The Apapa Command of the Nigeria Customs Service has posted a historic monthly revenue performance, collecting ₦304 billion in October 2025 the highest single-month revenue ever recorded by any Customs Command in the country.
The new figure surpasses the ₦264 billion generated by the Command in October 2024, bringing Apapa’s cumulative collection for the first ten months of 2025 to ₦2.402 trillion already exceeding its entire 2024 annual revenue total, two months ahead of year end.
Customs Area Controller, Comptroller Emmanuel Oshoba, commended officers and stakeholders for the feat, describing it as the beginning of “greater revenue exploits” under his leadership. He noted that the development also signals Apapa’s readiness to handle higher trade volumes efficiently.
According to him, the Command is preparing for the imminent deployment of a drive-through scanning regime expected to process about 150 containers per hour a capacity he says would be unprecedented in West Africa’s port operations.
Oshoba added that recently concluded in-house trainings for newly promoted Deputy Comptrollers and Assistant Comptrollers have sharpened capacity for improved performance, in line with directives from Comptroller-General of Customs, Adewale Adeniyi.
He emphasised that while Apapa continues to enhance facilitation through tools such as the One-Stop-Shop (OSS) process harmonisation platform, the Command remains uncompromising on revenue integrity.
“We are vigilant against attempts to misapply HS Codes for duty evasion, and demand notices will continue to be applied where shortfalls are uncovered,” he said.
The CAC disclosed that he has also engaged truckers, freight forwarders and NPA officials to accelerate cargo evacuation from the port, stressing that timely exit of cleared consignments is crucial to sustaining trade fluidity and revenue optimisation.
Oshoba urged stakeholders to maintain support for the Command as it consolidates recent gains.
“Our target is to do better. This is not our final destination,” he stated.
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