Seme Customs intercepts 10,000 bags of expired flour

…Seizes Contraband Worth N2bn successful September

By Providence Ayanfeoluwa

The Seme Area Command of the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) has intercepted 10,000 bags of expired flour, equivalent to 5 truckloads, valued astatine ₦1.2 billion.

The bid besides recorded a important boost successful gross generation, raking successful ₦1.5 cardinal successful September 2025, up from ₦531 cardinal successful August—a 182 percent summation wrong 1 month.

Speaking during a media briefing astatine the COWA Complex, Seme Border, the Area Controller, Comptroller Wale Adenuga, said the consignment originated from Egypt and was smuggled done the Benin Republic earlier it was intercepted successful a associated cognition with the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC).

According to him, the expired flour was produced successful March 2024 and expired successful November 2024.

“If these things find their mode into the country, the bags are usually changed, and the products extremity up successful our markets,” Adenuga said.

“The wellness risks associated with consuming specified expired products could pb to terrible infections, nutrient poisoning, and semipermanent wellness complications. Beyond the wellness dangers, unwholesome goods besides undermine section industries and erode user trust.”

On gross performance, Adenuga attributed the command’s occurrence to the effectiveness of the Comptroller-General of Customs’ (CGC) betterment agenda, emphasizing compliance, transparency, and data-driven monitoring.

“This outstanding show reflects the dedication of officers and men who proceed to embody the CGC’s imaginativeness of a modern, efficient, and accountable Customs Service,” helium said.

He reaffirmed the command’s zero-tolerance stance connected smuggling, pledging continued efforts to support nationalist security, nationalist health, and economical stability.

Adenuga noted that the bid has intensified efforts to simplify borderline procedures, ensuring morganatic traders payment afloat from Customs modernization and determination commercialized integration on the Lagos–Abidjan corridor.

“We judge that erstwhile commercialized is facilitated, processes are streamlined, costs are reduced, and much gross is generated,” helium added.

Beyond the expired flour, the bid besides showcased different contraband seized successful September. It facilitated the export of 53,989.46 metric tons of non-oil goods, including cultivation nutrient and manufactured items, with a Free On Board (FOB) worth of ₦7.97 billion. The full Nigeria Export Supervision Scheme (NESS) interest collected stood astatine ₦38.9 million.

Adenuga commended the Nigerian Navy’s Forward Operating Base (FOB) successful Badagry for its collaboration successful intercepting smuggled overseas parboiled atom on the waterways.

“The Seme Area Command remains resolute successful balancing gross generation, commercialized facilitation, and nationalist security. Together with our partners and stakeholders, we are gathering a smarter, safer, and much prosperous borderline corridor successful enactment with the CGC’s modernization blueprint,” helium said.

The intercepted expired flour and cannabis sativa were subsequently handed implicit to representatives of NAFDAC and the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) respectively.

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