President Bola Tinubu has approved a one-year extension for Bashir Adewale Adeniyi, Comptroller-General of the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS). Adeniyi’s tenure was initially expected to end on August 31, 2025, but the Presidency said the extension would give him time to consolidate key reforms already in motion. In a statement issued on Thursday, the Presidency […]
Comptroller-General, Nigeria Custom Service, Mr Bashir Adeniyi, has narrated how 844 units of assorted riffles, 112,500 pieces of live ammunition among other contraband were intercepted at the Onne Port. Adeniyi narrated this on Monday at a media briefing at Onne, Area 2 Command in Rivers, organised to declare the seized items and hand them over […]
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 South-East, which are […]
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. […]