Nigeria Customs Generates N140.4bn In August — Leadership Newspaper

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The Nigerian Customs service has announced a record revenue generation of N140,415,355,659.97 billion in the month-ended August, 2018 alone.

Commenting on what he described as historic feat, comptroller-general of customs, Col. Hameed Ibrahim Ali (Rtd) ascribed the result to the “dogged pursuit of the reform programmes which include:

Strategic deployment of manpower, upgrade on the electronic systems from Nigeria Integrated Customs Information System (NICIS I) to NICIS II which has blocked leakages.”

According to a statement that was issued by the customs’ public relations officer, åçcement of extant guidelines by the tariff and trade department.

“Robust stakeholder engagements resulting in higher compliance and increased disposition of officers and men to change the way of doing things for the better,” Attah said in the statement that was issued yesterday in Abuja.He said the  implementation of three- pronged presidential mandate of restructure, reform and raising…



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