PHOTOS: NDLEA’s Chairman Gen Marwa, CP Jimoh Moshood, Customs, Air Force, Others Honoured at SAEMA 2025   In a grand ceremony marking the 7th edition of the Security and Emergency Management Awards and Lecture (SAEMA 2025), several of Nigeria’s leading security, emergency management, and humanitarian institutions...

Reforms Turn Nigeria Into Africa’s Trade Powerhouse - Tinubu  President Bola Tinubu has said that the Federal Government’s trade reforms, including the exchange rate unification, fuel subsidy removal, and port modernisation, among others, were designed to create a trade-friendly environment that could compete globally and...

Two Days in the Netherlands, One New Customs Alignment By Abdulsalam Mahmud There are moments in the life of an institution when diplomacy becomes more than courtesy and protocol. It becomes a quiet turning point, a bridge between one phase of its evolution and the next. That...

West Africa’s Trade Awakening Begins at the Nigeria–Ghana Border By Abdulsalam Mahmud There is a quiet awakening taking shape across West Africa’s borders. From the rolling frontiers of Nigeria to the bustling crossings of Ghana, the old narrative of rivalry and suspicion is slowly giving way...

A New Understanding Between Customs and Manufacturers By Abdulsalam Mahmud For years, the relationship between the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) and the manufacturing community had been marked by tension and misunderstanding. Each spoke from a different world — one focused on revenue and regulation, the other...

Customs Seizes ₦80.4m Smuggled Fuel Bound for Benin Republic The Nigeria Customs Service, Operation Whirlwind, said it intercepted 1,980 jerrycans of premium motor spirit, popularly known as petrol, worth N80.4m, about to be smuggled to the Republic of Benin. The National Coordinator of Operations Whirlwind, Kola...