Ogun Customs seizes 7,000 bags of foreign rice in March
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James Ogunnaike – Abeokuta
The Ogun Area 1 Command of Nigeria Customs Service, Idiroko, says it has seized 7,000 bags of parboiled foreign rice equivalent to 12 trailers in the month of March.
The Command Area Comptroller, Peter Kolo, who disclosed this at a press briefing in Abeokuta, Ogun State capital, said the command had never recorded such quantum seizure of prohibited rice.
Kolo, who gave the total seizures of various contraband goods in the month of March as 167, added that the Duty Paid Value on the contraband amounts to one hundred and sixteen million, five hundred and eighty-six thousand, six hundred and seven Naira, zero Kobo (N116,586,607.00).
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Customs intercepts two boats of narcotics at Ibeche Beach
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THE Western Marine Command, WMC, Nigeria Customs Service, NCS, has intercepted two wooden boats laden with 147 sacks of Cannabis Sativa otherwise known as Indian Hemp, at the Ibeche Beach along the Badagry lagoon, Lagos state.
With an estimated gross mass of 6,615Kg at 45kg per sack, the substances with a total Duty Paid Value, DPV, of ¦ 694.6 million was handed over to the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA.
It will be recalled that the Command had last year arrested a large haul of the substance valued at over one billion naira at the same beach, while the smugglers reportedly jumped into the water and escaped.
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THE Western Marine Command, WMC, Nigeria Customs Service, NCS, has intercepted two wooden boats laden with 147 sacks of Cannabis Sativa otherwise known as Indian Hemp, at the Ibeche Beach along the Badagry lagoon, Lagos state.
With an estimated gross mass of 6,615Kg at 45kg per sack, the substances with a total Duty Paid Value, DPV, of ¦ 694.6 million was handed over to the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA.
It will be recalled that the Command had last year arrested a large haul of the substance valued at over one billion naira at the same beach, while the smugglers reportedly jumped into the water and escaped.
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Customs Apapa Command generates N159.58bn
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The Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) Apapa Command on Monday disclosed that it generated over N159.58 billion in the First Quarter of 2021.
The Area Controller of the command, Ibrahim Yusuf, in a media briefing said that the revenues were receipts from customs duty and other charges.
He said the amount represented a 44.8 per cent increment on duty collection when compared to the 2020 figure of over N110 billion of the same corresponding months of January to March.
“The difference recorded was made possible because of robust stakeholders engagement, officers’ resolve in discharging their duties and increased level of compliance in the trade’s zone,” he said.
By Rabiu Sani-Ali
Kano, April 9, 2021 The Nigeria Customs Service (NCS), Strike Force Zone B, says it has seized contraband with a Duty Paid Value (DPV) of N786.91 million in the past three months.
Mr Oseni Olorukooba, the Coordinator, Comptroller-General of Customs Strike Force Zone B, stated this while displaying the seized items on Friday in Kano.
Olorukooba said that the Strike Forced seized assorted contraband and other smuggled goods in Kano and Jigawa between January and March 2021.
He said the seizures were made through intelligence gathering at different times and locations in its areas of operation under the Anti Smuggling Activities.