By Joy Enamuna
The Customs Area Controller of the Ports Terminal Multiservices Limited (PTML) Command of the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS), Comptroller Joe Anani, has disclosed that the Command generated a total revenue of N350.3 billion between January and September 2025.
Anani made this known during his maiden press briefing held in Lagos at the weekend, noting that the figure represents 96.64 percent of the N362.5 billion collected by the Command in the entire year of 2024.
He explained that the Command also intercepted a 1x20ft container with marks and number GCNU1275880, which was falsely declared as supermarket items but, upon 100 percent examination, was found to contain pharmaceutical drugs.
Anani further revealed that in the third quarter of 2025 alone, the Command recorded N116.2 billion in revenue — a 34.3 percent increase compared to the N86.5 billion generated during the corresponding period of 2024.
According to him, a comparative analysis of revenue performance in recent quarters shows a consistent upward trend in collections, despite the initial challenges experienced with the B’Odogwu platform, which the Command is gradually overcoming.
On anti-smuggling operations, the CAC said that two containers of unregistered medicines were seized. The items included a WE Tactical Airsoft pistol made in Taiwan, two magazines, 12 rounds of live ammunition, and a 1x40ft container (ACLU9806850) falsely declared as magnetic resonance imaging apparatus, which was later found to contain 6,262 cartons of antibiotics of various brands.
In line with the Comptroller-General of Customs, Dr. Bashir Adewale Adeniyi’s directive to strengthen inter-agency collaboration, Comptroller Anani handed over the seized containers to the Director of Port Inspectorate Directorate of NAFDAC.
“Our anti-smuggling and enforcement drives remain intact without compromise. As a command, we are not compromising national security on the altar of trade facilitation.
I have visited various agencies of government and received them in my office on similar visits where we renewed our resolve for regular cooperation, inter-agency collaboration, intelligence sharing and crime prevention strategies.
“I want to thank our stakeholders and urge them once again to stay on the path of obedience to the law. Compliance saves time, saves money and helps in building a reputation for business growth towards migration into the AEO status,” he said.
The Director, Port Inspectorate Division of NAFDAC, Dr. Olakunle Olaniran, who received the seized items, commended the Customs Service for its life-saving enforcement efforts.
He praised the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between Customs and NAFDAC as an effective partnership and urged Nigerians to patronise only registered pharmaceutical outlets.
Dr. Olaniran also lauded Comptroller Anani for his support in ensuring that unregistered and prohibited medicines, including hypertension drugs and other prescription medications without NAFDAC numbers, do not find their way into the Nigerian market.
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