Between January and June of this year, 37 trailers carrying imported rice were stopped by the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS), Ogun Area 1 Command.
During the time under review, the command also detained seven suspected drug traffickers and seized 173,975 liters of gasoline, which is the equivalent of five tankers.
This information was provided on Tuesday during a news briefing by the area controller, Bamidele Makinde, on the operations of the command.
He asserted that the command’s agents also stopped five exotic luxury buses that were being smuggled into the nation through the Ohumbe land border.
He said that the command made N93.301 million from import duties, gasoline auction sales, and the sale of scrap cars, saying that this represented a 310 percent increase over the N29,940 million made during the same period last year.
Makinde reported that 392 seizures totaling N1,313,628,488 in Duty Paid Value (DPV) were made.