By Abdulwaheed Usamah

As part of intensified effort stem rate of smuggling into Nigeria contraband goods, the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) has intercepted two trucks, identified as Dangote Group’s vehicles, while conveying 360 smuggled foreign rice into the country.

The service, through its Sokoto, Kebbi and Zamfara States’ Area Command, apprehended two trailer trucks belonging to Dangote Group after they were discovered to be loaded with 365 bags of 50kg size foreign parboiled rice.

The Customs Area Controller, NCS, Compt. Nasir Ahmed, disclosed that the impounded vehicles of the Dangote were loaded with foreign rice which was prohibited from entry through land boarders and that the action contravened Federal Government’s fiscal policy on rice.


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