The Nigeria Customs Service (NCS), Federal Operations Unit, Zone A, Ikeja, Lagos State, has impounded 150\u00a0 cartons of bulletproof jackets, Cannabis sativa, cartons of expired\u00a0 drugs and other contrabands from smugglers.
\nNCS gave the description of the intercepted items as 150 cartons\u00a0 of bulletproof jackets worth N1.687 billion, 989kg of cannabis sativa, and 5,229 cartons of expired drugs.
\nThe NCS Federal Operations Unit, Zone A Ikeja valued the total seized contraband goods to N3.6 billion.
\nOther seized items include premium motor spirit, foreign parboiled rice, used vehicles, sugar, and poultry products.
\nAnnouncing the seizures to newsmen in Ikeja, Customs Area Controller, Kola Oladeji, noted\u00a0 that the bulletproof jackets were intercepted along the Ijebu Ode-Sagamu Expressway in Ogun State from smugglers.
\nHe emphasised that individual importation of military wares is prohibited under Schedule 4 of the Customs Common External Tariff (CET), and end-user certificates from the Office of the National Security Adviser are required for controlled items.
\nOladeji further said the accumulative duty paid value of the seized goods amounts to N3.6 billion, with interceptions taking place at various times and locations within the South-Western States.
\nNigeria customs Service did not state if any arrest were made during the operations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The Nigeria Customs Service (NCS), Federal Operations Unit, Zone A, Ikeja, Lagos State, has impounded 150\u00a0 cartons of bulletproof jackets, Cannabis sativa, cartons of expired\u00a0 drugs and other contrabands from smugglers. NCS gave the description of the intercepted items as 150 cartons\u00a0 of bulletproof jackets worth N1.687 billion, 989kg of cannabis sativa, and 5,229 cartons […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":336429,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[60],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-336413","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-maritime"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetidenewsonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336413","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetidenewsonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetidenewsonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetidenewsonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetidenewsonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=336413"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetidenewsonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336413\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":336441,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetidenewsonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336413\/revisions\/336441"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetidenewsonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/336429"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetidenewsonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=336413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetidenewsonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=336413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetidenewsonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=336413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}