…Generates N73.1bn on exports Comptroller Bashir Abubakar, is the current Customs Area Controller, CAC, Apapa Command of Nigeria Customs Service, NCS. The Command under his watch generated over N404billion revenue into the coffers of Federal Government in 2018, recorded N73.1billion from exports and N9.6billion on 72 seizures. These feats earned Apapa Command the World Customs […]

KATSINA—No fewer than five persons were, yesterday, feared dead after a clash between officers of the Nigeria Customs Service, NCS, and smugglers in a village in Kastina State.

TRADITIONAL rulers in Yewa land in Ogun State have accused the Nigerian Customs Services of alleged extra- judicial killings of residents in the border towns of the state

THE Comptroller General of Customs, Col. Hameed Ali (rtd), has expressed disappointment at the continued attacks on customs operatives along border communities, often leading to the death of some operatives.

THE Nigeria Customs Service, NCS, Western Marine Command, WMC, is set to bury seized goods worth hundreds of millions of Naira allocated to Internally Displaced Individuals (IDP) saying that the management of the IDPs failed to come forward to take the goods and they are now expired.

Barely two weeks after smugglers killed an operative and seriously injured another attached to the Ogun Command of the Nigeria Customs Service, NCS, the dare devil elements last week attacked an anti-smuggling team from the Command, at a hideout in Owode (Yewa) Community, where vehicles laden with suspected smuggled    rice had taken temporary cover.

 Customs Area Controller, CAC, of Seme Border Command of the Nigeria Customs Service, NCS, Garba Uba Mohammed, has resorted to a dialogue with the border communities close to Owode, a renowned smuggling route, over open display of smuggled foreign parboiled rice for sale.

THE Federal Government has set a revenue target of N877 billion for the Nigeria Customs Service, NCS for this year, even as the management assured that it would strive to surpass the target at the end of the year.

With barely few weeks before the general elections, the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) says it will leave no stone unturned to prevent the proliferation of illegal arms and ammunition into the country.

The Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) has urged Federal Government to reduce automotive levy on imported brand new vehicles from 35 per cent to 10 per cent.

The  Murtala Mohammed Airport Command of the Nigeria Customs Service, NCS, has continued its onslaught on importation procedure violation with the seizure of  assortments of military hardware imported into the country without End User Certificates (EUC).

The Kebbi, Sokoto and Zamfara Zonal Command of the Nigerian Customs Service, NCS, last year, collected a total of N1.8 billion revenue, even as it impounded contraband goods worth N454.8 million during the same period.

The Nigeria Customs Federal Operation Unit, Zone `B’,  has seized three cartons of Tramadol 255 mg and 1,100 bags of foreign rice with Duty Paid Value of over N54 million in Kaduna.

FACTS emerging indicate that lack of requisite scanners have for a long time already taken a toll on the clearance of cargo by the Nigeria Customs Service, NCS, at the various international airports, nationwide.

THE Federal Operations Unit, F.O.U, Zone ‘A’ of the Nigeria Customs Service, NCS has said that  it realized a total of N5.1billion from prohibited items  seized by the Unit in the last four months.