The Federal Operations Unit, Zone A , Ikeja of the Nigeria Customs Service says it intercepted 30, 900 litres of Premium Motor Spirit also known as petrol and 6,861 bags of foreign parboiled rice equivalent to 12 trailer loads and others with a duty paid value of N1bn in May 2023.
The unit, in a statement on Monday, said the contrabands were intercepted at different times and locations within border corridors of the South-West Zone.
He said others were seized for contravening policy directives as in the case of foreign parboiled rice.
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