The Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) has promised continued stakeholder engagements so as to tackle challenges associated with faulty documentation, under-declaration and wrong classification of goods. Comptroller Chedi Wada of Port Harcourt Area 1 customs command stated this weekend at the second phase of a stakeholders sensitization and workshop organized for licensed customs agents and other critical Maritime operators in Port Harcourt the Rivers state capital. He advised consignees to take advantage of the in-house routine training as part of efforts to help guard against breaches of customs procedures. Recall that earlier, the Customs boss had engaged in an interactive session…
Author: Hector Spiff
The Nigeria Customs Service Area 1, Command Port Harcourt, Rivers State says that despite some daunting challenges in the Maritime sector, the Command had been able to generate and collect the total sum of Fifty Seven Billion, Four Hundred and Five Million, Eight hundred and Thirty-Four Thousand, Four hundred and Twenty Naira and Sixty Eight Kobo (₦57,405,834,420.68) from January to July 2023. Disclosing this to newsmen Monday in Port Harcourt, the Rivers state capital, the Customs Area 1 Controller, Comptroller CD Wada said When compared to the corresponding period of 2022, which stood at Fifty One Billion, Eight Hundred and…
The Business and Maritime Writers’ Association of Nigeria (BUMWAN), has congratulated the newly appointed three Deputy Comptroller Generals of Customs, DCGs, and three Assistant Comptroller Generals of Customs, ACGs, by President Bola Ahmed TINUBU. Recall that the Nigeria Customs Service has announced the appointment of DCG Festus OKUN, DCG MUSA Baba Abdullahi, DCG Albashir HAMISU, ACG Kamarudeen OLUMOH, ACG AUWAL Baba MOHAMMED and ACG Adeogun OLAJOGUN as the new management team that would pilot the affairs of the service following the appointment of acting Comptroller General of Customs and the retirement of some senior officers. This decision was reached at…
In the span of six months, the Onne Customs Command achieves an impressive milestone, generating a substantial revenue of N136 billion. Additionally, the command successfully intercepts 32 seizures of contraband, which cumulatively hold a value exceeding N1 billion. With the core mandate of the Federal government on fiscal policies which include revenue generation, anti-smuggling and unwavering resolve to facilitate trade, the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS), Port Harcourt Area 11 Command, Onne says it had generated over N136, 213,838, 643. 56 Billion in the half year of 2023, covering January to the 20th of July 2023 and intercepted 32 contraband goods…
The Patron of the Association of Nigerian Licensed Customs Agents ANLCA, Chief Henry Njoku says the purported dissolution of the National Executive Committee NECOM of the Association is credited to one Dapo Olawumi who alleged that Alhaji Taiwo Mustapha a self-acclaimed ANLCA Board of Trustees Chairman has dissolved the NECOM was a ruse, malicious, misleading and inconsistent with ANLCA supreme constitution. Addressing journalists in his office in Port Harcourt, the Rivers State Capital recently, Njoku said, “My attention has been drawn to a publication credited to Dapo Olawumi that the National Executive Committee NECOM of the Association of Nigerian Licensed…
The Rivers state government has been commended for ensuring a high ethical and educational standards both in the primary and secondary schools. This commendation came on the heels of the inauguration of the National Proprietor-Parent-Teacher Association (NPPTA) last week by the Eggheads group of schools in Port Harcourt, Rivers state. Speaking to journalists on the sideline of the event, Prof Ezekiel Edem Williams, the Director of Eggheads International School stated that the standard of education in Rivers state is high and the school curriculum is planned such that both the pupils and students are well prepared for any academic challenges…
A group under the aegis of the Business and Maritime Writers’ Association of Nigeria (BUMWAN) has congratulated the newly appointed Comptroller General of Customs, Bashir Adewale Adeniyi, who will be saddled with the responsibility of steering the stewardship of the revenue, anti-smuggling and trade facilitation of the federal government parastatal; under the supervision of the Federal Ministry of Finance. Peter Ihejirika, the President of BUMWAN, in his congratulatory message, on Thursday in Port Harcourt Rivers state, said the new customs boss is equipped with the needed capacities and abilities to move the service to enviable heights in the comity of…