One person lost his life yesterday while several others sustained varying degrees of injuries in a fracas that ensued between suspected smugglers and officials of the Nigerian Customs Service attached to the Federal Operations Unit (FOU), Zone A, Ikeja at Abule-Egba area of Lagos State.

With the festive period around the corner, the Nigerian Customs Service (NCS), Seme Command, has warned smugglers to steer clear of the border route, adding that it is ready to ensure that no contraband passes through the Lagos-Abidjan Corridor,

Irked by the influx of smuggling of arms and ammunitions into the country, the Nigerian Customs Service (NCS) has unveiled plans to introduce the Authorized Economic Operators...

This disclosure was sequel to the consideration of the interim report of its Joint Committee on Customs, Excise and Tariff and Marine Transport on investigation of the activities of the Nigerian Customs Service (NCS).

Sequel to the Nigerian Customs Service (NCS) submission that new cargo scanners would arrive in Nigeria by next year, stakeholders in the sector have called for swift action by the Federal Government to ensure that the timeline is sacrosanct.

The comptroller, in his operational assessment between August 29th to 3rd of October 2017 said the FOU arrested eight suspects in connection with 128 seizures within the period.

Sequel to the seizure of about 2,671 pieces of smuggled firearms within eight months, security experts have called for permanent deployment of security agencies to hot spots into Nigeria, in order to restore confidence in prospective foreign investors that have been scared by the recent development.

It is worrisome that despite age-long unilateral and multilateral actions against arms proliferations especially around global flashpoints and vulnerable regions in Africa and the Middle East...

Operatives of the Tin-Can Island Command of the Nigeria Customs Service, have smashed a syndicate that specialised in smuggling weapons into the country after the discovery of 1,100  pump action riffles loaded in a 20-foot container.

The Nigerian Customs Service (NCS) has reduced its checkpoints to about 34 across the nation’s strategic routes, in line with the Federal Government’s Ease of Doing Business agenda.

The NSC, in a statement signed by the Acting Comptroller, Inspection, Abdullahi I.A, at the weekend, directed the 61 affected agents to appear before it or face the full weight of the law.

The Katsina State Custom Command of the Nigerian Customs Service has confirmed the killing of two of its officers by suspected armed robbers.