Maritime Nigeria

Main Menu

  • Home
  • News
  • Interviews
  • Maritime Info
  • Photo Gallery
  • Fact
  • Profiles

logo

Header Banner

Maritime Nigeria

  • Home
  • News
    • CRFFN: "We Stand With The Council" NAGAFF Leadership

      Aug 4, 2025
      0
    • Maritime Academy: A Very Critical National Asset-Dr. Okonna

      Jul 31, 2025
      0
    • "Efficient Sea Ports Crucial To Africa's Economic Growth"-Dr. Dantsoho

      Jul 30, 2025
      0
    • Nigeria's IMO Council Bid Gains Traction With MOWCA Executives

      Jul 30, 2025
      0
    • Customs Urge Nigerians To Comply With Visa Regulations

      Jul 30, 2025
      0
    • "MAN A Pivotal Institution For The Blue Economy" Senator Eshinlokun

      Jul 29, 2025
      0
    • Nigeria Customs Set To Recover ₦379.5Billion From 223 Companies

      Jul 25, 2025
      0
    • Seme Command Records N1.5b Revenue, Makes N1.2b Seizures

      Jul 24, 2025
      0
    • SON Celebrate Inuwa As Board Chairman

      Jul 21, 2025
      0
  • Interviews
    • Nigeria Takes Leadership Of MOWCA

      Nov 18, 2021
      0
    • APM Participates in UK Trade Expo

      Oct 31, 2021
      0
    • Reps Seek Admission at MAN

      Dec 7, 2020
      0
    • NIMASA URGE SHIP OWNERS TO RENEW CABOTAGE LICENSES

      Oct 5, 2020
      0
    • FG Sacks Aboloma As NAIC Gets New EDs

      Aug 28, 2020
      0
    • Britain Celebrate Nigerian In Covid Efforts

      Jul 26, 2020
      0
    • Zuckerberg Backs Trump Against Twitter

      May 28, 2020
      0
    • NAFDAC DG Sheds Light On Chloroquine, Herbals, Masks and Covid19

      May 12, 2020
      0
    • Reps Threaten MDAs

      Feb 24, 2020
      0
  • Maritime Info
    • 2023 POP: Minister Task Cadets On Blue Economy

      Dec 15, 2023
      0
    • Rector, Trainees Excited, Laud FG On Modern Academy

      Jan 26, 2023
      0
    • Buhari Redeploys Minister As NPA, NIMASA, MAN, Others Get New Boards

      Apr 7, 2022
      0
    • World Bank Endorse Nigerian Ports, Partners Navy On Capacity Building

      Mar 19, 2022
      0
    • NIMASA Commend Nigerian Navy, Reassures On Floating Dock

      Feb 9, 2022
      0
    • MAN Unveils Lighthouse For Training of Cadets

      Jan 27, 2022
      0
    • shipping

      Singapore Strait Dangerous To Shipping-ReCAAP

      Jan 24, 2022
      0
    • Lekki Deep Sea Port Will Increase Port Efficiency-Amaechi

      Jan 24, 2022
      0
    • Fair Competition: NSC Partners FCCPC For Effectiveness

      Jan 21, 2022
      0
  • Photo Gallery
    • SERAP Calls for Probe of Entire Privatization Processes 1999-2011

      Dec 4, 2017
      0
    • IMO Election: South Africa, Kenya, Liberia, Morroco and Egypt Make Category C

      Dec 2, 2017
      0
    • Maersk Ship on Fire as Coy Launches Six Container Lifting Tech

      Nov 2, 2016
      0
    • Captured Seafarers Languish In Captivity without Ransom

      Nov 1, 2016
      0
    • Niger Delta: Militants Ask FG to Include Former Agitators in Negotiations

      Nov 1, 2016
      0
    • Self-Audit: NIMASA Set to Review 3% Freight Charge

      Nov 1, 2016
      0
    • Recession: Japanese Shipping Companies to Merge

      Oct 31, 2016
      0
    • NSC Partners ICS on Capacity Building

      Oct 31, 2016
      0
    • AGAIN, APAPA CUSTOMS SURPASS MONTHLY TARGET WITH N33B COLLECTION

      Oct 5, 2016
      0
  • Fact
    • Maritime Police Boss Celebrate Workers

      May 1, 2025
      0
    • “VIN Is A Trade Tool, Not Punitive”-Customs

      Mar 2, 2022
      0
    • Blackmailers, False Publishers and Their Agents: Court Clears Rector

