In it's resolve to defend Nigeria's economic frontiers, the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) Federal Operations Unit Zone 'A' (FOU 'A'), Ikeja-Lagos, has intercepted 220 consignments of prohibited and smuggled goods valued at N3,237,132,640.00 in Duty Paid Value, while clawing back N728,976,725.03. The operation, according to the press release signed on behalf of the Customs Area Controller of the Zone, Comptroller Gambo Aliyu by the Public Relations Officer of the Command, Chief Superintendent of Customs CSC Hussaini Abdullahi, ANIPR was anchored on sharpened risk profiling, rigorous compliance checks, and targeted strikes against suspicious declarations, underscores the Unit's unrelenting commitment to protecting local industries, securing government revenue, and keeping Nigeria's trade corridors free of contraband. The seizures recorded during the period include 4,956 bags of foreign parboiled rice weighing 50kg each, equivalent to eight trailer loads;...
L-R: President, Alumni Association of the Maritime Academy of Nigeria AMANO, Mr. Emmanuel Maiguwa; Director General, NIMASA; Dr. Dayo Mobereola; Executive Director Maritime Labour & Cabotage Services, NIMASA, Mr Jibril Abba; and Director General of Nigerian Chamber of Shipping Mrs Vivian Chimezie Azubuike, when the association paid a courtesy visit on the DG NIMASA at the headquarters of the Agency in Lagos. The Director General of the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency, NIMASA, Dr. Dayo Mobereola has restated his management’s commitment to building a maritime administration that is efficient, transparent and globally competitive in line with the dictates of contemporary realities. Dr. Mobereola stated this while receiving the leadership of the Alumni Association of the Maritime Academy of Nigeria AMANO, led by its President, Mr. Emmanuel Maiguwa, who paid him a courtesy visit at the Corporate headquarters of NIMASA in Lagos. He assured the delegation of the ...