Customs border commands may begin to suffer network issues sooner
…Even as it targets N1.68tr revenue in 2020 As the yet to be lifted ban on discharging petroleum products in any filling station within a 20km radius to the border lasts, strong indications reveal that several telecoms installations within the…
NASS fumes, says Customs lacked powers to stop petroleum products distribution
Six days after the Nigerian Customs Service (NCS) issued a unilateral order suspending supplies of petroleum products to filling stations within 20kms radius to the border, the House of Representatives Tuesday, resolved to vacate the order. Recall that the Comptroller-General…
Era of under-declaring over 80% of sea cargo to end with tracking note—Bello
The Executive Secretary of the Nigerian Shippers Council (NSC), Barr Hassan Bello, has assured that the days of importers and criminally minded clearing agents getting away with over 80 per cent under-declared goods at Nigerian ports are coming to an…
Danger as manufacturing firms may retrench, close factories over closed border
Today, October 21, 2019, will make it two months after the Federal Government through the Nigerian Customs Service (NCS), announced closure of Nigerian land borders over what it originally claimed as joint exercise with the Nigerian Immigration Service (NIS). However,…
Hameed Ali blinds Customs key role of trade facilitation for income earnings
A danger signal capable of derailing the original statutory function of the Nigerian Customs Service (NCS) is seriously emerging since the appointment of retired Army Colonel, Mr Hameed Ali. Investigations and reports suggest that ever since his coming in, he…
How Customs confuse, lie to Nigerians on rice smuggling statistics at borders
Fresh official complacency and reckless abuse of statistics on rice smuggling by top officials of Nigerian Customs Service (NCS) at the Seme Border since the August 21st border closure made by the Controller, Federal Operations Unit (FOU) Zone ‘A’, Compt….
Hackers connive with Customs officers to lift vehicles at ports—ANLCA
National President of the Association of Nigeria Licensed Customs Agents (ANLCA), Chief Tony Nwabunike, has revealed that the vehicles smuggling syndicate who carry out their criminality at ports do so by hacking into the Direct Traders Input (DTI) accounts of…
Just in: Customs CG, officials’ risk 6 months jail over recruitment terms contrary to law
Barely 12 hours after the take off of online recruitment by the Nigerian Customs Service (NCS), confusion is set to engulf some terms and conditions attached by the agency for eligibility. The aspect of the terms and conditions which clearly…
Customs FOU Zone A bruises smugglers, rakes in N2.02bn in 1 month
Indications have emerged showing that the new Controller, Nigerian Customs Service (NCS), Federal Operations Unit (FOU), Zone ‘A’ Ikeja Lagos, Mohammed Aliyu has stepped up surveillance and anti-smuggling intelligence. This is coming from the success recorded by the Command within…
Customs gives inchoate reasons for continued checks at seaport exit gates
…As NPA, port users’ see act as anti ease of doing business There are strong indications that the insistence of the Nigerian Customs Service (NCS) to continue mounting checkpoints at Nigerian seaports is further frustrating the presidential executive order on…
