LAGOS FEBRUARY 16TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Naira has suffered another setback as trans-border businessmen and women who hitherto used to transact their businesses in Naira and other currencies have stopped accepting the currency as payment for business transactions. The traders claim that using the Naira to transact their businesses has become counterproductive following its continued depreciation, adding…
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…
LAGOS JANUARY 26TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The acting Comptroller General of Immigration, Isah Jere Idris yesterday announced the interception of 189 Boys and Girls suspected to be victims of human trafficking by the Lagos Border Patrol Command at Seme. Speaking at the Zone ‘A’ Headquarters of the Service in Lagos, the acting Comptroller General said that the youths…
LAGOS JANUARY 23RD (NEWSRANGERS)-The Rice Millers Association of Nigeria (RIMAN) has raised the alarm over massive rice smuggling into the country. Their alarm comes barely five weeks after the federal government reopened Nigerian borders. The entry points were shut from August 20, 2019 to December 17, 2020 In a statement on Friday, RIMAN Chairman, Peter…
LAGOS DECEMBER 19TH (NEWSRANGERS)-In compliance with the directive of the Federal Government, the Management of the Nigeria Immigration Service has reopened the following four (4) Land Borders namely Seme (South-West), Illela (North-West), Maigatari (North-West and North-East), and Mfum (South-South) in the first phase, since the closure of land borders on 20th August 2019. In a…
LAGOS MARCH 23RD (NEWRANGERS)-At Nigeria’s normally manic border post of Seme, Lasisi Fanu says business has all but ground to a halt. He and other customs agents who help clear goods coming into Africa’s biggest economy from its smaller neighbor Benin say the long lines of trucks loaded with rice that used to jam the…
By Victor Enny Ebimimo LAGOS MARCH 15TH (NEWSRANGERS)-He lives in a different world. The world where discomfort, pains and sorrow envelope its entirety. The world where his closest pals are unwanted but stubborn houseflies; attracted by the stinking odour that permeates his immediate surroundings. He badly feels it; repulses it; yet he is helpless. Sometimes…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 9TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A Customs officer with FOU zone A, identified as Musa M. M. was lucky to have escaped death as he was attacked and threatening life injuries inflicted on him by smugglers while on duty at ldiroko axis, the road linking Nigeria with Republic of Benin. The officer whose hand was seriously butchered…