ZAINAB JUNAID
The Apapa Port Command of Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) has generated three hundred and four billion naira only (N304bn) revenue into government coffers for the month of October 2025, reflecting a difference of forty billion naira only (N40bn) from the figure generated in the same period of 2024. This is the highest monthly revenue figure of any Customs Command in the history of the Service.
Speaking on the feat, the Customs Area Controller in charge of the Command, Comptroller Emmanuel Oshoba, noted that the figure which surpassed the ₦264 billion collected in the month of October 2024 has brought the total figure collected for the first ten months of year 2025 to two trillion, four hundred and two billion, one hundred and forty one million, four hundred and ninety-three thousand, seven hundred and forty seven naira, six kobo (₦2,402,141,493,747.06).
Comptroller Oshoba, who commended his Officers and Stakeholders for their impact in the newly generated revenue, described the feat as a new dawn for more revenue generation exploits under his watch.
According him, the record breaking figure depicted the Command’s commitment to process higher volume of trade, which will translate to greater collection for government.
He stressed that Officers and Men of the Command have gone through various Sensitisation programmes which prepared them ahead of the scanning regime, where an average of 150 containers will be processed per hour from the quayside, a revolutionary era in the annals of trade facilitation in any West African Port.
The Area Controller informed that Officers have been geared up to deliver optimally in accordance with the directives of the Comptroller General of Customs, Bashir Adewale Adeniyi, MFR.
“I commend my officers and our compliant Stakeholders for this revenue collection milestone, but it’s not our final destination. While we are deploying all tools of trade facilitation as directed by the CGC, including the One-Stop-Shop (OSS) which harmonises all customs procedures and processes to save time and promote efficiency, we are also preventing revenue leakages.
“We have a zero compromise stance in the application of demand notices (DN) for the recovery of uncovered shortfalls in revenue and my officers are very vigilant checking any attempt to misapply Harmonised System (HS) Code for duty evasion.
“To accentuate the importance we attach to trade facilitation, I have personally paid unannounced visits to some parts of the port access roads where I urged truckers, freight forwarders and licensed customs agents to cooperate with the Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA) by prioritising the movement of their cleared consignments out of the ports
“I have also visited the Port Manager to strengthen our collaboration towards making Apapa Port very efficient. If cleared consignments fail to exit, new ones coming for examination or scanning would be slowed down and this affects trade directly while impeding on the NCS revenue collection and trade facilitation mandates.
“We need the support of everyone to consolidate and build on the existing achievements we have recorded in terms of revenue collection and trade facilitation. We are ready to do better,” the CAC said.
