Customs moves towards full digitisation to ease doing business
In a bid to deliver better services while improving government’s revenue, the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) appears to be moving towards e-customs, an initiative that would put its operations at par with what obtains in developed climes. The initiative which will be a one-stop digital shop for all port stakeholders to assess information and transact […]
Luggage worth more than N50,000 attract duties, Customs reminds passengers
The Nigeria Customs Service has reemphasized that passengers passing through any Nigeria international airports can only be allowed to go through with goods or items with only N50,000 or less current market value.
Customs seizes N3.5m smuggled rice in Kaduna
The Zone B of Nigeria Customs Service, Federal Operations Unit, Kaduna, on Friday, said it has seized 149 smuggled rice valued at over N3.5 million in Kaduna. The command Public Relations Officer, Abubakar Usman, disclosed this in a statement in Kaduna. Usman said the rice was seized at Mando motor park in Kaduna while being […]
Foreign shipping firms sabotage inland ports —Customs agents
The National President of the Association of Nigerian Licensed Customs Agents, ANLCA, Hon. Tony Nwabunike, has accused foreign shipping companies operating in the country of frustrating optimal performances of Inland Dry Ports, IDPs.
Customs impounds 250 bags of rice concealed in fuel tanker
The Kano/Jigawa Command of the Nigerian Customs Service on Friday impounded 250 bags of foreign rice concealed in a fuel tanker along Daura-Kano road worth over N5.5m of duty paid value. The comptroller of the command, Nasir Ahmed, said the new method of concealing goods by smugglers was alien. “What we saw today is a […]
Border closure: Customs officials allegedly ‘kill’ Rice smugglers’ informant in Jigawa — Report
A man suspected to be an informant of rice smugglers has been killed allegedly by officials of the Nigeria Customs Service in Jigawa State,
