Crime

Customs Impounds 475 Rifles At Lagos Tin Can Port Again

Ihesiulo Grace 20 September 2017 0

Barely a week after it intercepted a 20-foot container load of 1,100 pump action rifles, the Tin Can Island Command of Nigeria Customs Service, Monday, uncovered yet another set of 475 rifles shipped in by the same importer. 1,100 Jojef Magnum Pump Action and Jojef Magnum Plastic Single Barrels

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Weapons seized in Apapa

Ihesiulo Grace 11 September 2017 0

There is heightened security presence at Tin-Can Island following the apprehension of containerized weapons. More to follow Update: Operatives of the Tin-Can Island Command of the Nigeria Customs Service, have smashed a syndicate that specialised in smuggling weapons into the country after the discovery of 1,100 pump action riffles loaded in a 20-foot container. The […]

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Customs impound expired bags of rice in Lagos

Ihesiulo Grace 29 August 2017 0

*Cannabis valued over N72 million seized the Nigerian Customs Service, Federal Operations Unit (FOU), Zone ‘A’ has seized 30 bags of expired foreign parboiled rice coming into Lagos through unauthorized routes. The controller in charge of the Zone, Comptroller Mohammed Uba who made the disclosure during a press briefing at the headquarters in Ikeja lamented […]

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Customs Backtracks, says Nigerians were misinformed of its policy

Ihesiulo Grace 15 March 2017 0

The Nigerian Customs Service, under public fire over its new policy on vehicle duties has explained what it is all about. Mr Joseph Attah, its acting public relations officer said the service has no plan to set up checkpoints in streets, cities and markets to seize old vehicles without customs duty. Attah said Nigerians were […]

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Customs, cesspool of corruption, confusion -Stakeholders

Ihesiulo Grace 8 March 2017 0

The Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) has continued to draw flak over its recent policy statement mandating vehicle owners, whose customs’ duties have not been paid to do so at the various zonal offices of the service within one month with many stakeholders wondering how the vehicles were able to get on to the roads in […]

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Customs gives 1 month deadline for vehicle owners to pay duty or risk prosecution

Ihesiulo Grace 6 March 2017 0

The Comptroller-General of Customs, Col. Hameed Ibrahim Ali (rtd), has set a deadline of one month (between Monday March 13 and April 12, 2017) for owners of all vehicles within the country whose customs duty has not been paid, to do so. The deadline was contained in a statement signed by the acting Public Relations […]

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Customs grants vehicle owners 1 month to pay duty or face outright seizure

Ihesiulo Grace 3 March 2017 0

The Comptroller-General of Nigeria Customs Service (NCS), Retired Col. Hameed Ali, has approved one month grace for all Nigerian vehicle owners who have not paid duty to do so or face outright seizure. And this applies even to new vehicles bought from car dealers. The Acting Public Relations Officer of the NCS, Mr Joseph Attah, […]

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Customs donates seized items to IDPs in Adamawa

Ihesiulo Grace 10 February 2017 0

Seized items comprising foodstuff and others seized by officials of Nigeria Customs Service have been donated to Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) in Adamawa state. Presenting the items at a ceremony Thursday in Yola, the chairman of National Logistics Committee on Internally Displaced Persons, Assistant Controller General of Customs, Mr. Abdulkadir Azarema, said the

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Customs generates over N600bn in 2016 – CG

Ihesiulo Grace 28 November 2016 0

The Comptroller-General of Nigeria Customs Service, Col. Hameed Ali (rtd), on Monday said the service has so far generated over N600 billion this quarter. Ali said this while addressing newsmen on the sidelines of the 136th meeting of the Joint Tax Board in Abuja. He said Customs contributed N903 billion to the nation’s coffers in […]

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Customs impound N1.07bn contraband, arrest 16 smugglers

Ihesiulo Grace 27 November 2016 0

The Zone C of the Nigeria Customs Federal Operations Unit in Owerri, has impounded various contrabands worth N1.07 billion in the last one month. The Area Controller in the zone, Mr. Mohammed Garba, said while displaying the seized items before newsmen in Owerri, that 16 suspects were arrested in connection with the items. “Our job […]

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Customs Dismisses 29 Senior Officers For Bribery, Forgery.

Ihesiulo Grace 21 October 2016 0

Less than a week after the management of the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) sacked 17 junior officers for bribery, drug addiction, use of fake certificates and absence from duty, the Comptroller-General, Col. Hameed Ali has approved the dismissal of 29 senior officers for various acts of gross misconduct. The public relations officer of the service, […]

Business

WCO Canvasses Coordinated Border Management Approach

Ihesiulo Grace 1 May 2015 0

The immediate past Vice Chairman of the World Customs Organisation (WCO) for West and Central African Region, and Comptroller General of Nigerian Customs Service, Mr Abdulahi Nde Dikko has said that only when a coordinated border management, capacity building and stakeholders collaboration is adopted that the Customs service can realise its core objective of revenue […]

Crime

Customs records over 45% increase in seizures

Ihesiulo Grace 30 April 2015 0

  The Federal Operations Unit Zone ‘A’ Ikeja of the Nigeria Customs, has released her first quarter report of anti-smuggling activities of the zone. The report which was presented by the controller, DC Usman Adamu Turaki had it that 482 different Seizures were made this quarter. The seizures which includes 133 50kg parboiled rice, 74 […]