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The Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) says it has recorded a great achievement with its highest revenue collection of over N1trillion.
NCS Public Relations Officer, Joseph Attah, who revealed this on Thursday during a press conference in Abuja, said the revenue generated in 2017 by the Service is the historical figure ever.
With a few more working days to the end of the year, Attah said Customs recorded N1,012,259,006,779.74, as against the N770billion target set for the year.
He said: “This spectacular performance in revenue collection shows N241,685,276,289.74 over the N770,573,730,490 target for the year and well above the N898,673,857,431.07 collected in 2016, despite the economic recession experienced earlier in the year, with the low volume of imports and restriction placed on 41 items from accessing FOREX.”
The Customs spokesman further informed reporters about some strategic measures applied by the management of the Service before such feat was made.
Nigeria Customs Generates Historic Revenue Figure Of N1trn
