… CAC says Command is ready for higher trade volume, pharmaceutical imports
The Ports Terminal Multiservices Limited (PTML) Command of the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) has attributed it’s boost in revenue collection to the B’Odogwu declaring that the platform is a huge success.
This is just as the Command raked in ₦189,516,818,316.92k from November 2024 to mid April 2025 using this Unified Customs Management System, B’Odogwu.
Customs Area Controller of the PTML, Comptroller Tenny Daniyan, who said this at the first quarter briefing with senior officers and sectional heads, described the platform as a top notch technology defying its initial teething challenges to become a part of the Service success in revenue collection and trade facilitation.
The Command also made history on April 14, 2025 when it collected ₦5,612,887,374.99 which stands out as the highest daily collection ever made in its over two decades history.
Daniyan who attributed the successes of the Command to the visionary and focused leadership of Comptroller General of Customs (CGC), Bashir Adeniyi, said the 2025 first quarter collection indicates the sustained positive trajectory championed by the management of the Service.
From January to March 2025,the Command collected ₦90,204,703,451.72 which is 38.8 per cent higher than the ₦66,920,181,586.30 collected same period of 2024.
According to the CAC, the success of the B’Odogwu application in PTML being the pilot phase area, is responsible for the CGC’s approval of it’s simultaneous spread and full deployment across various commands.
On trade facilitation, he said: “The Command holds the number one record of fastest cargo clearance time of two hours for compliant RoRo consignments and we are committed to improving on this by making the time shorter.
“In addition to Europe vessels coming to PTML, the port is now receiving ships from China to expand the frontiers of trade and prospect of higher revenue from increased economic activities.
“Working in line with Time Release Study (TRS) for faster cargo clearance, we are urging all our port users to make sincere declaration and stay compliant as those are the bedrock to enjoy more benefits in trade. Anyone who fails to make sincere declaration forfeits the benefits of faster clearance”, he stated.
He reiterated the Ommand’s uncompromising disposition towards smuggling either as concealment, under declaration, under valuation and outright false declaration disclosing that our officers are trained and prepared to detect such infractions for seizure and possible arrest of persons suspected to be behind such acts.
The CAC also said the command is ready for higher volume of trade including the handling of imported pharmaceutical products which was recently approved by the management of the Service.