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By Steve Agbota
The Apapa Command of the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS), has generated N3.7 trillion revenue in the last 16 months.
The Command also intercepted contrabands worth several billions of naira in the months under review.
This was disclosed in a document made available to journalists on Friday, to analyse ACG Babatunde Olomu’s tenure as the command’s Customs Area Controller.
Olomu, who took over the mantle of leadership of the command on May 5, 2024, generated N3.7 trillion between May 2024 and July 2025.
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Giving a breakdown, the command generated N175.139billion in May 2024; N178.265billion in June; N201.853billion in July; N189.544 billion in August; N193.930 billion in September; N264.455 billion in October; N229.320 billion in November and N252.530billion in December 2024.
In January 2025. ACG Olomu generated N269. 323 billion; N216.988billion in February; N215.910billion in March; N230.713 billion in April; N230.712 billion in May; N209.181 billion in June; N214.509 billion in July, and N215, 000 generated in August, giving a total of N3.709trillion in the last 16 months he held sway as the Customs Area Controller of Apapa.
According to the document, in the 16 months that Olomu held sway, the command intercepted 75 seizures of various items such as assorted rifles, ammunition, expired pharmaceuticals, fake drugs and even banned substances such as codeine, Tramadol, used clothing, expired margarine, codeine syrup, wild animal skins, and stolen vehicles.
Other seizures included containers of codeine syrup, containers of stolen vehicles, restricted security gadgets including drones and telecommunication devices.
The document also revealed that 60 units of warrior drones without valid end-user certificates were recovered, and another 53 helicopter drones, evacuated from a container marked CFAX3, carried an estimated duty-paid value of N2.1 million, and were all intercepted.
