NNPC, Customs, DPR Collaborate to Tackle Petroleum Products Smuggling
Worried by the growing incidents of petroleum products smuggling across the nation’s border towns, the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) and the Department of Petroleum Resources (DPR) have agreed to inaugurate a...
Customs Seeks 35% Reduction On vehicle Importation Levy
The Comptroller-General of Customs, Col Hameed Ali (retd.) has called on the Federal Government to reduce the 35 per cent levy on imported vehicles so as to check the rising cases of smuggled vehicles into the country.
Ali...
Apapa Customs Rakes In N210.2bn Revenue In 7months
The Apapa Command of the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) says it generated N210.2 billion revenue, including N343.4 million on exports between Jan. and July, against N196.7 billion in same period of 2017.
The outgoing Area Controller of the...
Customs Intercepts N10b Pangolin Scales , Raises Global Awareness
Massive interception of Pangolin scales and Elephant tusks by the Federal Operations Unit (FOU) of the Nigerian Customs Services has attracted global attention to the country and it’s strict compliance to a United Nation’s convention on...
China’s Food Import Bill Soars to $58.3b
China’s total food imports amounted to 58.28 billion dollars last year, up 25 percent year-on-year, while the annual average growth rate over the previous five years was 5.7 percent, data from the administration showed.
Chinese consumers’ demand for imported...
Customs Makes 596 Impounds, Realises N8.6bn In 6months
The Nigeria Customs Service, Federal Operations Unit, Zone ‘A’ Ikeja, Lagos has realized about N8.6 billion from intercepted contrabands and duty received on imported goods in the last six months.
Giving a breakdown of the earnings, Public Relations...
