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    Nigeria Customs seizes rice, vegetable oil worth N7.6m – Today.ng News

    The Western Marine Command of the Nigeria Customs Service, NCS, has impounded 571 bags of foreign parboiled rice in 50 kilograms bags, each and 49 kegs of 25kg litres of vegetable oil with Duty Paid Value, DPV of N7.6 milion in one week. The prohibited items were impounded around … Read...
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    Politics Customs boss directs area comptrollers to open warehouses for Senate inspection – The...

    Hameed Ali, the Comptroller-General of Customs (CGC) has directed Area Comptrollers to grant Senate Ad Hoc Committee access to warehouses across the country for inspection. Mr Joseph Attah, the Public Relations Officer of Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) made this known at a press briefing in Abuja...
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    Politics Customs CG Sacks Compliance Team Over Failure To Combat Smuggling – Leadership Nigeria...

    The Comptroller-General of the NigeriaCustoms Service (NCS), Col. Hameed Ali (rtd) has disbanded the Service Compliance Team of the Service and replaced them with a new one called Strike Force Team. According to NSC, the compliance team is an ad hoc team set up to complement the Federal...
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    Politics FG To Increase Salaries of Customs Officers

    The Minister of Finance, Kemi Adeosun, has promised to ensure salary increase for officers and men of the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS). Adeosun made the promise at the celebration of International Customs Day at the Customs Command and Staff College Gwagwalada, FCT on Friday in Abuja. The...
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    Metro Nigeria Customs Service Cancel Promotion Exams For Senior Officers Due To Examination Malpractice

    The Nigeria Customs Service has cancelled the promotion examination recently conducted for senior officers from the rank of Assistant Comptroller to Deputy Comptroller over irregularities observed in the conduct of the examination. According to an internal circular, dated November 22, 2017, the...
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    Metro Nnamdi Kanu Behind 'Importation of 2,671 Riffles' Seized By Customs – FG

    The federal government has revealed that the 2,671 seized pump action rifles illegally imported into the country from Turkey could be traced to Nnamdi Kanu, leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB). The government said this on Tuesday as part of its submissions before the federal high...
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    Metro Nigeria Customs Uncovers Another 1,100 Weapons

    Operatives of the Tin-Can Island Command of the Nigeria Customs Service, NIS have smashed a syndicate that specialised in smuggling weapons into the country, discovering 1,100 pump action riffles loaded in a 20 foot container. According to Dailytrust, the weapons was discovered to have bring...
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    Metro 2 Customs Officers Shot Dead in Katsina

    The Katsina State Custom Command of the Nigerian Customs Service has confirmed the killing of two of its officers by suspected armed robbers. The Spokesman of the command, Mr Peter Duniya, who confirmed the killing in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Katsina on Monday...
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    Metro Nigeria Customs Makes 12 New Key Appointments [See NAMES]

    The Nigeria Customs Service has reconstituted its management and announced some key appointments to rejig the service toward greater efficiency. The Public Relations Officer, Mr Joseph Attah, announced this in a statement on Wednesday in Abuja. Attah the service has appointed four Acting...
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    Metro Hameed Ali Redeploys 4,072 Senior Officers of Nigeria Customs Service

    The Nigeria Customs Service, NCS, in a "routine exercise" has redeployed 4,072 of its senior officers to commands across the four zones of the service. According to a circular issued on Tuesday by T.M. Isa, NCS Acting Assistant Comptroller-General, Human Resources Department, the officers...
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    Politics Senate Probes Buhari, 3 Other Ex-Presidents Over N4tr Customs Revenue

    The Senate Committee on Customs, Excise and Tariff has revealed plans to investigate how over N4 trillion was lost due to revenue leakage in the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS). The period under review will cover 2006 and 2016. In the investigation, the Senate committee will look into the...
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    Metro Nigeria Customs Cart Away 9000 Bags of Rice From Ibadan Warehouse

    The Oyo/Osun Area Command of the Nigeria Customs Service has announced that it has seized 9000 bags of rice from a warehouse in Ibadan, Oyo state. Tope Ogunkua, Comptroller of the Command said: “A total of 9000 bags of smuggled imported rice with duty paid value of N88,776,000 were impounded...
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    Business Cargo Delays to Rise Significantly as Nigeria Customs Introduces New Measure

    The Nigeria Customs Services, NCS, has decided to increase security measures at the country’s seaports, airports and land borders. NCS Zonal Coordinator, Assistant Comptroller General of Customs (ACG), Abueh Monday, on Friday said Customs agents will now have to carry out a 100% inspection of...
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    Politics Senate Introduces New Procedure for Appointment of Nigeria Customs Bosses

    The Nigerian Senate has begun the process of amending the Nigeria Customs Service Act as regards the appointment of a Comptroller General for the agency. Chairman of the Senate Committee on Customs, Excise and Tariff, Senator Hope Uzodinma (PDP, Imo) made the announcement in a meeting with...
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    Metro Nigeria Customs Intercept 661 Pump-action Rifles In Lagos [See PHOTOS]

    Nigeria Customs Service intercepts a huge cache of pump action rifles concealed in 40ft container in Lagos. 49 boxes containing 661 pieces of Pump Action Rifles found inside the container. See photos: Photo source: Ifunanya Eze
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    Metro Nigeria Customs Dismisses Reported Sack of 59 Officers

    The Nigeria Customs Service through Joseph Attah, the AG. Public Relations Officer for Comptroller-General of Customs has denied the repoted dismissal of 59 officers. In the press statement released the NCS said that the report is misleading as it did not originate from the service. “The...
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    Politics 3 Prominent Nigerian Prosecutors That May Replace Magu As EFCC Chairman

    As the plot thickens to stop the Acting Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Mr Ibrahim Magu, from becoming the substantive chair of the Commission, three prominent Nigerian prosecutor names have popped up as his possible replacements, The Nation Newspaper reports...
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    Metro Expired Rice Now in Town- Customs Warns Nigerians

    The Nigeria Customs Service has warned Nigerians to be wary of the kind of rice they consume in the yuletide season. According to Customs Comptroller, Federal Operations Unit (F.O.U.) Ikeja, Mamudu Haruna, most rice smuggled through Idiroko, Seme, Jibia and other border stations had expired...
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    Business FG Recovers N4.2Bn From Collecting Banks

    The Revenue Mobilisation, Allocation and Fiscal Commission (RMAFC) on Wednesday said it had recovered N4.2 billion in remittances from collecting banks into the federation account. Mr Shettima Gana, the commission’s acting Chairman, said this while inducting the lead consultants and other...
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    Business FG Begins Export of Farm Produce From Northern Nigeria to Europe

    The Nigeria Customs Service says it will begin to export farm produce to Europe from some Northern States. The Comptroller in charge of Kano and Jigawa States, Mr Abutu Mathias made this known on Thursday during the quarterly stakeholders’ forum in Kano. Mathias said that the aim was to...
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