As the federal government continue to make frantic efforts towards reviving the moribund Ajaokuta Steel company, a Non-Governmental Organisation, Social Integrity Network, (SINET), has advised President Muhammadu Buhari to urgently device effective monitoring policy of Seaports in order to reduce the rate of massive economic loss stressing that there is no future for the nation’s Iron and Steel sector .

Authorities of the Nigerian Customs Service, (NCS) and the Standard Organisation of Nigeria, (SON) have been advised to intensify efforts towards ensuring total overhauling of the system through strict compliance to the operational techniques of the organizations.

The Comptroller-General of Nigeria Customs Service (NCS), Col. Hameed Ali (retd.) has warned officers and men of the Service to desist from all forms of illegality or risk being arrested and jailed.

THE Managing Director/Chief Executive Officer of the Benin Electricity Development Company, BEDC, Mrs. Funke Osibodu, has blamed the cost of prepaid metres on Customs import duty  by Customs, saying the company has put machinery in place with a list of innovations geared towards customers’ satisfaction, and arresting underperformance, high cost of new prepaid meters.

President Muhammadu Buhari has been advised to urgently establish Border Control Enforcement Agency with full Executive Order that will enable it function optimally in a bid to tackling the prevailing insurgency and also boost the nation’s economic activities.

THE Nigeria Customs Service, NCS, has been accused of contributing to the current congestions being experienced in the ports as empty containers that ought to have been inspected by the men and officers of the agency are abandoned for days on barges at the terminals’ waterfronts.

The Inter-Security Task Force set up by the Federal Government to conduct joint border security in four geopolitical zones have arrested 33 illegal migrants and seized several items in a week operation.

The Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) has denied closure of the Seme-Krake border with the Republic of Benin, explaining that the ongoing joint security exercise in the area was to tackle transborder crimes.

THERE are strong indications of an imminent reorganization in the Nigeria Customs Service, NCS, following its recent return to its 25 commands structure.

An ad hoc committee of the House of Representatives has summoned heads of four government agencies to appear before in on Monday, Aug. 19.

THE Ogun Area Command of the Nigeria Customs Service, NCS, has said it successfully got one Mr Victor Hassan, popularly known as Victor Owode, detained in prison custody over an alleged case of smuggling.

FOLLOWING appeal by the Association of Retired Customs Officers, ARCO, to the Customs management to pay the pension arrears owed its members, stakeholders in the maritime industry have called on the Presidency to intervene in the matter before it is too late.

The Nigerian Customs Service, NCS, Port Harcourt Area 11 Command, Onne, have arrested five suspects who allegedly broke a seized 1x40ft container of drugs in its custody, and allegedly attempted to compromise officers with the sum of one million naira.

The Nigeria Customs Service has on Wednesday, divided into two the Ogun State Command of the force.

THE Nigerian Customs Service, NCS, and key stakeholders in the shipping industry are set to announce a new operating procedure for cargo clearing aimed at addressing the logjam that has characterised the process hitherto. The final deal is expected to be announced today.