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. […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

By Mary Benson Independent Marketers at the Apapa and Tin-Can Island Ports have lamented alleged high handedness by the Nigeria Customs Service ,NCS in the ports, following  the closure of some bonded terminals. The directive to shut  down the bonded terminals according to them, was  handed down by a Deputy Controller General , without a […]

The Nigeria Customs Service, Oyo and Osun Command, on Saturday said the 1,800 bags of rice released as a palliative to the Oyo State government were good for human consumption. This was in response to the claim by Oyo State Government that the bags of rice released to it by the command were infected and […]

James Ogunnaike Ogun State House of Assembly on Thursday called on the top echelon of the Nigeria Customs Service to caution its officers and men to follow the standard rule of engagements by ensuring well-guided operations in enforcing the directive of federal government in border areas with a view to protecting the sanctity of human […]

The Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) board has approved the upgrade of Command and Staff College, Gwagwalada to a Training and Doctrine School.

The Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) says complaints of applicants arising from recruitment portal has been resolved.

The Unit Controller, Nigeria Customs Service, Federal Operations Unit Zone ‘C’ Owerri, Comptroller Kayode Olumisire comes across as brief and straight to the point as possible.
He says the NCS derives greater joy in trade facilitation and making Nigerians embrace legitimate trade through regular sensitization campaign than chasing smugglers around; but insist “we will not think twice seizing imports that runs contrary to the prohibition order”.
In this interview with EGUONO ODJEGBA, he tells the story of how he bridges the seemingly opposite tasks. He says it is not the place of the NCS to ascribe economic or political reasons to the influx of smuggled armoured vehicles.

The Nigeria Customs Service, NCS weekend said it has collected a total of N1.2 trillion as at December 2018, even as it disclosed that contraband consignments with Duty Paid Value, DPV, of N61.5 billion were also seized during the period under review.

The Controller, Nigeria Customs Service, Federal Operations Unit, Zone ‘C’, Owerri, Imo State, Comptroller Kayode Olusemire, has said that the importations of armoured vehicles portend several risks to Nigeria.

The Nigeria Customs Service, CG Strike Force, last week, apparently spoilt the Christmas and New Year celebration for smugglers, following a comprehensive raid of Oniko, a village in Moro Local Government Area of Kwara State, believed to be a major hideout for smuggled items, confiscating a total of 8,413 bags of 50kg smuggled rice.

Zone ‘A’, Nigeria Customs Service, NCS, Assistant Comptroller General, ACG Kaycee Ekekezie has said that the zone collects over 90 percent of all revenue by the Service from January to November, 2018.