Customs Fail To Implement Tinubu’s Order On Suspension Of Duties On Food Items-Importers

LAGOS AUGUST 6TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Despite President Bola Tinubu’s June announcement suspending import duties and tariffs on essential food items for six months, Nigerian importers claim they are still being forced to pay these fees. The presidential directive aimed to curb soaring prices of food, raw materials, and manufacturing inputs, and also covered agricultural production inputs like…

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Nigerian Customs Intercept Huge Cache Of Arms, Ammunition Worth N13.9bn Concealed In  Containers  

LAGOS JULY 2ND (NEWSRANGERS)-The Nigeria Customs Service said its operatives intercepted nine containers carrying offensive items including arms, ammunition, Illicit drugs and second-hand clothes worth N13.9 billion. The Comptroller-General, NCS, Adewale Adeniyi disclosed this on Monday while addressing journalists in Onne Port, Rivers State. Adeniyi said one of the containers which originated from Turkey, based…

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Nigeria Customs Pays Tributes To Late Deputy Comptroller Etop Andrew Essien

LAGOS JUNE 25TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Comptroller General of Customs, Bashir Adewale Adeniyi MFR, on behalf of the entire officers and men of the Nigeria Customs Service, extends heartfelt condolences to the family of Deputy Comptroller Etop Andrew Essien. The Nigeria Customs Service in a statement signed by Abdullahi Maiwada , Chief Superintendent of Customs National Public Relations Officer …

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Customs Suspend Sale Of Discounted Rice Indefinitely After Report Of Death In Stampede

LAGOS FEBRUARY 26TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The unruly behaviours of intending beneficiaries of the sales of seized rice in Lagos on Friday, February 23rd, 2024 which unfortunately led to a number of death of innocent Nigerians, has made the Nigeria Customs Service to suspend the exercise indefinitely. Announcing the decision to halt the noble exercise in which about…

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Nigeria Customs Investigate Deadly Crowd Stampede During Sale Of Seized Bags Of Rice

LAGOS FEBRUARY 25TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Nigeria Customs Service says it is investigating reports people were trampled to death during a sale of bags of confiscated rice amid growing anger over skyrocketing prices of food in Africa’s most populous country. “There was a chaotic situation caused by the impatience of people to follow the laid down procedures…

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