Do you want to contact the Nigerian Customs Service (NCS) through their phone number, e-mail address or website and don’t know were to find the Nigerian Customs Service headquarters contact details, then this post will provide such information.
In our subsequent post, we shall also provide Nigerian Immigrations Headquarters and contact details.
The Nigerian Customs Service (NCS) are supervised directly by the ministry of finance and their primary function is to collect custom revenue and prevent smuggling of contraband goods into Nigeria via her borders. Every country in the world has their own customs and immigration service.
Brief History of the Nigerian Customs Service (NCS)
Established in the year 1891, it operated under the auspices of the Nigerian Police Force. Although, the first Director-General (DG) of the Customs service, T.A Wall was not indigenous, due to the fact that it operated during the time of the colonial masters. By 1981, the department name was changed to the “Department of Customs and Excise”.
Structure of the NCS
Presently, the NCS is managed by the comptroller general under the supervision of the minister of finance who heads the NCS board. It is the CG who oversees the various works of the five deputy comptroller generals in the following departments of the customs:
- Corporate Support Services
- Tariff & Trade
- Enforcement, Investigation, and Inspection
- Modernization, Research and Economic Relations
- Human Resource Development
Nigerian Customs Service Headquaters Contact Details
CONTACT NCS Head-office Address
Nigeria Customs Service Headquarters
Abidjan Street,Wuse,
P.M.B. 26,
Zone 3,
Abuja – FCT
Nigeria
Tel: 09 4621597, 4621598, 4621599
Fax: 09 5234694.
E-mail address: info@customs.gov.ng
pro@customs.gov.ng
The official website of the Nigerian Customs Service is http://customs.gov.ng