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Apapa Customs Breaks Existing Revenue Record With N304b In October 2025

By Anne Ejuka


The Apapa Command of Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) in the month of October 2025, achieved a record-breaking revenue collection of N304 billion collection, being the highest monthly revenue generation by any customs command in the history of the Nigeria Customs Service.


This record is against the revenue sum of N264b generated in the month of October 2024 bringing the command's revenue generation for the first 10 months of the year 2025 to ₦2,402,141,493,747.06 surpassing the 2024 total revenue of the command.


The Customs Area controller of the command,  Comptroller Emmanuel Oshoba according to a statement from the command's Public Relations Officer, SC I T Ayagbalo, commended the officers and stakeholders for their contributions to the success, describing it as the beginning of more revenue generation exploits on his watch.


According to the CAC, the latest revenue feat is an initial proof of the command’s readiness to process higher volume of trade,which will translate to greater revenue collection for government.


He said the officers and men have been sensitized 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.


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.


In his words, ”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 and this affects trade directly while impeding on the NCS revenue collection and trade facilitation mandates.


While calling for the support of all stakeholders to consolidate on the achievement, Oshoba said, “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".


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