LAGOS FEBRUARY 25TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) on Wednesday disclosed that Hero’s Square, New Owerri, in Imo State, will be the new venue for the final screening of candidates from the South-East and South-South as it gradually concludes its ongoing recruitment exercise. According to Customs Public Relations Officer, Mr Joseph Attah, the earlier chosen…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 22ND (NEWSRANGERS)-President Muhammadu Buhari has assented to the reduction of import duty on passenger transport vehicles by 30 per cent, The Nation learnt on Sunday. The reprieve also includes zero or free import duty on aviation engines and spare parts. The directive, according to a circular from the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS), which…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 7TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) has handed over 4,907 cartons of seized expired sweets and chocolates valued at N23.7 million to National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC). The Commander of Comptroller-General of Customs’ Strike Force, Mr Hussein Ejibunu disclosed this while handing over the items to NAFDAC officials…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 5TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Two persons are currently being grilled by operatives of the Foreign Exchange Malpractices Section of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, following their arrest over the seizure of 3,013,500 Saudi Riyal on Monday February 1, 2021 at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja. The money, sealed in brown envelopes and transported…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 1ST (NEWSRANGERS)-Two years after the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) announced employment opportunities into 3,200 positions within the Service, many of the job seekers who applied and wrote the employment examination are still in the dark on the outcome of the recruitment process. Recall that the NCS had on April 17th, 2019 announced recruitment…
LAGOS JANUARY 28TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Comptroller-General of the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS), Mr Hameed Ali, on Tuesday hinted that the proposed slash in duties on vehicles and tractors from 35 to 10 per cent will likely take off next week, as the management was expecting an official communication from the Finance Ministry on it any moment…
LAGOS JANUARY 12TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Irate Mob suspected to have been instigated by smuggling syndicates within the Sector 3 operation area of the Nigeria Customs Service, NCS, laid a two day siege on checkpoint and logistic office of the services, around Ilesha Baruba, Kwara State, Daily Independent gathered yesterday. In the incident that reportedly led to the…
LAGOS JANUARY 8TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Controller, Federal Operations Unit Zone ‘C’, Mr Yusuf Lawal, on Thursday in Owerri displayed 5,200 live ammunition, 1,215 bags of foreign rice and a bullet proof Toyota Landcruser jeep intercepted during 2020 Yuletide. The controller said during the exhibition that the seizures were made between Nov. 23 and Dec. 27, 2020….