LAGOS AUGUST 27TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Nigeria Customs Service on Monday confirmed its plans to retire 304 top officers, including two deputy comptroller generals, three assistant comptroller generals. Other affected officers are 13 comptrollers, 39 deputy comptrollers and 45 assistant comptrollers. Those also listed on the retirement notice are 71 chief superintendents of customs, 33 superintendents, 31…
LAGOS JULY 11TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A Federal High Court in Abuja on Wednesday, has awarded damages amounting to over N5.5billion in favour of a firm, Maggpiy Trading TFZE., against the Nigerian Customs Service (NCS) and the Board Chairman, over the unlawful seizure of 90 containers of rice imported. In a judgment , Justice Inyang Ekwo upheld the…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 18TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Nigerians have continued to react to the shooting to death of one Godwin by a Customs officer at the Shagamu interchange along Ijebu Ode, by Lagos-Benin road during a heated argument between the customs officers and passengers of a bus. While the Customs rose in justification of the sense of duty of…
LAGOS APRIL 11TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Nigeria Customs Service, Federal Operations Unit, in Lagos Wednesday said it had seized 98 bags and 570 parcels of Indian hemp with duty paid value at N74.4 million. The agency said the drugs were coming from Togo and Ghana and a suspect had been arrested in connection to the seizure. It…
LAGOS APRIL 4TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Nigeria Customs Service has approved additional set of uniform for its officers and men to give them options of uniforms depending on the weather and assignment to be executed. The Comptroller-General of Customs, retired Col. Hameed Ali, said in a statement that the uniform had a white top, the usual ash-coloured…
LAGOS MARCH 7TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A business man from Kano has been intercepted by the Nigeria Customs Service at the international wing of the Kaduna International airport, while traveling on board ET941 Ethiopian Airline to Dubai on a business trip. Instablog9ja report. A team of Custom officers on patrol, led by CSC Medugu Y.D. apprehended the suspect,…