The Nigeria Customs Service(NCS) said it has generated ₦4.289 trillion revenue targets within ten months.
This is just as it also disclosed that it will surpass its revenue targets of ₦5.3trillion for the year 2024.
The Comptroller General of NCS, Mr. Bashiru Adeniyi made this known at the just concluded Finance and Business Online Publishers (FiBOB)2024 capacity building workshop at Ochidi Hotel, Lekki Lag
Adeniyi, who was represented by the Comptroller of Tin Can Island Port,Mr Dera Mnadi, stated that the NCS has already surpassed the 2023;revenue target with over a trillion naira.
“The NCS has been able to generate revenue from January to September, 2024 to the tune of Four Trillion, Two Hundred and eighty Nine Billion, Seven Hundred and thirty two Million, Four Hundred and Fifty eight Thousand, and Fifty Four naira Only (=N=4,289,732,458,054.00) while in the corresponding year, 2023, the service was able to generate a revenue sum of 3.21 Trillion as also compared to the year, 2022 when the service was able to generate the sum of 2.60 Trillion.
” This Year-on-Year improvements on import duty collection shows a marked improvement by measures put in place by the Central Bank of Nigeria and Commercial Banks in the adoption of Digital infrastructure,’ Adeniyi said.
The achievement, Adeniyi, said was made possible by the deployment of ICT and digitalisation and optimisation of its revenue generating and collection process, embraced digitilisation of its processes since 2018 to grow the economy.
He stated that presently people can pay for duties or services rendered any day anytime from the comfort of the homes or offices.
The CG noted that the NCS has the best brains in its organisation’s ICT.
These young brains, he said are well motivated and as such are not bothered about migrating to other countries to search for greener pastures .
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