LAGOS APRIL 13TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The House of Representatives has repealed the Customs and Excise Management Act and re-enacted new legislation in its place. The bill seeks to make it mandatory for the Comptroller General of the Nigerian Customs Service (NCS) to be appointed within the ranks of the officers of the agency. This will end the…
LAGOS MARCH 28TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Nigeria Customs Service and the Nigeria Police have disagreed over the ownership of a Hilux van used in smuggling rice in Ogun State. While the NCS said the van belonged to the police, the Ogun State Police Command said the Customs could have done better. Apart from denying owning the vehicle,…
LAGOS MARCH 9TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Federal Government through the Nigeria Customs Service on Monday announced a 31-day suspension of the controversial electronic valuation system for imported vehicles, also known as Vehicle Identification Number valuation. The announcement came over two weeks after clearing agent associations at Lagos ports embarked on an indefinite strike over what they described…
LAGOS MARCH 9TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Freight forwarders have appealed to the Federal Government to grant a statutory waiver of rent and demurrage accumulated as a result of the protest by Licensed Customs Agents (LCA) on the implementation of the Vehicle Identification Number (VIN) valuation on imported vehicles. This is just as the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) has…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 15TH (NEWSRANGERS)-One Abdulrosheed Dada has reportedly been shot dead by men of the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) in Ogun State. Dada, who was popularly known as Yoboro, had died after he was shot during an encounter with the NCS operatives on Ayetoro road, near Abeokuta, the Ogun State capital. It was gathered that…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 8TH (NEWSRANGERS)-In a quest to stem the rising tide of smuggling activities in many of its border area’s, traditional rulers in border communities of Ogun State have asked the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) to specifically create a quota for children of the border communities during Customs recruitment exercises in-order to generate employment for…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 1ST (NEWSRANGERS)-Comptroller General, Nigerian Customs Service, CGC,(Col) Hameed Ali (retd), last week inaugurated 18 gun boats and scanners in Rivers State. The 18 gun boats, our Correspondent reports, would be used by the Eastern Marine Command, EMC, of the service to reduce to the barest minimum if not eradicate the menace of smuggling…
LAGOS JANUARY 28TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Seme Area Command of the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) on Friday said its men intercepted a bus conveying religious books which contained cocaine weighing 11.913 kilogrammes with a street value of N3.9 billion. In a statement by the spokesman of the command, Hussain Abdullahi, the command disclosed that officers and men…