The Comptroller-General of the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS), Bashir Adeniyi, on Wednesday, announced the interception of contraband items worth over N921 billion as the service intensifies enforcement operations at the nation’s ports. The items included expired food items, unregistered pharmaceutical products and controlled security equipment. Adeniyi during a press...
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By EZEKIEL OBI, Abuja- The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Kano Zonal Directorate has commenced investigation of $86,500 (Eighty-Six Thousand Five Hundred United States Dollars), 305,150( Three Hundred and five, One Hundred and Fifty Saudi Riyals, and 200 Euros confiscated by officers of the Nigeria Customs Service, NCS...
By HARUNA AHMED, Kaduna – Comptroller Aliyu Alkali has formally assumed the headship of the Nigeria Customs Service, Federal Operations Unit Zone B, Kaduna, succeeding Comptroller Ahmadu Shuaibu. Speaking at the handover ceremony held at Kangiwa House on Wednesday, 23 April 2025, Comptroller Shuaibu described his tenure as a...
Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) has collected ₦1.75 trillion as revenue for the first quarter of 2025. The Comptroller-General (C-G) of the service, Adewale Adeniyi, disclosed this on Tuesday in Abuja at a press briefing on its activities for the first quarter. Adeniyi said that they exceeded their first quarter...
By EMMANUEL KUJE, Abuja– The Nigeria Customs Service (NCS), Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Command, has intercepted a large consignment of tramadol valued at over ₦8.6 billion at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja as part of its significant anti-smuggling effort. The seizure, made on Saturday, 5 April 2025, was...
The Nigerian Customs Service (NCS) has announced the interception of controlled drugs valued at over N18 million at the Mfum Border in Cross River. The Customs Area Controller for Cross River/Calabar Free Trade Zone/Akwa Ibom Area Command, Comptroller Chukwudi Ogbonna, made this known during a press conference held in...
The Federal Operations Unit (FOU), Zone A, Ikeja, of the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) announced the interception of contraband worth N1.72 billion from smugglers in last one month.The Customs Area Controller of FOU Zone A, Comptroller Kola Oladeji, made this disclosure on Wednesday during a media briefing in Lagos....
The Nigeria Customs Service (NCS), Ogun 1 Area Command, on Tuesday, handed over 7 million CFA (N17 million) intercepted by its operatives to the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC). The Area Comptroller, Mr Mohammed Shuaibu, handed over the 7 million CFA to Mr Oguzi Moses, the Assistant Commander...
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has begun investigating Okorie Sunday, arrested at Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Lagos, with $578,000 by the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS). EFCC spokesperson, Dele Oyewale, confirmed this in a statement on Saturday in Abuja, saying that the suspect would be charged to court...
The Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) has intercepted an undeclared sum of $193,000 (about N289.5 billion) concealed in a carton of yogurt at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja. NCS’s spokesperson Abdullahi Maiwada disclosed this in a statement on Friday in Abuja, revealing that the seizure took place on Thursday....
The Nigeria Customs Service, Murtala Muhammed International Airport (MMIA) Command has handed over $578,000 seized from a male passenger to the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC). Handing over the foreign currency to the EFCC in Lagos on Friday, the Comptroller in charge of (MMIA) Command, Effiong Harrison said...
By HARUNA AHMED, Yola – In a renewed crackdown on fuel smuggling, the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS), through Operation Whirlwind, has once again dealt a significant blow to illicit traders in Adamawa State, intercepting 916 kegs of Premium Motor Spirit (PMS) valued at ₦22.9 million. The seizure—carried out at...
Nigeria Customs Service (NCS), has intercepted 1,149 jerrycans of Premium Motor Spirit (PMS), allegedly smuggled through the Dorofi and Kan Iyaka axis, along the Gembu-Cameroon border in Taraba. Comptroller General of Customs, Bashir Adeniyi, disclosed this on Friday in Jalingo while auctioning the seized petroleum products to the public....
By HARUNA AHMED, Kano – The Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) has intercepted a total of $1,154,900 (One Million, One Hundred and Fifty-Four Thousand, Nine Hundred US Dollars) and SR135,900 (One Hundred and Thirty-Five Thousand, Nine Hundred Saudi Riyals) undeclared foreign currency at the Mallam Aminu Kano International Airport (MAKIA)....
The Comptroller-General (C-G) of the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS), Mr Adewale Adeniyi, has expressed deep sorrow over the passing of Mallam Kabir Dangogo, a renowned public relations expert across Africa. Adeniyi, in a statement issued by the Service’s spokesperson, Abdullahi Maiwada, on Saturday in Abuja, described the deceased as...
The Comptroller-General, Nigeria Customs Service (NCS), Bashir Adeniyi, says its Operation Whirlwind intercepted 245,370 liters of Petrol with Duty Paid Value (DPV) of NGN238.1 million in less than three months. Adeniyi made this known on Monday at a news conference in Lagos convened because of the recent petroleum products...
The Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) has handed over 1,599 assorted arms and 2,298 live cartridges to the National Centre for the Control of Small Arms and Light Weapons (NCCOSALW). The Comptroller General of NCS, Mr Adewale Adeniyi, handed over the items at the Customs Federal Operation Unit Zone “A”...
The Kano/Jigawa Customs Area Command held a stakeholders’ meeting on Wednesday to explain the 4 per cent Free On Board (FOB) collection and its suspension. Area Comptroller, Dalhatu Abubakar, addressed the gathering, stating that the new revenue law benefits all stakeholders, including exporters, importers, and customs agents. He explained...
The House of Representatives Committee on Public Petitions has summoned the Comptroller-General of Nigerian Customs Service, Adewale Adeniyi, to appear before it on Feb. 18. This is contained in a statement issued by the Head, Media/Public Petitions Committee, House of Representatives, Chooks Oko, on Wednesday in Abuja. Oko said...
The Nigeria Customs Service (NCS), has suspended implementation of the 4 per cent charge on the Free On-Board (FOB) value of imports. The Spokesman of the service, Abdullahi Maiwada, made this known in a statement on Tuesday in Abuja. According to him, the FOB charge essential to drive the...