Nigeria’s premier Port at Apapa houses the Apapa Area Command of the Nigeria Customs Service and over the years, the Command has been the major the Command generating the most revenue of any Command in the country. The performance of the Apapa Area Command underscores its all round importance to the Service and the nation at large. The October 2025 performance of the Command has left no doubt about the Commands strategic and economic importance.
A press statement from the office of the public relations officer of the Command, Supretendent of Customs John Tunde Ayagbalo details their most recent output thus:
The Apapa Command of Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) has achieved a record-breaking ₦304b collection for the month of October 2025, being the highest monthly revenue generation by any customs command in the history of the Service.
This record, which beats the ₦264b collected in the month of October 2024 has brought the total collection by the command for the first ten months of this year to ₦2,402,141,493,747.06
With this, the command has surpassed the total collection it achieved in 2024 two months before the end of 2025.
Customs Area Controller for the Command, Comptroller Emmanuel Oshoba, who commended the officers and stakeholders for their contributions to the success, described 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 collection for government.
He said the officers and men have been sensitised 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, have geared up to deliver optimally in line with the directives of the Comptroller General of Customs, Bashir Adewale Adeniyi, MFR.
” 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.
“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” the CAC said.
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