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Vanguard News Customs impounds explosives, N3.1bn contraband On 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 Controlle...

Seizes N3.1b contrabands • Records $70.8m export trade in Q1 at Onne Port The Federal Operations Unit (FOU), Zone A of the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS), yesterday, intercepted 42 drums of calcium carbide smuggled into the country from the Benin Republic. x Security experts have warned that calcium carbide could be used as explosives to bring down a building, especially when some chemical components are added to it. The Acting Customs Area Controller (CAC) ...

Ogun Customs seizes 7,000 bags of foreign rice in March On James Ogunnaike – Abeokuta The Ogun Area 1 Command of Nigeria Customs Service, Idiroko, says it has seized 7,000 bags of parboiled foreign rice equivalent to 12 trailers in the month of March. The Command Area Comptroller, Peter Kolo, who disclosed this at a press briefing in Abeokuta, Ogun State capital, said the command had never recorded such quantum seizure of prohibited rice. Kolo, who gave the total seizures of various contraba...

Vanguard News Customs intercepts two boats of narcotics at Ibeche Beach On Kindly Share This Story: THE Western Marine Command, WMC, Nigeria Customs Service, NCS, has intercepted two wooden boats laden with 147 sacks of Cannabis Sativa otherwise known as Indian Hemp, at the Ibeche Beach along the Badagry lagoon, Lagos state.   With an estimated gross mass of 6,615Kg at 45kg per sack, the substances with a total Duty Paid Value, DPV, of  ¦ 694.6 million was handed over to the National Drug L...

Customs seize 5,200 live ammunition, others worth N1.3bn Customs seize 5,200 live ammunition, others worth N1.3bn Share The Federal Operations Unit (FOU), Zone C of the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) on Wednesday said its officers intercepted 5,200 live ammunition and other contraband worth N1.3bilion in the last three months of 2021 in the South-South and South-East zones of the country. In a press statement by the Public Relations Officer, FOU, Zone C, Jerry Attah and a copy made available to...

  The Federal Operations Unit (Zone C) of the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS), has seized contraband items valued over ₦1.2 billion in Owerri, the Imo State capital. Briefing journalists in the state on Wednesday, the Customs Area Controller (CAC), Comptroller Yusuf Lawal, said the seizure was made from January to March. 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 S...

Views: Visits 8 THE Western Marine Command, WMC, Nigeria Customs Service, NCS, has intercepted two wooden boats laden with 147 sacks of Cannabis Sativa otherwise known as Indian Hemp, at the Ibeche Beach along the Badagry lagoon, Lagos state.   With an estimated gross mass of 6,615Kg at 45kg per sack, the substances with a total Duty Paid Value, DPV, of  ¦ 694.6 million was handed over to the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA. It will be recalled that the Command had last ...

By Chiazo Ogbolu Lagos, April 9, 2021 The Nigerian Customs Service (NCS) Tin-Can Island Port command has generated N112,696,693,158 billion in the first quarter of 2021. The Customs Area Controller, Mr Mba Musa, disclosed this in a statement made available to newsmen in Lagos on Friday. According to Musa, the revenue earnings for the for the first quarter, which stood at N112,695,693,158.66, shows an improvement of about N21.05billion (23 per cent) when compared with revenue earnings of N91bil...

The Free on Board (FOB) value is put at N4.37 billion while the export value of all the items is The Nigerian Export Supervision Scheme (NESS) Fees value of all exported items stood at N21.384 million during the period. He Customs Area Controller, Seme Area Command, Bello Mohammad Jibo, during a press briefing yesterday said the command was able to make a modest achievement at the wake of Federal Government pronouncement on the reopening of the land borders. The Comptroller put the overall reve...

By Raji Rasak Badagry (Lagos State), March 31, 2021 The Nigeria Customs Service, Seme Border Area Command, on Wednesday said it had intercepted contraband with duty paid value of N409,851,533 since the reopening of the border The Customs Area Controller (CAC) of the Command, Comptroller Bello Jibo, disclosed this at a news conference at ECOWAS Joint Border Post, Seme-Krake. He said that the banned substances, smuggled into Nigeria through the border, include 232 wraps of cannabis sativa, 98 us...