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Apapa Customs In Record Breaking Performance

Collects Over N201B Revenue In Single Month

... Genrates N1.2tr in 7 Months,


The Apapa Command of Nigeria Customs Service has made yet another outstanding record breaking performance in the area of revenue generation in the month of July 2024 with the generation of the sum of N201,853,406,964.61, showing the
highest monthly collection in the history of Nigeria Customs Service. 

The command also posted a total revenue of N1,227,431,323,016.24  generated between January and July 2024, which shows that the collected revenue for seven months of 2024 is higher than the total revenue collected for the twelve months of 2023.

The Customs Area Controller of the Command, Comptroller Babatunde Olomu, fsi according to a press release signed by the command's Public Relations Officer, CSC Abubakar Usman,  attributed the success to his implementation of the Comptroller General of Customs thrust of time release study to facilitate trade without delay. This move, according to him, yielded the outstanding results, which reflects in the command's revenue collection.

While expressing confidence in the command's ability to do better, Comptroller Olomu said, "I am optimistic about the possibility of beating this record as we look forward to surpassing it in months to come; "For the first seven months of 2024, that is January to July this year, the Apapa Area Command generated a total of N1,227,431,323,016.24.
What has been generated so far for seven months is above the total collected revenue by the command in 2023, which was N1,172,414,793,960.32.

"In clear terms, our 2024 seven months collection is above last year's twelve months total collection. Worthy of note is the interventions from the Tariff and Trade Department, which has contributed immensely to the successes achieved thus far.
Our compliance desk, dispute resolution team, Valuation, PCA, CIU and other units aimed at promoting seamless trade have been reinvigorated with daily, weekly and monthly evaluation by my office to oversee the progress we are making".

Restating his command's commitment in carrying out it's functions, Olomi said, "We are committed to doing more in line with the directives and motivating examples of the Comptroller General of Customs, Bashir Adewale Adeniyi, MFR dsm psc (+).  "Apapa Command handles the highest volume of trade for the NCS, collects the highest revenue, and therefore is saddled with a higher degree of expectation from the management of the service and the government".

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