The Nigeria Customs Service, Ogun One Area Command, has recorded seizures of smuggled goods with an estimated duty paid value of over N6.7 billion following an intensified five-week crackdown along the Idiroko border axis and other parts of Ogun State.
The Acting Customs Controller of the Command, Deputy Comptroller Oladapo Afeni, disclosed that the operation recorded a 73 per cent surge in seizures within the period under review, with intercepted items spanning a wide range of prohibited and controlled goods.
Items seized by operatives of the Command include 1,759 bags of foreign rice, over 10,000 parcels of cannabis indica popularly known as Ghana Loud thousands of kegs of vegetable oil, petroleum products, expired food items, unregistered pharmaceutical products, and used clothing.
Deputy Comptroller Afeni further revealed that officers intercepted trucks conveying smuggled vegetable oil, expired Maggi cubes, and Analgin injections lacking valid NAFDAC registration numbers along the Sagamu Interchange and Ogere axis.
On revenue performance, the Command generated over N125 million between March and May 2026 through baggage assessment and the auction of seized petroleum products, while also facilitating exports valued at more than N1 billion within the same period.
The Acting Controller added that plans were underway to deploy advanced geospatial technology to strengthen border surveillance and enhance intelligence-led enforcement operations across the state
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