A 41-year-old man identified as Ifeanacho Marcellinus Ugbor has been arrested by officers of the Nigeria Customs Service at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Lagos for allegedly being in possession of fake $10,000. The suspect was arrested while trying to board an Ethiopian Airline (flight ET900) to Brazil on Friday November 10, 2023. As at the time of his arrest, the suspect was with a valid Nigerian passport. While parading the suspect before newsmen, the Customs Area Controller, …
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Senator Shehu Sani has asked of the whereabouts of the trillions the immediate past administration claimed it made while in office. ”Customs made trillions, Jamb made trillions, Ports made trillions, Stamp duties made trillions, Digital economy made trillions, Inland Revenue made trillions, Foreign direct investment made trillions, Rice pyramid made trillions; Where are the trillions?”
Nigeria Customs officials intercepted kegs of rice disguised as palm oil. The Customs boss said the smugglers were arrested at Idiroko bush, on the Nigeria-Benin border along the Lagos-Badagry-Porto Novo highway, while they were trying to smuggle the kegs of rice. A video shared online shows how the smugglers disguised the rice to make it look like palm oil. In the video, the inner cover of the keg is seen with drops of palm oil in it. A nylon …
A charge of fraud brought against former Comptroller General of the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS), Abdullahi Inde Dikko and two others by the Independent Corrupt Practices and other related offences Commission (ICPC), has been dismissed by a Federal High Court in Abuja. This came after ICPC lawyer, E. A. Sogunle’s oral application for withdrawal of the charge under Section 108 of the Administration of Criminal Justice Act (ACJA) 2015. Dikko, a former Assistant Comptroller-General of Customs in charge of Finance, Administration and Technical Services Garba …
A Nigerian man claiming to be the ex-boyfriend of the new wife of the Comptroller General of Nigeria Customs, Hameed Alli, Zainab Abdullahi Yahaya, has filed a lawsuit against her in which he is demanding a refund of all the money he claims to have spent on her while they were dating. Hameed and Zainab had a low key wedding in Kano over the weekend. According to the court papers making the rounds on social media, the man identified as …
Colonel Hameed Ali (retd), the Comptroller General of the Nigeria Customs Service on Saturday May 30, married a new wife. The NCS comptroller who served as the military administrator of Kaduna State from 1996 to 1998, took a new wife nearly two years after his first wife Hajiya Hadiza Jummai Ali died in Abuja on October 29, 2018. The low-key wedding ceremony took place in Kano State and here are photos below;