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- The Nigeria Customs Service has intensified operations against smuggling and different amerciable activities successful the ports
- In caller operations, 3 larboard terminals person been unopen down indefinitely and investigations are ongoing
- The Apapa Command of the NCS has besides released a afloat database of items seized from the terminals during the operations
Ruth Okwumbu-Imafidon, a writer with Legit.ng, has implicit a decennary of acquisition successful business reporting crossed integer and mainstream media.
The Apapa bid of the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) has announced the sealing of 3 bonded terminals successful Apapa.
The terminals were sealed implicit assorted infractions, and according to the Customs Area Comptroller of the Apapa Command, Babatunde Olomu, 1 of the terminals is already locked successful a ineligible battle, portion investigations are ongoing with the different 2 terminals.
Olomu said astatine a media briefing connected Thursday that the bid has intensified operations to curb amerciable activities crossed each larboard terminals and borders.
Source: UGC
He added that the eagle-eyed officers connected the bid are connected the lookout to halt transgression activities crossed the terminals.
Apapa Command collects N1.37 cardinal successful gross successful H1, 2025
The CAC besides announced that the Apapa Command has raked successful N1.37 cardinal successful revenues betwixt January to June 2025.
This inflow from commercialized facilitation becomes a portion of the authorities revenue, providing the much-needed backing for captious projects.
Olomu thanked the different agencies that supported the NCS done consultations and quality sharing.
He besides vowed that the bid would spell each retired to instrumentality the Comptroller-General’s directives and maximise gross collection, plug leakages, and contented Demand Notices (DN) wherever necessary.
Apapa Customs Command confirms seizures made successful H1
CAC Olomu besides disclosed that wrong the archetypal fractional of 2024, the bid intercepted 27 containers with a duty-paid worth (DPV) of N9.2 billion, The Cable quality reports.
The seized items include:
- 10 containers of unregistered pharmaceuticals;
- 4 containers of second-hand clothing;
- 2 containers of codeine syrup
- 2 containers of stolen vehicles
- Expired margarine
- Wild carnal skins
- 1 instrumentality of matches imported without the required end-user certificate (EUC)
He assured that the NCS would not compromise the well-being of Nigerians and that goods would not beryllium allowed past the ports without diligent checks, scanning, and examination.
Commenting connected the seized containers of chaotic carnal skin, Olomu said they violated the Convention connected International Trade successful Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES), to which Nigeria is simply a signatory.
Port terminal records surge successful exports
Meanwhile, export volumes successful Nigerian larboard terminals are inactive increasing. The APM Terminals Apapa, announced that it recorded a surge successful the monthly export cargoes in April 2025.
In the month, the terminal handled 8,687 twenty-foot equivalent units (TEUs) of export cargo, representing a 30% summation from the 6,606 TEUs recorded successful April 2024.
A connection released by the APM terminal connected Sunday, May 11, 2025, confirmed that this is the highest fig recorded successful a azygous period since its inception successful 2006.
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Note that Nigeria has besides received the archetypal direct instrumentality from China, earlier successful 2025.
Nigeria Customs Service takes enactment connected seized arms
Legit.ng reported that the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) has handed implicit 1,599 assorted arms and 2,298 unrecorded cartridges to the National Centre for the Control of Small Arms and Light Weapons (NCCSALW).
The arms, seized successful 3 containers astatine the Tin Can Island Port, were officially handed implicit to the NCCSALW on Thursday, February 13, 2025, astatine the office of the Federal Operations Unit, Zone 'A', Ikeja, Lagos state.
The Comptroller-General of Customs (CGC), Adewale Adeniyi, stated that the handover ceremonial demonstrates the NCS’ committedness to protecting nationalist borders and maintaining nationalist safety.
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Source: Legit.ng
