The Apapa Command of the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) has announced the collection of N2.4 trillion from import duties between January and October 2025.
The Command’s public relations officer, Tunde Ayagbalo, also reported a record N304 billion collection for the month of October 2025, the highest monthly revenue generation by any customs command in the service’s history.
According to the command’s spokesman, the N304 billion generated in October 2025 beats the N264 billion collected in October 2024 by the command.
He further explained that with this, the command has surpassed the total collection it achieved in 2024, two months before the end of 2025.
“Customs Area Controller for the Command, Comptroller Emmanuel Oshoba commended the officers and stakeholders for their contributions to the success, describing it as the beginning of more revenue generation exploits on his watch,” Ayagbalo said.
The statement further stated that the command’s CAC noted that the latest revenue feat was an initial proof of the command’s readiness to process a higher volume of trade, which will translate to greater government collection.
He said the officers and men have been sensitised ahead of a drive-through Scanning regime that would process an average of 150 containers per hour from the quayside. This would be revolutionary in the annals of trade facilitation in any West African port.
“Comptroller Oshoba said the command, after an in-house training for newly promoted Deputy Comptrollers and Assistant Comptrollers of Customs, has geared up to deliver optimally in line 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 harmonizes 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, affecting trade directly while impeding the NCS revenue collection and trade facilitation mandates.
“We need everyone’s support to consolidate and build on our achievements in revenue collection and trade facilitation. We are ready to do better,” the statement said.