A few days after vehicle dealers attacked officers of the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) in Kaduna, burning down their patrol van, officers of the service once again came under attack yesterday in the hands of daredevil smugglers in Ogun State.
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The Nigerian Customs Service on Wednesday said it had commenced a manhunt of those alleged to have smuggled about eleven vehicles –ten Hilux and one Land cruiser jeep into the country. The Public Relations Officer, NCS, Mr. Joseph Attah, said the vehicles were seized based on credible intelligence provided to operatives of the NCS Compliance Team, that some smuggled vehicles […]
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The Senate has asked the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) to suspend the implementation of the proposed plan to collect duties on old and new vehicles in the country. The resolution of the Senate followed a point of order raised by the Senate Deputy Leader, Bala Na’Allah. Adopting the motion yesterday, the Senate said the status quo should be maintained until […]
Continue reading »The Nigeria Customs Service, Federal Road Safety Corps and the Federal Inland Revenue Service have partnered on a project to ensure that all vehicles imported into Nigeria paid duties before registration to shore up revenue of the country. The Customs Public Relations Officer, Mr Wale Adeniyi, said on Wednesday in Abuja that the objective of the collaboration was to shore […]
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The Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) said it generated N385.7 billion revenue from January to June this year. This was against the N438.2 billion generated in the same period in 2015. The NSC Public Relations Officer, Mr Wale Adeniyi, disclosed this to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in an interview on Monday in Abuja.
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The Nigeria Customs Service, Ogun Area Command, has impounded 18 vehicles loaded with bags of rice at the Idiroko border, which were being smuggled into the country from the Republic of Benin. The Controller of the command, Comptroller Multafu Waindu, said the vehicles and contraband were impounded around 3am at Alari and Ifoyintedo bush paths, in the Ipokia Local Government […]
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The Nigeria Customs Service (NCS), Seme Command on has said it seized three bullet-proof cars with a Duty Paid Value of N76million. The Area Controller, Victor Dimka, a Customs Comptroller, disclosed this at a briefing held at the vehicle seat in the command. He disclosed that individuals who desired to import bullet-proof cars into the country must get clearance from […]
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The Oyo/Osun Area Command of the Nigeria Customs Service said it impounded 25 vehicles smuggled into Nigeria with contraband goods through illegal routes. The controller of the command, Temitope Ogunkua, said a total of 342 bags of rice were loaded in 23 of the vehicles, with duty paid value of about N2.9m. Two other trucks were also loaded with hundreds […]
Continue reading »Duties on shipping business at the ports have shot up astronomically in the wake of the new flexible foreign exchange rate policy of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN). Already, the Federal Government has launched the implementation of the new policy, which customs and clearing agents lament has hiked duties by about 40 per cent. The Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) […]
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The men of the Nigeria Customs Service, Ogun State Area Command, have impounded seven truck-loads of unprocessed wood, allegedly being exported out of the country illegally. The vehicles, with foreign number plates, majorly of the Republic of Benin, were said to have been intercepted last Friday by customs operatives in the Ijoun area, in the Yewa North Local Government Area […]
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