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Seme Customs hands over illicit drugs to NDLEA
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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 to Vanguard Maritime Report, noted that the seized narcotic substances is among 705 other items seized by the area command between January and March 2021, with a total Duty Paid Value of over N409million.
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By Godfrey Bivbere
More than two weeks after the Federal Government’s directives for the reopening of Seme, Ilela, Maigatari and Mfum land borders, men of the Nigeria Customs Service, NCS, at Seme border, are yet to receive official communication for the commencement of trade, findings by Sunday Vanguard revealed.
Consequently, official trade hasn’t commenced at Nigeria’s foremast land border with Benin Republic.
The Minister of Finance and National Planning, Zainab Ahmed, had said the land borders would be fully reopened before December 31, 2020.
But a visit to the border last Wednesday revealed that apart from a few individuals crossing the border, vehicular moment was almost none existent.