Kwara Customs records 187 seizures with duty paid value of N302m in 2022

Date: 2023-01-21

The Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) Joint Border Patrol Team (JBPT) Sector 3, in Kwara State disclosed that it has recorded One hundred and eighty seven (187) seizures with a duty paid value of (N302,590 252:00) million naira between January and December last year, (2022).

Olugboyega Peters, coordinator of the Joint Border Patrol Team and Assistant Comptroller General, disclosed this while briefing newsmen on score card of the team in Ilorin, the state capital.

According to him, the team intercepted a Toyota Land Cruiser belonging to a federal House of Representatives member from Rivers State allegedly snatched at gun point by armed robbers in Abuja.

He added that the teams also intercepted and seized 2,052 bags of 50kg foreign parboiled rice, 4,598 liters of Petrol, 28 units of used vehicles,16 units of motorcycles, 402 wraps of Cannabis Sativa, and 90 pieces of used tyres, among others.

Olugboyega also disclosed that most of the inflammable products have been auctioned to the public and the amount generated remitted to government.

The Coordinator however, noted that during the period under review the team lost one of its officers, Saheed Aweda, while three others sustained life-threatening injuries during an attack by hoodlums in Oyo on their way to Kwara State.

Olugboyega urged smugglers and traffickers to change their ways and take to legitimate business, even as he vowed that the patrol team under his watch will ensure illegal businesses are not allowed to flourish.

Source

 

Cloud Tag: What's trending

Click on a word/phrase to read more about it.

Umaru Saro     ER-KANG Mining Nigeria Company Limited     Umar Danladi Shero     Garment Factory     Abdulfatai Ahmed     Musa Ayinla Yeketi     Elerin Of Adanla Irese     Olumide Daniel Ibitoye     Bola Tinubu     John Dara     Abiodun Abdulkareem     Oyedepo     M.Y. Abdulrahaman     Bamidele Adegoke Oladimeji     Ilorin Water Reticulation     Idris Amosa Oladipo Saidu     Sarah Alade     Oba Abdulraheem     Yakubu Gobir     Saka Isau     Rueben Parejo     Muhammad Yahya     Atunwa     Isiaka Danmeromu     Maigida Soludero Transit     Oba David Oyerinola Adedunmoye     Sidikat Akaje     Usman Rifun     Modibo Kawu     Atiku Abubakar     General Hospital, Offa     A.G.F Abdulrasaq     C2c@kwarastate.gov.ng     Popo-Igbonna     Elerinjare-Ibobo     Suleiman Abubakar     Sheikh Ariyibi     Bankole Omisore     Moro     Fareedah Dankaka     Christopher Odetunde     Nigeria Computer Society     Imam Gambari     Makama Of Ilorin     Ado Ibrahim     Jumoke Gafar     Garba Dogo     Ashiru     Elese Of Igbaja     Sabi     Joana Nnazua Kolo     Law School Scholarship     Tunde Yusuf     Funmilayo Isiaka Oniwa     Ekweremadu     Colleges Of Education Academic Staff Union     Matthew Babaoye     Aminu Ado Bayero     Bello Bature     Afusat Nike Ibrahim     Saliu Oluwole     CUTI     Emir Of Yashikira     Oba Sulaiman Asude     Igbomina     Ahmed Bayero     Ishaq Oloyede     Medview Airlines     Saliu Mustapha     Kwara State Internal Revenue Service     Toyin Falola     Aliyu Salihu     Abdul-Rahoof Bello     Abdulkadir Jimoh     Mashood Dauda     Shuaibu Yaman Abdullahi     Funmilayo Oniwa    

Cloud Tag: What's trending

Click on a word/phrase to read more about it.

Omoniyi     Abdullahi Imam Abdullahi     Universal Basic Education Commission     Joseph Yemi Ajayi     Ibrahim Mashood     Na\'Allah     Kolo     Baboko     National Information Technology Development Agency     March 18     Olosi Of Osi     Suleiman Alege Kuranga     Abubakar Olusola Saraki     Simeon Ajibola     Dairo Kunle Paul     George Innih     Toyin Saraki     Cassava Growers\' Association     Abdulkadir Akanbi-Oke     KWASAA     EFCC     UNILORIN Alumni     Chikanda     Zainab Abass     Pius Abioje     Bank Of Industry     Salihu Jibril Garbi     Saliu Mustapha     Seun Bolaji     Ibrahim Sulu Gambari     Kwara Restoration Project     Tunde Kazeem     Trade Lenda SME Fair     Ishak Mohammed Sabi     Adamu B. Yaqubu     General Hospital, Offa     Manzuma     Azeez Bello     Eleja Taiwo Banu     Abubakar Abdullahi Bata     Arandun     Air Peace     Musa Abdullahi     Jimba Babatunde     Kolade Solagberu     Amada Jidda     Kwara     Ella Supreme Tissue Paper     Ilorin.Info     Kayode Bankole     Aishatu Ahmed Gobir     Ilorin Metro Park     Abdulmumin Yinka Ajia     Orisun Igbomina     HICA     Law School Scholarship     Ahmed Ayinla Jimoh     QuickWin     Bayo Lawal     Aliyu Sabi     Yeketi     Gaa Olobi     Balogun Ajikobi     Yahaya Abdulkareem Babaita     Muslim Stakeholders Of Kwara State     International Aviation College     Omoniyi Ayinla     Fareedah Dankaka     Moses Rahman Popoola     Babatunde Idiagbon     Mubarak Oladosu     Sherif Sagaya     Nagode     Olatunji Bamgbola     JMK Construction Company Limited     Ike Ekweremadu     Rihanat Ajia