PTML Customs Makes ₦189.5B Revenue Through B’Odogwu System, Sustains 2-hour Clearance Time For Vehicles

PTML Customs said it collected a revenue collection of ₦189.5 billion between November 2024 and mid-April 2025.

Command said record-breaking revenue was achieved through the utilization of the newly developed B’Odogwu system.

Announced it recorded a daily collection of ₦5.6 billion on 14 April 2025 — the highest in its more than two decades of existence.

PTML boasts of sustaining the two-hour record-breaking clearance time for compliant Roll-on/roll-off (RoRo) cargoes.

The Nigeria Customs Service (NCS), Ports & Terminal Multiservices Limited (PTML) Area Command, has announced a record-breaking revenue collection of ₦189,516,818,316.92 between November 2024 and mid-April 2025.

According to Command, the record-breaking revenue collected between this period was achieved through the utilization of the indigenous Unified Customs Management System (UCMS), popularly known as B’Odogwu.

The Customs Area Controller (CAC), Comptroller Tenny Daniyan, disclosed this during the command’s first quarter performance briefing on Tuesday, 15 April 2025.

He described B’Odogwu as a top-tier technology that has not only overcome initial challenges but is now pivotal to the service’s growing success in revenue collection and trade facilitation.

The CAC also announced that the command, on 14 April 2025, recorded a daily collection of ₦5,612,887,374.99—the highest in its more than two decades of existence.

“For the first time in the history of this command, we’re recording a ₦5.6 billion duty collection in a single day. It has never happened before. It’s so glorious, and we thank God for it.”

The CAC attributed the remarkable growth to the visionary leadership of the Comptroller-General of Customs (CGC), Adewale Adeniyi, noting that the command’s first quarter collection of ₦90.2 billion in 2025 represents a 38.8% increase compared to the ₦66.9 billion recorded in the same period in 2024.

According to him, the success recorded at PTML—being the pilot command for the B’Odogwu system—has led to the CGC’s approval for its full deployment across various commands.

On trade facilitation, Comptroller Daniyan stated that the command continues to lead with the fastest cargo clearance time of two hours for compliant Roll-on/Roll-off (RoRo) consignments.

“We still boast a two-hour clearance window for compliant traders. We are reducing it to one because the Time Release Study (TRS) has guided us. Once you do the proper thing, nobody will delay you. But the moment you’re dubious in your declaration, you forfeit the right to a 24-hour exit,” he warned.

The CAC declared the command’s readiness for a higher volume of trade, including the handling of imported pharmaceutical products, which was recently approved by the service’s management.

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