LAGOS APRIL 2ND(NEWSRANGERS)-Despite the establishment of Pre-Arrival Assessment Report (PAAR) and Automated System for Customs Data plus, plus (ASYCUDA++) designed to facilitate trade and block revenue loss at the ports and borders, one of the biggest challenges facing Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) is lack of compliance by some importers and agents, investigation has revealed. Non-compliance,…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 27TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Association of Nigerian Licensed Customs Agents ANLCA disclosed on Tuesday, that customs brokers and freight forwarders in Nigeria have lost about N20b cumulatively as a result of fake and substandard importations into the country in the last ten years. National President of the foremost freight agents group , Tony Nwabunike made…
LAGOS JANUARY 9TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Two officers of the Nigeria Customs Service have been abducted by bandits at the Dan-Bedi Checkpoint located along Mallamawa Danbedi axis in Jibia, Katsina, a border town with the Republic of Niger. Some residents in the area told Channels Television that the Customs officers were abducted on Wednesday morning along with an…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 12TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Fuel stations along Nigeria’s land borders have closed and prices have spiked after customs authorities banned deliveries of petroleum products to stations within 20 kilometres (12 miles) of the border in an attempt to curb smuggling. Border communities have complained about the move however, prompting Nigeria’s lower chamber of parliament on Tuesday…
LAGOS AUGUST 7TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Federal High Court sitting in Abeokuta, Ogun state capital has convicted three accused persons for vandalizing official patrol vehicle attached to Team “H” Roving “A” Anti-Smuggling Patrol Team at Ashipa forest on 22nd September, 2017. The accused persons, Yakubu Olamide, Paul Ayinla, and Ayinde Adebayo, was said to be guilty jointly…
By Asuquo Nuwak LAGOS JULY 8TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Apapa chapter chairman of National Council of Managing Directors of Licensed Customs Agents (NCMDLCA) Comrade EmekaEnwelu has condemned the low level of business activities experiencing in the port is as a result of many factors ranging from the issues of foreign exchange policy, system failure, poor port access…
LAGOS JUNE 1ST (NEWSRANGERS)-Uya Oro youths in Oron Local Government Area of Akwa Ibom State, on Thursday, set a Nigeria Customs Service, NCS, vehicle ablaze over the death of a cyclist and his two passengers. Trouble started when officers of the Nigeria Customs Service chased after a vehicle that was conveying three bags of rice…
LAGOS APRIL 7TH (NEWSRANGERS) – A stray bullet allegedly fired by officers of the Nigeria Customs Service, Katsina State Command, Operations Unit has hit one Salisu Bello, a primary five Pupil of Morawa Primary School in Batagarwa Local Government Area of Katsina State. The victim who sustained injuries on his left hand and neck was…