Seme Customs records 182% surge in monthly revenue collection

By Godwin Oritse

The Seme Area Command of the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) has recorded a important leap successful its gross collection, generating N1.5 cardinal successful September 2025, a 182 percent summation from the N513 cardinal recorded successful the aforesaid period past year.

Speaking with journalists yesterday, the Customs Area Controller, Comptroller Wale Adenuga, attributed the singular show to the effectiveness of the ongoing Customs betterment docket anchored connected compliance, transparency, and data-driven operations.

According to him, “This outstanding show reflects the effectiveness of the existent Customs betterment docket built connected compliance, transparency, and data-driven monitoring of goods, arsenic good arsenic the dedication of officers and men who proceed to embody my imaginativeness of a modern, efficient, and accountable Customs Service.”

Adenuga further disclosed that successful enactment with the Federal Government’s thrust to diversify the system done non-oil exports and successful compliance with the Comptroller-General’s directive to beforehand morganatic trade, the Command facilitated implicit 53,000 metric tons of export valued astatine N7.9 cardinal during the play nether review. “These exports, comprising cultivation nutrient and manufactured goods, show the renewed assurance of exporters successful the Seme Command arsenic a viable commercialized hub nether the ECOWAS Trade Liberalization Scheme (ETLS),” helium said.

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