The Apapa Command of the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) has introduced the gathering of N2.4 trillion from import duties between January and October 2025.
The Command’s public relations officer, Tunde Ayagbalo, additionally reported a file N304 billion assortment for the month of October 2025, the very best month-to-month income technology by any customs command within the service’s historical past.
In accordance with the command’s spokesman, the N304 billion generated in October 2025 beats the N264 billion collected in October 2024 by the command.
He additional defined that with this, the command has surpassed the overall assortment it achieved in 2024, two months earlier than the top of 2025.
“Customs Space Controller for the Command, Comptroller Emmanuel Oshoba recommended the officers and stakeholders for his or her contributions to the success, describing it as the start of extra income technology exploits on his watch,” Ayagbalo mentioned.
The assertion additional said that the command’s CAC famous that the most recent income feat was an preliminary proof of the command’s readiness to course of a better quantity of commerce, which can translate to better authorities assortment.
He mentioned the officers and males have been sensitised forward of a drive-through Scanning regime that will course of a mean of 150 containers per hour from the quayside. This may be revolutionary within the annals of commerce facilitation in any West African port.
“Comptroller Oshoba mentioned the command, after an in-house coaching for newly promoted Deputy Comptrollers and Assistant Comptrollers of Customs, has geared as much as ship optimally consistent with the directives of the Comptroller Common of Customs, Bashir Adewale Adeniyi, MFR.
“I commend my officers and our compliant stakeholders for this income assortment milestone, nevertheless it’s not our ultimate vacation spot. Whereas we’re deploying all instruments of commerce facilitation as directed by the CGC, together with the One-Cease-Store (OSS) which harmonizes all customs procedures and processes to avoid wasting time and promote effectivity, we’re additionally stopping income leakages.
” We have now a zero compromise stance within the software of demand notices (DN) for the restoration of uncovered shortfalls in income and my officers are very vigilant checking any try to misapply Harmonised System (HS) Code for obligation evasion.
“To intensify the significance we connect to commerce facilitation, I’ve personally paid unannounced visits to some elements of the port entry roads the place I urged truckers, freight forwarders and licensed customs brokers to cooperate with the Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA) by prioritising the motion of their cleared consignments out of the ports.
“I’ve additionally visited the port supervisor to strengthen our collaboration in the direction of making Apapa Port very environment friendly. If cleared consignments fail to exit, new ones coming for examination or scanning could be slowed down, affecting commerce immediately whereas impeding the NCS income assortment and commerce facilitation mandates.
“We want everybody’s assist to consolidate and construct on our achievements in income assortment and commerce facilitation. We’re able to do higher,” the assertion mentioned.
