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  PTML delivers modern digital office to Customs command in Lagos Towards strengthening operational efficiency and enhancing trade facilitation, the Managing Director of Port and Terminal Multi-Services Limited (PTML), Mr Ascanio Russo, has handed over a new furnished office complex to the Nigeria Customs Service PTML command. The newly  furnishedContinue Reading

‎Anti-Smuggling Breakthrough‎: Customs recovers stolen cars, hands-over to Canada ‎Lagos, May 10, 2026 ,The Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) has reinforced international confidence in Nigeria’s anti-smuggling and cargo intelligence framework with the formal handover of intercepted stolen luxury vehicles traced to Canada. The National Public Relations Officer of customs, Deputy ComptrollerContinue Reading

  NPA records increased cargo, vessel traffic in Q1 Lagos, May 10, 2026, The Managing Director of the Nigerian Ports Authority, Abubakar Dantsoho, says the maritime sector recorded strong growth in the first quarter of 2026, driven by increased cargo throughput, larger vessel traffic and ongoing port reforms. Dantsoho disclosedContinue Reading

Nigeria-UK port upgrade to boost trade, efficiency, says Master Mariners     Lagos, May 5, 2026, The President of the Nigeria Association of Master Mariners, Captain Tajudeen Alao, has commended the Federal Government’s partnership with the United Kingdom to rehabilitate the Apapa and Tin-Can Island ports.   Alao, spoke inContinue Reading

  Customs FOU ‘A’ intercepts 473 smuggling attempts, recovers N5.5bn Lagos, May 5, 2026 (NAN) The Nigeria Customs Service (NCS), Federal Operations Unit (FOU) Zone ‘A’, says it intercepted 473 smuggling attempts and recovered Not 5.5 billion in Duty Paid Value (DPV) within eight weeks of intensified operations across theContinue Reading

    NIWA priorities safety, plans transition to modern boats       The National Inland Waterways Authority (NIWA) has intensified efforts to promote safer water transportation and reduce boat mishaps across the country’s inland waterways as part of renewed safety campaign by the agency.     The Lagos AreaContinue Reading

Customs begins probe over viral extortion video Lagos, May 9, 2026, The Nigeria Customs Service has begun disciplinary proceedings after a viral video allegedly showed an officer extorting a motorist on Lagos-Benin Expressway. Federal Operations Unit spokesman, Chief Superintendent Hussaini Abdullahi, disclosed this in a statement issued on Saturday inContinue Reading

SCAN sympathises with NPA over death of photographer       The Shipping Correspondents Association of Nigeria (SCAN) has expressed deep sadness over the death Mr Paul Erakhifu, a staff of the Nigeria Ports Authority (NPA).     The SCAN President, Mr Moses Ebosele, said this in a statement jointlyContinue Reading

  NCS, NDLEA seize N18.9bn Cannabis at Tin-Can Port  By reporters Lagos, April 30, 2026  Nigeria Customs Service (NCS), Tin Can Island Port Command, has intercepted illicit drugs valued at N18.9 billion in a joint operation with the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA). The seizure was announced on ThursdayContinue Reading