Hameed Ali

Emeka Okoroanyanwu Adewale Adeniyi, the newly-appointed Acting Comptroller General of the Nigeria Customs Service (NSC) will formally take over, on Monday, from the former Comptroller-General, Hameed Ali. The handover could not take place…

Joy Anyim  The Acting Controller of Federal Operations Unit (FOU), Zone ‘A', Hussein Ejibunu has reiterated the resolve of the Unit to continually suppress smuggling and prevent loss of government revenue through seaports, airports, land…

The Federal Government plans to slash levy on imported cars from 35 percent to five percent. Vehicles imported into Nigeria attract 35 per cent import duty and another 35 per cent levy, bringing the tariff on such vehicles to 70 per…

President Muhammadu Buhari has granted approval to the extension of the joint border operations code-named Exercise Swift Response which has led to the total closure of land frontiers across the country. The land borders which were…

As the world recently marked the International World Food Day and The International Day of the Eradication of Poverty, ironically, in Nigeria, a food crisis looms. A few days ago, the gauntlet finally came down when the Nigeria Customs…

Minister of Finance, Budget and National Planning, Mrs. Zainab Ahmed, has said that  the closure of all land borders manned by the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) and other security agencies would not “last forever.” This was coming as the…

Hameed Ali, comptroller-general of the Nigeria Customs Service, has directed that owners of vehicles seized or detained will pay the complete duty with 25% penalty levy. In a circular released by AOB Fatade, assistant…

Hameed Ali, comptroller general of the Nigeria Customs Service, says the agency has been generating an average revenue between N4.7bn and N5.8bn daily since the borders were closed. Ali made this known on Wednesday while answering…

Reprieve has finally come the way of freight forwarders in the country over the trapped third party containers at the Lagos ports. The Nigeria Customs Service has agreed to resume the clearing procedures of over 5,000…