Revealed: Benin based smugglers’ importing rice in containers from Tin Can Port
Desperate chronic rice smugglers hitherto using Cotonou Port in Benin Republic for Nigeria-bond rice, have devised yet another deadly means by stocking bags of rice in containers and declaring such another non-contraband goods to escape impoundment. However, Tuesday, luck ran…
Border opening dims the more as Customs claims making more revenue now
Contrary to the speculations of many border based business operators and companies producing goods that are distributed across the ECOWAS region that the President may likely announce the opening of the closed land borders during his October 1st national broadcast,…
Customs Zone C seizes 3433 bags of rice, others in two months, warns smugglers
The Customs Area Controller Nigeria Customs Service (NCS), Federal Operations Unit (FOU) Zone ‘C’ Owerri, Comptroller Kayode Olusemire has advised Nigerians to acquaint themselves with the country’s import and export prohibition list to avoid running afoul of the law. Giving…
Stealing seized items at Onne Customs warehouse raises salient questions
Though the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS), Onne Area Command, recently paraded five men it claimed broke into a 40-foot seized container containing hard drugs in its warehouse has come and gone, security experts have raised questions for Customs commands and…
Give waivers to encourage use of Eastern ports to decongest Apapa—Senators
The Senate Committee on Works, Friday gave its parting recommendation on ending the Apapa traffic crisis, saying time has come for all the key maritime agencies including Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA), Nigeria Customs Service (NCS), and Nigerian Maritime Administration and…
Upon Customs assurance on vacancy portal response, site still inaccessible
More than 24 hours after the management of Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) assured of fixing applicants complaints of ill-responding recruitment portal and non-capturing of some institutions, attended by applicants in the portal plus poor network system, the portal, vacancy.customs.gov.ng has…
Customs Zone C Owerri routs car smugglers, impounds exotic machines
In line with its strategic surveillance and anti-smuggling dexterity, the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS), Federal Operations Unit (FOU) Zone ‘C’ has continued to record daily success in her anti-smuggling operations in the South South and South East geopolitical zone. This…
Endless smuggling forces Customs to seek 35% levy reduction on imported vehicles
At last, the Comptroller-General of Customs, Col Hameed Ali (retd.) has called on the Federal Government to reduce the 35 per cent levy on imported vehicles. This he said, is to check the rising cases of smuggled vehicles into the…
Customs total seized rice figure clash with number of bags given to IDP camps in 2018
Though the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS), has given its scorecard for the year beginning from January to November, saying it seized arms and ammunitions, dangerous drugs as well as vehicles, it impounded a total of 238,094(50kg) bags of rice across…
Customs mute on figure of businesses so far facilitated, noisy on revenue, seizures
The Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) recently told Nigerians that it generated N1.1tn revenue and seized contraband goods worth more than N40bn between January and November, saying the total (year-on-year), is greater than the sum generated in 2017. However, an international…
