{"id":7954,"date":"2025-06-07T18:24:03","date_gmt":"2025-06-07T18:24:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peoplesforumonline.com.ng\/about\/?p=7954"},"modified":"2025-06-07T18:24:03","modified_gmt":"2025-06-07T18:24:03","slug":"tin-can-customs-breaks-new-record-collects-%e2%82%a6128-4-billion-in-may-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peoplesforumonline.com.ng\/about\/2025\/06\/07\/tin-can-customs-breaks-new-record-collects-%e2%82%a6128-4-billion-in-may-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Tin Can Customs Breaks New Record, Collects \u20a6128.4 Billion in May"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Tin Can Island Port Area Command of Nigeria Customs Service has set a new record in revenue generation even as it remains committed  to trade facilitation and anti-smuggling drive. <\/p>\n<p> This new milestone achieved under the leadership of Comptroller Frank Okechukwu Onyeka is unprecedented in the history of the command.<\/p>\n<p>Revenue figures released by the Public Relations Officer of the Command, SC Oscar Ivara, revealed that the Command generated a whopping sum of \u20a6128,446,323,224.79 in May 2025. This represents a substantial increase compared to the \u20a692,671,603,418.04 generated in the corresponding month of May 2024.<\/p>\n<p>According to the statement, revenue performance in April 2025 was very outstanding as the Command generated \u20a6145,000,000,000.00, which was more than the \u20a695,500,000,000.00 generated in April 2024.<\/p>\n<p>These steady monthly increases attest to a trend of increased effectiveness and better performance at the command.  <\/p>\n<p>Comptroller Onyeka has been very focused and uncompromising in ensuring that all loopholes are blocked as he gives effective coordination to the Command&#8217;s activities since assuming office as controller of the command.  <\/p>\n<p>Commenting on the new record broken, Onyeka reiterated his commitment to achieving seamless revenue generation through legitimate means, stating: \u201cMy aim is to generate revenue seamlessly. I encourage trade facilitation, but the trade has to be legitimate and not harmful to the economy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>His administrative finesse has also given birth to a robust stakeholder engagement that has been applauded as exemplary, contributing to the overall success recorded in recent months. <\/p>\n<p>The Command has continued to set new benchmarks in revenue performance, reinforcing its strategic role in Nigeria\u2019s economic and trade framework.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Tin Can Island Port Area Command of Nigeria Customs Service has set a new record in revenue generation even as it remains committed to trade facilitation and anti-smuggling drive. This new milestone achieved under the leadership of Comptroller Frank Okechukwu Onyeka is unprecedented in the history of the command. Revenue figures released by the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7805,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7954","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-maritime-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peoplesforumonline.com.ng\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7954","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/peoplesforumonline.com.ng\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/peoplesforumonline.com.ng\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peoplesforumonline.com.ng\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peoplesforumonline.com.ng\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7954"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/peoplesforumonline.com.ng\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7954\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7955,"href":"https:\/\/peoplesforumonline.com.ng\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7954\/revisions\/7955"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peoplesforumonline.com.ng\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7805"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peoplesforumonline.com.ng\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peoplesforumonline.com.ng\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7954"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peoplesforumonline.com.ng\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}