The Customs’ Public Relations Officer, Mr Joseph Attah, announced this in a statement on Monday in Abuja. Attah explained that officers of the NCS, Federal Operation Unit (FOU) zone B, who were on patrol along the waterside, had seized a truck loaded with locally produced rice. According to him, some sacks were concealed under the…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 30TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Minister of Agriculture, Mohammed Sabo Nanono, has said Nigeria borders will remain locked and the key is thrown into the lagoon. He stated this, yesterday, at the flag-off ceremony of the distribution of agricultural inputs to farmers affected by the recent flood in Kebbi State. He explained that the Federal Government…
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…