Tag: smugglers
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Four killed in bloody clash between Customs officers, smugglers in Iseyin, Oyo State
It was a bloody Eid el-Fitr celebration on Thursday after operatives of the Nigerian Customs Service (NCS) in Iseyin, Oyo state, engaged suspected smugglers in a shootout during which four persons were reportedly killed and property destroyed. According to reports, the exchange of gun shots by the customs officials and suspected smugglers threw the rustic…
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Smugglers make corruption fester in Customs service – Attah
By Doris Igwe Corruption festers in Nigeria Customs service due to activities of smugglers in cahoot with local people in the border communities, Public Relations officer of the Service, Deputy Comptroller of Customs, Joseph Attah has said. Speaking in a chat with TheNewsGuru.com, (TNG) he expressed strong disapproval of activities of few bad eggs in…
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Nigeria loses 300,000 tonnes of sugar to smugglers annually – Dangote
Nigeria is currently losing at least 300,000 tonnes of sugar to smuggling annually, the Chairman, Dangote Group, Alh. Aliko Dangote, has said. He made this known during the Dangote Sugar Annual General Meeting (AGM) in Lagos on Tuesday. He said that the smuggling activities in the sugar industry had hindered the employment of at least…
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Four killed as Customs, smugglers clash in Ogun
No fewer than four persons were feared killed in Ilara, Imeko-Afon Local Government Area of Ogun State yesterday following a bloody clash between operatives of the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) and suspected smugglers. Six others also sustained gunshot injuries during the incident that occurred about 8:30am. Sunday Telegraph learnt that trouble started when suspected smugglers…
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Smugglers of imported snakes disappear from custody
The two suspects that were arrested in connection with the smuggling of consignments containing 140 different species of snakes and 660 other animals imported into Nigeria from Cameroon have disappeared from the custody of the Nigerian Agricultural Quarantine Services in Cross River State. The suspects, identified as Julius Novigana and Victor Agbor, were handed over…
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PHOTOS: Customs officers in ghastly motor accident while chasing smugglers
Some Customs officers were involved in an accident that left them severely injured. It was gathered that the accident occured while the officers were chasing some suspected smugglers in the Northern part of Nigeria.. Here are photos from the scene;