We have no laboratory to sample products, Customs boss tells Senate On By Henry Umoru THE Comptroller General of Nigeria Customs Service, NCS, Colonel Hameed Ali (retd), has told the Senate that the service does not have a single laboratory to carry out sample tests of products. Disclosing this when he appeared before the Senator Francis Alimikhena (APC, Edo North)-led Senate Committee on Customs, Excise and Tariff, the comptroller general, who was represented by the Acting Comptroller (Tariff) Suleiman Chiroma, said that with the absence of laboratory to effectively carry out its jobs, the Customs, at different times, hired the services of the Standards Organisation of Nigeria, SON; the National Agency for Food, Drug Administration and Control, NAFDAC, and the University of Lagos.