The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) has destroyed seized substandard, falsified, and expired products worth N1.367 billion. During the exercise yesterday in Abuja, the agency’s Director-General, Prof. Mojisola Adeyeye, said the destruction was a part of the NAFDAC’s commitment to ensuring public health safety and eliminating dangerous products from Nigeria’s supply chain. The items, seized …

Major opposition parties have criticised the Federal Government for its failure to address the deepening economic hardship in the country, citing the overwhelming number of job applications recently received by the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) as a direct result of government policies. Last week, the NCS revealed that it had received 573,519 applications for just 3,927 available positions in its …

The Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) has dissolved the Joint Border Patrol Team (JBPT) after due consultation with the Office of the National Security Adviser. This operation, which commenced in 2019 with a code name ‘Ex-Swift Response’ and later evolved into the JBPT, was initially designed to enforce the partial border closure policy. In a statement on Tuesday, NCS’ National Public …

The Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) has approved the promotion of 1,419 junior officers of the service. This is even as the Ogun 1 Area Command of the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) held a strategic meeting with executives of the Nigerian Association of Social and Resourceful Editors (NASRE) at its area command, highlighting the importance of collaboration in promoting national security …

The Federal Government has rescinded its decision to ground 60 private jets owned by various individuals in Nigeria over unpaid import duty running into several billions of naira. The PUNCH reported on Monday that the government through a directive from the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) to the Nigeria Airspace Management Authority (NAMA) was expected to have grounded the defaulting jets. …

The House of Representatives, on Thursday, began a probe into the alleged bribery of officials of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC); as well as officials of the Nigerian Correctional Service (NCS) by controversial cross dresser, Idris Okuneye, alias Bobrisky, who was convicted and sentenced to prison for naira abuse. This was as the Civil Defence, Correctional, Fire and …

Justice Emeka Nwite of the Federal High Court in Abuja, on Monday, ordered the officials of the Kuje correctional facility to provide the detained Binance Holdings Limited executive, Tigran Gambaryan, with a wheelchair. The order followed an outburst from Gambaryan shortly after the court adjourned. Justice Nwite had stepped out of the courtroom for a few minutes before returning to …

The Comptroller General of the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS), Bashir Adewale Adeniyi has fingered unscrupulous officers working with bonded terminal operators to smuggle hard drugs out of the nation’s seaports Adeniyi, who stated this over the weekend when he displayed the Tin-Can Island ports interception of 1,072 kilogrammes of cannabis indica as well as other pharmaceutical drugs worth N4.1 billion, …

The Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) has announced a verification exercise for privately owned aircraft operating in Nigeria. In a Public Service Announcement on its verified social media page on Monday, the NCS said the exercise was aimed at identifying improperly imported private aircraft without documentation. According to the statement, the verification was to ensure proper imports and maximum revenue collection …

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has been urged to prosecute seven top officers of the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) who were allegedly involved in a bribery scandal to the tune of N12 billion. An exclusive investigative report by PREMIUM TIMES had exposed that the high-ranking officers of NCS indicted for bribery at border posts last December were grilled by …