Post by Ismail AbdulAzeez on Feb 26, 2019 17:56:45 GMT 1
Public Relations Officer of the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS), Joseph Attah, has confirmed that from January to November, a total of 238,094(50kg) bags of rice have been seized across the country.
Attah made the disclosure on Monday, during an end of the year breakfast meeting with newsmen in Lagos.
According to him, the bags of rice worth N4.05bn and other perishable items were distributed to Internally Displaced Persons’ (IDP) camps and orphanages across the country, following a presidential approval obtained by the Comptroller-General of the NCS; Hameed Ali.
He added that the Service generated total revenue of N1.1tn in 2018, leapfrogging the 2017 revenue figure of N63bn.
Attah made the disclosure on Monday, during an end of the year breakfast meeting with newsmen in Lagos.
According to him, the bags of rice worth N4.05bn and other perishable items were distributed to Internally Displaced Persons’ (IDP) camps and orphanages across the country, following a presidential approval obtained by the Comptroller-General of the NCS; Hameed Ali.
He added that the Service generated total revenue of N1.1tn in 2018, leapfrogging the 2017 revenue figure of N63bn.
