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Apapa Command Turnaround: How Comptroller Oshoba Is Shutting Down Drug Smuggling At Nigeria’s Busiest Port
By Roland Ekama
They call it “Canadian Loud” — a high-potency strain of cannabis that transnational smugglers try to slip through busy ports in cleverly concealed consignments. Over the past six months, Apapa Port has seen…
BOOK LAUNCH : Customs Chief Lauds Authors For Documenting Cargo-Clearance Reforms
By Roland Ekama
The Comptroller-General of the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS), Bashir Adewale Adeniyi MFR, has praised Chief Timothy Okorocha and Mr. Francis Ugwoke for documenting institutional reforms that have strengthened…
Apapa Customs Intercepts 1.8tonnes Of Cannabis Sativa , Seizes Expired Pharmaceuticals In Major Intelligence-Led Operations
The Nigeria Customs Service (NCS), Apapa Area Command, has recorded yet another significant breakthrough in its sustained fight against transnational organized crime, illicit trade, threats to national security and public health.
Acting…
Urgent Need For Ministry Of Finance To Scrap Or Merge KLT Customs Area Command With Other Ports
By John Kennedy Ikemefuna
In my 20 years of studying the KLT Customs Area Command, I have observed that the Command has been nothing but a waste of Federal Government resources instead of serving as a facilitator of the port…
CHANGE OF BATON: Comptroller Anani Hands Over To DC Miko As Acting PTML Customs Area Controller
By Roland Ekama
Immediate past Customs Area Controller at PTML Command, Nigeria Customs Service (NCS), Comptroller Joe Anani has officially handed over to Deputy Controller of Customs (DC) Nura Miko in an acting capacity.…
Comptroller Joe Anani’s Posting To Tin Can Island Command Draws Mixed Reactions From Stakeholders
By Roland Ekama
Freight forwarders and licensed customs agents have set agenda for the newly deployed Customs Area Controller (CAC) of Tin Can Island Port Command, Nigeria Customs Service (NCS), Comptroller Joe Anani, with a view to…
Tin Can Island Port Command Gets New Area Controller
Tin Can Island Port Command of the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) on Friday, 22 May 2026, held a change-of-command ceremony following the elevation of its former Customs Area Controller.
Assistant Comptroller‑General (ACG) Frank Okechukwu…
Yajifarz Group Chairman, Solademi Lauds Nigeria Customs Over Launch Of SCADS
The Chairman, Yajifarz Group, High Chief Abdulamjid Solademi has lauded the Nigeria Customs Service, NCS over the recent launch of the Simplified Customs Advanced Declaration System, SCADS in to improve passenger clearance, compliance and…
Bandits Kill Two Customs Officers, Torch Vehicles In Kebbi Checkpoint Raid
Two officers from the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS), Northern Western Marine Command, were killed by bandits at a checkpoint in Kebbi State's Tugga community, under Bagudo Local Government Area, DAILY FOCUS NIGERIA has learned.
The…
Apapa Customs Boss Charges Officers On Discipline, Revenue, Trade Facilitation
The Customs Area Controller (CAC), Nigeria Customs Service, Apapa Area Command, Comptroller Emmanuel Oshoba, has charged officers and men of the Command to intensify revenue generation, strengthen anti-smuggling operations and…