PTML Customs Collects ₦350b Revenue, Intercepts ₦200m Unregistered Pharmaceuticals

BY FUNMI ALUKO

… As Comptroller Anani Gets NAFDAC Commendation

Comptroller Joe Anani, the Customs Area Controller of the Ports Terminal Multiservices Limited (PTML) Command of the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) has announced that the Command collected the sum of ₦350,347,173,787.92 in revenue from January to September, 2025.

Speaking at his maiden press briefing ,Anani said the figure represent 96.64% of collection made by the Command from January to December, 2024, which stands at  ₦362,521,085,250.98 .

According to a press release made available by the Command Public Relations Officer, Tsafe Abubakar, Comptroller Anani also disclosed that the Command also intercepted a 1X20FT container with registration number GCNU1275880, falsely declared as supermarket items but upon 100% examination was found to contain pharmaceutical drugs.

He also revealed that for the third quarter of 2025, the Command recorded a total of ₦116,243,603,670.58 revenue which is 34.3 percent higher than the ₦86,584,012,733.43 collected during the third quarter of 2024.

According to him a comparative analysis of the Command’s revenue performance in the last quarter shows that the command has maintained a steady increase in collection and this is happening despite the teething challenges of the B’Odogwu platform which the Command is fast overcoming.

Speaking on anti smuggling, the CAC said that two containers of unregistered medicines were intercepted. They include one (1) WE Tactical made in Taiwan Airsoft pistol, Two (2) magazines and 12 rounds of live ammunitions, 1x40ft container with registration number ACLU9806850, said to have been falsely declared as magnetic resonance imaging apparatus but upon 100% examination, found to contain 6,262 cartons of antibiotics of various brands.

The PTML Customs boss added that in line with the CGC’s directive on enhancing customs community relationship, the command’s existing relationships with sister government agencies and other stakeholders have been boosted.

In line with the collaboration policy thrust of the Comptroller General of Customs, Bashir Adewale Adeniyi , Comptroller Anani handed the  seized containers  over to the Director of port inspection directorate of National Agency for Food and Drug Administration Control (NAFDAC), saying:

“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.”

Dr Olakunle Olaniran Director, Port Inspectorate Division of NAFDAC who received the seizures thanked the NCS for their life saving enforcement drive.

He commended the  memorandum of understanding between Customs and NAFDAC as a working pact while urging Nigerians to patronise only registered pharmaceutical vendors.

The NAFDAC Director also praised Comptroller Anani for supporting NAFDAC in it’s duty to safeguard Nigerian lives by ensuring such prohibited medicines including hypertension drugs and other prescription medications without NAFDAC Numbers are not allowed into the country.