LAGOS AUGUST 17TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Nigerian Customs Service has intercepted 21 contraband drugs valued at over N5 billion. The National Public Relations Officer of NCS, Assist. Comptroller Joseph Attah, disclosed this when he conducted newsmen round a warehouse where trucks of the intercepted items were parked at the Ikeja Training College of the service in Lagos…
LAGOS JUNE 20TH (NEWRANGERS)-The Seme Area Command of the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) said it thwarted a desperate criminal move by smugglers who concealed 55 wraps of cannabis under a corpse being brought in from Ghana along Owode axis. The Customs Area Controller of the command, Comptroller Uba Garba Mohammed who disclosed this in a…
LAGOS JUNE 11TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Ogun State Area Command, Nigeria Customs Service, says it has generated N1.413bn N1.131bn revenue between 1st to 31st May 2019. It added that it also seized 7000 bags of rice, 372 kegs of vegetable oil (25liters each), 3 units of motorcycles, 5 sacks, 1, 835 pairs of new and 264 pairs…
LAGOS MAY 22ND (NEWSRANGERS)-The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, on Tuesday, arraigned a former Assistant Comptroller-General of Nigeria Customs, Bridget Okafor, on 13 counts bordering on abuse of office to the tune of N3,336,176,661.24 (three billion, three hundred and thirty-six million, one hundred and seventy-six thousand, six hundred and sixty-one Naira, twenty-four Kobo). She was…
Comrade Emeka Emmanuel Enwelu is the Chairman, Apapa Chapter of National Council of Managing Directors of Licenced Customs Agents (NCMDLCA) and Managing Director of McManuel Global Logistics Limited, in this interview with NewsRangers, he speaks on various issues and the need for Nigeria as a maritime nation to have a well defined national maritime policy,…
LAGOS MAY 14TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Nigeria Customs Service Board (NCSB) has confirmed the appointments of four members of Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) management and approved the promotion of 1,997 senior officers to various ranks. The promotion which is effective from January 1, 2017 is according to the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) based on cumulative scores of…
LAGOS APRIL 12TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Comptroller-General of Nigeria Customs Service Retired Col. Hameed Ali, has redeployed eight customs officers to further strengthen the operations of the service. Information about the redeployment is in a statement signed by the NCS Public Relations Officer, Deputy Comptroller Joseph Attah, on Wednesday in Abuja. Attah stated that the redeployment would…
LAGOS JANURY 23RD (NEWSRANGERS)-The Head of Investigation at the Department of State Services (DSS), Mr. Wale Odu, yesterday narrated before Justice Ayokunle Faji of a Federal High Court in Lagos how two Customs officers, Mahmud Hassan and Salisu Abdullahi Danjuma, conspired with four others to illegally import 661 pump-action rifles into the country last year…