The Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) collected N1.42 trillion in revenue in September and October, its spokesperson, Abdullahi Maiwada, said in a statement on Sunday.
The service collected N697.8 billion in September and N722.9 billion in October, Maiwada said. He first gave the figures at a joint security briefing at the National Counter Terrorism Centre in Abuja last week.
Customs duties are a large part of the federal government’s non-oil income. October’s collection was about 3.6 per cent higher than September’s.
Exports processed through the Lilypond Export Command in Lagos were worth $752.85 million in the third quarter, up from $586.15 million a year earlier, the service said. That is a rise of about 28 per cent.
Traders filed 99,839 goods declarations over the two months, Maiwada said. Pre-arrival assessment reports, filed before cargo reaches port, more than tripled from 2,102 in September to 7,093 in October.
The service said it seized prohibited and restricted goods with a duty-paid value of more than N8.1 billion over the period, including drugs, pharmaceutical products and petroleum products. It also rescued six live pangolins in Ogun State and handed them to a wildlife conservation group.
The NCS said it had moved to an electronic platform for currency declarations at the borders, to track illicit money flows.
A World Customs Organisation mission training the service to detect trade-based money laundering runs until 13 November, Maiwada said.
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