The Kano/Jigawa Area Command of the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) generated ₦63.08 billion in revenue between January and June 2026, representing a 7.4 per cent increase compared to the ₦58.39 billion recorded during the same period in 2025. The Acting Customs Area Controller, Deputy Comptroller of Customs, UU Adamu, disclosed this while presenting the Command’s half-year performance report at the Command…
President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has congratulated the Comptroller-General of the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS), Bashir Adewale Adeniyi, on his unanimous re-election as Chairperson of the World Customs Organisation (WCO) Council during the organisation’s 147th and 148th Council Sessions held in Brussels, Belgium. The President described the re-election as a significant endorsement of Adeniyi’s visionary leadership and…
Operatives of the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) have intercepted 22 packages of suspected cocaine valued at approximately ₦1 billion along the Badagry–Seme border corridor. The seizure was carried out in the early hours of Tuesday, February 10, 2026, at about 3:00 a.m. by officers of the Seme Area Command during a midnight operation targeting cross-border…
The Nigeria Customs Service (NCS), Tin Can Island Port Command, has intercepted two containers loaded with imported vehicles used to conceal illicit drugs valued at ₦5.3 billion. In a statement released on Friday by the Command’s Public Relations Officer, CSC O. E. Ivara, the Customs Area Controller, Comptroller Frank Onyeka, described the seizure as a…
The Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) Board has approved the promotion of 3,312 senior officers and appointed four new Deputy Comptroller-Generals (DCGs) and 12 Assistant Comptroller-Generals (ACGs). This was announced by the NCS National Public Relations Officer, Abdullahi Maiwada, following the Board’s 63rd regular meeting held on September 2, 2025, chaired by the Minister of Finance…
The Manufacturers Association of Nigeria (MAN) has strongly opposed the Nigeria Customs Service’s reintroduction of the 4% Free on Board (FOB) charge, effective August 4. MAN’s Director-General, Segun Ajayi-Kadri, stated in Lagos that this move contradicts the government’s earlier suspension of the charge and raises concerns over increased costs for importing raw materials, machinery, and…
