Tag: fuel tanks, motorcycle, rice, Smugglers
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...
Customs says smugglers becoming more deadly
As Federal Operation Unit (FOU) Zone ‘B’ of the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) made 623 seizures, including 153 vehicles and other items, Comptroller in charge of the...
Smugglers kill Customs officer
Suspected smugglers on Sunday killed a Customs officer, Yakubu Shuaibu, attached to the Federal Operations Unit, Zone A in Lagos, at Akinrun Village, Oja-Odan axis in...
NDLEA arrests two currency smugglers at Abuja airport
The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA), Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport (NAIA) Special Area Command, has intercepted two suspected currency smugglers at...
Navy seizes four boats, nabs rice smugglers in Akwa Ibom
The Nigerian Navy in Akwa Ibom State has seized four boats and arrested 12 suspects and seized 742 bags of contraband rice from them in four different operations. The...
We don’t use juju to fight smugglers — Customs
The Coordinator, Zone A of the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS), Assistant Comptroller General Kaycee Ekekezie has asked Nigerians to disabuse their minds about the...
Seme Customs boss commends enforcement unit’s onslaught against smugglers
The Area Controller, Seme Area Command of Nigeria Customs Service, Comptroller Mohammed Uba, has commended the enforcement unit of the command for the spike in seizures...
Smugglers attack Customs, injure two officers
Operatives of the Ogun Area Command of Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) were on Friday attacked by hoodlums suspected to be smugglers along Papanlato area of Ogun State,...
Is it right for Customs to chase smugglers within the city?
The customs are equipped with all the necessary apparatus, including sophisticated arms and ammunitions to collect revenues and combat smuggling at the border posts,...
Is extra-judicial killing of suspected smugglers by Customs justified?
No. There is no law in Nigeria that smugglers should be killed, talk less of a suspect. There is no institution of government that possess the power of prescribing a...
