Customs seizes N98m worth of contraband in Adamawa, Taraba crackdown

The Adamawa-Taraba Area Command of the Nigeria Customs Service has seized contraband petroleum products, second-hand clothes, donkey tegument and donkey meat, arsenic good arsenic unregistered drugs implicit the past six weeks.

The seizures, made mostly wrong Adamawa State, person a duty-paid worth of much than N98 million.

The Customs Area Controller successful complaint of the Adamawa-Taraba Command, Comptroller Mohammed Tanko, gave details of the seized items during a property league astatine the bid office successful Yola connected Wednesday, explaining that the occurrence was the effect of the command’s anti-smuggling operations wrong the play nether review.

He disclosed that connected Tuesday, February 26, 2026, astatine 1:10 pm, officers intercepted 43 jumbo sacks of second-hand clothing, arsenic good arsenic 5 cartons and 12 packages of Viagra 200 mg tablets, on the Savannah-Numan axis successful Adamawa State.

According to him, similarly, connected Thursday, March 12, 2026, astatine 4:15 p.m. on the Mubi-Sangere axis (Adamawa), 509 pieces of earthy compl...