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The Customs Area Controller, FOU, Zone A, Usman Bello Yahaya, while showcasing the seized product to journalists at the Customs Terminal in Ikorodu, described the suspects as economic saboteurs and enemies of the nation. Mr Yahaya noted that the suspects, along with others at large, had perfected plans to move the petrol into Benin Republic where they would have sold same at a higher price. Although the identities of the suspects were not given owing to the new Lagos State Government law bannin...

Punch Newspapers Sections Published 20 May 2021 Men of the Nigeria Customs Service, Ogun 1 Area Command, have seized an articulated vehicle loaded with 600 bags of 50kg foreign parboiled rice and belonging to Dangote Cement Company. The NCS personnel also arrested three persons, including the truck driver, as they were conveying the consignment to the eastern part of the country. The Customs Area Controller, Peter Kolo, disclosed this on Wednesday at the monthly press briefing on the activities...

It was gathered that the truck driver and two persons were arrested while conveying the consignment to the South East.

Onne Port. Photo: shipsandportsNigeria Customs Service Area ll Command, Onne Port, Rivers State, has uncovered 1387 cartons of prohibited tramadol tablets concealed in 1000 cartons of ceramic tiles. The Customs Area Controller of the command, Auwal Mohammed, who showed the seizure to newsmen in Onne, said it was found in one 40ft container with No: MRKU0764717 that was discovered through intelligence at the West African Container Terminal (WACT) facility. x T...

Punch Newspapers Sections Daud Olatunji Published 8 May 2021 Pandemonium broke out on Thursday when men of the Nigeria Customs Service and soldiers clashed with suspected smugglers, leaving two persons dead and 10 others injured.  Our correspondent gathered that the clash  occurred at Oja-Odan in the Yewa North Local Government of the state  when a patrol team from Ogun Command Area I intercepted 320 bags of foreign parboiled rice (50kg) stockpiled in a building.  It was gathered that duri...

  Two persons have been confirmed killed while ten others sustained injuries as men of the Nigerian Customs Service and Military personnel clashed with suspected smugglers in Ogun State. The spokesman of the Command, Hammed Oloyede confirmed the incident It was gathered that the incident occurred at Oja-Odan in Yewa North Local Government of the state on Thursday when a patrol team from Ogun Command Area I intercepted 320 bags of foreign parboiled rice (50kg) stockpiled in a building. It was f...

It was further gathered that during evacuation of the goods, some ‘diehard’ smugglers in collaboration with hoodlums attacked and opened fire on the patrol team. Four Customs operatives, one soldier and five civilians assisting in the evacuation reportedly sustained gunshot injuries during the attack. It was learnt that the patrol team, in repelling the attacks, also gunned down two of the suspected smugglers and left many others with gunshot injuries. The spokesman of the Command, Hammed O...

“These seizures made by the Federal Operations Unit Zone B at various locations within the zone have a combined duty paid value of N165,198,544.32,” as he urged smugglers to desist from the act. At Kirikiri, 16,920 bottles of Agust-Towanka table water with N5.5m DPV allegedly imported from Asia were intercepted on Friday. The Customs Area Controller, Hammi Swomen who briefed pressmen also said the Command’s first quarter of 2021 revenue rose by 36.5 percent to N7.97 billion from N5.8bn in...

Vanguard News Seme Customs hands over illicit drugs to NDLEA On By Eguono Odjegba In continuation of the robust improvement in inter-agency cooperation between the Nigeria Customs Service, NCS, and the Nigerian Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, the Seme Customs Command recently handed over seized 232 parcels of Cannabis Sativa otherwise locally known as Indian Hemp to officials of the NDLEA, Lagos Command. The Customs Area Controller, CAC, Comptroller Bello Mohammed Jibo, who disclosed these...

By Godfrey Bivbere & Providence Adeyinka The Federal Operations Unit (FOU), Zone A of the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS), yesterday, said it has impounded 42 drums of explosives in the form of calcium carbide and other contraband worth N3.1billion smuggled into Nigeria from Benin Republic. The Unit also impounded other contraband items worth N3.1billion, and raised Demand Notice (DN) worth N242million. Acting Customs Area Controller (CAC) of the Unit, Compt. Usman Yahaya, who disclosed this in L...