NAN-HE-6
Revenue
By Bolaji Buhari
Lagos, Nov. 14, 2016 (NAN) The Nigeria Customs Service (NCS), Tin-Can Island Port 2 Command, Ijora, Lagos State, generated N6,657,956,551.14 from January to October 2016.
This is contained in a statement by the command`s Public Relations Officer, Mr Godwin Andishu, and made available to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Lagos on Monday.
Andishu said N349,075, 728 was realised in January; N605,488,789 was generated in February;N245,151,966 in March; and N461,870,060 for April.
He added that N1,571,662,834 was realised in May; generated N661,330,604 in June; N531,814,240 in July and N453,513,197.14 for August.
The command spokesman gave the September and October figures as: N835,947,743 and N942,101,390 respectively.
Andishu said that the command, under the leadership of Alhaji Abdulkadir Dalhatu, was working tirelessly to improve its revenue profile in the face of falling revenue occasioned by low importation volume.
He said the command had put in place measures to block revenue leakages and woo port users to achieve the objective.
The spokesman explained that the recent redesignation of the command from Lilypond to Tin Can Island Port 2 was a strategy to improve the image of the command for increased patronage.(NAN)
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