The Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) said it generated N102.5 billion revenues in the Kano/Jigawa command in 2024.

The comptroller, Dauda Chana, said this in an interview with journalists on Thursday in Kano.

He said the figures represented a 94 per cent increase in the revenue generated in the previous year, and attributed the feat to the strategic revenue collection approach adopted by the command.

On the anti smuggling campaign, Mr Chana said the command seized contraband goods with N235,290,320 Duty Paid Value (DPV).

He listed the items to include 136 bags of foreign rice; 238 cartons of pasta, 534 cartons of creamer milk and 210 kilogramme of kola nuts.

Other seized items included 552 bales of second-hand clothing; 371 parcels of cannabis, 74,870 tablets of tramadol, 1,290 expired/fake pharmaceutical products, and 4,410kg of pangolin scales.

According to Mr Chana, the command is working with sister security agencies, terminal operators, licensed agents and market associations to promote compliance, to enable it to achieve its mandate.

“Well trained armed personnel have been posted to strategic locations to deal decisively with those involved in illegal smuggling of materials into our area of supervision.

“We are battle ready to end smuggling through our various strategies to pave the way for arrest and prosecution of those involved in illegal businesses.’’

He urged community leaders and other stakeholders to sensitise border communities to the negative effects of smuggling on the nation’s economy.

“We also reached out to youths in the border communities, to assist our field officers with required intelligence that will assist in curbing all forms of smuggling,’’ he said.

(NAN)