Customs, NAFDAC and the Fight that Matters By Abdulsalam Mahmud There is no overstating the damage that fake and substandard drugs have inflicted on lives in Nigeria. Across local markets and roadside pharmacies, harmful products still find their way into homes, silently wreaking havoc. These are...

Adeniyi: Lifting Nigeria to the Pinnacle of Global Customs Authority By Abdulsalam Mahmud There are moments in a nation’s journey that signal a quiet but undeniable shift. Not the kind that makes headline noise for a day, but the kind that echoes through corridors of diplomacy,...

Customs Integrates FIRS, CBN, Others into B’Odogwu Platform to Boost Trade The Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) has integrated the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), the Federal Ministry of Finance, the Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS), and other key stakeholders in the trade value chain of...

Customs Seizes N352m Worth of Contraband Goods in Two Months  The Nigeria Customs Service, Western Marine Command, said it intercepted different contrabands, including bags of foreign rice, cannabis sativa, others, with a value of N352m within two months. The Customs Area Controller in charge of the...

Through the Blue Gates of Nigeria's Economy By Tahir Ahmad At a recent editorial meeting in the Abuja office of Image Merchants Promotion Limited (IMPR), publishers of PRNigeria and Economic Confidential; Alhaji Yushau Shuaib, the Chief Executive Officer of IMPR, turned to us and posed a...

GEOINT: The Intelligence Edge Nigeria Customs Needed By Tahir Ahmad For years, the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) has wrestled with the challenge of protecting a vast and vulnerable border stretching over 4,000 kilometers. Much of it lies across rough, remote, and poorly monitored terrain—ripe for exploitation...