The Nigeria Customs Service on Monday, 20 May 2024 flagged off a sensitisation programme with Songhai Health Trust to sensitise officers on the benefits of accessing the National Health Insurance Scheme. In a flag-off Sensitisation Programme with the National Health Insurance Authority and Songhai Health Trust Ltd at the Nigeria Customs Service Headquarters in Abuja, […]
In a bid to enhance regional integration and boost economic activities, a high-level delegation from the Federal Government of Nigeria engaged in an inter-ministerial meeting with counterparts from the Benin Republic to discuss the reopening of the Segbana-Tsamiya border post in Kebbi State. The meeting, held on May 21, 2024, aimed to fast-track the operationalisation […]
The Governor of Kano State, Abba Yusuf, has explained that the reinstatement of the deposed Emir of Kano, Lamido Sanusi, was a fulfilment of a campaign promise. Yusuf, on Thursday, signed the bill repealing the State Emirate Council Law 2019 that gave the state five emirate councils. The state House of Assembly on Thursday passed […]
The Comptroller-General of Nigeria Customs Service, Bashir Adewale Adeniyi MFR, on Tuesday, 20 May 2024, received the former Comptroller-General of Customs, Ahmed Mustapha, at the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) Headquarters in Abuja. Former CGC Mustapha, who served from 1999 to 2004, expressed his heartfelt gratitude and admiration for the extensive changes and advancements the service […]
The Federal Operations Unit, Zone B Kaduna of Nigeria Customs Service under the supervision of the notable anti-smuggling Czar, Comptroller Ahmadu Bello Shuaibu, has intercepted unprecedented seizures of a number of illegal consignments with total duty paid value amounting to Three Billion, One Hundred and Seventy-Five Million, Eighty Four Thousand Naira, Two Hundred and Seventeen […]
The Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) has inaugurated a three-day capacity-building workshop on data generation, analytics, and storage on Monday, 13 May 2024, at the Nigeria Customs Command and Staff College (NCCSC), Gwagwalada to enhance the service’s capabilities in modern customs operations through improved data handling. ACG Malanta Yusuf, representing the Comptroller-General of Customs (CGC), Adewale […]
The Comptroller-General of the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS), Adewale Adeniyi, has received a certificate of excellence for his first 100 days of impactful public relations at the just concluded 2024 SABRE African Public Relations Association (APRA) Award and annual conference held at Côte d’Ivoire from May 13- 18, 2024. According to Chief Superintendent of Customs […]
Hell was let loose on Sunday as thugs unleashed violence in Ikachi village, Akparata area of Effium, within Ohaukwu Local Government Area of Ebonyi State. In the mayhem, two people lost their lives while seven were wounded. Eye witness accounts said that the attackers beheaded two individuals and kidnapped seven others while also torching five […]
President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has sent his condolences to the government and people of the Islamic Republic of Iran over the passing of President Ebrahim Raisi; Iranian foreign minister, Hossein Amir-Abdollahian, and other officials who died in a helicopter crash. Raisi and nine others On Sunday lost their lives after a helicopter conveying them crashed […]
The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) has temporarily suspended issuance of new licences to stakeholders in the communication industry. The Director, Public Affairs, NCC, Mr. Reuben Muoka revealed that the suspension was in the following categories; Interconnect Exchange Licence, Mobile Virtual Network Operator Licence, and Value Added Service Aggregator Licence. According to, Muoka the temporary suspension […]
