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Smuggling: Customs decry communities’ dwindling collaboration

Hussaina Yakubu Apr 30, 2021 0

The Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) Federal Operations Unit Zone ‘B’, has decried the lack of cooperation of some Nigerians in border communities to efforts of the service to check smuggling. Mr. Al-Bashir Hamisu, the Comptroller of the…

Immigration CG Urge Officers To Avoid Image Tarnishing Indulgences

Aderogba George Oct 30, 2020 0

The Comptroller-General (CG) of the Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS), Mr Muhammad Babandede, has told officers of the service to avoid issues capable of tarnishing the image of the service. SEE ALSO: COVID-19: Nadal Pessimistic Over…

Lagos lawmaker decries alleged shooting of students, driver by custom officials

Adekunle Williams Sep 6, 2019 0

A member of Lagos State House of Assembly, Mr Ibrahim Layode, on Thursday decried the alleged shooting of two students and a driver by an undisclosed custom official in Badagry. Read also: FG begins expansion rehabilitation works…

Man Arrested With N135m At Kaduna Airport

News Agency of Nigeria Mar 7, 2018 0

Adamu Rabiu Muhammad an entrepreneur from Kano has been caught by the Nigeria Customs Service with a sum of $375,000 in cash at the international wing of the Kaduna International airport. This was while he was about taking a trip to Dubai…

Customs Area Command generates N2.1bn

News Agency of Nigeria Nov 27, 2017 0

Customs Area Controller for Niger, Kwara and Kogi Mr Benjamin Binga, said the command generated N2.1 billion revenue from January to date. ‎ Binga disclosed this in Minna on Monday while briefing newsmen on the activities of smugglers in…

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Customs hands over seized container of pharmaceutical products to NDLEA

News Agency of Nigeria Nov 20, 2017 0

The Nigeria Customs Service (NCS), Tin-Can Island Command, on Monday said it had handed over a 40-foot container containing confiscated and falsely declared pharmaceutical goods to the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA). The…

Customs intercepts smuggled bullet proof vehicle in Kaduna

News Agency of Nigeria Nov 17, 2017 0

The Federal Operation Unit (FOU) Zone B of the Nigeria Customs Service has seized a bullet proof vehicle imported into the country illegally. The Area Controller of the zone, Usman Dakingari, told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on…

Reps to probe Customs import revenue/ waivers

News Agency of Nigeria Nov 8, 2017 0

The House of Representatives on Wednesday mandated its Committee on Customs and Excise to investigate the handling of import duty revenues, waivers and bonds on import duties. The services, the House said, were carried out by the Nigeria…

Customs generates N829.5m in 6 months in Sokoto

News Agency of Nigeria Nov 1, 2017 0

The Nigerian Customs Service (NCS) Command in Sokoto, Kebbi and Zamfara says it has generated N829.5 million between May and October. The command’s Comptroller, Mr Nasiru Ahmad, who said this at a news conference in Sokoto on Wednesday,…

Customs Compliance Team confiscates N317m contraband

News Agency of Nigeria Oct 12, 2017 0

The Comptroller General of Customs Compliance Team, Zone C, said it confiscated N317 million worth of contraband between April and September. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Zone C comprises Edo, Delta, Anambra, Bayelsa,…

Custom Dismiss 61 and retire 16 Officials Over misconduct

Priscilla Oct 10, 2017 0

The Nigeria Custom Service has retired and dismissed more than 61 officers for misconduct and corrupt practices Some of the officers who are being interrogated were retired on an alleged case of bribery, forgery and refusal of staff…

Work with police for thorough investigation on seized arms–UNODC tells Nigeria custom

News Agency of Nigeria Oct 8, 2017 0

The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) has urged Nigeria Custom Service to work with the police for comprehensive investigation on seizure of fire arms at Tin-Can Island port in Lagos recently. The UNODC outgoing Country…

Customs intercept another 2,671 Pump Action rifles

News Agency of Nigeria Sep 21, 2017 0

The Tin-Can Island Command of Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) has intercepted 2,671 pump action rifles imported from Turkey through profiling approach. The Comptroller-General of NCS, Retired Col. Hameed Ali, told journalists in Lagos on…

Customs discovers 18 suspected smuggled exotic vehicles — CGC

News Agency of Nigeria Sep 20, 2017 0

The Comptroller-General of Customs, retired Col. Hameed Ali, said the compliance team of the service discovered 18 suspected smuggled exotic vehicles displayed for sale at a shop in Abuja. Ali said this while addressing newsmen on the…

Customs’ Eastern Area Command generates N4.89bn

News Agency of Nigeria Sep 19, 2017 0

The Enugu, Anambra, and Ebonyi Area Command of the Nigerian Customs Service (NCS) has generated N4.89 billion within eight months. The Area Comptroller, Mr Suleiman Mohammed, made the disclosure to newsmen on Monday at a stakeholders…

