Tag: arrests, Customs, Smugglers
Customs intercepts goods, arrests 53 smugglers in one month
The Nigeria Customs Service, North Central Zone, Sector 3, Ilorin, Kwara State, on Wednesday, said it has seized contraband goods worth N1.2 billion and arrested...
Customs arrests four suspected smugglers in Katsina
The Katsina Area Command of the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) has apprehended four suspected smugglers in connection with a recent seizure with a duty paid value...
Customs arrests 63 smugglers, generates N20bn
The Oyo/Osun Command of Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) has arrested 63 suspected smugglers in connection with the smuggling of the prohibited items into the...
I don’t have a social life because of smugglers – Comptroller Agbara
Controller, Ogun Area command of the Nigeria Customs Service, Comptroller Michael Agbara in this interview with Shulammite Foyeku, speaks on the challenges of...
Smugglers allegedly attack Customs, injure one in Ogun
Hoodlums suspected to be smugglers have allegedly attacked operatives of the Nigeria Customs Service NCS), Ogun 1 Area Command, injuring one person at Anigbobo...
Smugglers attack Customs officers, soldiers in Ogun
Some hoodlums have attacked operatives of the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS), Ogun Area Command 1 and the Nigerian Army, injuring one person and destroyed two...
FOU Customs reads riot act to smugglers, seizes N67m contraband in one week
Acting Controller of the Federal Operations Unit (FOU) Zone A of the Nigeria Customs Service, Usman Yahaya, has promised to intensify the unit’s...
Customs nabs six suspected smugglers in Katsina
Six suspected smugglers have been arrested in Katsina in connection to various seized items worth N108 million. Parading the recovered items, the state...
Customs arrests nine smugglers in Katsina
Nine suspected smugglers have been arrested in the last 10 days trying to smuggle various contraband items into the country, the Katsina/Kaduna Customs...
Smugglers now hide rice in motorcycle fuel tanks
The Federal Operations Unit (FOU) Zone ‘A’ of the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) has intercepted foreign parboiled rice smuggled into the country through the...
Customs commission sea going vessels to combat smugglers
The Nigeria Customs Service has commissioned its two sea going vessels purchased to curtail the activities of smugglers on the nation’s waterways. The...
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...
