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FG to launch maritime security project next month
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inister of Transportation, Rotimi Amaechi, has said that the Maritime Security Project to secure the Gulf of Guinea, GoG, would be launched in Lagos in June by President Muhammadu Buhari.
The minister made this known when the Belgium Ambassador to Nigeria paid him a courtesy visit in Abuja.
He said, “the crisis in the maritime sector is the maritime insecurity and it’s more complex than the world knows, but the Federal Government has come up with a solution and it is ready to take off. The Navy, Police, Army and State Security Service are involved. “If it is successful, in the near future, there will be improvement in maritime security, then other countries in the Gulf of Guinea can adopt it”, he said
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By Godfrey Bivbere & Providence Adeyinka
The Federal Operations Unit (FOU), Zone A of the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS), yesterday, said it has impounded 42 drums of explosives in the form of calcium carbide and other contraband worth N3.1billion smuggled into Nigeria from Benin Republic.
The Unit also impounded other contraband items worth N3.1billion, and raised Demand Notice (DN) worth N242million.
Acting Customs Area Controller (CAC) of the Unit, Compt. Usman Yahaya, who disclosed this in Lagos, said that investigation is ongoing to know where the explosives are headed.
He said the Unit also intercepted 1,488 kegs (equivalent of 33,000 litres) of Petroleum Motor Spirit (PMS) set to be smuggled out of the country to neighbouring Benin Republic, noting that other seizures range from bags of rice, Indian hemp, textiles material, cartons of tramadol, second hand clothing among others.
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Customs impounds explosives, N3.1bn contraband
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By Godfrey Bivbere & Providence Adeyinka
The Federal Operations Unit (FOU), Zone A of the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS), yesterday, said it has impounded 42 drums of explosives in the form of calcium carbide and other contraband worth N3.1billion smuggled into Nigeria from Benin Republic.
The Unit also impounded other contraband items worth N3.1billion, and raised Demand Notice (DN) worth N242million.
Acting Customs Area Controller (CAC) of the Unit, Compt. Usman Yahaya, who disclosed this in Lagos, said that investigation is ongoing to know where the explosives are headed.
He said the Unit also intercepted 1,488 kegs (equivalent of 33,000 litres) of Petroleum Motor Spirit (PMS) set to be smuggled out of the country to neighbouring Benin Republic, noting that other seizures range from bags of rice, Indian hemp, textiles material, cartons of tramadol, second hand clothing among others.
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