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This was as the government said it is immediately implementing emergency protocols at the Onne Port for the next three months by conducting thorough examinations of all suspected containers in the premises.

This Command’s Public Relations Officer, Chief Superintendent of Customs Lomba Benjamin, said this.

The game-changing attribute of this feat is that the vessel, which sailed in from Majuro in the Marshall Islands, is discharging 840 TEUS and loading 1,060 TEUS, 50 per cent of which are agricultural commodities: cashew nuts, sesame seed and cassia tora seed among others.

This was made known Monday in a statement made available to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) by the Rivers State Command of NCS Public Relations Officer, Ifeoma  Ojekwu.

With an investment of $150 million, the company took delivery of trucks, trailers, bulk tankers, tippers, cargo trucks and bulk cement tankers. These assets would meet the expected increase in demand for transportation of cement to every part of the country and create employment of over 4,000 people in Nigeria.

Auwal Mohammed, the command’s Comptroller, disclosed this in a statement in Port Harcourt on Friday.

Ifeoma Ojukwu, the spokesperson for the Area II Command, Onne Port in Rivers, disclosed this in a statement on Wednesday in Port Harcourt.

This was contained in a statement issued in Port Harcourt by the command’s Public Relations Officer, Ifeoma Ojekwu, on Friday.

Of course, that comment generated responses, both positive and negative. But the one that caught my fancy specially was by Ayekooto, who declared: “We have got to a stage when GMB achievements can no longer be denied but hated. I hate trains. I hate bridges. I hate rice.”

Users of the Rivers and Onne Ports have raised the alarm over the loss of their investments and perishable consignments as a result of the arrest of port workers by the state COVID-19 task force on the orders of Nyesom Wike, the governor.

The Nigeria Customs Service, Area II Command Onne Port has made a total revenue collection of N22,950,780,163.43K between January and March 2020 with seizures of seven containers worth total Duty Paid Value of N215,387,201.18

The Customs Area Controller, Comptroller Galadima Saidu, said this in a statement released to newsmen by the command’s Public Relations Officer, Ifeoma Ojekwu.

Ali said this on Thursday when he addressed newsmen at Area II Command, Onne Port, where 87 containers with Duty Paid Value of over N1.1 billion had been seized.

This amount generated surpasses the N69,535,174,318.38 that was collected within the same period under review in 2018 with over N11,661,523,540.19.

The Nigeria Customs, Port Harcourt II Area Command, Onne Port, has stated that it generated ₦25,561,932,417.78 in the first quarter of 2019 which is higher than the ₦18,857,668,490.00 generated in the first quarter of 2018.

Augustine Chidi, the Deputy Comptroller General of Customs in-charge of Enforcement, Investigation and Inspection, announced the seizure in Port Harcourt.

In the same vein, the Command recorded 10 seizures of prohibited items with Duty Paid Value of N543,958,740.00 within the same period under review, which spanned August 16, 2018 to date when the Area Controller, Aliyu Galadima Saidu, took over the Command.

The billionaire, who will turn 75 in June, is not the only one being investigated by the Italian Economic and Financial Crimes Police