…Customs officials recovered the smuggled and fake cigarettes in various parts of Khyber Pakhunkhwa PESHAWAR: Director General Customs Intelligence and Investigation Faiz Ahmad Chadhar on Friday told media that during the past ten days they have foiled bids and seized smuggled and fake cigarettes worth Rs 303 milloon being smuggled from Afghanistan and Iran. Brienfing
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By: Bon Peters, Port Harcourt The Nigeria Customs Service Area 1 Command Port Harcourt has commenced what it termed stakeholders partnership on the training and retraining of its trading community with the aim to sensitize stakeholders on issues of non conformities with statutory procedures and other vices in Customs clearance processes. The event which commenced
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TORKHAM: Pakistan customs officials and other stakeholders held a meeting at Torkham border and discussed various trade related issues,officials sourcess said on Monday. Additional collector custom Muhammad Rizwan, addtional director transit Athar,Col, Bilal Yousif,General manager National Logistic Cell Col,(R)Aziz,Col, Sattar,federal deputy secretary of trade and commrace Mian Abdul Qadir Shah, addtional collector Ashfaq Ahmad,addtional secretary
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…Customs chief said 16 US-made different brands of automatic guns and 15,000 of bullets rounds were recovered LANDIKOTAL: Customs authorities at Torkham border foiled a bid to smuggle a bulk of foreign made arms and Ammunitions from Afghanistan, officials said on Wednesday. Chief collector Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Muhammad Salim while displaying the seized arms to media
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‘People smuggling with trucks with Dangote imprinted on them are not real Dangote trucks. They operate under a franchise agreement’ The Ogun 1 Area Command of the Nigeria Customs Service has impounded no fewer than 23 trailers including Dangote trucks for alleged smuggling. THE DAILY VENDOR learnt that the trucks were loaded with foreign rice
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The Nigeria Customs Service says twenty drums of carbide was seized in the Ijebu-Ode area of Ogun state in the month of August. The acting Customs Area Controller in charge of the Federal Operations Unit, Zone A, Comptroller, Ejibunnu Hussain who disclosed this while addressing journalists said that the Duty Paid Value of the seized
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Unknown gunmen have attacked a military checkpoint in Omagwa community in Ikwerre local government area of Rivers State. The Rivers State Police Command confirmed that there was an attack on security agents by unknown gunmen in Ikwerre. The Daily Vendor gathered that the gunmen had around midnight on Saturday, attacked the military checkpoint located near
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The Apapa command of the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS), Lagos has made a total seizure of 318 containers, including 133 containers of unregistered pharmaceutical products. Giving the breakdown of the seizures, the command’s Area Controller, Mohammed Abba-Kura, said: “Some of the seized items are 133 containers of unregistered pharmaceuticals, including tramadol; 58 containers of parboiled
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The Nigeria Customs Area Command in Kano has handed over one Sanusi Abdullahi Labaran, arrested as he attempted to smuggle 5,342 Automated Teller Machine cards out of the country, to the Kano Zonal office of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, for further investigation. Custom Area Controller, Kano – Jigawa Command, Nasiru Ahmed who
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Olufemi Adediran Abeokuta A middle-aged man, Atanda Idowu Moses, who sustained gunshot injury during a clash between men of the Nigerian Customs Service (NCS) and smugglers in Oja Odan in Yewa South local government area of Ogun State has died. A relation of the deceased, Olatunji Olaniran, who confirmed this to newsmen yesterday, disclosed that
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The Senate is prepared to propose to the Federal Ministry of Finance , Budget and National Planning to exempt 60 federal agencies from receiving allocation from the national budget , which will start from next year . It was gathered that the move was due to the conviction that the agencies generate enough revenue to
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No fewer than two persons have been reportedly killed in Saki, Oyo State following a clash between some youths in the town and men of the Nigeria Customs Service on Thursday. The fracas ensued when a driver suspected to have smuggled some bags of rice was chased and allegedly killed by some customs officers in
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A group of licensed agents has petitioned the Nigerian Senate over what they termed different atrocities allegedly committed by Nigeria Customs Service officials. In the five-page petition signed by over 50 members of Concerned Licensed Customs Agents, the group accused customs officials of acts of corruption and sabotage of the country’s economy. They said that
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The Coordinator, Joint Border Patrol, Zone 3, Muhammed Garba, has said smugglers have devised new ways of smuggling banned items into the country. According to Garba, they now conceal rice and other contraband in bags containing yam flour. The Nigeria Customs Service chief said they had impounded 20 bags of yam flour, with foreign rice concealed in some of them at the border route in
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The Nigeria Customs Service, Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Lagos Command, on Tuesday said it intercepted $8.6m at the airport. The command said it was recovered from a passenger. More details soon.
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