Apapa Customs seizes contraband worth N292.2m

The Apapa Command of the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) has intercepted seven containers of contraband items worth N292.2 million. The seized items include cutlasses, expired drugs, frozen chicken and used clothing. The Customs Area Controller, Apapa Command, Babatunde Olomu, disclosed this while displaying the intercepted containers to newsmen on Friday in Lagos. According to him, this type of importation is against schedule 3 of the revised import prohibition list of the Common External Tariff (CET) and violates section 233 of the Nigeria Customs Service Act 2023. “On Thursday, 18 July 2024, the command seized 2x40ft containers carrying 12,000 pieces of

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