The Nigeria Customs Service (NCS), Seme Area Command, announced on Thursday that it had intercepted contraband goods valued at N1.99 billion between September 1 and October 9, 2025, along the Lagos–Abidjan Corridor. The seized items included illicit drugs and expired flour imported from Egypt. During his first media briefing at the Seme Border post, the…
The Comptroller-General of the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS), Bashir Adeniyi, has announced the extension of the overtime cargo clearance window to 120 days, alongside the full automation of the clearance process—a move aimed at enhancing trade facilitation and reducing delays at Nigeria’s ports. Speaking at a one-day sensitisation programme for stakeholders in Zone ‘A’, Lagos,…
Comptroller Wale Adenuga has formally taken over as the new Customs Area Controller of the Seme Area Command, Nigeria Customs Service. The development was announced in a statement issued on Tuesday in Lagos by the Command’s Public Relations Officer, CSC Isah Sulaiman. Adenuga succeeds Dr. Benedict Oramalugo, who was recently elevated to the rank of…
The Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) has announced a total revenue collection of N3.6 trillion between January and June 2025. This was disclosed by the NCS National Public Relations Officer, Abdullahi Maiwada, in a statement released after the 63rd regular meeting of the Customs Board, chaired by the Minister of Finance and Coordinating Minister of the…
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,…
