Apapa Customs Command Breaks New Record With ₦304b Revenue Collection In October 2025
By Asuquo Nuwak
Apapa Customs Command Breaks New Record With ₦304b Revenue Collection
In October 2025
••• It is the beginning of greater revenue exploits – says Comptroller Emmanuel Oshoba
The Apapa Command of Nigeria Customs Service, has continued to demonstrate commendable performance in revenue collection, which has resulted to the record-breaking sum of ₦304 billion collected for the month of October 2025, being the highest monthly revenue generation by any customs command in the history of the Service.
This record,which surpasses the ₦264 billion collected in the same month of October 2024 has brought the total collection by the command for the first ten months of this year to ₦2,402,141,493,747.06
Besides, the record has shown that, the command has surpassed the total collection it recorded in 2024, two months before the end of 2025.
The Customs Area Controller of the Command, Comptroller Emmanuel Oshoba, who commended the officers and stakeholders for their contributions to the success recorded in the command, also described it as the beginning of more revenue generation exploits under his watch.
Commenting on the latest revenue profile of the command, Comptroller Emmanuel Oshoba said this achievement is an initial proof of the command’s readiness to process higher volume of trade, which will translate to greater collection for government.
He pointed out that the officers and men of the command have been sensitized ahead for a regime of Drive Through Scanning that will 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.
That is not all, Comptroller Oshoba further 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.
He commended his officers and their compliant stakeholders for this revenue collection milestone, but said that it is not their final destination.
Comptroller Emmanuel Oshoba, who said the command is deploying all tools of trade facilitation as directed by the CGC, including the one-stop-shop, which harmonizes all customs procedures and processes to save time and promote efficiency, also said they are preventing revenue leakages.
He announced that the command have a zero compromise stance in the application of demand notices (DN) for the recovery of uncovered shortfalls in revenue, adding that his officers are very vigilant checking any attempt to misapply Harmonised System (HS) Code for duty evasion.
In short, he said to accentuate the importance the command attach to trade facilitation, he has personally paid unannounced visits to some parts of the port access roads where he 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.
Still, he has also visited the Port Manager to strengthen their collaboration towards making Apapa Port very efficient, stating that 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 Service revenue collection and trade facilitation mandates.
Indeed, Comptroller Emmanuel Oshoba, said the command need the support of everyone to consolidate and build on the existing achievements the command have recorded in terms of revenue collection and trade facilitation, adding that the command is ready to do better.
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