“This Marks the Dawn of Greater Revenue Achievements”, Says Comptroller Oshoba
The Apapa Area Command of the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) has achieved a historic milestone, recording a groundbreaking ₦304 billion revenue collection for the month of October 2025 — the highest monthly figure ever generated by any Customs Command in the history of the Service.
This impressive achievement surpasses the ₦264 billion recorded in October 2024, bringing the Command’s total revenue collection for the first ten months of 2025 to ₦2,402,141,493,747.06. Remarkably, this means the Command has already exceeded its entire 2024 annual collection with two months still remaining in the year.
Customs Area Controller (CAC) of the Command, Comptroller Emmanuel Oshoba, commended officers and stakeholders for their dedication and synergy, describing the feat as “the beginning of greater revenue exploits under his leadership”.
According to the CAC, the record performance reflects the Command’s readiness to handle higher trade volumes and enhance government revenue. He noted that officers have been adequately prepared for the forthcoming Drive-Through Scanning Regime, designed to process an average of 150 containers per hour directly from the quayside — a revolutionary trade facilitation measure in the West African sub-region.
Oshoba also disclosed that the Command recently conducted in-house capacity-building sessions for newly promoted Deputy and Assistant Comptrollers to ensure optimal performance in line with the directives of the Comptroller General of Customs, Bashir Adewale Adeniyi.
“I commend my officers and our compliant stakeholders for achieving this milestone, but this is not our final destination”, Oshoba said. “While deploying all trade facilitation tools — including the One-Stop-Shop (OSS) which harmonises Customs procedures to save time and enhance efficiency we remain steadfast in preventing revenue leakages”.
He emphasised the Command’s zero-tolerance policy on revenue loss, citing the strict application of Demand Notices (DN) for shortfall recoveries and vigilance against misapplication of Harmonised System (HS) Codes aimed at duty evasion.
In further pursuit of efficiency, Oshoba revealed that he has paid unscheduled visits to key areas around the port to engage truckers, freight forwarders, and licensed Customs agents, urging cooperation with the Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA) to facilitate the swift evacuation of cleared consignments.
“If cleared goods are not promptly moved out, new ones for examination or scanning are delayed — this directly impacts trade flow and our revenue targets”, he explained. “We’ve also strengthened collaboration with the Port Manager to make Apapa Port more efficient”.
The CAC reaffirmed his commitment to sustaining and surpassing the Command’s current achievements, stressing that teamwork and stakeholder cooperation remain essential to continued success in revenue generation and trade facilitation.
“We are ready to do better”, Oshoba concluded.