Customs Intercepts Petrol Tanker Loaded With Rice Along Nigeria-Cameroon Border – Channels Television

This photo combination created on November 4, 2022 shows rice loaded into a petrol tanker along Nigeria-Cameroon border.

The Nigeria Customs Service in Adamawa says it has intercepted bags of foreign rice concealed in a PMS tanker and Urea fertilser concealed in black polythene bags, among other banned items worth over N144 million.

The seizures were made along the Nigeria-Cameroon border route over a period of two months.

Other items seized include 165 kilograms of pangolin scales and 1,000 kilograms of donkey skins wrapped in 10 sacks and PMS worth over N12 million.

Briefing the media in Yola, Comptroller of Customs, Adamawa/Taraba Area Command, Olaniyi Alajogun, said the seizure was as a result of the measures put in place to nib smuggling activities along the route in the bud.