The House of Representatives Committee on Customs on Tuesday gave the Nigerian Customs Service (NCS) two weeks to reduce its 18 cargo clearing stages to four in order to decongest the nation’s ports. The committee, which passed the resolution after an interactive session with stakeholders in Abuja, insisted that the Comptroller General of Customs (CG), […]
The Nigeria Customs Service (NCS), Apapa Area Command said it raked into government coffers the sum of N518,046,832,016.84 in the 2020 fiscal year. The Command Comptroller, Mohammed Abba-Kura, who gave these figures at a media briefing held on Tuesday in Lagos, said the revenue generated represented N94,379,835,352.53 increase over the N423.6 billion generated in the […]
The Nigeria Customs Service, NCS, has reported that it generated a total sum of N976.6 billion intothe Federation Account between January and August 2020. The disclosure, which was made public in a document released by the Service’s Public Relations Office, indicated that the larger chunks of the revenue collected were from import duty and Value […]
The Nigeria Customs Service (NCS), Area II Command Onne Port, has reported a total revenue collection N81,196,697,858.57 in the third quarter of year 2019. The command’s Public Relations Officer, Ifeoma Onuigbo Ojekwu, stated that the amount generated surpassed the N69,535,174,318.38 that was generated in the corresponding quarter of 2018 by over N11,661,523,540.19. She stated: “This […]
The Strike Force Team of the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) on Wednesday announced that it seized 5,662 bags of suspected smuggled rice and 137 bales of second hand clothes both valued at N137 million. The National Coordinator, Headquarters of the NIS Strike Force Team, Abuja, Mr Abdullahi Kirawa, gave this hint while briefing journalists in […]
The Tin-Can Port Island Command of the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS), has generated about N303.5 billion between January till date, representing about N50.5 billion higher than theN253 billion it collected in the corresponding period of 2017. This is just as it disclosed that another 13 containers of Tramadol, dangerous drugs with other contraband items worth […]