The Nigeria Customs Service, Ports Terminal Multiservices Restricted Command, stated it collected N189.5bn as income from November 2024 to mid-April 2025 utilizing the Unified Customs Administration System, also referred to as B’Odogwu.
The command introduced this in an announcement on Wednesday signed by its Public Relations Officer, Abdullahi Abubakar.
In accordance with him, the Customs Space Controller accountable for the command, Tenny Daniyan, disclosed this through the first quarter briefing with senior officers and sectional heads.
He described the platform as a top-notch expertise, defying its preliminary teething challenges, “to grow to be part of the service success in income assortment and commerce facilitation”.
He added that the command made historical past on April 14, 2025, when it collected “N5.6bn as income, which stands out as the best every day assortment ever made in its over twenty years of historical past.”
Daniyan attributed the successes of the command to the visionary and targeted management of Comptroller Basic of Customs, Adewale Adeniyi.
He stated that the primary quarter assortment signifies the sustained constructive trajectory championed by the administration of the service.
“From January to March 2025, the Command collected ₦90bn, which is 38.8 per cent larger than the ₦66bn collected in the identical interval of 2024,” he stated.
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In accordance with him, the success of the B’Odogwu utility within the command being the pilot part space is chargeable for the CGC’s approval of its simultaneous unfold and full deployment throughout varied instructions.
“The Command holds the primary document for the quickest cargo clearance time of two hours for compliant RoRo consignments, and we’re dedicated to enhancing on this by making the time shorter,” Daniyan stated.
The PTML Customs boss talked about that along with European vessels coming to PTML, the port is now receiving ships from China to increase the frontiers of commerce and the prospect of upper income from elevated financial actions.
“Working according to the Time Launch Examine for sooner cargo clearance, we’re urging all our port customers to make honest declarations and keep compliant, as these are the bedrock to having fun with extra advantages in commerce. Anybody who fails to make a honest declaration forfeits the advantages of sooner clearance,” he stated.
He reiterated the command’s uncompromising disposition in direction of smuggling, both as concealment, under-declaration, under-valuation or outright false declaration.
Daniyan emphasised that their officers are skilled and ready to detect such infractions for seizure and doable arrest of individuals suspected to be behind such acts.
The CAC additionally stated the command is prepared for the next quantity of commerce, together with the dealing with of imported pharmaceutical merchandise, which was just lately authorized by the administration of the service.
