PTML Customs Declares ₦189.5b Revenue, Achieves ₦5.6b Daily Collection With B'Odogwu

The Ports Terminal Multiservices Limited (PTML) Command of Nigeria Customs Service has declared a revenue collection of ₦189,516,818,316.92k from November 2024 to mid April 2025 using the Unified Customs Management System also known as B'Odogwu

The Customs Area Controller of the command, Comptroller Tenny Daniyan stated this at the first quarter briefing with senior officers and sectional heads, he described the B'Odogwu platform as a top notch technology defying it's initial teething challenges to become a part of the service success in revenue collection and trade facilitation.

According to statement issued by the Image maker of the command, SC Abdullahi Tsafe Abubakar the CAC stated that the command also made history on April 14, 2025 when it collected ₦5,612,887,374.99 which stands out as the highest daily collection ever made in the history of the command.

Comptroller Daniyan who attributed the successes of the command to the visionary and focused leadership of Comptroller General of Customs, Bashir Adewale Adeniyi, MFR, said the 2025 first quarter collection indicates the sustained positive trajectory championed by the management of the service.

The statement also stated that between January to March 2025, the command generated the the sum of ₦90,204,703,451.72 which is 38.8% higher than the ₦66,920,181,586.30 generated within the same period of 2024.

According to the CAC, the success of the B'Odogwu application in PTML being the pilot phase area, is responsible for the CGC's approval of it's simultaneous spread and full deployment across various commands.

In the area of trade facilitation, the CAC said the command holds the number one record of fastest cargo clearance time of two hours for compliant RoRo consignments and we are committed to improving on this by making the time shorter

" In addition to Europe vessels coming to PTML, the port is now receiving ships from China to expand the frontiers of trade and prospect of higher revenue from increased economic activities

"Working in line with Time Release Study (TRS) for faster cargo clearance, we are urging all our port users to make sincere declaration and stay compliant as those are the bedrock to enjoy more benefits in trade. Anyone who fails to make sincere declaration forfeits the benefits of faster clearance " he said

He reiterated the command's uncompromising disposition towards smuggling either as concealment, under declaration , under valuation and outright false declaration disclosing that his officers are trained and prepared to detect such infractions for seizure and possible arrest of persons suspected to be behind such acts

The CAC also said the command is ready for higher volume of trade including the handling of imported pharmaceutical products which was recently approved by the management of the service

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