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February 17, 2024 No Responses

Customs Impounds N19.6M Sex Enhancement Drugs

The Nigeria Customs Service (NSC), joint border patrol team, sector IV, has seized a consignment of sex enhancement drugs worth N19.6M in Sokoto state. Briefing Journalists in Sokoto, Coordinating Comptroller, Mr. Kolapo Oladeji, explained that trucks carrying food items were...

July 23, 2022 No Responses

TinCan Customs Generates N274.32b In Six Months

Between January and June 2022, the TinCan Island Port Customers Command generated N274.32 billion, an increase of 27.50 per cent when compared with N229.32 billion achieved in the corresponding period of 2021. Briefing Journalists on Friday, the comm...

August 24, 2021 No Responses

NEPZA, Borno Reactivate Banki Border Free Trade Zone

The Nigeria Export Processing Zones Authority (NEPZA) has commenced the process of reactivating the Banki border Free Trade Zone in Borno State, to spur economic development. The Managing Director of NEPZA, Prof. Adesoji Adesugba disclosed this on Monday...

April 23, 2021 No Responses

Kano/Jigawa Customs Command Generates N7.6b, Impounds 716 Bags Of Rice, Others

For the 2021 first quarter (Q1), the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS), Kano/Jigawa Area Command, generated a total of N7.658 billion revenue . The Customs Area Comptroller, Mr Suleiman Pai-Umar, who disclosed this on Thursday in Kano explained that N2....

April 21, 2021 No Responses

Customs Strike Force Intercepts 513 Bags Of Foreign Rice

The Nigeria Customs Service, Zone B Strike Force Team has intercepted 513 bags of 50kg foreign rice from smugglers. The Coordinator of the Team, DC Oseni Olorukooba, while briefing newsmen on Tuesday in Ilorin, explained that the seizures with...

April 15, 2021 No Responses

Customs Intercepts Vehicles, Smuggled Rice Worth N1.3b

The Federal Operations Unit (FOU), Zone C of the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) intercepted contraband and raised a debit note (DN) worth N1.3bilion in the last three months. In a press statement issued by the Public Relations Officer, Jerry Attah,&n...

April 13, 2021 No Responses

Customs Apapa Command Generates N159.58b In Q1

The Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) Apapa Command on Monday disclosed that it generated over N159.58 billion in the First Quarter (Q1) of 2021. The Area Controller of the command, Ibrahim Yusuf, explained that the revenues were receipts from customs duty.....

December 17, 2020 No Responses

Jubilation In Seme As Nigeria Reopens Four Land Borders

There was jubilation in Seme, near Badagry, Lagos State, on Wednesday as Federal Government of Nigeria ordered the reopening of four land borders across the country. The Minister of Finance, Budget and National Planning, Mrs Zainab Ahmed, annou...

November 30, 2020 No Responses

More Stakeholders Fault Border Re-Opening For Dangote, BUA

The reported re-opening of the borders to allow Dangote and BUA companies to trans ship their goods across the closed borders was lopsided and amounted to a ‘selective decision’ that would engender monopolies, Trade and Industry Stakeholders decl...

November 26, 2020 No Responses

Panel Submits Report As Stakeholders Push For Reopening Of Land Borders

More stakeholders on Wednesday called for the reopening of Land Borders closed since August 20, 2020. Meanwhile, Minister of Finance, Budget and National Planning Zainab Ahmed has explained that a panel has submitted its report. In a...

November 25, 2020 No Responses

Customs Impounds 208 Bags Of Rice, 94 Cartons Of Pasta, Others

The Comptroller General’s Taskforce of Nigeria Customs Services, Zone B, Kano, has seized contraband with Duty Paid Value (DPV) of N24,385 million in Kano State. Deputy Comptroller General of Customs and head of the taskforce, Mr...

November 23, 2020 No Responses

Customs Impounds 24 Vehicles, 1,716 Bags Of Rice, Others

The Seme Command of the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) has intercepted 24 fairly-used vehicles, 1,716 bags of imported rice and 1,148 jerry cans of Petrol in the last seven weeks. The new Customs Area Controller, Comptroller Bello Jibo, explain...

October 14, 2020 No Responses

Customs Impounds 1,400 Bags Of Fertilizer, Generates N39.99b In Oyo/Osun

The Nigeria Customs Service (NCS), Oyo/Osun Area Command, has arrested 25 suspected smugglers and seized a total of 1,400 bags of fertilizer. The Customs Area Controller, Comptroller Uche Ngozi, disclosed this on Tuesday in Ibadan while briefing journali...

June 30, 2020 No Responses

Osinbajo: Synergy Critical In Managing Nigeria’s Border

Renewed efforts will be channeled towards improving synergy among agencies involved in border management, Vice President Yemi Osinbajo has said. Osinbajo’s spokesman, Laolu Akande, in a statement on Monday in Abuja, said the vice president spoke at the virtu...