NCS boss luggage maritime persona award

The Comptroller-Common of the Nigeria Customs Service, Adewale Adeniyi, has bagged the Iconic Maritime Persona of the Yr 2024 award, which is organised by maritime journalists.

This was contained in Tuesday’s launch signed by the chairman and secretary of the Award Planning Committee, Dele Aderibigbe and Harmless Orok, respectively.

Aderebigbe defined that the necessity for the Nigerian maritime media practitioners to honour Adeniyi was a unanimous determination by all maritime journalists chopping throughout print, digital, and on-line media.

“They imagine that Adeniyi has registered sterling and wonderful efficiency since he assumed workplace because the customs boss,” he stated.

Aderibegbe defined that the award got here at a time when the president, Bola Tinubu, is searching for centered and devoted leaders to take the Nigerian economic system out of the woods.

“That is the primary time within the maritime sub-sector that each one the journalists protecting the beat will come collectively to honour a deserving performer par excellence, who has made the NCS and Nigeria proud by his purposeful, skilled, and patriotic management,” Aderibegbe stated.

He identified that the service below the present CGC has been reconnected to worldwide frontiers and is main in income assortment, anti-smuggling actions, commerce facilitation, ICT, modernisation, and inter-agency collaboration, amongst others.

Aderebigbe harassed that the honour can be to set the agenda for different businesses of presidency and their appointees that the ever-vibrant and dogged maritime media are watching them.

“We’re inviting particular company, particularly different businesses’ heads and maritime stakeholders, to come back and witness this nice occasion, which is the primary of its type within the Nigerian maritime business,” he stated.

Earlier, the committee secretary, Orok, stated, “There isn’t any gainsaying that Adeniyi has redeemed and repositioned the service in all areas. These embody income assortment, anti-smuggling actions, commerce facilitation, nationwide safety, employees welfare, inter-agency collaboration, infrastructural upgrading, data and communication expertise, and company social duty, amongst others.”

In keeping with Orok, it is usually incontestable that Adeniyi’s record-breaking efficiency has attracted nationwide and worldwide laurels to the service and Nigeria as an entire.

“Unarguably, it’s partly for these causes that the Management Newspaper Group lately honoured you with the award of the Public Service Persona of the Yr,” he said.

Orok identified that in appreciation of Adeniyi’s superlative efficiency and his unrelenting assist to the media, particularly the maritime media, “we nominate you because the Iconic Maritime Persona of the Yr.”