Customs generates ₦350bn in nine months at PTML command

The Nigeria Customs Service (NCS), Ports Terminal Multiservices Limited (PTML) Command, has collected ₦350.3 billion in revenue between January and September 2025.

Area Controller, Comptroller Joe Anani, disclosed this while briefing journalists in Lagos over the weekend, noting that the figure represents 96.64% of the ₦362.5 billion the command generated for the entire year of 2024.

He said the command recorded ₦116.2 billion in the third quarter of 2025 — a 34.3% increase compared to ₦86.5 billion in the same period of 2024. Despite initial challenges with the B’Odogwu platform, Anani said the command has maintained steady revenue growth.

The controller also announced several anti-smuggling operations, including the interception of a 1x20ft container (GCNU1275880) falsely declared as supermarket items but found to contain pharmaceutical drugs.

Additionally, two other containers were seized — one carrying unregistered medicines, and another (ACLU9806850) declared as magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) equipment but discovered to contain 6,262 cartons of antibiotics, as well as an airsoft pistol, two magazines, and 12 rounds of live ammunition.

In compliance with the Comptroller-General of Customs, Bashir Adewale Adeniyi’s directive on inter-agency cooperation, the seized items were handed over to the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC).

“Our anti-smuggling and enforcement drives remain uncompromised.

“We will not trade national security for trade facilitation,” Anani said, adding that the command continues to strengthen relationships with other government agencies to improve intelligence sharing and enforcement.

He urged stakeholders to maintain compliance with customs regulations, noting that “obedience to the law saves time, saves money, and builds business credibility.”

Receiving the seized items, Dr. Olakunle Olaniran, Director of NAFDAC’s Port Inspectorate Division, commended the Customs Service for its “life-saving enforcement efforts” and reaffirmed the strength of the partnership between both agencies. He also urged Nigerians to purchase only drugs approved by NAFDAC.