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September 24, 2021 No Responses

Customs Impound 707 Bags Of Rice, 231 Cartons Of Milk, Others In Kano

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 in Kano...

February 23, 2021 No Responses

Customs Impounds 17kg Gold Bars At Airport

Customs officials on Monday said it seized 150 gold bars weighing 17.4 kg at Bangladesh’s Shah Amanat International Airport in seaport city Chattogram from a plane arriving from Abu Dhabi. Nurunnahar Lily, a senior customs official, told journalists th...

August 3, 2019 No Responses

Customs Impounds 4.5 Tons Of Cocaine

Germany’s customs have found 4.5 tons of cocaine onboard a containership at the Port of Hamburg, representing the largest-ever cocaine shipment seized. The shipment, consisting of more than 4,200 parcels was discovered in 211 black sports bags in a container...

July 21, 2019 No Responses

Iran Seizes British Tanker

(BBC)–There will be “serious consequences” if Iran does not release a British-flagged tanker seized in the Gulf, Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt has said. The Stena Impero’s owners say they have been unable to contact their vessel, which ...

May 24, 2017 No Responses

Customs intercepts 440 pump action riffles imported from Turkey

The Tin-Can Island Command of the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) has intercepted a 20 footer container laden with 440 pump action riffles imported from Turkey. The Customs Area Controller, BASHAR YUSUF explained on Tuesday that the seizure was perfected...

January 31, 2017 No Responses

Customs intercepts 661 rifles in Lagos

The Federal Operation Unit (FOU), Zone “A” Ikeja of Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) has intercepted 661 pump action rifles in Lagos. According to Customs, the guns concealed in a 40-foot container with number PONU 825914(3)45G1, were seized on Mile 2...

January 17, 2017 one Response

Customs zone C records N4.7b seizures in 2016

For the year 2016, the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS), Federal Operations Unit (FOU), Zone ‘C’ Owerri recorded seizures of three hundred and seven (307) contraband worth four billion, seven hundred and fifty-six million, two hundred and seventy-seven tho...