LAGOS MARCH 28TH (NEWSRANGERS)-On Tuesday, trades had been consummated between N1,486 and N1,300 to the dollar. At the end of yesterday’s trading, a total volume of $245.58 million had been traded on the NAFEM. LEADERSHIP reports that the recent slash came barely 48 hours after the apex regulatory bank slashed the Customs exchange rate from…
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…
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…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 23RD (NEWSRANGERS)- The Nigeria Customs Service, NCS, yesterday flagged off the sale of 25kg bag of rice to Nigerians at a discounted price of ten thousand naira (N10,000.00) only. Speaking at a press conference to flag off the event in Yaba, Lagos state, the Comptroller General of Customs, Mr. Bashir Adewale Adeniyi recalled…
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…