Customs intercept 1,100 rifles imported from Turkey

News Agency of Nigeria Sep 11, 2017 0

The Tin-Can Island Command of the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) has intercepted 1,100 rifles which were imported into the country from Turkey under false declaration. The Comptroller-General of NCS, Retired Col. Hameed Ali, told…

Customs intercepts 6,000 poultry products, 1, 069 bags of rice valued N135m in Benin

News Agency of Nigeria Aug 30, 2017 0

The Nigeria Customs Service in Benin says it has impounded 6, 000 frozen turkey and chicken and 1, 069 bags of rice smuggled into the country. Mr Ahmed Azarena,the National Coordinator of the Customs’ Comptroller -General’s Compliance…

Customs in Owerri impounds contraband worth N101.693m

News Agency of Nigeria Aug 16, 2017 0

The Federal Operation Unit (FOU) Zone ‘C’ of Nigeria Customs Service in Owerri on Wednesday said it confiscated contraband with Duty Paid Value of N101.693 million in a week operations in August. It said the items comprised six…

Court fixes Aug.28 to hear alleged N73.5m judgment debt against Customs

News Agency of Nigeria Aug 15, 2017 0

The National Industrial Court, Abuja, has fixed Aug.28, for hearing of the suit instituted by one Ihesiaba Chinweoke, and 20 others, against the Nigeria Customs Service Board, seeking payment of N73.5 million judgment debt. The other…

Pension: PTAD pays N7.3bn to 237,306 pensioners under Defined Benefit Scheme- Official

News Agency of Nigeria Aug 5, 2017 0

The Pension Transitional Arrangement Directorate (PTAD) says it has completed the payment of N7.3 billion July pension of 237,306 federal pensioners under the Defined Benefit Scheme (DBS). The PTAD said in Abuja on Friday that of this…

Customs generate N72m in six months in Borno, despite Boko Haram

News Agency of Nigeria Aug 1, 2017 0

The Borno Command of the The Nigeria Customs Service on Tuesday said it generated over N72 million as revenue, in spite of the security challenges posed by the Boko Haram insurgency in the state. The Controller of the service in the state,…

Customs generates over N49m on e-auction

News Agency of Nigeria Jul 28, 2017 0

The Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) said it generated N49 million on e-auction platform and recorded 254 winners in four weeks across the country. The Service Public Relations Officer, Mr Joseph Attah, announced this in a statement on…

Customs boss directs immediate dismantling of illegal check points – Official

News Agency of Nigeria Jul 27, 2017 0

The Comptroller-General of Customs (CGC), retired Col. Hameed Ali, has directed the immediate dismantling of all illegal check points in the country. Ali announced this in a statement by the Service Public Relations Officer, Mr Joseph…

Customs impounds truck load of rice concealed with animal dung in Katsina

News Agency of Nigeria Jul 25, 2017 0

The Nigeria Customs Service (NCS), Federal Operations Unit, Zone B, has arrested a truck-load of rice concealed in animal dung by smugglers in Katsina State. Mr Shehu Usman, the Controller in charge of the zone, made the disclosure at a…

Customs generated N720bn in 2016 – Ali

News Agency of Nigeria Jul 25, 2017 2

The Comptroller-General of Customs, Col. Hameed Ali (retd), has said that the Nigeria Customs Service generated N720 billion in 2016. He made this known while defending the budget of the service before the Senate Committee on Customs,…

Kano/Jigawa Customs Command generates N5.9bn revenue in 6 months –Comptroller

News Agency of Nigeria Jul 22, 2017 1

The Kano/Jigawa Customs Area Command generated N5.9 billion as revenue in the first half of the year, the command’s Area Comptroller, Mr Yusuf Abba-Kasim, has disclosed. Abba-Kasim, who made the disclosure while briefing newsmen in Kano…

Customs boss directs e-auction committee to resolve JTB tax number with FIRS

News Agency of Nigeria Jul 19, 2017 0

The Comptroller-General of Customs, retired Col. Hameed Ali, on Tuesday directed the e-auction committee to work with Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS) to resolve the issue of Joint Tax Board (JTB) Tax Identification Number (TIN).…

Apapa Customs generates N165bn at half year

News Agency of Nigeria Jul 14, 2017 2

The Apapa Area Command of the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) has collected the sum of N165.7 billion as revenue in the first half of 2017. According to a statement by the Public Relations Officer of the command on Thursday in Lagos, Mrs…

Tin-Can Customs generate N130bn in 6 months

News Agency of Nigeria Jul 11, 2017 0

The Nigeria Customs Service, Tin-Can Island Command, Lagos, has generated N130 billion between January and June, 2017. The Public Relations Officer of the command, Mr Uche Ejesieme, said this in a revenue chart made available to newsmen…

E-auction: Customs to commence next batch of bidding Monday

News Agency of Nigeria Jul 7, 2017 0

The Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) will commence the next batch of another 48 hours of bidding on July 10 as the e-auction committee reloads the portal with more items. The Public Relations Officer of the NCS, Mr Joseph Attah said in an…

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