Nigeria Customs Service generates N194m

The Sokoto Area Command of the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) said on Tuesday that it generated N194.27 million in August.

Alhaji Sani Madugu, Comptroller of Customs in charge of Sokoto, Kebbi and Zamfara states, told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Sokoto that N123.14 million was collected in corresponding period in 2015.

He said that the performance represented an increase of 17.7 per cent compare to the amount generated in the same period, the previous year.

Madugu said that the command had taken measures to ensure that duties were paid on all goods coming to through the area.

He said that personnel of the command had been properly equipped deployed to all routes used by smugglers in the area to check the illegality.

Madugu solicited the support of traditional rulers in border communities by giving information that could aid the officials in the discharge of their constitutional responsibility.