      Feb 18, 2022
      0
    • MAN Unveils Lighthouse For Training of Cadets

      Jan 27, 2022
      0
    • "APM Terminals Is Beyond Moving Boxes Around"-Laursen

      Jan 24, 2022
      0
    • MWUN: Welfare, Safety Our Priority-Adeyanju

      Dec 27, 2021
      0
    • Reversing the Trend: Koko Breaks Record at NPA

      Dec 24, 2021
      0
    • Minister Demands More From MAN At Passing Out Parade

      Dec 20, 2021
      0
    • MARITIME NIGERIA TASK NIMASA ON MARITIME DEVELOPMENT

      Dec 15, 2021
      0
  • Profiles
    • CMA CGM Brings AI Onboard

      Jun 5, 2018
      0
    • Customs Notify 577 Officers of Retirement by Eguono Odjegba

      Jan 12, 2018
      0
    • Over 100 Persons Feared Dead in Mediterranean Ship Wreck

      Nov 3, 2016
      0
    • Ballast Water: Panama Signs Up

      Oct 24, 2016
      0
    • Ist Half Report: Customs generate N385.7bn revenue

      Aug 15, 2016
      0
    • Minister/MD Speeches at the Launch of NPA's CCCIS

      Jul 23, 2016
      0
    • Face off Imminent as Dakuku Warn IOCs to Sit Up or Stay ...

      Jul 22, 2016
      0
    • Hadiza, Welcome to NPA

      Jul 16, 2016
      0
    • Habib Abdullahi Sacked Again from NPA

      Jul 12, 2016
      0
  • CRFFN: “We Stand With The Council” NAGAFF Leadership

  • Maritime Academy: A Very Critical National Asset-Dr. Okonna

  • “Efficient Sea Ports Crucial To Africa’s Economic Growth”-Dr. Dantsoho

  • Nigeria’s IMO Council Bid Gains Traction With MOWCA Executives

  • Customs Urge Nigerians To Comply With Visa Regulations

FactMaritime InfoNewsPhoto GalleryProfiles
Home›Fact›Customs Impound N1.3b Goods by ONUIGBO IFEOMA.

Customs Impound N1.3b Goods by ONUIGBO IFEOMA.

By Editor
Jul 11, 2016
1854
0
Share:

fou i aa

 

The Nigeria Customs Service (NCS), Federal Operations Unit (FOU) Zone ‘C’, Owerri has continued to beam its torch on smugglers of contraband goods in the country resulting in the seizure of a total of one hundred and sixty-nine (169) items with a Duty Paid Value (DPV) of one billion, three hundred and seventy-nine million, seven hundred and seventy-two thousand, five hundred and seventeen naira (#1,379,772,517.00) and a total of three hundred and ninety-four million, eight hundred and fifteen thousand, and thirty eight naira (#394,815,038.00) as an underpayment recovered within the period in question; forty-two (42) suspects were arrested in connection with the seizures made, while twenty-five (25) cases are now pending in court for possible prosecution of the culprits between January and June this year.
 
This is in contrast with a total of #39,644,813.00 underpayment recovered and a DPV of #1,013,833,362.00 which the unit recorded in the year 2015.
 
The Customs Area Controller in charge of the Unit, Comptroller Haruna Mammudu who disclosed this, in a Press Release signed by the Public Relations Officer in Owerri, Assistant Superintendent of Customs  II Onuigbo, Ifeoma; said that the banned items were confiscated by the vigilant Officers and Men of the Unit on the Benin, Calabar, Owerri, Enugu and Aba/Eleme axis within the zone.
 
According to the Comptroller, the items which were packaged and concealed in such a manner as to deceive security agents on duty include 90 vehicles; 2,758 bags of 50kg rice; 4,160 pieces of used tyres; 1,337 cartons/set of furniture and 625 cartons of fake drugs (medicaments).
 
