Tag: Nigerian Customs Service (NCS)
Customs nabs woman, intercepts rice, cannabis, cars worth N3.3bn
The comptroller also announced notable environmental and wildlife-related interceptions, including four live pangolins rescued along Alapa Creek, Ajilete, and handed…
Petrol smugglers attack Adamawa Customs officers
Ejibunu also revealed that there has been two different attacks in the span of two weeks by smuggling suspects..
‘Customs’ Apapa command generates N1.3trillion in 6 months’
The area command also seeks partnership with NAGAFF and ANCLA.
Customs intercepts petrol worth N10.8m en route to Cameroon
He assured that the command would sustain the fight against the menace of smuggling, saying: “We have strategically deployed our…
Customs intercepts N1.1bn worth of Marijuana
The Nigerian Customs Service (NCS), Western Marine Command, says it intercepted 232 sacks of marijuana worth N1.1bn between July and…
Tin Can Island Customs command hits N320bn revenue in 8 months
The Area Controller, Tin Can Island Command, Nigeria Customs Service, Comptroller Abdullahi Musa, on Thursday said that the command generated…
Reps resume probe of unremitted N10.6bn Customs duty
The House of Representatives Committee on Customs, on Wednesday, resumed its investigative hearing on the alleged non-remittance of N10.6 billion…
Katsina threatens to sue Customs over killing of residents
Katsina State government has threatened to sue the Nigeria Customs Service over the killings of residents during border drills in…
Katsina tragedy: Customs’ vehicle crushes five to death
A Nigerian Customs Service (NCS) patrol vehicle on Monday lost control and killed five persons in Jibia Local Government Area…
Customs repel attempt to abduct officer in Oyo
The Nigerian Customs Service (NCS) Federal Operations Unit, Zone A, on Thursday revealed that three persons were killed as the…
Senate approves N257.18bn budget for Customs
The Senate, on Wednesday, approved the sum of N257,183,671,694.71 as budget for the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) for the 2021…
Protest in Ogun as Customs shoot suspected smuggler dead
Smugglers in Ogun stormed the road leading to the governor's office in Abeokuta on Tuesday to protest the killing of…
#EndSARS: Nigerian customs intercepts 624 bags of rice
The Oyo/Osun Area Command of the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS), said it has intercepted a total of 624 bags of…
‘China closed its borders for 40 years and they’re better now’ -NCS
The Comptroller General of the Nigerian Customs Service, Rtd Hameed Ibrahim Ali said in an interview that the decision to…
Nigeria’s border closure will extend beyond January 2020
The partial closure of Nigeria's land border with neighbours will continue beyond January 2020 and will only be terminated until…
Nigerian Customs seizes 33 containers of rice, others
The Nigerian Customs Service (NCS) on Tuesday said that seized containers of rice, tramadol and unregistered pharmaceutical products, with duty…
Court freezes bank accounts of 3 firms linked with rice smuggling
A Federal High Court on Monday in Abuja ordered the temporary freezing of 45 bank accounts belonging to three companies…
Nigerian borders will remain shut
Retired Col. Hameed Ali, the Comptroller General, Nigeria Customs Service (NCS), says Nigeria’s borders will remain closed until the country…
Customs intercepts 700 bags of foreign rice
The Nigerian Customs Service (NCS) said it intercepted a truck with registration number XA2297NAK carrying 700 bags of foreign rice…
Drama: Customs junior officer Dalhatu who tried to topple Hameed Ali
The biggest drama today was the assistant Superintendent of Customs, Nura Dalhatu who tried to stage an unprecedented coup in…
LCCI condemns deployment of Customs Strike Force to ports
The Lagos Chamber of Commerce and Industry (LCCI) has condemned the deployment of Customs Strike Force to the nation ports,…
Customs arrests truck conveying contraband clothing materials worth N17m
The Nigerian Customs Service (NCS) has arrested a truck conveying 340 bales of clothing materials worth N17 million in Sokoto,…
Customs intercepts 365 bags of smuggled rice in Sokoto
Mr Nasiru Ahmad, the Controller of Nigerian Customs Service (NCS) in Sokoto/Kebbi/Zamfara Area Command, said the command had intercepted two…
Customs donates bags of rice to IDPs
The Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) has donated 300 bags of 50kg rice to the Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) in Praxis…
Nigeria to host Africa’s Customs conference
Mr Joseph Attah, Public Relations Officer, Nigeria Customs Service, says the service will host African Union Directors-General of Customs to…
Customs officer slaps Lagos magistrate
Kazeem Ugbodaga Officers of the Nigerian Customs Services, Federal Operations Unit, Zone ‘A’ Ikeja have attacked a Magistrate of the…
Customs denies 35% duty on used vehicles
The Nigerian Customs Service (NCS) on Wednesday denied the allegation by licenced customs agents that it has begun the implementation…