Cross Border Trade : Kebbi Customs Generates N25.66 Million

From : Ayodele Ajoge, Birnin-Kebbi

The Kebbi State Area Command of the Nigeria Customs as at the month ended in September 2025 generated a total revenue of N25.66 million.

The officer in charge of the Command, Comptroller Matawale Mahmud Ibrahim has said.

Ibrahim, who disclosed this at his maiden press conference at the Command Headquarters in Birnin- Kebbi Wednesday, expressed that due to the Cross border initiatives he established with his Benin Republic counterpart the initiative has largely enhanced the revenue generation capacity of the Command compare to what it was, the previous months.

”Upon assuming duty in the month of September, I closely reviewed the revenue generation structures of the Command and introduced new modalities to strengthen our performance.”

The Controller said the suppression of smuggling remain one of the core mandate of the Nigeria Customs Service, noting that his Command has leveraged intelligence sharing, inter agency cooperation and collaboration with other Customs Units to curb illicit trade activities..

”Within the past one month, the Command has recorded seizures of 100 bales of second hand clothing, 444 laptops sized of wraps of cannabis sativa, 143 mini sacks of donkey meat, 140 cartons of foreign spaghetti, 100 bags of foreign parboiled rice, 26,835  liters of petrol all with total street value of N109.57 million,” he said.