Contraband goods intercepted by Nigeria Customs operatives at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Ikeja, Lagos
The Nigeria Customs Service, NCS, Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Ikeja, Lagos Command, has announced a landmark revenue of N38,707,054,216.44k, which accrued in the first six months of operations between January and June 2023.
A comparative analysis revealed the revenue surpassed the half-year projection by 29.6% and also represented an increase when compared with the revenue recorded in the same period in 2022.
A media statement by the MMIA Customs command quoted the Command’s Controller, M.S. Yusuf, who said that the first six months of revenue for the year 2022 amounted to, N34,854,408,350.90k, and when compared with the revenue in the same period in 2023, it was surpassed by, N3,852,645,865.54k, which represented 11% increase.
According to the Controller, M.S. Yusuf, when this year’s figure was compared to the N34,854,408,350.90k realized same period in 2022, a progressive difference of N3, 852, 645, 865.54k, representing an 11% increase was recorded.
The statement further appraised the revenue with the projection for January to December 2023 and found that the N38,707,054,216.44k that accrued between January and June 2023, represents 79.6% of the annual revenue target for the year 2023.
In the media statement issued by the Superintendent of Customs, V.U. Ogagbor, the Command’s Public Relations Officer, said in the period under review, January-June 2023, the command executed various “anti-smuggling activities in synergy with other critical stakeholders which led to the seizure of Fifteen (15) consignments of Tramadol, Dried Shark Fins, and Live Turtle with a DPV of Twenty Seven Billion, Seven Hundred and Fifty-Eight Million, Thirteen Thousand, Nine Hundred And Ninety-Three Naira, Forty-Seven Kobo (N27,758,013,993.47k”.
The Controller pledged that his command will continue to make life uncomfortable for illicit importers and exporters while all necessary support will be availed to honest businessmen and women as the command will continually promote trade facilitation and ensure ease of doing business for both citizens and alien persons ready to do business in accordance to the laws of the land.
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