Customs extends overtime cargo automation to 120-day
The Comptroller-General of the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS), Mr. Bashir Adeniyi, has announced the automation of overtime cargo clearance and an extension of the clearance window to 120 days, in a move aimed at improving trade facilitation and easing business processes across Nigeria’s ports.
FOU Ikeja arrests 11, impounds containers of charcoal, recovers N42m
By Eguono Odjegba Federal Operations Unit, FOU, Zone A of the Nigeria Customs Service, NCS, says it made a cumulative revenue recovery within the period under review amounting to a total of N42,320,098.00 within October 2022 even as it arrested eleven suspects connected with seizures of questionable items made by it within the period under review. […]
NCS, ICRC run multi-billion dollar ECustoms project into controversy
By Kennedy Mbele Finance and development experts are trying hard to rationalise why the African Finance Corporation and Huawei Technologies Company Ltd have found themselves mired in a controversy arising from a concession agreement for the modernisation of the Nigeria Customs Service, NCS. Alleged bypassing of due process by these two organisations has thrown the […]
Concession of the Nigeria Customs Service: An invitation to modern/debt slavery
By Aare Afe Babalola RECENTLY, the Federal Government conceded the operations of the Nigeria Customs Service, NCS, to a Chinese company in a bid to facilitate what it described as ‘e-Customs project’. The concession is reportedly expected to attract an investment of $3.2 billion with an estimated income of $176 billion to be generated for […]
Katsina Assembly to FG, Customs: Withdraw border drill from Katsina
By Bashir Bello Katsina State House of Assembly on Tuesday called for the withdrawal of operatives of the border drill operation of the Nigeria Customs Service, NSC from the state. This was coming on the heels of an accident that occurred in Jibia area of the state on Monday where operatives in their vehicle and […]
Customs intercepts goods worth N22.3bn in Lagos
The Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) has intercepted pangolin scales and elephant tusks worth N22.3 billion in Lagos. The Comptroller General of Customs, Col. Hameed Ali (Rtd.), said this while addressing newsmen on Wednesday. He said the pangolin scales (196 sacks) weighed 17,137.44 kilograms; elephant tusks, 870.44 kilograms and pangolin claws, 4.60 kilograms. Ali added that […]
