LAGOS NOVEMBER 27TH (NEWSRANGERS)-As the Yuletide season approaches, more smuggled items — mainly foreign parboiled rice, tomato paste, frozen chicken and cars — are still being smuggled into the country in large scale, closure of Nigerian borders notwithstanding. Investigations by The Guardian revealed that tonnes of foreign rice flooded Nigerian markets, after the EndSARS unrest…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 15TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A team of Zone B, Kaduna Customs officers operating on Kamba/Bunza Road shot at a group of youths, killing one and injuring several others, according to the Daily Nigerian. However, a statement issued by the commission’s spokesperson on Thursday, Ma Magaji, said the youths attacked the officers after they stopped a vehicle…
LAGOS OCTOBER 31ST (NEWSRANGERS)-No fewer than 10 people were feared dead in Akungba Akoko in Akoko South West Local Government Area of Ondo State, on Saturday night when the driver of a trailer lost control of the vehicle and crashed into a market. The driver of the trailer which was loaded with bags of rice…
LAGOS APRIL 30TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The The imbroglio between the Oyo State government and the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) over the alleged ‘ infested’ 1,800 bags of rice continued on Wednesday with Oyo State government dumping the bag of rice by the gate of Oyo State Command of Nigeria Customs Service located at Ibadan. The Oyo…
LAGOS APRIL 29TH (NEWSRANGERS) -The Arewa Council of Chiefs in Lagos has slammed the state’s Commissioner of Waterfront, Architect Ahmed Kabiru Abdullahi, for allegedly claiming that the council had been giving ‘several tonnes’ of rice. The council, which said it has not received even a grain of rice from the Lagos State government, warned people…
LAGOS APRIL 15TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Minister of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development, Sadiya Farouq, said her ministry has only taken delivery of 40 trucks of rice out of the 150 seized by the Nigeria Customs Service. President Muhammadu Buhari had last month ordered distribution of 150 trucks of rice seized by the Customs to the…
LAGOS APRIL 15TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Videos of some residents attacking a bus conveying loaves of bread and a truck conveying bags of rice in Lagos and Abuja respectively, has surfaced online, amidst the extended lockdown in Abuja, Ogun and Lagos state . This is coming after Nigeria’s President Mohammadu Buhari announced an extended 14-day lockdown across Abuja,…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 25TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Two officers of the Nigeria Customs Service, NCS, have been reported dead on Sunday from a ghastly road accident in Akwa Ibom State. It was reported that the yet-to-be identified officers died while their van was chasing a Toyota Sienna bus, suspected to be conveying rice at Urua Ita, Oron axis section…