The Nigeria Customs Service has issued a two-week deadline to importers and agents to clear 905 overtime cargoes at Lagos ports or risk forfeiture to the Federal Government. The cargoes, located at Apapa, Tin Can Island, and PTML commands, include 438 40ft containers, 120 20ft containers, 60 groupage containers, 60 used vehicles, and 15 scrap…
The Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) has intercepted 16 containers filled with contraband, including firearms, ammunition, military gear, and fake drugs, with an estimated value of N10 billion at the Lagos Port Complex, Apapa. Addressing the media, Comptroller General Adewale Adeniyi disclosed that among the seized items were two pump-action rifles, 25 rounds of ammunition, and…
In one of the largest pharmaceutical busts in recent years, the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) has intercepted 16 containers of contraband and falsely declared goods—primarily illicit drugs—valued at ₦20.5 billion. The seizure was announced on Friday at Onne Port in Rivers State by the Comptroller-General of Customs, Bashir Adeniyi, who led journalists on a tour…
The Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) has begun implementing a two-year exemption on import duty and Value Added Tax (VAT) for key pharmaceutical raw materials. The new policy was revealed in a statement released on Wednesday by Abdullahi Maiwada, the National Public Relations Officer of the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS). Maiwada, an Assistant Comptroller of Customs,…
The Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) says its operatives of Operation Whirlwind have intensified its fight against fuel smuggling, leading to a major crackdown on smugglers of Premium Motor Spirit (PMS), commonly known as petrol, in Gembu and Kan-Iyaka border communities of Taraba State. Gembu, the administrative center of Sardauna Local Government Area (LGA), and Kan-Iyaka,…
The Nigeria Customs Service, Kebbi State Command, has intercepted 16,300 litres of Premium Motor Spirit (PMS), 180 pieces of donkey skins, used clothes, and 74 cartons of various medicaments, with a total Duty Paid Value of over ₦300 million. Displaying the seized items at the Command’s headquarters in Birnin Kebbi, the Comptroller of the NCS,…
