Tag: Akwa Ibom, boats, Navy, rice, Smugglers
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...
Smugglers attack customs personnel in Kano
At least a customs personnel attached to Kano/Jigawa Command has sustained injury in Kano state following a clash between officials of the service and rice smugglers. A...
Again smugglers attack Customs operatives in Ogun, injure 2
Hoodlums suspected to be smugglers have attacked operatives of the Ogun Customs Area Command, inflicting various degrees of injuries on the operatives who were on...
Customs arrests 21 smugglers
The Nigeria Customs Service (NCS), Federal Operation Unit (FOU), Zone B, says it has arrested 21 suspects for allegedly smuggling over 4,000 bags of foreign rice into...
How smugglers killed Customs officer in Ogun
The Ogun Area Command of Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) said it lost one of its officers while another sustained serious injury when suspected smugglers attacked their...
Smugglers slay Customs officer in Ogun
Suspected smugglers on Sunday in an encounter with operatives of the Ogun State Command of the Nigeria Customs Service on routine anti-smuggling patrol allegedly, killed...
Navy arrests smugglers, impounds 1,706 bags of smuggled rice
The Nigerian Navy, Forward Operating Base, FOB, Ibaka, Mbo local government area of Akwa Ibom State has arrested 11 Nigerians and one Cameroonian smugglers and seized...
