The Nigerian custom service has intercepted armunitions at the Onne port in Port Harcourt, Rivers State. The arms were discovered inside a vehicle shipped into the country from the United States of America. The Area Controller, Baba Imam while taking Journalists round the container said a handgun and ammunition were deceptively declared as household items…
Barely 24-hours after inaugurating the Dangote Refinery and Petrochemicals, established by the President of Dangote Group, Aliko Dangote, in Ibeju-Lekki, Lagos State, President Muhammadu Buhari on Tuesday commissioned N19.6bn newly built Nigeria Customs Service Corporate Headquarters in Abuja. According to Mr. Adewale Adeniyi, the Deputy Comptroller-General of Customs, said that the building had a 12-floor…
The Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) has sent message of warning to its officers to desist from any form of unruly behaviour. This was revealed in a signed statement made available by the spokesperson of the service, Deputy Comptroller Timi Bomodi in Abuja. This came as a reaction to a video of a half-clad person on…
The Niger/Kogi Area Command of Nigeria Customs Service has intercepted seven smugglers and seized items worth over N238 million. The Controller of the Area Command, Mr Busayo Kadejo, disclosed this while displaying the seized items before journalists in Minna. He revealed that some of the items seized include 57 units of different exotic vehicles,21 bales…
The Federal Operations Unit, FOU Zone A, of the Nigeria Customs Service, NCS, on Wednesday, said it recovered one pump action rifle, two locally made guns, 35 live cartridges from smugglers after a gun battle around Idiroko, Ogun State. The unit also disclosed that it recovered N107.8 million as duty underpayment from goods cleared from…
The Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) has told the public that it is not the determinant of exchange rate. Timi Bomodi, the Public Relations Officer, Deputy Comptroller made this clarification via a statement on Wednesday. The spokesperson reacted to the reports which attributed the increase in exchange rate to the NCS. Bomodi explained that the Central…
No fewer than three Customs officials and a Soldier, on Friday, were allegedly injured in a gun battle with rice smugglers in the Igboora area of Ibarapa Local Government Area of Oyo State. The Customs Public Relations Officer, Federal Operations Unit Zone A, Mr. Theophilus Duniya, made this known in a statement issued on Saturday….
REPORTER’S DIARY: How Non-intervention Of The Nigerian Police Enthroned Lawlessness, Aided Looting in Ilorin October 23, 2020, would forever be engraved in the heart of residents of Ilorin, Kwara state capital. It was the day terror went on a rampage, rubbing salts on the wounds of residents who have barely recovered from the economic shock…
