GOODS/ITEMS PROHIBITED BY NIGERIA CUSTOMS SERVICE

This is the list of items prohibited from importation into the country. Go through to find out what you can legally import into the country.
Live or Dead Birds including Frozen Poultry Pork, Beef Birds Eggs – excluding hatching eggs Refined Vegetable Oils and Fats –[but excluding refined Linseed, Castor and Olive oils. Crude vegetable oil are however NOT banned from importation]. Cane or beet sugar and chemically pure sucrose, in solid form containing added flavouring or colouring matter - in retail packs. Cocoa Butter, Powder and Cakes Spaghetti/Noodles Fruit Juice in Retail Packs Waters, including Mineral Waters and Aerated Waters containing added Sugar or Sweetening Matter or Flavoured, ice snow –  other non-alcoholic beverages [ but excluding energy or Health Drinks {Liquid Dietary Supplements} e.g. Power Horse, Red Ginseng etc] and Beer and Stout (Bottled, Canned or Otherwise packed) Bagged Cement  Medicaments indicated below: Paracetamol Tablets and Syrups Cotrimoxazole Tablets Syrups Metronidazole Tablets and Syrups Chloroquine Tablets and Syrups Haematinic Formulations; Ferrous Sulphate and Ferrous Gluconate Tablets, Folic Acid Tablets, Vitamine B Complex Tablet [except modified released formulations]. Multivitamin Tablets, capsules and Syrups [except special formulations]. Aspirin Tablets [except modified released formulation and soluble aspirin]. Magnesium trisilicate tablets and suspensions. Piperazine tablets and Syrups Levamisole Tablets and Syrups Clotrimazole Cream Ointments – Penecilin/Gentamycin Pyrantel Pamoate tablets and Syrups Intravenous Fluids [Dextrose, Normal Saline, etc.] Waste Pharmaceuticals - Soaps and Detergents –  (in retail packs only) Mosquito Repellant Coils – (Mosquito Coils). Sanitary Wares of Plastics – and Domestic Articles and Wares of Plastics  [but excluding Baby Feeding bottles ] and flushing ceinstern and waterless toos toilets. Rethreaded and used Pneumatic tyres but excluding used trucks tyres for rethreading of sized 11.00 x 20 and above . Corrugated Paper and Paper Boards, and cartons, boxes and cases made from corrugated paper and paper boards, Toilet paper, Cleaning or facial tissue -excluding baby diapers and incotinent pads for adult use and Exercise Books Telephone Re-charge Cards and Vouchers – Carpets and other Textile floor coverings All types of Foot Wears, Bags and Suitcases  [but excluding Safety Shoes used in oil industries, Sports Shoes, canvass shoes all Completely Knocked Down (CKD) blanks and parts] Hollow Glass Bottles of a capacity exceeding 150mls (0.15 litres) of all kinds used for packaging of beverages by breweries and other beverage and drink companies – Used Compressors – , Used Air Conditioners – and Used Fridges/Freezers – Used Motor Vehicles above fifteen (15) years from the year of manufacture  Furniture –  but excluding Baby walkers, laboratory cabinets such as microscope table, fume cupboards, laboratory benches, Stadium Chairs, height adjustments device, base sledge, seat frames and control mechanism, arm guide and headguides. Also excluded are; skeletal parts of furniture such as blanks, unholstered or unfinished part of metal, plastics, veneer, chair shell etc. Also excluded are Motor Vehicle seats  and Seats other than garden seats or camping equipment, convertible into beds Ball Point Pens and parts including refills (excluding tip).  SOURCE: NIGERIA CUSTOMS SERVICE