The Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) has successfully generated N120 billion revenue using its new indigenous platform, B’Odogwu, despite an attempt by Webb Fontaine, the previous service provider, to sabotage the operation.
The platform was test-run at the PTML command in a pilot stage in September 2024.
According to Comptroller Tenny Mankini Daniyan, the Area Controller of the PTML, Webb Fontaine shut down its infrastructure at the PTML to frustrate the pilot scheme of B’Odogwu.
However, the Customs Service braved the odds and surmounted the teething problems, realizing revenue in excess of N120 billion from 16,000 entries fully paid for.
The Comptroller General of Customs, Adewale Adeniyi, led his management team to demonstrate the efficiency of the new platform at the Apapa command.
He explained that the server driving B’Odogwu is more modern, compact, and efficient than the discarded NICIS.
Adeniyi also disclosed that the service has a contingency plan to deal with glitches and that the system will be driven by Main One, an indigenous connectivity system.
