Apapa Customs Command Tops With #304 Billion Revenue Collection in October 2025.

…it is the beginning of greater exploits, Says Comptroller Oshoba.

By Joe Njoku,
Global Freight News.

When Comptroller EO Oshoba resumed duty at the Apapa Premier Port Command as the Customs Area Controller, he hits the ground running with a whooping revenue collection of over #200 billion in one day.

He has replicated the same feat by collecting a record breaking revenue collection of #304 billion for the month of October 2025, being the highest monthly revenue ever generated by any customs command in the history of the Nigeria Customs Service.

According to the press release, the high revenue collected beats the #264 billion collected in the 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.

The command has surpassed the total collection it achieved in 2024, two months before the end of 2025.

Comptroller Oshoba commended the officers and stakeholders for their unwavering support and contributions to the success, describing it as the beginning of more revenue generation exploits under his watch.

According to him, 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.

He said that the officers and men 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 EO Oshoba said that the command after an in house training for newly promoted Deputy Comptrollers and Assistant Comptrollers, have geared up to deliver optimally in line with the directives of the CGC, Bashir Adewale Adeniyi MFR.

“I commend my officers and our complaint stakeholders for this revenue collection milestone, but it’s not our final destination point. 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 tolerance stance in the application of demand notices (DN) for the recovery of uncovered shortfalls in revenue and my officers are very vigilant checking out attempt to misapply Harmonised System (HS) code for duty evasion.

“To accentuate the importance we attached to trade facilitation, I have personally paid unannounced visits to some of the ports access roads where I urged truckers, freight forwarders and licensed customs agents to cooperate with the Nigeria Ports Authority (NPA) by prioritizing 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 of revenue collection and trade facilitation. We are ready to do more better,” Oshoba concluded.