Tag: arrest, bags of rice, illegal immigrants, Security agencies
Security agencies arrest 239 illegal immigrants, impounds 34,221 bags of rice
The Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) on Thursday said security operatives at the nation’s borders have arrested 239 illegal immigrants and impounded 34,221 bags of...
Navy arrests 54 suspects, seizes 3,378 bags of rice
The Nigerian Navy, Forward Operating Base, Ibaka in Mbo Local Government Area of Akwa Ibom State, said it arrested a total of 54 suspects and seized 3,378 bags of...
Customs impounds 250 bags of rice concealed in fuel tanker
The Nigerian Customs Service (NCS), Kano/Jigawa command on Friday impounded 250 bags of foreign rice concealed in a fuel tanker along Daura-Kano road, worth over...
Border operation: Officials seize 3,560 bags of rice, arrest 33 illegal migrants
33 illegal migrants attempting to travel through Nigeria’s land borders have been arrested by security operatives deployed to secure the borders in a joint military...
Navy seizes 9,489 bags of rice from smugglers
The Nigerian Navy said on Monday that it seized 9,489 bags of rice smugglers plying their illicit trade through the nation’s waterways. The seizure, according...
Navy arrests 5 suspects, seizes 370 bags of rice
The Nigerian Navy, Forward Operating Base, Ibaka, Mbo local government area, Akwa Ibom State has arrested five suspects and seized 370 bags of smuggled rice from them....
Group raises alarm over ‘20m bags of rice’ smuggled into Nigeria
The Rice Processors Association of Nigeria (RiPAN) has raised an alarm that not less than 20 million bags of rice has been smuggled into Nigeria over the past three...
5,000 bags of rice expire at Customs warehouse
A total of 5,646 bags of 50kg foreign parboiled rice worth N124, 776, 600 seized by the Western Marine Command (WMC) of the Nigeria Customs Service have expired in the...
Navy shuts down 150 illegal refineries, seizes 13, 803 bags of rice
The Eastern Naval Command of the Nigerian Navy in Calabar has shut down over 150 illegal refineries through swamp buggy operations in its area of responsibility, which...
Customs seizes 4,200 bags of rice in Kogi
National Coordinator of the Customs Comptroller General Strike Force, Abdullahi Kirawa said the team seized 4,200 50kg bags of smuggled rice in Mopa village, near Kabba,...
Customs FOU Zone `C’ intercepts over 10,000 bags of rice, used tyres, cannabis
The Nigerian Customs Service (NCS), Federal Operation Unit (FOU) Zone `C’ says it intercepted over 10,000 bags of 50kg smuggled rice, hundreds of second-hand...
Customs impound 1440 bags of rice, vehicles and used tyres
The Oyo/Osun Area Command of the Nigeria Customs Service on Wednesday said that in the past three weeks, its men had seized 1440 bags of smuggled rice, 14 vehicles,...
