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From all indications and judging by trending social indices of human communication, it would seem the Tin Can Island Port (TCIP) Customs Command roll call of recent promotion in the service was the most celebrated, and therefore, the centre point of both industry and public service perspective. Although the command got a total of 112 promotions across rank, from deputy comptroller downward to the assistant superintendent of customs 1 officer cadre, perhaps, what mattered most was the promotion of the Command Public Relations Officer, Uche Ejesieme to the rank of superintendent. Cerebral, articulate, savvy and by far the most accessible, communicative and an incredibly talented media fire fighter, Uche has cultivated the most robust and effective two way communication with maritime and crime reporters, and known for his ability to quench any media fire, almost for free. Beyond image building and protection of the service and his bosses within the command and beyond, Ejesieme has a...

King of the jungle, hard boiled anti-smuggling and revenue sheriff, Comptroller Mohammed Uba Garba has recovered the whooping sum of Two Billion, Six Hundred and Sixty Six Million, Three Hundred and Seventy One Thousand, Thirteen Naira as customs duty into the federal government coffers, from various import infractions April to 15th May, 2018. This was achieved through the re-enactment of his uncanny quirk in smelling crimes from long distances, following which dishonest and wrong classification of goods, transfer of value and underpayments for goods already released at various points of customs entry were cornered by his operatives of the Federal Operations Unit Zone ‘A’ Lagos. The seized items made from various locations were subjected to fresh valuation process, leading to the discovery of a cumulative discrepancy amounting to the above sum, in addition to seized various contraband items with a Duty Paid Value of One Billion, Four Hundred and Sixty One Million, Six Thousand, Eight...

The Customs Area Controller (CAC) of Seme Command, Comptroller Mohammed, Aliyu, A has re-stated his commitment in combating smuggling  head long which has assumed a threatening dimension to the socio-economic development of Nigeria. This is as the command intercepted and seized a total of 600x50kg of imported rice on 26th March 2018, with an estimated Duty Paid Value of N10million. The CACC while taking stocks of seizures made  daily by the command disclosed that he remain undaunted to accusations and moral blackmail from different quarters that are ignorant or not knowledgeable about customs laws ‘that he arrests everything that comes into Nigeria’. He reassured genuine stakeholders with compliant business attitude of goverment support, saying they have nothing to fear. The hard boiled enforcement chieg and professional tax collector believed to have set an unprecedented record in anti-smuggling and revenue generation said attempts to blackmail him will not make him c...

Federal Operations Unit Zone A of the Nigeria Customs Service has halted the illegal export of 218 pieces of elephant tusks and 55 sacks of Pangolin shells by two Chinese nationals. The Controller, FOU Zone A, Comptroller Mohammed Garba told our reporter that the Pangolin shells which weighed 2001kg is valued at Four Hundred and Eight Thousand, Three Hundred and Nineteen, Three Hundred and Seventeen Naira, Six Kobo (N408, 319, 317. 6); while the 218 pieces of elephant tusks said to weigh 343kg is valued at Eighty Five Million, One Hundred and Fifty Six Thousand, Six Hundred and Forty Nine Naira, Ninety Six Kobo (N85, 156, 649.96). The Controller explained that trading in this category of wildlife is illegal and criminal under the Convention of International Trade in Endangered species (CITES 1973), and that the Nigeria Customs Service will continue to protect wildlife by intercepting illegal trade on these category of animals. Mohammed said while one of the Chinese absconded and a...

...as Musa intercepts 4 container loads of restricted drugs The Lagos premier Apapa Customs Port Command has began the new year on a very positive note as it posted the total sum of Thirty One Billion, Fifteen Million, Eight Four Thousand,  Six Hundred and Twenty Six Naira, Eighty Five Kobo ( N31, 015, 084,626.85) in duty collection. Reasserting itself as the number one customs port nationwide, the command also last week intercepted four container loads of controlled imported drugs, with an estimated Duty Paid Value of One Hundred and Ten Million, Sixteen Thousand, Five Hundred and Twenty Four Naira (N110, 016,524. 00) only, which drugs are suspected to have flouted the due process and extant Customs and Excise Management Act (CEMA). At a press briefing yesterday in his office, the Customs Area Controller, Comptroller Jibril Musa explained that the seizure of the four containers of drugs was made possible through intelligence gathering the Customs Intelligence Unit of ...

The South West Zone of the Nigeria Customs Service has condoned identified flashpoints in the border areas and put down a number of massive fuel smuggling, to curtail the spate of yet another regime of prevailing fuel scarcity across the country, since the last quarter of 2017. The service Federal Operations Unit Zone A Ikeja, Seme Border Command and the Western Marine Command has in major offensives recorded hauls of fuel seizures to boost the Federal Government battle against smugglers in the face of the ongoing scarcity, even as Abuja is believed to be working round the clock to end the fuel crisis. Comptroller Mohammed Aliyu and his officers and men at Seme Border has its dragnet in various flashpoints in the creeks areas and other notorious routes where there has been sustained regular mop up of smugglers activities, has so far landed a total seizure of 55,000litres of Premium Motor Spirit (Petrol in 2,200 x 25kg litres between December 2017 and January 2018. The onsl...

...recovers N1.7bn Jan 2018 The irrepressible doyen of anti-smuggling operations and Controller, Nigeria Customs Service, Federal Operations Unit Zone A Ikeja, Comptroller Mohammed Uba has recorded yet another mind bungling seizures of 31 exotic cars, picked from various locations including some upscale estates in Lagos. Apart from the assorted vehicles, other seizures include 14 trailers of imported parboiled rice amounting to a total of 8,400 bags of 50kg, 1,652 cartons of imported frozen poultry products, 835 jerry cans of vegetable oil, 10 sacks of Indian Hemp, 2,208 pieces of used tyres, 159 bales of used clothing, amongst others.  Uba said the seized vehicles consist of 4 Rolls Royce, 1 Porche Panamera, 1 Jaguar, 1 Bentley, 2 Lexus jeep, 2 G wagon, 1 Toyota Land Cruiser, 5 Toyota Corolla, 7 Mercedes Benz amongst others, noting they are mostly 2017 models. He explained the offensive is the result of its renewed operational modalities for the New Year, while claim...