Nigeria Customs Service (NCS)

The Nigeria Customs Service (NCS), Area II Command at  Onne Port, on Friday said that it generated N107.3 billion as revenue in 2019. The Customs Area Controller, Comptroller Galadima Saidu, said this in a statement released to newsmen…

The Nigeria Navy forward operating base (FOB) at Ibaka in Mbo local government area of Akwa Ibom has arrested 24 suspects with 1,831 bags of smuggled rice. Peter Yilme, the commanding officer of the FOB, disclosed this to…

The Nigeria Customs Service (NCS), said operation of its officers and men at Fraiser Suit Hotel in Abuja was to remove some suspected vehicles hidden there. The Customs’ Public Relations Officer, Mr Joseph Attah made this known in a…

Retired Col. Hameed Ali, the Comptroller General, Nigeria Customs Service (NCS), says Nigeria’s borders will remain closed until the country and its neighbours agree on existing ECOWAS protocol on movement. Ali stated this on Wednesday…

Rice Processors Association of Nigeria, RIPAN, has said Nigeria risks the loss of over $400 million to rice smuggling if the over one million metric tonnes of the commodity is allowed to enter the country from Benin Republic..National…

Hundreds of travellers were stranded on Tuesday and Wednesday, following closure of Seme border in Lagos. The border links Nigeria with some neighbouring West African countries. Some Nigerians, who took to Twitter to lament, said they…

The Presidency has ordered National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) to be vigilant over alleged importation of poisonous tomato paste from Iran. Mr Abubakar Jimoh, the Director of Public Affairs, NAFDAC, made…

Some traders plying Lagos-Seme road have urged the Federal Government to repair the Lagos-Badagry expressway and lift the ban on importation of vehicles through the land borders. The traders made the appeal in separate interviews with…

From Johnkennedy Uzoma, Owerri In the effort to stop all manner of smuggling activities in the country, the Federal Operations Unit (FOU) Zone ‘C’ of the  Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) Owerri has impounded three Cartons of Tramadol,…

Col. Hameed Ali (rtd), the Comptroller-General, Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) has appealed to Nigerians to stop consuming foreign rice because it is poisonous. He said this on Thursday in Abuja at a news conference organised by the…