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Senate probe Customs invasion of rice traders’ shops at Bodija market

    The Senate, on Tuesday, mandated the Committee on Ethics, Privileges and Public Petitions to investigate the alleged invasion of Rice Traders’ shops by...

Customs proposes ban on vehicles above seven years

……House set N1.5trn revenue target for agency The House of Representatives’ Committee on Customs and Excise has proposed a revenue target of N1.56tn for...

We ‘bribed ‘ bandits seven bags of rice to escape death -Zamfara customs

The Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) has explained how operatives offered bandits seven bags of seized rice to save themselves from bandits. A senior official of the...

Former Customs CG, Dikko, dies at 60

The immediate past Comptroller-General of the Nigeria Customs Service, Abdullahi Dikko, is dead. The Katsina State indigene, who led the NCS from 2009 to 2015, died...

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Senate summons customs CG over plan to concession N3trn revenue collection

The Senate Committee on Customs and Excise is set to summon the Comptroller General of the Nigeria Customs Service, Col Hameed Ali (retd.), over the move by the NCS to...

Apapa customs rakes in N367.7b in nine months

  The Nigeria Customs Service Apapa Area Command collected revenue to the tune of One hundred and Forty billion, Three hundred and Thirty-five million, Five...

Customs elevates 2634 officers in mass promotion

… Five promoted as Assistant Comptroller Generals Nigeria Customs Service Board (NCSB) has announced the promotion of 2634 officers from different cadres in the...

Hameed Ali’s Customs awards N1b contract in one year

. ………Reps angry over 191 contracts, Ali apologises for ‘errors, discrepancies’ The House of Representatives ad hoc Committee on Unspent Funds by...

Court stops customs from collecting import duty on baggage items

A Federal High Court in Abuja has stopped the Nigerian Customs Service (NCS) from collecting import duty on goods/personal effects in passengers’ baggages at the...

COVID-19: How border drill boosts food bank, frustrates smuggling, terrorism – Customs

  The Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) on Saturday gave graphical details of how the border drill embarked upon since August 20, 2019 boosted local food production in...