LAGOS JANUARY 30TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Nigerian Navy, Forward Operating Base, Ibaka, Mbo local government area, Akwa Ibom State, has arrested 13 suspects and seized 2,053 bags of smuggled rice from them. Speaking on Thursday in Ibaka, Commanding Officer, FOB, Captain Peter Yilme said the suspects were arrested in two different operations on the 26th and 29th…
LAGOS JANUARY 22ND (NEWSRANGERS)-Following the failure of the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) to put its Armoured Personnel Carriers (APCs) into use in the fight against smuggling, its officers were being killed by dare devil smugglers in Lagos and Ogun States. Recall that Abdulahi Dikko, immediate past Comptroller General of Customs, had in 2014 procured the…
LAGOS JANUARY 13TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) has shortlisted total of 162,399 out of the 828,333 candidates that applied for its employment last year. The organisation, said in a statement on Monday, that it followed its guidelines to notify the shortlisted applicants through their e-mail addresses and telephone numbers. According to the Public Relations…
LAGOS DECEMBER 31ST (NEWSRANGERS)-The Joint border drill has confiscated more than 4800 bales of second hand clothings valued at three billion naira from Yaba market in Lagos. The Customs Coordinator, Western Zone, Assistant Comptroller General, Bukar Amajan, explained that the seizure was made possible through intelligence report. More than 4800 bales of second hand clothings…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 27TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Nigeria met with its West African neighbors on Tuesday over its land border closure, with the African giant insisting on levying duties on goods transiting to its country through neighboring nations to curb smuggling. “Tuesday, there was a meeting between … the comptrollers of customs of all the three countries involved. We…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 7TH (NEWSRANGERS)-In continuation of preventing smuggling around Nigeria borders, the Nigeria Customs Service has suspended supply of petroleum products to gas stations within 20 kilometres to all the border posts Comptroller General of Customs Col. Hameed Ali,( rtd), who gave this directive to all commands through Chidi A, the Deputy Comptroller General Enforcement,…
LAGOS OCTOBER 28TH (NEWSRANGERS)-About two months ago, the Nigerian government announced the closure of the country’s land borders to all goods. According to the country’s Comptroller-General of the Customs Service, Hameed Ali, this was done to stem the influx of smuggled goods, especially rice and tomatoes, into the country. The border closure is an economic…
LAGOS OCTOBER 20TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A man suspected to be an informant of rice smugglers has been killed allegedly by officials of the Nigeria Customs Service in Jigawa State. Tasiu Muhammad, 22, a resident of Babura Local Government Area, was shot dead at Unguwar Gawo, about five kilometres from Bubara town, the council headquarters. The police commissioner…
