Comptroller Oshoba Walks Tall with Record Breaking N304b Revenue Collection in October at Apapa Customs
… Says, it’s the Beginning of Greater Revenue Exploits
Comptroller EOA Oshoba, CAC, Apapa Premier Command, NCS
The Apapa Premier Command of the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) has continued to wax stronger in its revenue collection mandate as the new leadership is consolidating on the command’s vibrant revenue collection trajectory in recent times.
The command, under the watch of the present Customs Area Controller (CAC), Comptroller Emmanuel Oshoba, has indeed stepped up sustainable performance which have recently placed her on an upscaled revenue collection mode, especially with the recent record breaking N304b collection for the month of October 2025, being the highest monthly revenue generation by any customs command in the history of the Service, as revealed by the CAC.
The performance chart press statement of the command signed by the Public Relations Officer SC Tunde Agbayelo, disclosed that the above stated record beats the sum N264b collected in the month of October 2024, and by this has brought the total collection by the command for the first ten months of this year to over N2.4Trillion (N2,402,141,493,747.06).
Furthermore, this collection has as well seen the command already surpassed the total collection it achieved in the entire 2024, even while still having two months left before the end of 2025.
Meanwhile, the command’s Area Controller, Comptroller Emmanuel Oshoba has by this commended the officers and stakeholders for their contributions to the revenue success story, describing it as the beginning of more revenue generation exploits on his watch.
“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”, the CAC said.
The CAC also said that, officers and men of the command have been sensitized 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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