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Former Public Relation Officer (PRO) of Nigeria Customs Service (NCS), Wale Adeniyi (Left), exchanging gift with his successor, Joseph Attah
Category: Custom
Customs zone ‘A’ records N1.3B seizures in December
For the month of December, 2016, the Federal Operations Unit (FOU), Zone ‘A’ of Nigeria Customs Service (NCS), recorded N1.3 Billion seizures and commenced the prosecution of alleged smugglers including two Chines nationals. The Zone also inten...
Anxiety as Customs intercepts 102 bags of plastic rice
(NAN) The Nigeria Customs Service (FOU), Federal Operations Unit (FOU), Ikeja, has seized 102 bags of plastic rice branded “Beat Tomato Rice’’ with no date of manufacture. The Customs Area Controller of F.O.U. Comptroller Mohammed Haruna,stated this in...
Customs intercepts gas mask, riffles, bulletproof vests, others at Tin Can Island Port
The Tin Can Island Port (TCIP) Command of Nigeria Customs Service has intensified its surveillance activities as part of measures to curtail all forms of illegal import into the country. Under the arrangement, the command has expanded its intelligence gatherin...
Customs intercepts truck with adulterated diesel products
The Nigeria Customs Service ((NCS), Federal Operations Unit (FOU), Zone ‘C’ Owerri has intercepted a truck suspected of carrying adulterated diesel product. According to the Customs Area Controller in charge of the unit, Comptroller Mohammed Uba Garba, t...
Customs FOU impounds N1.1B contraband, arrest 18 suspects
The reinvigorated anti-smuggling activities of the Federal Operations Unit, (FOU) Zone ‘C’ of the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) has resulted in the seizure of 29 prohibited items with a Duty Paid Value (DPV) of N1,074,099,739.00 and under payment recovered...
EFCC confirms ex-Customs boss returned N1 billion
(NAN) The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has confirmed media reports that a former Comptroller-General, Nigeria Customs Service (NCS), Abdullahi Dikko, returned N1 billion to the Federal Government. The commission’s spokesperson, Wilson Uwuj...
Customs impounds 11,315 cartons of imported frozen poutry products
The newly appointed Area Controller of Nigeria Customs Service (NCS), Federal Operations Unit (FOU) Zone ‘C’ Owerri, Comptroller Mohammed Uba Garba has intercepted a DAF Truck loaded with eleven thousand, three hundred and fifteen (11,315) cartons of impor...
Minister laments ‘high-level’ corruption in Customs
Efforts by the Federal Government to realize money from revenue generating agencies such as Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) is being hampered by alleged high-level corruption, the Minister of Finance, Kemi Adeosun has said. Addressing members of the Senate Com...
Customs arraigns two smugglers
The Nigeria Customs Service, Federal Operations Unit, (Zone A) on Tuesday arraigned two alleged smugglers before Magistrate Y.A. Aje-Afunwa of the Magistrate Court, Ikeja, Lagos State on nine (9) counts charge of smuggling prohibited items. According to ...
Customs dismisses 17 officers for drug addiction, certificate forgery
Seventeen (17) Junior Officers of the Nigeria Customs Service have been dismissed from the Service for offences ranging from drug addiction, certificate forgery, theft and absence from duty from January to September 2016. A statement issued by the Pub...
Customs impounds 121 vehicles, 3,082 bags of Rice, others in FOU Zone C
The Nigeria Customs Service (NCS), Federal Operations Unit (FOU) Zone C, Owerri has recorded a total of two hundred and thirty-one (231) seizures of contraband goods with an overall Duty Paid Value (DPV) of one billion, nine hundred and fifty-seven...
Ease of doing business and corruption at borders, ports
By Lanre Badmus – After months of mere sound bites and public statements, a Presidential Enabling Business Environment Council has been approved by President Muhammadu Buhari, to drive government’s promise to significantly reduce the cost of doing bu...
‘Rice imports remain banned through land borders’
The Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) has not reversed the ban on rice importations through land borders. In a statement on Saturday, NCS Public Relations Officer (PRO), Wale Adeniyi also denied granting press interview to that effect. Adeniyi said:...