroller in the zone, Mr Al-Bashir Hamisu told Journalists in Kaduna on Thu...

Between July and this month, the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS), Kano/Jigawa Command,  seized 707 bags of smuggled rice and other items with Duty Paid Value of N41.3 million.   The Command’s Comptroller, Mr Suleiman Umar, made the disclosure on Thursday i...

The Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) says it will soon deploy drones at Seme for effective patrol in checking smuggling activities in the border area. NCS Zone A Coordinator, Modupe Aremu, an Assistant Comptroller General (ACG) of Customs, disclosed this on...

The Area Controller, Tincan Island Command, Nigeria Customs Service, Comptroller Abdullahi Musa, on Thursday said that the command generated N320.96 billion from January to August, 2021.  Musa made this known at a media conference in Lagos.  He said that...

Operatives of the Comptroller General of Customs Strike Force, Zone A, have intercepted N643.73 million worth of poisonous Donkey hides and skin, charcoal and wood already positioned for export in Lagos. All the seizures were already stored in a warehouse...

The House of Representatives Committee on Customs has given the Nigerian Customs Service (NCS) two weeks to reduce its 18 cargo clearing stages to four, so as to decongest the nation’s ports.  The committee, which made the resolution on Tuesday,...

The Comptroller-General (CG), Nigeria Customs Service (NCS), Retired Col. Hameed Ali,  has ordered the immediate removal of all illegal checkpoints along Katsina-Jibia road.  Ali gave the order when he paid a condolence visit to the Emir of Kats...

The Nigeria Customs Service, Federal Operations Unit, Zone ‘C’  has intercepted three trucks conveying six 6×20ft containers of logs of unprocessed timber.  The Zonal Coordinator for Zone ‘C’, Ag. ACG Olusemire Kayode while d...

The Controller General of Customs Strike Force,  Team A, on Wednesday disclosed that it intercepted four container loads of unprocessed woods valued at N373.5 million. The unprocessed woods were about being shipped out of the country to Asia when it...

The Nigeria Customs Service (NCS), Federal Operations Unit, Zone B,  has solicited increased synergy with the police in tackling smuggling activities and general performance in Sokoto.  The Comptroller of the unit, Mr Ba...