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Border Closure: Customs seizes N500m goods in Kwara

Border Closure: Customs seizes N500m goods in Kwara

The Nigeria Customs Service says it has seized goods worth over N500 million from smugglers across the borders in Kwara from Aug. 20, 2019, to date. Mr Mohammed Garba, the Joint Border Operation Drill Coordinator in Charge of North Central States, Sector 3 Ilorin, announced this at a news conference on the seizure of contrabands […]
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Customs intercepts Jerry cans of petrol concealed in 2 caskets

Customs intercepts Jerry cans of petrol concealed in 2 caskets

The joint anti-bunkering team of the Nigeria Customs Service on Wednesday intercepted 23 jerry cans of Premium Motor Spirit (PMS) at Idiroko border, concealed in two caskets. Abdullahi Maiwada, Customs Spokesman in the area, said in a statement that the fuel lading coffins were abandoned in a Mazda 626 with Lagos registration number LSD 617 […]

Customs boss overflexing his muscles (2)

Customs boss overflexing his muscles (2)

AT present the Nigeria Customs Service is run by the comptroller-general who oversees the work of six deputy comptroller generals in the following departments: Corporate Support Services; Tariff and Trade; Enforcement, Investigation, and Inspection; Modernization, Research and Economic Relations; Excise, Industrial Incentives and Free Trade Zone; and Human Resource Development.

Customs, NSCDC emerge champions of Volleyball Premier League

Customs, NSCDC emerge champions of Volleyball Premier League

The Nigeria Customs Service (NCS), male team and the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) female team, have emerged champions of the 2019 National Volleyball Premier League. They both emerged champions in the male and female categories of the league on Saturday, after 10 days of scintillating performance at the indoor sports hall, package […]

Contrabands: Reps accuse Customs of connivance with smugglers

Contrabands: Reps accuse Customs of connivance with smugglers

Tordue Salem – Abuja Members of the Joint- House Committee on Custom and Excise, Petroleum (Downstream) and Interior on Thursday accused men of the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) of conniving with smugglers to move contrabands into the country. The committee is headed by the Chairman of the Committee on Petroleum Resources (Downstream), Mohammed Gaya (Kano-APC). […]

Kaduna Customs zonal office decorates 31 Promoted Officers

Kaduna Customs zonal office decorates 31 Promoted Officers

Thirty one officers of the Federal Operating Unit of the Nigeria Customs Service, Zone B, Headquarters, Kaduna, were decorated with their new ranks in Kaduna Wednesday by the Assistant Comptroller General (ACG), Bashir Abubakar.

Move to concession Customs critical operations stalled

Move to concession Customs critical operations stalled

…House insists on public hearing, orders probe of CISS By Eguono Odjegba Barely two months after opening up the operations of the Nigeria Customs Service to the military and other para military agencies, there are strong indications that President Muhammadu Buhari has ordered the concession of Customs critical operations under the Presidential Initiative on Customs […]

AMATO, Customs set to sign a fresh pact on seizure of trucks

AMATO, Customs set to sign a fresh pact on seizure of trucks

IN a bid to foster economic development and reduce smuggling in the port, the Association of Maritime Truck Owners, AMARTO, is set to sign an agreement with the Nigerian Customs Service, NCS, to prevent seizure of trucks along with containerized illegal goods they carry.

FOU Zone C records seizures of rice, other items worth N492m

FOU Zone C records seizures of rice, other items worth N492m

THE Nigeria Customs Service, NCS, Federal Operations Unit, FOU, Zone C Owerri, Imo State, recorded seizures of assortments of goods including 1,920 bags of 50kg smuggled foreign rice with a duty paid value, DPV, of N492m previous week.

Customs boss overflexing his muscles

Customs boss overflexing his muscles

OF all the chief executives of the Nigerian Customs Service to date, none has been more powerful than Colonel Hameed Ibrahim Alli (retd.), the sixty-four year old post graduate criminologist, from Dass Local Government Area of Bauchi State.

Customs Comptroller-General to sack officers living above earnings

Customs Comptroller-General to sack officers living above earnings

Col. Hameed Ali (rtd), the Comptroller-General of Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) says he will sack any officer who cannot live within his or her  remuneration and involve in illicit ways to acquire wealth. Ali gave the warning while decorating some newly promoted officers of the service in Abuja on Friday News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) […]