LAGOS SEPTEMBER 2ND (NEWSRANGERS)-Ocean surge has taken over some structures within the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) barracks at the Seme-border in the Badagry area of Lagos State. Daily Trust Saturday reports that one of the buildings has been submerged by flood, thus forcing some officers and their families out of their accommodations. Aside from the…
LAGOS JULY 22ND (NEWSRANGERS)-On Wednesday 19 July, the trial of three Vietnamese and one Guinean national accused of trafficking 7.1 tonnes of pangolin scales and 850 kgs of ivory concluded in Nigeria with the conviction of the four accused. The judge of the Federal High Court of Nigeria in Lagos sentenced the accused to six…
LAGOS JULY 18TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Nigeria Customs Service, on Monday, said it intercepted 31 rifles and ammunition coming to Nigeria from the United States in the first two weeks of July. Addressing journalists at the Federal Operations Unit, Zone A Ikeja, Lagos, the acting Controller-General of Customs, Adewale Adeniyi, said the contrabands were seized at the…
LAGOS JULY 18TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Acting Comptroller General of the Nigeria Customs Service, NCS, Adewale Adeniyi has announced the dissolution of the CGC Strike Force. The directive is contained in a circular with No. EII/2023/CIRCULAR NO.004 and signed by the Deputy Comptroller General (DCG) E, I&I, M. Abba-Kura on Monday 17th July, 2023. The CG further…
LAGOS JUNE 28TH (NEWSRANGERS)-In a grand ceremony held at the Headquarters of Sector 2 of the Joint Border Patrol Team in Ikeja, Lagos, the representatives of the Congress Of Nigerian Maritime Media Practitioners (CONMMEP) gathered to pay homage to Chief Superintendent Dinya Sabo. Led by CONMMEP’s President, Alh Tunde Umar-Daniah, the event aimed to honor…
LAGOS JUNE 9TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Customs Service has announced its intention to place a ban on the sale of second-hand clothes popularly called Okrika in Nigeria. During a recent interview, a Customs Service spokesperson said that the sale of Okrika clothing is injurious to the country. He said: “Okrika clothes are injurious to the health of…
LAGOS JUNE 4TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Cargo clearing at the nation’s seaports has suffered setbacks as different units of the Nigeria Customs Service now issue indiscriminate queries on laden containers, leading to long delays for cargo owners. As a result, importers and their agents now spend a minimum of two to three weeks to resolve the queries and…
LAGOS MARCH 24TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A family of five, including three school children, Thursday, escaped gunshot by the whisker as officers of Nigeria Customs Service went on the rampage early in the morning in Abeokuta, the Ogun State capital. The school children were being conveyed to school by their mother simply identified as Mrs Obaji, when the…