•A cargo ship A cyber attack on the Information Communication Technology (ICT) platform of the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) has caused significant disruptions to cargo clearance operations at ports across the country. Licensed Customs agents are already counting their losses to demurrage charges on their consignments as a result of the disrup...
•Nigeria Customs Service The House of Representatives Committee on Customs and Excise has ordered the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) to stop collecting the one per cent Comprehensive Import Supervision Scheme (CISS) levy and the 7% cost of collection, declaring them illegal and not backed by any existing law. Chairman of the Committee, Hon. Lek...
•Nigerian Customs Determined to curb the smuggling of Premium Motor Spirit (PMS), popularly known as petrol, the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) today announced that it will commence profiling petrol filling stations along border areas to identify rogue operators involved in smuggling petrol across the border. The Comptroller General of Customs,...
The Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) has intercepted five containers of sex-enhancement drugs and six containers of prohibited pharmaceuticals, expired food and controlled security equipment worth N921 billion imported via Apapa Port between January and April this year. Controller-General of Customs, Bashir Adeniyi, while displaying the seizures ...
•Comptroller-General of the Nigeria Customs Service, Adewale Adeniyi The Nigeria Customs Service has shed light on the continued smuggling of petrol across the country’s borders, despite the elimination of fuel subsidies. According to the Comptroller General of Customs, Adewale Adeniyi, the practice remains attractive to smugglers due to the s...
•NDLEA operatives The Nigeria Customs Service (NCS), Ondo/Ekiti Command, has intercepted over 140 sacks of Cannabis sativa, popularly known as Indian hemp, weighing more than 1,400 kilogrammes and valued at N112 million. The seizure was made in Ado Ekiti while the illicit substance was being transported by two suspects, according to the Comptr...
The Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) has begun implementing a two-year exemption on import duty and Value Added Tax (VAT) for key pharmaceutical raw materials. This was disclosed in a statement today by the NCS National Public Relations Officer, Abdullahi Maiwada. Maiwada, an Assistant Comptroller of Customs, said the policy follows President Bol...
The authorities of the Nigeria Customs Service have handed over a total of 1,599 assorted arms and 2, 298 live cartridges to the National Centre for the Control of Small Arms and Light Weapons (NCCSALW). Speaking during the handover ceremony in Lagos, the Comptroller General of Customs, Adewale Adeniyi, stated that some of the importers [&hell...
•Customs officers The implementation of exchange rate for cargo clearance by the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) has drawn the ire of stakeholders in the maritime industry. They claimed the new policy, which began yesterday may have severe economic consequences, reports The Nation. The federal government, through the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN...
•House of Representatives The House of Representatives today resolved to investigate alleged smuggling activities by Nigeria Customs Service personnel. The House took the decision at a plenary session following the adoption of a motion of urgent public importance sponsored by the member representing Badagry Federal Constituency, Lagos State, M...
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