Joy Joseph, Lagos Contraband items valued over N1.2 billion have been intercepted by operatives of the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS), Federal Operations Unit, Zone C, Owerri. The items which included foreign parboiled rice, frozen poultry products, drugs, second-hand clothing, live ammunition, soaps, exotic cars, were intercepted in states of the South-South and

Smugglers have devised new means of transporting contraband goods into the country, as a vehicle with COVID-19 stickers was intercepted by men of the Nigeria Customs Service for smuggling frozen chicken into the country. The federal operations unit also intercepted various contraband items worth N12.7billion from January to April in the six states of the south-west. […]