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PICS: Customs Uncovers Cache of Smuggled Arms, Ammunition
The Nigeria Customs Service has made a major interception of a large cache of smuggled arms and ammunition, raising serious security concerns. According to reports, While the exact quantity and value of the seized weapons are not yet disclosed, the scale of the bust is described as highly disturbing. photo credit: Nations Punch/Adebukola Aluko Subscribe…
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Customs Hand Over Seized Drugs to NAFDAC
By Abisola Oluremi The Oyo Osun Area Command of the Nigeria Customs Service, NCS, has handed over seized pharmaceutical drugs worth over 1.7 billion naira to the National Agency For Food And Drug Administration And Control, NAFDAC. At the event held at the NCS operational headquarters in Ibadan, the area comptroller of the command, Doctor Ben Oramalugo said the products…
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Customs Intercepts Fake Pharmaceutical Drugs
By Abisola Oluremi The Oyo-Osun Command of the Nigeria Customs Service has intercepted fake pharmaceutical drugs worth one billion seven hundred and thirty-nine million naira at Bakatari area of Oyo State. The drugs include seven sacks of 625 mg augmentin tablets, twenty-two sacks of ampiclox and twenty-four sacks of 500 mg amoxicillin capsules. The Area…
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Palliative: Customs Begins Sale of 25kg Rice for N10,000
The Nigeria Customs Service, NCS, will today commence the sale of seized bags of rice to the public at the rate of N10,000 per 25kg . Disclosing this to newsmen in Lagos, Comptroller General of the NCS, Mr. Adewale Adeniyi, said the process for the sale of the food items has been perfected such that…
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Smugglers Conceal 1,245 Rounds of Ammunition in Rice Bags
By Olusegun Folarin The Nigeria Customs Service has intercepted one thousand, two hundred and forty five rounds of live ammunition concealed in bags of rice. The Controller of Customs, Ogun Area 1 Command, Mr Bamidele Makinde, who announced this to journalists in Abeokuta said the five vehicles conveying the ammunition, were intercepted on a bush…
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Customs Seizes Goods Worth Billions of Naira
Nigeria Customs Service Oyo/Osun Area Command says it has generated over one hundred billion naira between January and November this year. The Oyo Osun Area Comptroller, Mr Babajide Jaiyeoba made this known while briefing newsmen on the achievements of the command for the year 2022. Mr Jaiyeoba said the command had intensified efforts on suppression…
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Ogun Customs Intercept 35 Trucks with Smuggled Rice
Operators of legitimate businesses across the nation’s land borders have been assured of necessary support by the Nigerian Customs Service, to enhance trade facilitation and enforcement of the government’s fiscal policies. The Customs Area Controller, Ogun Area One Command, Mr Bamidele Makinde who announced this to journalists at Idi Iroko also promised to ensure continuous…
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Customs Intercept Contraband Worth 600 Million Naira
The Nigeria Customs Service said it arrested five suspects, intercepted ammunitions and other contrabands worth Duty Paid Value of over N622m in September. The Acting Customs Area Controller in charge of the Federal Operations Unit, Zone A, of the service, Hussein Ejibunnu, while addressing journalists at the unit said the unit also recovered N107m within…
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Customs Intercept Adulterated Diesel, Others
The Nigerian Customs Service has intercepted 45,000 litres of adulterated diesel and about 11,000 litres of petrol among other seizures recorded within Ogun State in the last 8 weeks. The Ogun – One Area Customs Command also generated about 13 million naira revenue from the auction sales of Premium Motor Spirit, PMS, popularly called petrol,…
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Ogun Customs Seizes N102m Worth of Cannabis Sativa, Hands Over to NDLEA
In Ogun State, the Nigeria Customs Service has intercepted and delivered a consignment of Cannabis Sativa, worth more than 102 million naira to the National Drugs Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA. The substances, packed in 319 sacks, 476 wraps in book sized packages and 96 coconut size wraps were handed over to the NDLEA Commander Mr…
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Youth Council of Nigeria Decries Alleged Killings by Customs Personnel
The National Youth Council of Nigeria, NYNC, Ogun State Chapter has expressed dissatisfaction over the alleged killing of innocent people by the men and officers of the Nigeria Customs Service. Leading the youths on a peaceful protest to Ogun State House of Assembly, NYNC Chairman, Comrade Abdul-Jabar Ayelagbe, noted that it had become a daily…
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Nigeria Customs Records over ₦200m Worth of Seized Items in Oyo
Nigeria Customs Service, Oyo/Osun Area Command has seized items worth over two hundred million Naira from January to July this year. Comptroller Oyo/Osun Area Command, Alhaji Abdullahi Zulkifli who stated this in Ibadan at a news briefing noted that most of the seizures were made in Kishi, Irepo Local Government Area of Oyo State. The…
