Customs seizes 33 containers of expired rice at Tincan Port
By TVC News Nigeria
30 October 2019 |
12:04 pm
The Tincan Island Customs Command has uncovered thirty-three containers of expired smuggled foreign parboiled rice in Lagos. Another twenty-one containers were also found to contain hundreds of cartons of tramadol, performance enhancement drugs and other unwholesome products.
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