LAGOS MARCH 24TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Following the unwavering efforts of the Nigeria Customs Service Officers for effective border management and to suppress smuggling activities at the nation’s border, the Adamawa/Taraba Command officers, on Sunday, March 17, 2024, chased down smugglers on the Mubi-Sahuda road to prevent smuggling at the territorial borders. According to the Statement by the…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 27TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The family of Jacob Taiwo Odeyemi, an officer of the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) has raised an alarm over the whereabouts of their kinsman. Odeyemi was last seen at the Idiroko Command by his family in 2020, since then, his whereabouts have been unknown. The family of the missing officer has now…
LAGOS OCTOBER 8TH (NEWSRANGERS)-No fewer than two persons have lost their lives in a road accident which involved some officers of the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) and individuals suspected to be smugglers. DAILY POST gathered that the incident occurred along the Iseyin-Ibadan road in Oyo State on Thursday. Sources told DAILY POST that the customs…
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 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 16TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Officers of the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) Ogun 1 Area Command who were pursuing some suspected rice smugglers Thursday night have shot a two-year-old girl. The incident occurred at Itawaya, near the Federal Polytechnic, Ilaro, Yewa South Local Government Area of Ogun State. Photos made available to this newspaper showed the bullet…
LAGOS DECEMBER 21ST (NEWSRANGERS)-The Kano State High Court in Kano, on Monday, convicted three smugglers of 1,144 Automated Card Machine (ATM) cards. A statement by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) said the judge, Tanimu Shehu, sentenced them to six months’ imprisonment with an option N50,000 each. The commission’s spokesperson, Wilson Uwujaren, who signed…
LAGOS OCTOBER 29TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The corpse of a customs officer, who was abducted in Ogun State on Tuesday has been found. Suspected smugglers had ambushed a Customs patrol team at Yewa South Local Government Area of the state and abducted two customs officers in the process. The body of one of the officers was found in…