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By Mustapha Sumaila
Abuja, Feb. 2, 2021 Rice smugglers and marketers of smuggled rice should prepare for tougher times ahead, the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) warned in Abuja on Tuesday.
NCS spokesman, Mr Joseph Attah, told newsmen that the warning became necessary following complaints by the Rice Processors Association of Nigeria that the country had been flooded with smuggled rice.
He said the Comptroller-General of Customs, Rtd. Col. Hameed Ali, had read the riot Act to Customs officers in commanding positions to arrest the rot.
He said the officers were directed to ensure that rice smugglers and those who dealt in smuggled rice did not have any respite.
By Mustapha Sumaila
Abuja, Jan 11, 2021 The Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) Strike Force Zone ‘C’ has seized smuggled items worth N143.6 million in the zone, Mr Abubakar Dalhatu, NCS Deputy National Public Relations Officer has said.
Dalhatu in a statement in Abuja on Monday disclosed that the interceptions were made at various locations between October and December, 2020 within Edo and environs based on credible intelligence.
He quoted the Team Leader, a Deputy Comptroller, Mr Yusuf Musa, as disclosing the seizures made by his team to include 66 sacks of cannabis sativa weighing 1056 kg and 54 cartons of medicaments.
According to Musa, others are six bales of second hand clothing, 18,640 pieces of wrist watch, 40 bales of wrappers and eight sacks of children’s wears.
By Mustapha Sumaila
Abuja, Dec 29, 2020 The Market Traders Association of Nigeria (MATAN) has appealed to the Federal Capital Territory Administration (FCTA) and Yobe State Government to compensate traders affected by the fire disaster recently.
MATAN President, Alhaji Jamilu Abbas, made the appeal in a statement issued on Tuesday in Abuja.
Naija247news recalls that no fewer than 252 makeshift shops were razed by fire at Galadima Market in Gwarimpa, Abuja, on Friday.
Similarly, about 40 shops were also destroyed in an early morning inferno on Monday in Potiskum market, Yobe.
Abbas, while reacting to the disaster, pleaded with the authorities concerned and well-meaning individuals to assist the affected traders in view of the current economic challenges.