Relief for importers as NCS suspends 4% FOB charge
Post AMUGE
February 11, 2025

Onome Amuge The Nigerian Customs Service (NCS) has suspended the application of a controversial provision that imposed a four percent Free-On-Board (FOB) value on all imports, as stipulated in Section 18(1)(a) of the NCS Act 2023. The announcement comes in response to ongoing consultations with Olawale Edun, the minister of finance and other key stakeholders. […]
Customs revenue collection hits N5.7trn, exceeds annual target
Post AMUGE
November 13, 2024

The Nigeria Customs Service (NCS)has announced that it collected N5.7 trillion in revenue as of Tuesday, November 12, 2024. The Comptroller-General of Customs, Adewale Adeniyi, disclosed this on Wednesday at the ongoing 2024 Comptroller-General of Customs Conference in Abuja. The conference is themed “Nigeria Customs Service: Engaging Traditional and New Partners with Purpose.” Adeniyi expressed […]
NCS seizes 125,427 arms in six years – Adeniyi
Post AMUGE
October 17, 2024

Joy Agwunobi Adewale Adeniyi, comptroller general of Custom The Nigeria Customs Service says that since 2018 it intercepted 20 significant shipments, comprising 10,498 pieces of various arms and 114,929 pieces of ammunition, with an estimated duty-paid value of N9.58 billion. The service added that 60 percent of the seizures happened in 2023. Adewale Adeniyi, Comptroller […]
NCS warns of N188bn losses over FG’s food import waiver
Post AMUGE
August 14, 2024

Business a.m. The Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) has warned that the federal government’s recent directive to suspend the six-month tariff could lead to a revenue loss of N188.37 billion. Adewale Adeniyi, comptroller-general of the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS), disclosed the potential loss of N188.37 billion in customs revenue during a keynote address on “Facilitating food […]
Nigeria Customs generates N466.1bn revenues in 3 months; seize contrabands of about N2bn
Charles Abuede
April 20, 2021

Charles Abuede Recent data obtained from Joseph Attah, the Public Relations Officer of the Nigerian Customs Service (NCS) revealed that the agency generated a total of N466.1 billion in revenues during the first quarter of 2021 after it delivered in cold performance in 2020 resulting from the COVID-19 induced stress on the Nigerian […]
New NIMASA chief pledges to hit the ground running as Buhari names new ED
Samson Echenim
March 10, 2020

Bashir Jamoh, newly appointed director-general, Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA), on Tuesday assumed office with a pledge to engage more deeply industry stakeholders to come up with policies that would drive the maritime sector forward. Jamoh was former executive director, finance and administration. The new NIMASA boss, who made the pledge on his assumption of […]
Customs intercept 6,194 bags of smuggled rice, 340 kegs of petrol, 33 vehicles
Justice Okamgba
September 4, 2018

Ogun State Command of the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) has intercepted 6,194 smuggled bags of rice, 33 vehicles and other contrabands worth over N382million, according to a statement on Tuesday. The seizures also include 395 kegs of vegetable oil (25 litres each), 340 kegs of petrol, 1,954 pairs of footwear and seven bales of secondhand […]
Nigerian custom intercepts N2.55bn worth smuggled agric produce in March
Temitayo Ayetoto
March 23, 2018

Federal Operations Unit (FOU) Zone ‘A’ of the Nigerian Customs Service (NSC) has revealed that the agency intercepted agricukturak produce worth N2 .55 billion since the beginning of March this year. The unit said commodities including 7,201 bags of foreign parboiled rice, 1,172 cartons of frozen poultry products, 1,352 jerry cans of vegetable oil, 72 […]
Nigeria Seme customs command generates N1.07bn in two months
Businessam Staff
March 15, 2018

The Seme Command of the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) has disclosed that it generated N1.07 billion in the first two months of 2018, N28 million lower than the command’s expected revenue target of N1.35 billion. Taupyen Selchang , command’s spokesman, said this in a statement released on Thursday. It comes as Mohammed Aliyu, the command’s […]
Shipping Companies, terminal operators to face more scrutiny at Nigerian ports
Businessam Staff
September 20, 2017

Shipping companies and terminal operators doing business in Nigeria are to face more scrutiny it has emerged. The increased scrutiny follows three arm seizures within eight months that had been false concealed as others goods imported into the country by individuals and companies. Only on Tuesday, the head of the Nigerian Customs service, Hameed Ali, […]