Apapa Customs Breaks Revenue Record, Collects ₦304bn in October
...It's the Beginning of Greater Revenue Exploits - Comptroller Oshoba
The Apapa Command of Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) has achieved a record-breaking ₦304 billion revenue collection for the month of October 2025, being the highest monthly generated by any Customs Command in the history of the Service.
This record, which beats the ₦264 billion collected in the month of October 2024 has brought the total collection by the Command for the first 10 months of this year to ₦2,402,141,493,747.06.
The Public Relations Officer of the Command, SC Tunde Ayagbalo who made the disclosure in a statement on Monday said with this, the Command has surpassed the total collection it achieved in 2024, two months before the end of 2025.
Speaking on the feat, the Customs Area Controller, Comptroller Emmanuel Oshoba, commended officers and stakeholders for their contributions, describing the milestone as the beginning of greater revenue generation exploits under his watch.
Comptroller Oshoba noted that the latest revenue feat is an initial proof of the Command’s readiness to process a higher volume of trade, which will translate to greater collections for government.
He disclosed that the officers and men have been sensitised ahead of a regime of “Drive Through Scanning,” which would process an average of 150 containers per hour from the quayside — describing the development as revolutionary in the annals of trade facilitation in any West African port.
The CAC affirmed that the Command, after an in house training for newly promoted Deputy Comptrollers and Assistant Comptrollers of Customs, have geared up to deliver optimally in line with the directives of the Comptroller General of Customs, CGC Bashir Adewale Adeniyi.
“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,” he stated.
He added: “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.
“We need the support of everyone to consolidate and build on the existing achievements we have recorded in terms of revenue collection and trade facilitation. We are ready to do better.”
