Story by Dili Utomi.
The Seme Command of the Nigeria Customs Service, Lagos has continued to churn out impressive performance in its core mandate. The Command has recorded an unprecedented revenue collection of Two Billion Naira (₦2,000,000,000) in the first three weeks of 2026.
The achievement is in consonance with its high momentum of revenue generation in 2025, as it recorded the sum of N15.6 billion in 2025.
During the period under review, the command recorded N3.6 billion of the total revenue collected in 2025 for December of that year.
The Controller of the border command, Comptroller Wale Adenuga reveals this piece of information in his office while hosting the Caretaker Committee members of the Maritime Reporters Association of Nigeria (MARAN) led by Mr Tunde Ayodele, who paid him a courtesy visit on January 21st, 2026.
Comptroller Adenuga, while welcoming his guests, declared that his men and officers were fired up to surpass the revenue figures recorded last year.
He credited the success of the Command mainly to the continuous support of the Comptroller – General of Customs, Dr Bashir Adewale Adeniyi, and his management team, he said that the Seme Command will continue to sustain the momentum that propelled the officers into 2026.
The Area Controller also disclosed that while the command has maintained a steady course on revenue generation, it has also paid equal attention in sustaining its anti- smuggling activities with more vigour in the new year.
His words “just like the officers of the command are taking the fight to the smugglers in their routes inside the bush, they have equally sustained surveillance on the distribution point of the smuggled goods at the market places”.
Comptroller Adenuga revealed that to this end, the anti- smuggling officers of the command raided the selling point of smuggled rice at the Badagry market on January 21st, 2026 where they impounded over 200 bags of smuggled rice.
” We have just raided the Badagry roundabout where these smuggled rice are being assembled and sold”.
” We had on several occasions warned them to desist from this act and leave the place. We have even asked the Oba of Badagry on my last visit to his palace before his death to appeal to these people to vacate the point of sale of the smuggled rice”.
The CAC added that ” They will smuggle the rice through the creeks and then will now come to that place and sell. So if you go there now, you will see that it has been cleared” .
Comptroller Adenuga vows that the raid would be a continuous exercise until the Badagry roundabout, which he said is a notorious place for selling smuggled rice, is cleared of miscreants.
He, however, pledged the support of his command to the leadership of MARAN and promised to collaborate with the association for mutually beneficial programmes.
Earlier in his address, the Chairman, Caretaker committee of MARAN, Mr Tunde Ayodele, congratulated the Controller on his assumption of duties as the head of Seme Command, a feat he said was a testament to the rising profile of the Controller as a committed customs officer and a reflection of the confidence of the management of the NCS has in the managerial acumen of Comptroller Adenuga to head one of the busiest border command of the country.
Ayodele assured Comptroller Adenuga of the support and collaboration of MARAN to ensure that he succeeded in his assignment.
The MARAN Caretaker Chairman said the association has observed with keen interest the vibrancy and transformation in the border operations at Seme, which Comptroller Adenuga has brought to the border command within the short time he assumed duties.
“We are not surprised at the level of transformation and burst of activities you brought to Seme border operations, given your performance trajectory from your previous duty posts, especially at the Apapa Command where you were the unseen hands in the unprecedented revenue generation witnessed at the Customs’ flagship command when you were DC revenue” the MARAN chief recalled.
Meanwhile, the Comptroller- General of NCS, Adewale Adeniyi, has paid a condolence visit to the palace of Oba of Badagry who recently joined his ancestors
Adeniyi paid his last respect to the departed King through Comptroller Wale Adenuga who represented the CGC.
According to Adenuga, he went to the palace of the late King on January 21st, 2026 on behalf of CGC Adeniyi to commiserate with the people and chiefs of Badagry Kingdom on the death of their first class monarch.
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