Nigeria Customs Service
INVESTIGATION: Smuggling still rampant in Nigeria’s northwestern boundaries despite border closure
A Forte Oil retail station is the last of such service facility to Nigeria’s Illela, Sokoto State border with the Niger Republic. The station is now closed following a custom policy banning the supply of petroleum products to stations within 20 kilometres of land borders. Nevertheless, it is a hub of activity, serving an inverted …
BREAKING: Nigerian Customs intercept $8 million at Lagos airport
Gbeleyi Abayomi A whopping sum of $8,065,615, has been intercepted by the Nigeria Customs Service at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport Command. The customs comptroller-general, Hammed Ali said at a press conference in Lagos Tuesday that the cash was intercepted in a car while it was about to be loaded into an aircraft. He however …
HON. LAYODE GOES TOUGH ON CUSTOM OFFICERS
…..JOINS COLLEAGUES TO ABSOLUTELY ONDEMN THE HARASSMENT OF COCONUT SELLERS As Speaker calls for stakeholders forum between the custom officers and the affected groups. In a motion raised under Business of the Day at the Plenary of the Lagos State House of Assembly on Tuesday 19th 2019 condemning the harassment of Coconut sellers in Badagry, …
BREAKING: FG stops supply to stations at land borders
Gbeleyi Abayomi In a bid to checkmate smuggling of refined petroleum products to neighbouring countries, The federal government, through the Nigeria Customs Service, has directed that petroleum products should not be supplied to fuel stations within 20km of the borders. Customs comptroller general, Hameed Ali issued the directive in a memo dated November 6 and …
