The Ports Terminal Multiservices Limited (PTML) Command of the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) has generated N350.3 billion in revenue between January and September 2025.
Comptroller Joe Anani, the Area Controller, announced this during a press briefing in Lagos over the weekend. He noted that the amount represents 96.64% of the N362.5 billion the command collected for the entire year of 2024.
According to him, the command raked in N116.2 billion in the third quarter of 2025 alone, a 34.3% increase from the N86.5 billion generated during the same period last year.
Despite early challenges with the B’Odogwu platform, he said, the command has continued to sustain steady growth in revenue collection.
Anani also highlighted recent anti-smuggling operations that led to the interception of a 1x20ft container (GCNU1275880) falsely declared as supermarket goods but found to contain pharmaceutical products.
Two other containers were seized, one laden with unregistered medicines, and another (ACLU9806850) declared as magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) equipment but discovered to contain 6,262 cartons of antibiotics, an airsoft pistol, two magazines, and 12 rounds of live ammunition.
In line with the Comptroller-General of Customs, Bashir Adewale Adeniyi’s directive on inter-agency cooperation, the seized consignments 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.
He added that the command continues to strengthen collaboration with sister agencies to enhance intelligence sharing and border enforcement.
He urged importers and stakeholders to comply with customs regulations, stressing 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.”
He described the partnership between both agencies as effective and urged Nigerians to patronize only NAFDAC-approved pharmaceutical products.
