The Nigerian Navy Base (NNS) BEECROFT has intercepted a wooden fishing boat transporting 44 bags of parboiled rice within the Agbara creeks of Lagos State. Commodore Kolawole Oguntuga, the Commander of NNS BEECROFT, announced this development in a statement released on Thursday in Lagos, as conveyed by Sub-Lt. Happiness Collins, the Base Information Officer. Commodore Read More…
Smuggling
Navy hands over 627 bags of smuggled rice, Indian hemp to Customs, NDLEA
The Nigerian Navy on Friday transferred 627 bags of smuggled parboiled rice, 57 parcels of Indian hemp and one suspect to the Nigerian Customs Service and the NDLEA. Capt. James Otache, Commanding Officer, Forward Operating Base (FOB) Badagry of the navy, said the handover was the result of consistent patrols by the Navy to defeat Read More…
Three Vietnamese, Nigerians, Cameroonian, Guinean charged with Pangolin, ivory smuggling
The Nigeria Customs Services (NCS) Wednesday brought seven men before the Federal High Court in Lagos for alleged illegal possession dealing, assembling, storing, smuggling and trading in pangolin skin and elephant’s ivory. The defendants, comprising three Vietnamese citizens, two Nigerians and a citizen of Cameroon and Guinea, were arraigned before Justice Yellim Bogoro. The Vietnamese Read More…