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Accordingly, effective from 1st December 2013, Nigeria Customs Service has taken over full processing of all import transactions to Nigeria in accordance with the amended Import Guidelines of the Destination Inspection Scheme. Pursuant to this, all Scanning Service Providers (Cotecna, SGS and Global Scan) shall cease to approve new Form M, issue Risk Assessment Report (RAR) or perform Scanning operations for goods imported into Nigeria

PRAN, represented by its leaders, Alhaji Habibu Maishinkafa and Martins Okereke, said that it is the higher tariff and consequent high market prices that have enthused smugglers to push large volumes of rice into Nigeria with zero duty, thereby unsettling the Federal Government’s efforts to make Nigeria self sufficient in rice production by 2015