{"id":205965,"date":"2025-08-31T10:39:53","date_gmt":"2025-08-31T08:39:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-ncs-cautions-public-on-auctioning-of-seized-items\/"},"modified":"2025-08-31T10:39:53","modified_gmt":"2025-08-31T08:39:53","slug":"nigeria-ncs-cautions-public-on-auctioning-of-seized-items","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-ncs-cautions-public-on-auctioning-of-seized-items\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria: NCS Cautions Public On Auctioning of Seized Items"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"38\">Abeokuta \u2014 The Nigerian Customs Service (NCS) has warned members of the public against entering into discussion with any person on social media on issues pertaining to auctioning of items seized by the service in the course of its operations.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"17\">The NCS said there were laid down processes and procedures guiding auctioning of seized and forfeited items.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"43\">The Comptroller of Ogun Area 1 Command of the NCS, Mr Godwin Otunla, raised the alarm on the activities of some individuals, who went about posting&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202508290299.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Nigeria\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/nigeria\/\">Nigeria<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Abeokuta \u2014 The Nigerian Customs Service (NCS) has warned members of the public against entering into discussion with any person on social media on issues pertaining to auctioning of items seized by the service in the course of its operations. The NCS said there were laid down processes and procedures guiding auctioning of seized and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":205966,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[249],"tags":[258,256,51981,8316,12359,37049,257,4687,393,5751,7936,254],"class_list":["post-205965","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nigeria","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-auctioning","tag-cautions","tag-items","tag-ncs","tag-news","tag-nigeria","tag-nigeria-news","tag-public","tag-seized","tag-south-africa-today"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205965","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=205965"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205965\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/205966"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=205965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=205965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=205965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}