Tag: NCS

Cargo Clearance: Vehicles, parts’ prices to surge, as Customs 4% FoB levy begins

Aminu Imam
Tokunbo cars at port

Prices of imported goods, such as vehicles and spare parts, are expected to surge as the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) officially commences the collection of a new four percent Free-on-Board (FoB) levy on all imports. The levy, which took effect Monday, replaced the one percent Comprehensive Import Supervision Scheme (CISS) charge, calculated based on the value of imported goods, including transportation costs to the port of origin. Car dealers, already grappling with high import duties and a volatile Naira, are expected to be among the worst hit. For instance, a…

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Kaduna: Court stops customs from seizing imported rice in markets, seaports

Aminu Imam
Court bars Customs

The Court of Appeal, Kaduna division, has ruled that the Nigeria Customs Service, (NCS), has no Constitutional right to confiscate imported rice in open markets. The court gave the order while delivering judgement in an appeal filed by the NCS against the judgment of the Federal High Court, Kaduna, which discharged and acquitted one Suleiman Mohammed of a 2-count charge on the importation of foreign goods. Nigeria. In the judgement, delivered by the three-member panel led by Justice Ntong Ntong, the court also ordered the NCS  to release 613 bags…

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Alleged N12bn Bribery to Custom officers:?Premium Timeswrites Tinubu, EFCC, CCB

Aminu Imam
Premium Times

Nigerias on-line newspaper, Premium Times, has written to President Bola Tinubu, asking him to order the prosecution of some officials of the Nigerian Customs Service (NCS) indicted for accepting bribes to the tune of N12 billion while sabotaging Government policies. In the letter dated March 12, Premium Times told President Tinubu that seven top officials of the NCS were indicted in an EFCC investigation unearthing how some Customs officers have received billions of naira from smugglers. Yet, the EFCC has failed to kick-start their prosecution months after they were detained…

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Senators alarmed, as dogs are better fed than inmates NCS facilities

Aminu Imam

Senators expressed alarm yesterday, when they were informed that the daily feeding allowance of Nigerian prison inmates is still N750. However, it was gathered that a dog kept by the Nigerian Correctional Service is fed with the sum of N800 daily, an indication that the Service spends more to feed a dog than to feed an inmate. This was disclosed when the Comptroller-General of Corrections, Haliru Baba, and other top officials appeared before the Senate Committee on Interior in Abuja to defend the 2024 budget estimates of the Service. The…

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Customs lost N1.3tr to Buharis waivers CG

Aminu Imam

The Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) has said that it lost N1.3trillion in 2023 due to waivers and concessions that President Muhammadu Buharis administration granted to investors. Comptroller General of the NCS, Adewale Adeniyi, made the disclosure at the National Assembly yesterday, also noted that it was not privy to details of the Customs $3.2bn modernisation project. Adeniyi was represented by the Deputy Comptroller-General, Mba Musa, at a public hearing organised by the Senate Joint Committees scrutinising the 20242026 Medium-Term Expenditure Framework, (MTEF) and Fiscal Strategy Paper, (FSP). During the hearing,…

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Customs ditch $3.2bn modernisation project for Intelligence partnership with WCO

Aminu Imam

The Nigeria Customs Service, (NCS), may have set aside the $3.2 billion Customs Modernisation Project, otherwise known as e-Customs, over lingering litigation issues, as the Service has announced a partnership with the World Customs Service (WCO) to deploy Geospatial Intelligence at the nations borders. Addressing newsmen in Lagos yesterday, the acting Customs Comptroller-General, Adewale Bashir Adeniyi, said that due to the lingering court cases over the $3.2 billion e-Customs project, he has not been talking much about the project since he took over the reins of leadership of the Service.…

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DSS re-arrests Emefiele at court, as Correctional Centre withdraws

Aminu Imam

The suspended governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Godwin Emefiele, has been re-arrested by agents of the Department of State Security (DSS) and the Nigerian Correctional Services (Prisons) in Lagos. Emefiele was taken into custody by the DSS shortly after its agents violently repelled agents from the Nigerian Correctional Services (NCS) who attempted to remove Emefiele in accordance with Justice Nicholas Oweibos order. Recall that Emefiele was charged with two counts of possessing a firearm without a licence when the federal government brought him to court. He entered…

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COVID-19: Why Nigerians should avoid imported frozen foods now NCS

Ishaku Yohanna

As part of moves to permanently flatten the curve of the coronavirus pandemic in the country, health experts have cautioned Nigerians on the consumption of imported frozen foods for now. The warning is coming on the heels of a circular issued by the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS), recently, on a planned importation or smuggling in of frozen chicken from China and Ecuador. In the memo dated September 9, 2020, and signed by the acting deputy comptroller in charge of enforcement, I.T Magaji, addressed to all zonal coordinators, Area comptrollers and…

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Expired seasoning cubes in circulation, NCS warns Nigerians

Ishaku Yohanna

The Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) has issued a warning to Nigerians against purchasing expired Ninido seasoning cubes. In a memo dated August 19 and signed by Hassan Sabo, comptroller (enforcement), NCS, noted that the products had expired since June 28, 2019. According to the document, titled Re: Circulation of Expired Seasoning Cubes across the Country, and addressed to zonal and sector coordinators, the products were believed to have been imported from Niger Republic. The CGC is in receipt of intelligence information that revealed ongoing distribution/sales of expired seasoning cubes with…

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