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Views: 148 There was tension in Iseyin, Oyo State, on Thursday, as men of the Nigeria Customs Service allegedly shot dead five persons in the town during a clash with suspected smugglers. The Customs men were said to be pursuing a Sport Utility Vehicle conveying bags of rice when the clash occurred. Residents said that the Customs men started shooting and bullets hit some persons, who were out celebrating the Eid-il-Fitri, and five of them died. The killings were said to have sparked a protest ...

Kemi Olaitan in Ibadan The Nigerian Customs Service (NCS) Area Comptroller (CAC), Oyo/Osun States Command, Mr. Adamu Abdulkadir, yesterday said the command generated N15,890,489,479.26 between February and April this year. This is just as he said the command has set a proficient team with the codename: ‘Excise Task Force’ to further enhance anti-smuggling capabilities of the command through tactical raids and interceptions of smuggled items through the border, stating that it will also help...

Punch Newspapers Sections Published 7 May 2021 The Oyo/Osun Area Command of the Nigeria Customs Service has announced the seizure of 3,311 bags of foreign rice. The Customs Area Comptroller for the command, Adamu AbdulKadir, who said this while conducting journalists round the seized goods, said the command also confiscated 221 cartons of imported dry fish and nine sacks of Indian hemp. Abdukadir said the seizures were made between February 1 and April 30, 2021. He added that 487 kegs of Premiu...

Share Operatives from the Federal Operations Unit, Zone A, of the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) stormed Oja’ba market in Ibadan, Oyo State, in the early hours of Saturday, and went away with an unknown number of bags of rice, loaded in five trucks. They were said to have broken into warehouses, stores and shops containing the bags of rice to carry out the act. However, a reliable source, who craved anonymity, told Sunday Tribune that the operatives had to leave hurriedly, as some area boys at...

Punch Newspapers Sections OLUFEMI OLANIYI Residents of Ibadan, the Oyo State capital, are losing sleep over the activities of some hoodlums threatening the peace of the area. The hoodlums whose acts were believed to have once been checked in the state appeared to have returned in full force. Our correspondent gathered that the cause of their frequent clashes is supremacy battle which often leaves in its wake tears, sorrow and blood. Though there used to be street clashes among rival groups in I...

By Suleiman Shehu Ibadan, Feb. 11,2021 The Oyo/Osun Area Command of the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) has intercepted six vehicles loaded with 500 bags of 50 kilogrammes foreign rice with Duty Paid Valued (DPV) at N22,329,000. The NCS Area Comptroller, Controller Adamu Abdulkadir, disclosed this on Thursday while briefing newsmen at the command’s headquarters in Ibadan. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the command had on Feb.4 showcased seized 3,052 foreign bags of rice and other...

Customs generate N4.8 billion for January in Oyo/Osun area command Customs generate N4.8 billion for January in Oyo/Osun area command • Make seizures of vehicles, cannabis, others Feb 4, 2021 The Comptroller, Oyo/Osun Area Command of the Nigeria Customs Service, Adamu Abdulkadir (in front) pointing at a 50-kilogramme bag of rice concealed in shred groundnut pods, among thousands of others. Share The Comptroller, Oyo/Osun Area Command of the Nigeria Customs Service, Adamu R. Abdulkadir, has d...

Akinwale Aboluwade The Nigeria Customs Service, Oyo/Osun Area Command, has disclosed that it has intercepted over 3,000 bags of foreign parboiled rice with a revenue of over N4 billion in the month of January. Reacting to the latest seizures, which include gallons of vegetable oil, bales of second hand clothing, used tyres and assorted tokunbo vehicles amongst others, the Command vowed to arrest and prosecute smugglers who sabotage their efforts toward anti-smuggling. As a key agent for sustai...