The Nigeria Customs Service (NCS), has suspended the 25% penalty previously imposed in addition to import duty on improperly imported vehicles. According to the Customs Service, this was under the directives of the Honourable Minister of Finance and Coordinating Minister of the Economy, Wale Edun, who also initiated a 90-day window, effective ...
•Customs officers The newly appointed Customs Area Controller (CAC), Kebbi Command, Comptroller Iheanacho Ernest Ojike at the weekend, reopened the Kamba border in Kebbi State for international trade. The reopening according to Mohammed Tajuddeen Salisu, a Superintendent of Customs and Public Relations Officer, Kebbi Area Command of Nigeria Cu...
A report by the Office of the Auditor-General of the Federation (OAuGF) has indicted the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) and Upstream Petroleum Regulatory Commission (NUPRC) for non-remittance of billions of naira into the federation account. The audit report for the 2020 financial year submitted to the National Assembly in November last year, b...
•Customs officers with bags of rice In a move to alleviate the hardship Nigerians are facing due to the skyrocketing prices of food, the Nigeria Customs Service, Oyo/Ogun Command, has announced plans to begin another round of distribution of seized rice and other food items to citizens as soon as the federal government finalises the […]...
The Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) announced yesterday the temporary suspension of the food disposal initiative that commenced last Friday. This decision follows a stampede that occurred, resulting in fatalities and injuries to several potential beneficiaries. In a statement signed yesterday by the NCS National Spokesman, Abdullahi Maiwada, the...
•Elephant tusks The Nigeria Customs Service has intercepted 52 units of elephant tusks in Mfum, a border town of Ikom Local Government Area of Cross River. The Area Comptroller of Cross River/CFTZ/Akwa Ibom Command of the NIS, Ahmed Waziri, said this at a news conference in Calabar today. Waziri said the arrest was made by […]
•Customs officers Amid existing economic challenges and moves to jerk up the N5.1 trillion revenue of the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) from the second half of this year to stave borrowings, port users have said the move would increase inflation, as businesses would hugely be affected. They argued that the decision would also affect the [&hell...
The Senate is considering an upward review of the N5.079 billion revenue target of the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) from the second half of the year to save the country from further borrowings. The Chairman of the Senate Committee on Customs Isah Jibrin stated this during a meeting with the Comptroller General of the Nigeria […]
Nigerians are in for more economic hardship induced by inflation as the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has increased the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) exchange rate for clearance of imported goods to N1,356.883 per 1$. Information obtained by this paper from the Customs official website yesterday morning indicated that the exchange rate was adj...
•Ali Ndume Senator representing Borno South and Senate Chief Whip, Ali Ndume, has commended the position of the federal government, mandating the nation oil giant, the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPCL), to remit its earnings from crude oil sales to the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN). Speaking with journalists in Abuja, Senator...