…As CGC Adeniyi Pledges Stronger Partnerships To Enhance Trade Facilitation By Sylvanus OBASI The Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) has achieved its 2024 revenue target, collecting N5.07 trillion with over a month left in the fiscal year. This milestone reflects the Service’s ongoing dedication to trade facilitation and economic growth. Speaking at the 2024 Comptroller-General of…
*** Deploys Monitoring Team To Ensure Accident-Free Yuletide By Sylvanus OBASI In preparation for increased traffic on Lagos waterways, few weeks into the yuletide season, the National Inland Waterways Authority ( NIWA) Lagos office has flagged off massive clearance of water hyacinth from Lagos water channels in order to ease transportation activities and aid safety of…
By Sylvanus OBASI The Zonal Coordinator, Zone B of the Nigeria Customs Service, Assistant Comptroller General of Customs (ACG) Sambo Kaliel Dangaladima paid official visit to Kebbi Area Command on his continuous tour of Zone B axis on Friday. While addressing Officers and men during parade, he commended the efforts of the Customs Area Controller…
By Sylvanus OBASI The Nigeria Customs Service, Onne Command says it has made yet another significant seizure of twenty 40-feet and one 20-feet containers laden with illicit drugs, which pose a severe threat to public health and safety, as well as another one 20-feet container laden with donkey skin. The Customs Area Controller, Area 2…
By Sylvanus OBASI Few months into the ongoing operations WHIRLWIND, appreciable results have been recorded, particularly in the areas of illegal smuggling of petroleum motor spirit (PMS). It will be recalled that the exercise, which commenced in May, 2024 involves the collaboration of Nigerian Customs Service (NCS) being coordinated by the Office of the National…
By Sylvanus OBASI The Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency, NIMASA will share details of her findings from the helicopter crash into the Atlantic Ocean near Bonny Finima, with the International Maritime Organization, IMO. This was just as the Flight Data Recorder FDR and Cockpit Voice Recorder CVR otherwise called the black box was recovered…
By Sylvanus OBASI The Customs Area Controller of Tincan Island Customs Command Apapa-Lagos, Compt Dera Nnadi has applauded stakeholders for supporting and abiding by the Command’s campaign of voluntary compliance to import regulations, guidelines and extant laws which according to him led to a historic over one trillion Naira revenue generation by the command. PLATFORM…
By Sylvanus OBASI The Ogun 1 Area Command of the Nigeria Customs Service has made vital clarifications over a trending video alleging reckless demolition of a mosque at the Nigeria Customs Secondary School, Idiroko. Customs made the clarifications in a press statement it issued on Monday, a copy of which was made available to PLATFORM…
By Sylvanus OBASI The Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) has facilitated Nigeria’s first shipment to Kenya, with Lucky Fibres, a subsidiary of the Tolaram Group, becoming one of the first companies to ship goods to Kenya under the African Continental Free Trade Area Agreement (AfCFTA). During a visit to the Apapa Area Command on Wednesday, 30…
By Sylvanus OBASI The Apapa Area Command of the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) has reported an impressive revenue collection figures by generating N1.87 trillion from January to October 2024; even as the command has impounded and handed over six containers of expired and unapproved pharmaceuticals to the National Agency for Food, Drug Administration And Control…
