Customs Arrests 344 Smugglers, Impounds N3bn Smuggled Rice   The Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) seized a total of N3.02bn worth of smuggled rice between May 2022 and May 2023. Data obtained from the service through its National Public Relations Officer, who is a Chief Superintendent of Customs,...

FG Loses 50% Vehicle Import Duty, Levies To Smugglers – Report         The federal government is losing billions of naira in duties payable on imported vehicles as 50 per cent of such vehicles in Nigeria reportedly come in illegally through closed borders, it has been revealed. An...

Customs Tackle Smugglers, Seize 1,000 Litres Of Petrol Daily   Sixty days into the implementation of the directive on suspension of petrol to filling stations located 20 kilometres to the borders, over 60,000 litres of petrol have been seized from smugglers by the Nigeria Customs Service. The...

Smugglers Move Nigeria’s Petrol To Mali, Others — NNPC   Smugglers of Premium Motor Spirit, popularly known as petrol, smuggle the commodity to as far as Burkina Faso, Mali and Cote d’Ivoire, the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation stated on Wednesday. The NNPC also stated that the commodity...

Over 70% of Rice in Nigerian Markets are Foreign- Investigations …. Customs, CBN React Despite concrete and visible interventions of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) via the Anchors Borrowers Programme (ABP) on the rice sub-sector of the Nigerian economy, over seventy percent (70%) of rice...

NNPC: Border Smugglers Hindering Nigerians From Enjoying Cheap Petrol   The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) has stated that Nigerians are being denied the benefits of the government’s insistence on keeping the pump price of petrol at N145 per litres across service stations in country by...