LAGOS FEBRUARY 20TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) says it is working to distribute some seized food items nationwide as the biting food crisis continues in the country. According to the National Public Relations, CSC Abdullahi Maiwada, the food items will be distributed after they are certified fit for human consumption. In a Tuesday statement, he…
LAGOS JANUARY 26TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA) and the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) have pledge to work together to deepen trade facilitation and drive exports as part of measures to support the federal governments economic diversification effort. They made the pledge yesterday when the Comptroller General of the NCS, Bashir Adewale Adeniyi led members…
LAGOS DECEMBER 12TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Nigeria Customs Service says it has commenced a comprehensive probe of the officer caught in a viral video requesting a N5,000 bribe at New Terminal, within the departure hall of the Murtala Muhammed International Airport Lagos. In a statement reacting to the incident, Abdullahi Maiwad, the National Public Relations Officer of…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 27TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The family of Jacob Taiwo Odeyemi, an officer of the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) has raised an alarm over the whereabouts of their kinsman. Odeyemi was last seen at the Idiroko Command by his family in 2020, since then, his whereabouts have been unknown. The family of the missing officer has now…
LAGOS OCTOBER 11TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Nigeria Customs Service, NCS, and the National Automotive Council, NAC, are currently in talks over a possible downward review of the NAC levy paid by vehicle importers. Under the NAC, a levy of two percent of Cost of Insurance and Freight, CIF, is imposed on new vehicles imported into Nigeria while 15…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 28TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Due to the rise in foreign exchange rate, the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS), on Tuesday, said vehicle importers abandoned thousands of imported fairly used vehicles at the seaport. Speaking when members of the Association of Nigerian Licenced Customs Agents (ANLCA) paid him a courtesy visit, the Customs area controller, Tin Can Island…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 21ST (NEWSRANGERS)-The Nigeria Customs Service has said that many officers are undergoing different disciplinary cases. The National Public Relations Officer of NSC, Abdullahi Maiwada, while featuring on a television programme on Wednesday, said that some officers of the service who were found with arms and ammunition inside the seaports in 2017 had been…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 15TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Nigeria Customs Service has said it has reduced the number of checkpoints in the corridor along the Seme border to Mile 2 from sixty to three, for ease of business. The Acting Comptroller-General, Bashir Adeniyi, revealed this during his opening remark at the National Trade Facilitation Committee, NTFC, stakeholders retreat…