The Tin-Can Island Command of the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) generated N256.4 billion revenue between January and December 2016.

The Customs Area Controller, Comptroller Yusuf Bashar, disclosed this in a statement made available to newsmen on Thursday in Lagos by the Public Relations Officer of the Command, Uche Ejesieme.

According to him, this is against N266.1 billion recorded in 2015.

“This figure represents a marginal difference when compared with the figure for 2016, with a shortfall of less than N10 billion, attributable to some factors beyond the control of the command,’’ the command’s boss said.

Bashar recalled that in 2016, the command intercepted a large quantity of arms and ammunition based on intelligence reports on Feb. 15, March 7 and April 4, 2016, all handed over to Department of State Security (DSS)

The controller said that there was infrastructural face lift of the office complex which hitherto was in deplorable state.


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