The Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) Ports Terminal Multiservices Limited (PTML) Command reported that it collected N350.3 billion import revenue between January and September 2025.
Comptroller Joe Anani, the Customs Area Controller, disclosed this in his inaugural press briefing, adding that the figure is 96.64 per cent of the N362.5 billion collected for the entire year of 2024.
He reported that the Command recorded N116.2 billion in the third quarter of 2025 a 34.3 per cent increase from N86.6 billion recorded in the corresponding quarter of 2024. Anani said revenue performance has made steady growth despite the constraints encountered with the B’Odogwu platform.
On enforcement, the CAC noted that the police intercepted a 1x20ft container that had been falsely advertised to contain supermarket products but was filled with pharmaceutical medicine. Another 1x40ft container, which had been reported to carry magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) devices, contained 6,262 cartons of unregistered antibiotics.
He added that the seizures also included an unregistered WE Tactical Airsoft pistol that was made in Taiwan, two magazines, and 12 live ammunition rounds. The seized items were handed over to the Director of Port Inspection Directorate of NAFDAC, Dr. Olakunle Olaniran, under orders of interagency cooperation.
Comptroller Anani restaged the Command’s zero-tolerance for smuggling with, “We are not sacrificing national security at the altar of trade facilitation.” He also appealed to importers and stakeholders to remain in compliance with trade regulations.
Speaking in his address, Dr. Olaniran commended the Customs Service on its “life-saving enforcement efforts,” referring to the on-going Memorandum of Understanding between NAFDAC and Customs as a strong partnership to battle the importation of substandard drugs.
He warned Nigerians to only buy drugs from registered pharmaceutical traders, lest unregulated imports gravely jeopardize public health.
