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The Ogun 1 Command of the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) has gotten a new Controller, DAILY POST reports. The new Controller, Dera Nnadi, took over from

•Western Marine command raises in N700m in six months The Nigeria Customs Service (NCS), Area 1 Command of Ogun State, has announced the seizure of 58 trailer-loads of smuggled parboiled rice with duty paid value (DPV) of N834.7 million in the last six months. Meanwhile, the Western Marine Command (WMC) of the NCS made a total of 30 seizures with a DPV of N747 million between January and June 2021. The Ogun 1 Command Area Controller, Peter Kolo, while parading the seizures, revealed that the ...

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.

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...

Daily Post Nigeria Published A man has been confirmed dead in an auto accident that occurred along Ipetu-Ijesa/Ilesa road on Thursday night. The fatal accident happened around 9:46 pm on Thursday, about 4 kilometres from Iwaraja Junction, Omo Ijesa, Osun State. It was gathered that a V/Wagen with registration number, FFA 889KA and a CNHTC truck with registration number DKA 374XA, crashed and claimed a life and left two others injured. The Sector Public Education Officer for Osun Command of the ...

Daily Post Nigeria Published Two hoodlums were reported dead, many sustained varied degrees of injury, while one Taiye Kujo was arrested during an attack on officers of Ogun I Command, Customs Service, accompanied by military personnel on Thursday. In a press release signed by the Command’s spokesperson, DSC Hammed Bukoye Oloyede, the incident resulted from an attack on the Customs’ patrol team by smugglers and cohorts. He said that the “diehard smugglers aided by unscrupulous elements an...

Translate Two dead, 10 injured as smugglers attack Customs officers in Ogun On By James Ogunnaike – Abeokuta No fewer than two persons were confirmed dead, while ten others sustained gunshot injuries as hoodlums suspected to be smugglers allegedly attacked officials of the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS), Ogun 1 command at Oja-Odan in Yewa North Local Government Area of Ogun state on Thursday. A statement issued by the command spokesman, DSC Bukoye Oloyede, said, based on c...

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...