The Kirikiri Lighter Terminal (KLT) Command of the Nigeria Customs Service has disclosed vital income development, producing N13.7 billion between January and October 2025.
The achievement represents a 47 per cent rise in contrast with the N9.4 billion recorded throughout the identical interval in 2024.
The outgoing Controller of the Command, now elevated to Assistant Comptroller Common (ACG), Eghosa Edelduok, revealed the figures on Monday throughout a send-off ceremony held in her honour in Lagos.
Edelduok, celebrating the milestone, attributed the efficiency to a mixture of deliberate reforms, improved collaboration, and enhanced commerce facilitation methods applied beneath her watch.
“This development didn’t occur by probability,” she stated. “It’s the consequence of deliberate reforms, elevated stakeholder engagement and improved commerce facilitation throughout the terminal.”
Reforms revived moribund terminals
Reflecting on her tenure, Edelduok stated the Command confronted main operational setbacks when she assumed responsibility.
“After I assumed responsibility, a number of terminals beneath KLT have been moribund,” she recalled.
By means of proactive engagement and steady dialogue with terminal operators, Customs officers, and port customers, she stated operations have been revived throughout a number of services.
She disclosed that ESS Libra Terminal, as an example, now handles 50 to 60 containers month-to-month, whereas others have skilled comparable boosts following improved entry routes, lowered delays, and streamlined procedures.
Sooner cargo clearance, improved compliance
Edelduok additionally highlighted main enhancements in cargo clearance timelines, noting that compliant consignments have been now processed and launched inside 48 hours.
She stated elevated compliance by merchants and clearing brokers had grow to be the “spine of the income leap,” as extra stakeholders selected KLT for its effectivity and “friendlier operational surroundings.”
She emphasised that the renewed belief from stakeholders helped shift long-held perceptions that KLT was gradual or bottleneck-prone.
“Stakeholder cooperation helped us change perceptions, attracting extra importers who had beforehand averted the terminal as a consequence of fears of delays and bottlenecks,” she added.
Teamwork, CSR and institutional assist
Edelduok recommended officers of the Command, sister companies and terminal operators for the synergy that outlined her 18-month administration.
She additionally expressed gratitude to the Comptroller-Common of Customs, Bashir Adeniyi, for his assist and for entrusting her with management duties that positioned her for elevation to the administration cadre.
Certainly one of her most notable achievements, she stated, was the profitable supply of a serious Company Social Duty (CSR) venture — a completely accomplished block of lecture rooms and an geared up library for inmates on the Kirikiri Medium Correctional Centre. She described it as “a defining legacy.”
Dedication to reputable commerce
Trying forward, the brand new ACG assured stakeholders that the Command would proceed to assist reputable commerce and would intensify efforts to curb illicit actions.
She warned that KLT wouldn’t tolerate the motion of faux medication, hashish, or contraband items.
Edelduok closed her remarks on a hopeful word, stating: “My new workplace comes with better duty, however I go away KLT ready, fulfilled and looking forward to even better development on the Command.”
Stakeholders on the terminal additionally paid glowing tributes to Edelduok for her service and management. Deputy Comptroller of Customs, Funmilayo Adedokun, who heads the Car Seat Unit, described Edelduok as a transformational chief.
What it is best to know
The determine indicators development in income generated at Nigerian ports. The Apapa Space Command of the Nigeria Customs Service had generated N304 billion in October 2025, the best month-to-month income ever collected by any customs command within the nation’s historical past.
- The Space Controller, Comptroller Emmanuel Oshoba, disclosed that the October income surpassed the N264 billion recorded in October 2024, setting a brand new nationwide document.
- In response to Oshoba, the command has up to now generated N2.4 trillion between January and October 2025, exceeding the overall income it collected in the entire of 2024.