•Olanike Nafisat Balogun The Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) has announced Deputy Superintendent of Customs (Pilot) Olanike Nafisat Balogun as its first female pilot, marking a historic milestone and breaking barriers in aviation within the service. Customs’ National Public Relations Officer, Abdullahi Maiwada, in a statement, said Balogun, a na...
•Customs operatives Security operatives from the Nigerian Customs Service and soldiers manning checkpoints along the Badagry-Seme Expressway, weekend, allegedly brutalised two residents, Taofeek Olatunbosun and Rafiu Abdelmalik, for making a video. The officers suspected the duo of being informants supplying journalists with information about ...
The Nigeria Customs Service, NCS, has raised alarm over increased arms import and export of wildlife just as it declared an emergency on pharmaceuticals and medicaments. Speaking to journalists in Lagos Tuesday, Comptroller General of the Service, Mr. Adeniyi Adewale, said that the agency has resolved to protect Nigeria’s borders and economic ...
•NCS Deputy Controller General, Olaniyi Olajugun, dispenses petrol to motorists in Yola Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) has auctioned Premium Motor Spirit, popularly called petrol seized by its operatives in Yola, Adamawa State. NCS Comptroller General, Bashir Adewale Adeniyi, disclosed this during a press briefing in the North-Eastern state. Re...
•Protesting rice sellers A group of rice sellers, under the auspices of Ifesowapo Association of Rice Sellers, Lafenwa Market, in Abeokuta, Ogun State, today, staged a peaceful protest over the alleged invasion of their shops by Customs officials, where bags of rice, worth several millions of Naira were carted away. The traders, marched throug...
•Customs Comptroller-General, Adewale Adeniyi Suspension of import duties on essential food items has gone into effect, the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) said yesterday. It is part of the federal government’s efforts to address the high cost of food, reports The Nation. Comptroller-General Adewale Adeniyi said the measure aims to make essentia...
Nigerian Customs Service, Sokoto/Zamfara command has today auctioned 56,164 litres of Petroleum Motor Spirits seized from smugglers in Sokoto. Speaking while declaring the exercise open, the Controller of the command, Kamal Muhammed, said the exercise was in compliance with the directives Comptroller General of Customs, Bashir Adewale, aimed a...
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...
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