Others were 61 containers of log of wood; 2,600 pieces of imported school bags; 97 pieces of 14 stroke engine generator and used fridges; 3,550 cartons of foreign frozen poultry products; 992 bales of second hand clothings; 897 cartons of foreign detergents and creams as well as 167 pairs of foot wear.
 
Comptroller Haruna while professing the preparedness of the NCS to tackle the scourge of smuggling of unauthorized goods into the country expressed delight at the seizures profile recorded during the first six (6) months of the year 2016 as against that made last year.
 
He however re-emphasized the dangers and implications inherent in the smuggling of illegal and unauthorized goods into the country, noting that while the ugly practice had continued to deal a devastating blow on the nation’s economy, many families had been ruined as a result of the dastardly unpatriotic practice.
 
The CAC therefore appealed to Nigerians who are still trapped in the illicit cancer of smuggling to retract their ugly steps in their own interest, warning that the Nigeria Customs Service is now better equipped, trained, motivated and reinvigorated to neutralize the antics of smugglers and to dislodge them wherever they hibernate to perpetrate their evil acts.
 
He also appealed to member of the public with useful information about smugglers, their agents and collaborators to always make them available to security agencies for necessary actions, pledging that such classified information would not be divulged to any individual, group or association.
 
Haruna also advised the officers to always discharge their duty without fear or favour and abide strictly to the ethics of their profession; adding that efficiency, productivity, and dedication to duty should be their watch words in spite of any challenge facing them. He assured them that government will always continue to reward hard work to deserving officers who distinguish themselves in the discharge of their official duties.

Share this:

  • Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)
  • Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)
  • Click to share on LinkedIn (Opens in new window)
  • More
  • Click to share on WhatsApp (Opens in new window)
  • Click to share on Telegram (Opens in new window)

Related

Previous Article

Member States Audit: Corrective Action Plans in ...

Next Article

Sea Time: A Thing of the Past?

0
Shares
  • 0
  • +
  • 0
  • 0
  • 0
  • 0

Related articles More from author

  • News

    Global Safety Concerns As Houthis Target Israelis Cargoes

    May 18, 2024
    By Editor
  • News

    Explosion Rocks Ekiti

    Feb 8, 2020
    By Editor
  • News

    NERC Orders Roll Out of PrePaid Meters

    Apr 7, 2019
    By Editor
  • News

    AIG MUSA YUSUF GARBA PLAY HOST TO APFFLON, Celebrates Easter, Calls For Vigilance

    Apr 18, 2025
    By Editor
  • News

    2019: Our Eyes and Ears on Nigeria-US

    Mar 5, 2018
    By Editor
  • FeaturedMaritime InfoNews

    BLUE ECONOMY: FG EXPANDS SCOPE, WIDENS PARTICIPATION

    Jan 17, 2022
    By Editor

Leave a Reply Cancel reply

  • FeaturedNews

    86 Of 124 Crew Test Positive to Covid19

  • News

    NLNG Commissions Twin Theatre Suite at JUTH

  • Maritime InfoNews

    NOT ENOUGH PROTECTION FOR SEAFARERS BY STATES-WMU

Looking For Something?

Read From

  • Agriculture
  • Customs Operations
  • Fact
  • Featured
  • Interviews
  • Maritime Info
  • News
  • One Question
  • Photo Gallery
  • Profiles
  • sports

Just In

News

CRFFN: “We Stand With The Council” NAGAFF Leadership

The National Association of Government Approved Freight Forwarders (NAGAFF), has unequivocally, passed a vote of confidence on the Council for the Regulation of Freight Forwarding in Nigeria (CRFFN) and its ...
  • Maritime Academy: A Very Critical National Asset-Dr. Okonna

    By Editor
    Jul 31, 2025
  • “Efficient Sea Ports Crucial To Africa’s Economic Growth”-Dr. Dantsoho

    By Editor
    Jul 30, 2025
  • Nigeria’s IMO Council Bid Gains Traction With MOWCA Executives

    By Editor
    Jul 30, 2025
  • Customs Urge Nigerians To Comply With Visa Regulations

    By Editor
    Jul 30, 2025
  • Home
  • About Us
  • Contact Us
© 2013 Maritime Nigeria | All Rights Reserved