The Nigerian Customs Service (NCS) has warned against the consumption of SIMBA brand of parboiled rice imported from India. The agency Thursday revealed laboratory test conducted by the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC), which showed that the brand contained lead (a soft heavy toxic malleable metallic element). The Federal Operations Unit, Zone A of the Read More
The Nigeria Customs Service, Federal Operations Unit, Zone ‘C’ (FOUC) said it intercepted unregistered pharmaceutical products including tramadol and other contraband goods with a Duty Paid Value of N529,056,456 million between January 1st and February 28th, 2022. The FOUC Comptroller, Mr Ali Ibrahim said this while showcasing the seized items in Owerri on Thursday. Ibrahim added that six suspects were Read More
Nigeria Customs Saturday recorded a thrilling 80-77 points victory over a rescilient Kwara Falcons of Ilorin side to emerge winners of Group C, of the ongoing 2022 Mark ‘D’ Ball Men’s Basketball championship in Abuja. The result means Nigeria Customs finished the tournament with six wins and a loss from seven games, played, and the team coached by the renowned Read More
The House of Representatives has asked the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) to pay the sum of N390 million as compensation to families of persons reportedly killed and brutalised last year by Customs personnel in Iseyin, Ibarapa and other communities in Oyo state. The lawmakers had last year, while adopting separate motions sponsored by Shina Peller and Ajibola Muraina, mandated its Read More
The National Commission for Museums and Monuments (NCMM) has said no fewer than 1,500 Nigerian artefacts taken away will be retrieved from across the world in 2022. Abba Tijani, director-general, NCMM, disclosed this to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) during a telephone interview. Mr Tijani said these were part of the over 5,000 artefacts carted away from different locations Read More
The Nigeria Customs Service is set to commence basic training for its recently enlisted and documented candidates. The six months training programme, which will take place in Customs training colleges in Kano and Lagos, will commence on Monday, 10th January, 2022. According to a statement signed by the Service spokesman, Comptroller John Attah, all documented candidates of Grade Levels 03, Read More
250 parcels of cannabis sativa(Indian Hemp) worth over N10.4m, allegedly on the way to Katsina State for bandits consumption ,was intercepted by the Nigerian Customs Service (NCS) , the Federal Operations Unit (FOU) Zone B, has said. Vanguard reports the Comptroller of FOU Zone B Kaduna, A.B. Hamisu, said other drugs seized by the FOU include: 75,582 suspected tablets of Read More
The Federal Operations unit (FOU), Zone A of the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) yesterday said it intercepted 7,059 bags of 50kg foreign parboiled rice smuggled into Nigeria from neighbouring countries. Speaking to journalists recently in Lagos at the unit’s end of the year press briefing, the Acting Comptroller of the unit, Deputy Comptroller, Hussein Ejibunu said the intercepted smuggled rice Read More
The president of the National Union of Textile Garment and Tailoring Workers of Nigeria (NUTGTWN), Comrade John Adaji, Thursday called on the Nigeria Customs Service to intensify efforts to check smuggling and dumping of sub-standard goods from China into Nigeria. He said the practice has crippled local industries. Speaking at an education conference in Minna, he said, “The Nigeria Customs Read More
Processing and confirming the validity of documents on declaration/payment and the status of a particular consignment/vehicle by importers and motorists will no longer be delayed following the introduction of Webb Tracker Mobile Application and a simplified standard operating procedure for the use of scanners. The innovation is being initiated by the Nigeria Customs Service to further facilitate the federal government’s Read More
The Nigeria Customs Service, Federal Operations Unit Zone ‘C’ (FOUC), has disclosed that it had seized an armoured Lexus LX570 jeep without End User Certificate and other contraband goods worth N318,154,742 million. The FOUC comptroller, Mr. Ali Ibrahim, who disclosed this,said this while showcasing the seized items as he addressed newsmen in Owerri. Ibrahim listed other seized items to include Read More
The House of Representatives has mandated its Committee on Customs to investigate the alleged importing and clearing ring at the Nigeria Customs Service, and report back within three weeks. This came Wednesday, following a motion on “Need for the Nigeria Customs Service to Strictly Implement the Executive Order on the Ease of Doing Business in Nigeria,” sponsored by Abbas Adigun. Read More
The Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA) and the Nigerian Customs Service have agreed on modalities for seamless and timely delivery of the Deep Blue Project assets currently at the ports. The agreement was reached at a meeting between the Director General of NIMASA, Dr. Bashir Jamoh and Comptroller General of the Nigerian Customs Service, Col. Hameed Ali (rtd.), Read More
For the second time in two months, the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) on Monday said its cracked team has intercepted another massive catche of Pangolin scales valued at N1.7 billion in Lagos State. The NCS told journalists that findings have revealed that an international cartel that specializes in the illegal trade is using Nigeria as a transit route to ferry Read More
The Federal Operations Unit, zone ‘C’ (FOUC) of the Nigeria Customs Service has announced that it seized fake and contraband products worth over N120 million between July and August. Comptroller Yusuf Lawal, who made the disclosure on Monday listed the goods to include 130 bags of 50kg foreign parboiled rice valued at N5,460,000m and 2,181 cartons of foreign cosmetic products Read More
I write to commend and appreciate the Nigeria Customs Service under the able leadership of the Comptroller General, Col Hameed Ali (rtd), for weariless contribution to the county’s annual revenue collection and curtailing the smuggling of arms proliferation and other prohibited items coming through the land borders. Prior to the appointment of Hameed Ali, the revenue generation of the Nigeria Read More
The new Controller of the Federal Operations Unit (FOU), of the Nigeria Customs Service, Zone A, Deputy Comptroller Hussein Kehinde Ejibunu has declared war on smugglers and criminal elements in the Lagos and Ogun State axis. The Customs boss vowed that he will take against all forms of smuggling activities in the states under his jurisdiction to the criminals den Read More
The President Muhammadu Buhari-led government has so far recovered about to One trillion Naira worth of stolen funds and assets since assuming office in 2015. The APC Legacy Awareness and Campaign (LAC), a voluntary think-tank group of the governing party, in a statement released Thursday in Abuja, said all final forfeitures are being deployed for use in the government’s special Read More
The Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) has issued a memo listing conditions that customs brokers must comply with before subletting their licences to others. Customs brokers, also known in Nigeria as licensed customs agents, must statutorily be licensed by the NCS before they can be involved in the clearance of goods at airport, seaport and land borders. However, very few clearing Read More
The government and people of Katsina state in northwestern Nigeria are seething with anger over the killing of ten persons by men of the Nigeria Customs Service while pursuing alleged smugglers. The anger is palpable in the air, from the ordinary man/woman on the street to its number one citizen, Governor Aminu Masari. People in the border town of Jibia Read More
The Comptroller General, Nigeria Customs Service (NCS), Hameed Ali, has blamed the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) for the high rate of smuggling of fuel across the country’s land borders. He said he had on many occasions proposed to the NNPC to establish petroleum retail outlets in neighbouring countries to curtail smuggling of fuel but that the state oil company Read More
From all indications, Bauchi state will be the state to watch for “revolution” in the politics of transition climaxing in 2023 with the emergence of a new governor. The incumbent, Kauran Bauchi, Bala Mohammed has his head in the clouds of presidential ambition, repeatedly claiming to have the “nod” of the PDP national caucus and throwing ill-advised controversial brick bats across Read More
The Comptroller-General of Nigerian Customs Service, Col. Hameed Ibrahim Ali (rtd), has directed that a holistic investigation be conducted into the remote cause of the accident involving officers of the service Tuesday, in Jibiya, a border town in Katsina state. Though the service had attributed the accident involving its vehicle that led to the death of eight persons in Jibiya, Read More
The Comproller-General of the Nigerian Customs Service (NCS) Hameed Ali, who has consistently turned blind eyes to the frequent and unwarranted killings of unarmed civilians in the southwest by his officials, on Wednesday ordered an investigation into the accident involving an operational vehicle of the organisation, which killed six people at the border town of Jibiya, Kastina state.Recent reports have Read More
The Joint Border Patrol Team, Sector 3 of the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) Ilorin, has seized prohibited goods worth N91 million. The Sector Commander, Compt. Olugbenga Peters, disclosed this at a news conference at the Custom House in Ilorin on Tuesday. Peters said that from the records made available by NNPC/DPR, only 13 petrol tankers were granted approval to load Read More
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