smuggling
9 Feb
The Forward Operating Base (FOB) of the Nigerian Navy in Badagry, Lagos State, on Saturday, intercepted 16 fibre boats loaded with 1,000 bags of foreign parboiled rice. A reliable source told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Badagry that the smugglers were about to load the bags of foreign parboiled rice into their awaiting…
2 Dec
The Nigeria Financial Intelligence Unit (NFIU) has called for a Public-Private Partnership (PPP) to curb networks facilitating the smuggling of weapons, drugs, and other illegal goods into the country. Chief Executive Officer Hafsat Abubakar Bakari made the appeal in Lagos during a dialogue organised by the NFIU and the London Stock Exchange Group, which focused…
8 Nov
Police in Comoros said Friday they had arrested the alleged leader of a smuggling network involved in the capsizing of a migrant boat that claimed around two dozen lives. The boat sank on a well-known smuggling route between the Comoros island of Anjouan and the French Indian Ocean archipelago of Mayotte on November 1. "The…
7 Nov
The Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS) has embarked on campaign to sensitise communities in the state against the dangers associated with smuggling of migrants and irregular migration. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the sensitisation, which was taken to various communities, central motor park and worship places, is titled: “Migrants smuggling is dangerous: Do…
26 Oct
The Forward Operating Base (FOB) of the Nigerian Navy in Badagry has handed over some suspected smuggling vehicles to the Nigeria Police. The vehicles included nine cars, one tricycle, and six motorcycles. Lt. Cdr. Bitrus Zoaka, the Base Operations Officer, representing the Commanding Officer, Navy Captain Augustus Amakiri, on Friday, explained that the vehicles were…
24 Oct
The Speaker of the House of Representatives, Dr. Tajudeen Abass, has decried the astronomical rise in the smuggling of illegal ivory and pangolin scales from Africa to Asia. The Speaker disclosed that between 2016 and 2019, more than half of the pangolin scales seized globally originated from Nigeria. He further stated that in January 2019,…
14 Jun 2024
National Coordinator of Operation Whirlwind, Nigeria Customs Service (NCS), Kehinde Ejibunu, says the smuggling of Premium Motor Spirit
22 May 2024
The National President of the Poultry Association of Nigeria (PAN) and Chairman, Sunchi Integrated Farms Limited, Sunday Ezeobiora, has blamed unchecked activities of smugglers and neglect by the government at all levels for the current output drop of the local poultry industry.
24 Apr 2024
The newly deployed Customs Area Controller (CAC) of the Federal Operations Unit (FOU), Zone A of the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS), Kola Oladeji, has vowed to go tough on smugglers and facilitate legitimate trade across the Southwest region of the country.
6 Apr 2024
The Federal Operations Unit (FOU), Zone A, of the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS), yesterday, said it arrested 29 individuals in connection with 206 seizures comprising 21 trailer loads of foreign parboiled rice, 1,569 cartons of foreign frozen poultry products, and 2,705 kegs of Premium Motor Spirit, valued at N2.8b in the first quarter of 2024.
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