Smuggling from Benin Republic Worries Nigeria Worried by the high level of cross border smuggling, Nigeria has resolved to fully implement the 2013 Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Benin Republic to tackle the menace. The Minister of Interior, retired Lt.-Gen Abdulrahman Dambazau, restated the nation’s commitment...

About 800 senior officers of the Nigerian Customs Service (NCS), Federal Operations Unit ( FOU) Zone ‘A’ , Ikeja, have been deployed to major towns and villages around the border areas of the country to increase the anti-smuggling war’s tempo. This is to curb...