ZAINAB JUNAID
The Ports and Terminal Multiservices Limited, PTML, Command of Nigeria Customs Service, NCS, has generated a significant revenue figure of ₦189,516,818,316.92k from November 2024 to mid April 2025, using B’Odogwu, the Unified Customs Management System.
According to a statement issued by the Command’s Spokesman, SC Abdullahi Tsafe Abubakar, the Customs Area Controller, Comptroller Tenny Mankini Daniyan disclosed this information on Tuesday, 15 April 2025, at the Command’s first quarter briefing with the sectional heads and senior officers.
He described the B’ Odogwu platform as a top notch technology, resisting its initial teething challenges to become a part of the service success in revenue collection and trade facilitation.
Comptroller Daniyan informed that the Command also made a historic milestone on 14 April 2025, hits ₦5,612,887,374.99 daily collection, the highest in its over two decades history.
The Area Controller who attributed the successes of the command to the visionary and focused leadership of Comptroller General of Customs, Bashir Adewale Adeniyi, MFR, said the 2025 first quarter collection indicates the sustained positive trajectory championed by the management of the service.
“From January to March 2025,the command collected ₦90,204,703,451.72 which is 38.8% higher than the ₦66,920,181,586.30 collected same period of 2024.
“The success of the B’Odogwu application in PTML being the pilot phase area, is responsible for the CGC’s approval of it’s simultaneous spread and full deployment across various commands.
“On trade facilitation, the command holds the number one record of fastest cargo clearance time of two hours for compliant RoRo consignments and we are committed to improving on this by making the time shorter.
“In addition to Europe vessels coming to PTML, the port is now receiving ships from China to expand the frontiers of trade and prospect of higher revenue from increased economic activities
“Working in line with Time Release Study (TRS) for faster cargo clearance, we are urging all our port users to make sincere declaration and stay compliant as those are the bedrock to enjoy more benefits in trade. Anyone who fails to make sincere declarations forfeits the benefits of faster clearance,” he declared.
Comptroller Daniyan reiterated the command’s uncompromising disposition towards smuggling either as concealment, under declaration, under valuation and outright false declaration adding, “Our officers are trained and prepared to detect such infractions for seizure and possible arrest of persons suspected to be behind such Act”.
The Area Controller further revealed that the command is ready for higher volume of trade including handling of imported pharmaceutical products which was recently approved by the management of the service.
