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For marking its 35th Anniversary, the Nigeria Deposit Insurance Corporation (NDIC), Nigeria Sovereign Investment Authority (NSIA), Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) and Lagos Business School (LBS), during the weekend joined other stakeholders to commend the Finance Correspondents Association of Nigeria (FICAN) for remaining resilience in transforming finance journalism and contributing to the Nigeria’s economy growth.

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In the complex, often combustible theatre of Nigeria’s border enforcement and customs service operations, few figures have stood out more sharply in recent times than ACG Ahmadu Bello Shuaibu. Across a career defined by discipline, intelligence‐led enforcement, and a refusal to compromise, he has repeatedly demonstrated what the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) can achieve when integrity and action walk hand in hand.

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As part of its growth plans, the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) is focusing on a revenue target of between N700 and N900 billion for the 2017 fiscal year even as it justified the recent ban on vehicle imports through land borders. The service said the ban was aimed at checkmating the smuggling of arms and ammunition which it said, were …

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Panel seeks merger of Customs, FIRS To ensure accountability and improve revenue generation, the National Tax Policy Review Committee has advised the Federal Government to merge the Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS) and Nigeria Customs Service (NCS). Presenting draft of the policy at the Committee’s second stakeholders engagement in Abuja on Tuesday, West Africa Tax Leader of PricewaterhouseCoopers, Mr Taiwo Oyedele, explained that …

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The Federal Government said, yesterday, that procurement procedure and low revenue were responsible for the delay in capital releases to service the 2016 Budget. The Minister of Budget and Planning, Senator   Udoma Udoma, disclosed this, in Abuja, while briefing the Sen. Danjuma Goje-led   Senate Committee on Appropriations, on the  2016 budget implementation. He lamented the level of performance …

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