by Adam Cruise | Aug 5, 2021 | News
By Tola Adenubi, Nigerian Tribune The Nigeria Customs Service (NCS), on Wednesday, said it arrested three suspected smugglers in connection with different kilograms of Pangolin scales and Elephant tusks worth N22.3 billion in Lagos. While displaying the seizures to...
by Adam Cruise | Apr 1, 2021 | News
By Naija 247 News Dr Mukhtar Aminu-Kano, the Director-General,cccc (NCF), has raised alarm that Nigeria has lost about 97 per cent of wildlife and forest resources to poaching. Aminu-Kano raised the alarm in an interview on the sideline of a workshop on combating...
by Adam Cruise | Mar 8, 2021 | News
By Chika Okeke, Leadership via AllAfrica The United Nations has unveiled plans that would culminate into strategic partnership with the federal government, Germany and the European Union (EU) to end Nigeria’s wildlife trafficking and forest crimes through the...
by Adam Cruise | Jan 28, 2021 | News
By Premium Times The Nigeria Customs Service, Apapa Area Command, says it has intercepted pangolin scales and other mixed endangered species meant for export, worth N952 million. Mohammed Abba-Kura, Customs Comptroller, said at a media briefing on Tuesday in Lagos...
by Adam Cruise | Jan 23, 2021 | News
By Ashoka Mukpo – Mongabay ncreased political buy-in for law enforcement and interdiction efforts at ports in East Africa have pushed wildlife smuggling westward to Nigeria.Between 1998 and 2014, the top two countries associated with ivory seizures were Tanzania...
