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By Stella Okocha
Harboursandportcom:Lagos-Nigeria: October 27, 2025: The Ports Terminal Multiservices Limited (PTML) Command of the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS), have intercepted a 1X20FT container with marks and number GCNU1275880 falsely declared as supermarket items but upon 100% examination was found to contain pharmaceutical drugs.
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| Comptroller Joe Anani addressing press and stakeholders |
Speaking at the maiden press briefing on Friday 24th of October,2025; the controller of the command, Comptroller Joe Anani, stated that they also intercepted firearms including; 1 pistol, 2 magazines and 12 rounds of live ammunition.
1x40ft container with marks and number ACLU9806850 falsely declared as magnetic resonance imaging apparatus but upon 100% examination found to contain 6,262 cartons of antibiotics of various brands. All with the Duty Paid Value (DPV) of N200million only.
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Comptroller Anani also told the press that the Command collected sum of ₦350,347,173,787.92 from January to September, 2025 as revenue collected in the first nine months of the year. He said the collected figure is 96.64% and almost equal to the ₦362,521,085,250.98 that was collected by the Command from January to December, 2024.
He also revealed that barely six weeks of assuming office, the report for third quarter of 2025, shows that the Command collected the sum of ₦116,243,603,670.58 revenue which is 34.3 percent higher than the ₦86,584,012,733.43 that was 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.
He 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.
Comptroller Anani handed the seized containers over to the Director of port inspection directorate of NAFDAC; which is In line with the collaboration policy thrust of the Comptroller General of Customs, Bashir Adewale Adeniyi.
"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.
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