The Ports Terminal Multiservices Limited (PTML) Command of Nigeria Customs Service has declared a collection of over 189 billion naira from November 2024 to mid April 2025 using the Unified Customs Management System also known as B’Odogwu.
Customs Area Controller, Comptroller Tenny Mankini Daniyan who said this at the first quarter briefing with senior officers and sectional heads, described the platform as a top notch technology defying it’s initial teething challenges to become a part of the service success in revenue collection and trade facilitation.
He said the command also made history on April 14, 2025 when it collected 5.6 billion naira which stands out as the highest daily collection ever made in its over two decades history.
Comptroller Daniyan who attributed the successes of the command to the visionary and focused leadership of Comptroller General of Customs, Bashir Adewale Adeniyi, MFR, said the 2025 first quarter collection indicates the sustained positive trajectory championed by the management of the service.
From January to March 2025, the command collected 90 billion, naira which is 38.8% higher than the 66 billion naira collected same period of 2024.
The CAC, noted that the success of the B’Odogwu application in PTML being the pilot phase area, is responsible for the CGC’s approval of it’s simultaneous spread and full deployment across various commands.
On trade facilitation, he said the command holds the number one record of fastest cargo clearance time of two hours for compliant RoRo consignments while adding that they are committed to improving on this by making the time shorter.
He said in addition to Europe vessels coming to PTML, the port is now receiving ships from China to expand the frontiers of trade and prospect of higher revenue from increased economic activities
He reiterated the command’s uncompromising disposition towards smuggling either as concealment, under declaration, under valuation and outright false declaration disclosing that officers are trained and prepared to detect such infractions for seizure and possible arrest of persons suspected to be behind such acts
The CAC also said the command is ready for higher volume of trade including the handling of imported pharmaceutical products which was recently approved by the management of the service.
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