Importers mull N100bn suit on Customs, server managers over rising losses
Aggrieved Freight Forwarders under the aegis of Save Nigeria Freight Forwarders Importers and Exporters Coalitions (SNFFIEC) are currently perfecting legal touches to papers ahead of dragging the leadership of the Nigerian Customs Service (NCS), Webb Fontaine and its server designer/managers…
Customs waivers: Telecoms services to bounce back at border communities
In less than one week, the leadership of the Nigerian Customs Service (NCS) has rescinded two of its policy positions found to be counterproductive to the general good and economic growth of the country. First was the removal of ban…
BOAN, ANLCA warn against abuse of barge operations at seaports
Following the reversal of the ban placed on use barges to move containers at Nigerian seaports by the Nigerian Customs Service (NCS), Barge Operators Association of Nigeria (BOAN) and the Association of Nigeria Licensed Customs Agents (ANLCA) has commended the…
Customs N11bn daily means dying manufacturing not due to border closure—Amiwero
President, National Council of Managing Directors of Licensed Customs Agents (NCMDLCA), Lucky Amiwero has raised an issue of urgent national importance bordering the recent claims made by the leadership of the Nigerian Customs Service (NCS). Recall that last week, the…
Just in: Customs FOU Ikeja smokes out smugglers concealing rice, vegetbale oil in gas cylinders
The Nigerian Customs Service (NCS) Federal Operations Unit (FOU) Zone A, Ikeja Tuesday displayed before journalists, seizures made by the eagle-eyed strike team of the command. Most disturbing was the strange and deadly tactics of smuggling parboiled rice in gas…
‘Giving revenue targets to closed land border Customs commands corruptive’
A serious issue of policy confusion has emerged in the Nigerian Customs Service (NCS), following last week’s circular giving revenue targets to all formations including those at the land borders which had been under locks and keys since August 2019….
World Customs Organisation working on new taxonomy of goods from 2022
Global regulatory body of Customs, the World Customs Organisation (WCO), has introduced the seventh edition of the Harmonised System (HS) nomenclature used for the uniform classification of goods traded internationally but will come into effect by 2022. WCO usually introduces…
Customs: If Senator Fadahunsi is saying the truth, can the presidency act?
The discovery that the Comptroller General of Customs, Hamid Ali was budgeting N1.6 billion for the recruitment and training to outsourced body when the agency has yawning training facilities with manpower has continued to generate anger. The latest to vent…
Continue to forget land borders, use air, seaports in 2020, Says Customs
The leadership of the Nigerian Customs Service (NCS) Tuesday denied earlier speculations that closed Nigerian land borders would be opened on January 1, 2020, saying “No terminal date has been slated”. “January 1, 2020 is only the end of the…
Upon ECOWAS pressure at recent meeting, FG still adamant on border closure
Emerging body language of the Federal Government and scanty details from the recent ECOWAS meeting of Heads of State and Finance Ministers held in Abuja, have shown no respite or chances of reopening land borders come January 1 as earlier…
