Ogun Customs seizes 7,000 bags of foreign rice in March
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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 contraband goods in the month of March as 167, added that the Duty Paid Value on the contraband amounts to one hundred and sixteen million, five hundred and eighty-six thousand, six hundred and seven Naira, zero Kobo (N116,586,607.00).
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Customs intercepts two boats of narcotics at Ibeche Beach
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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 year arrested a large haul of the substance valued at over one billion naira at the same beach, while the smugglers reportedly jumped into the water and escaped.
Customs seize 5,200 live ammunition, others worth N1.3bn Customs seize 5,200 live ammunition, others worth N1.3bn
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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 newsmen on Wednesday, the Customs Area Controller, Zone C, Compt. Yusuf Lawal said while N1.280billion were generated from seizures from contraband N7.6milion were raised as DN for cargoes that exited the seaports.
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 South-South and South-East, which covers Zone C.
“Following our anti-smuggling drives, between January to March 2021, we have intercepted various contraband within our areas of jurisdiction which covers South-South/South-East zones with a duty paid value of ₦1,280,885,011,” he said.
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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 year arrested a large haul of the substance valued at over one billion naira at the same beach, while the smugglers reportedly jumped into the water and escaped.