- Compt. Oshoba
By Anthony Nwachukwu
The Apapa Command of Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) has announced a revenue collection of ₦304 billion collection for October 2025, setting the record as the highest monthly revenue generation by any customs command in the agency’s history.
The figure, which beat the ₦264b collected in October 2024, brings the total collected by the command for the first 10 months of 2025 to over ₦2.402 trillion, surpassing the command’s total collection for 2024 with two months still to go.
Commending the officers and stakeholders for their contributions to the success, the Customs Area Controller, Compt. Emmanuel Oshoba, said the achievement was the beginning of more revenue generation exploits on his watch.
Oshoba said the latest revenue feat is an initial proof of the command’s readiness to process higher volume of trade, which will translate to greater collection for government, according to a statement by the Command Public Relations Officer, Tunde Ayagbalo.
Towards achieving the new dawn of exceptional revenue collection, he said the officers and men have been sensitised ahead for a regime of Drive Through Scanning that would process an average of 150 containers per hour from the quayside, which will be revolutionary in the annals of trade facilitation in any West African port.
According to Compt. Oshoba, the command, after an in-house training for newly promoted deputy comptrollers and assistant comptrollers, have geared up to deliver optimally in line with the directives of the Comptroller-General of Customs, Bashir Adeniyi.
“I commend my officers and our compliant stakeholders for this revenue collection milestone, but it is not our final destination,” he stated.
“While we are deploying all tools of trade facilitation as directed by the CGC, including the One-Stop-Shop, 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 for the recovery of uncovered shortfalls in revenue and my officers are very vigilant checking any attempt to misapply Harmonised System Code for duty evasion.”
Oshoba added: “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 by prioritising the movement of their cleared consignments out of the ports.
“I have also visited the port manager to strengthen collaboration in making the 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 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 revenue collection and trade facilitation. We are ready to do better.”
