COVID-19: Customs boss approves release of rice, other items worth N3.2bn for distribution
The Comptroller-General of Nigeria Customs Service (NCS), Col. Hameed Ali (rtd), has approved the release of 46,000 metric tons of rice, 36,495 kegs of vegetable oil and other items valued at N3.2 billion for distribution. The Customs’ Public Relations Officer, Mr Joseph Attah, made this known in a statement in Abuja on Tuesday. Attah said […]
Customs to take delivery of 3 scanners by Q2’20
NIGERIA Customs Service, NCS, is set to take delivery of three scanners by end of the second quarter 2020, Vanguard Maritime Report can authoritatively report. But some stakeholders are doubting the willingness of the NCS to use the scanners when they finally arrive.
Customs Brokers proffer solution to congestion at Lagos ports
By Godfrey Bivbere & Sharon Obiakor CUSTOMS Brokers under the aegis of National Council of Managing Directors of Licensed Customs Agents, NCMDLCA have called on the Federal Government to utilise the empty space at Kirikiri Lighter Port to reduce the present congestion in Lagos Ports. The Council through its National President, Lucky Amiwero, noted that […]
Customs, EFCC reinforce partnership
CONTROLLERS, Port Harcourt Area 1 command of the Nigeria Customs Service, NCS, Comptroller Mohammed Boyi, has said that the partnership between the NCS and the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has strengthened.
Senate passes N238.15bn budget for Customs in 2020
…As Lawan warns MDAs to submit audited accounts or risk punitive measures from N’Assembly The Senate on Tuesday approved the sum of Two hundred and thirty-eight billion, One hundred and forty-nine million, Three hundred and Twenty-five thousand, Eight hundred and thirty-two Naira Seventy kobo (N238,149,325,832.70) for the Nigeria Customs Service for the 2020 financial year. […]
Breaking: Customs intercepts $8.065m, N10.2bn worth of pangolia scales, others in Lagos
By Godfrey Bivbere The Nigeria Customs Service, NCS Tuesday said it intercepted illegal funds amounting to $8.065 million at the Murtala Mohammed International Airport, MMA, Command of the Service. The Service also disclosed that its Federal Operations Unit, FOU, Zone A, impounded 147 sacks of Pangolin Scale weighing 9.504.1 kilograms worth N10.2 billion. Disclosing this […]
Breaking: Customs storms Lagos airport, arrests passenger with $8.6m
The Nigeria Customs Service, has on Tuesday intercepted over $6.8 million from a passenger at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport.
Customs intercepts $8.065m cash, N10.2bn pangolin scales in Lagos
The Nigeria Customs Service, NCS yesterday said it intercepted illegal funds amounting to N1.045 trillion ($8.065 million) at the Murtala Mohammed International Airport, MMA, Command of the Service.
We ‘ll go paperless in 2 Years — Customs CG
Explains delay in reopening of borders By Emmanuel Elebeke – Abuja The Comptroller General of the Nigerian Customs Service, Col. Hammed Ali (rtd) says he is confident that the entire Service will go full digital when it concludes the automation system being put in place latest in two years’ time. The Comptroller General made the […]
Sacked Customs Inspector stages one-man protest in Ibadan
Ola Ajayi – Ibadan A Marine Inspector of Customs, Mr Bamiloye Temitope Abiodun has staged a one-man protest against the continued insistence of the Nigeria Customs Service on his dismissal since 2016. Bamiloye who said he had made several futile attempts to make the Customs Service see reason, carried placards from Iwo-Road to Agodi area […]
MMA Customs records 125 seizures, nets N56bn
THE Murtala Muhammed Airport, MMA, Command of the Nigeria Customs Service, NCS, decentralization of cargo clearing process may have aided its revenue collection system.
