LAGOS MAY 8TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Two members of a smuggling syndicate were confirmed dead, while five security operatives sustained varying degrees of gunshot injuries during a gun duel between smugglers and a joint border patrol team of the Nigerian Customs Service (NCS) on Thursday at the Oja Odan area of Yewa North local government area of Ogun…
LAGOS MARCH 25TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Nigerian Customs Service (NCS), Western Marine Command, on Wednesday, said it lost an officer in a boat mishap on Monday. The Public Relations Officer, Idaho Sulaiman, disclosed this in a statement in Lagos. He said the incident occurred at about 6:10 p.m. on March 22, while operatives of the command, Akere…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 22ND (NEWSRANGERS)-No fewer than three people including a Customs officer, military personnel and a civilian were reportedly killed when some men of Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) clashed with some smugglers in Igbo-Ora town in Oyo state. It was gathered that the three persons died following a clash between Customs personnel from the Federal…
LAGOS MAY 11TH (NEWSRANGERS)-– An officer of the Nigerian Customs Service (NCS), identified as Assistant Superintendent Chidi Johnson, last Friday sustained severe injuries in an ambush laid by suspected smugglers in Ikpokia Local Government Area of Ogun State. Johnson was among a team of Customs men from Ogun 1 Command, said to have been sent…
LAGOS FEBRUAY 17TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Smugglers are reportedly helping migrants scale sections of Donald Trump’s multi-billion border wall using $5 ladders. US Border Patrol has seen a rise in camouflage “hook-and-ladders” within the far south-west region of Texas since May last year, according to The El Paso Times. El Paso’s urban stretch of border is said to…
LAGOS JANUARY 22ND (NEWSRANGERS)-Following the failure of the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) to put its Armoured Personnel Carriers (APCs) into use in the fight against smuggling, its officers were being killed by dare devil smugglers in Lagos and Ogun States. Recall that Abdulahi Dikko, immediate past Comptroller General of Customs, had in 2014 procured the…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 5TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Following the closure of land borders nationwide by the Federal Government, most smugglers of banned items have devised a new method to beat the security authorities. Sunday Tribune investigation at Illela, in Illela Local Government Area of Sokoto State, a border town between Nigeria and Niger Republic, has revealed. Sunday Tribune learnt…
LAGOS OCTOBER 8TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Ogun State Command of the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) has allegedly killed a student of Ojomo Community High School, Ihunbo, while conveying a seized tokunbo vehicle. The school is located at Ihunbo town, Ipokia Local Government, a border town between Nigeria and the Republic of Benin. A resident of the town…