Customs Boss Bags Personality of the Year Award

Customs Boss Bags Personality of the Year Award.

By Joe Njoku,
Global Freight News.

The Comptroller-General of Customs, Adeniyi Adewale MFR will be conferred with an Iconic Maritime Personality of the Year 2024 Award by Nigerian Maritime Journalists.

The need for the Nigerian Maritime Media Practitioners to honour the Customs Boss is a unanimous decision by all maritime Journalists cover the beat, cutting across print, electronic and online media, led by different beat associations.

These include the Maritime Reporters Association of Nigeria (MARAN), league of Maritime Editors (LOME), Maritime Journalists Association of Nigeria (MAJAN), Association of Maritime Journalists (AMJON) Shipping Correspondents (SCAN) Online Maritime Media Association of Nigeria (OMMAN) and Congress of Maritime Media Practitioners (CONMMEP)
They believe that CGC Adeniyi has registered sterling and excellent performance since his assumption of office as the Customs Boss.

According to a nomination letter sent to the CGC by the Secretary, Award Planning Committee, Mr Innocent Or ok, There is no gain saying you have redeemed and repositioned the Service in all areas. These include revenue collection, Anti-smuggling activities, Trade Facilitation, National security, staff welfare, inter-agency collaboration, infrastructure upgrading, information and communication technology, Corporate Social Responsibility among others.”

“It is also incontestable that your record breaking performance has attracted national and international laurels to you and the Service, and Nigeria as a whole. Inarguably, it is partly for these reasons that the Leadership Newspaper Group recently honoured you with the award of the Public Personality of the Year.”

We, the Maritime Journalists comprising both print, electronic and online media covering the beat are happy to be of this history making with you as partners in progress'”

“In appreciation of your superlative performance and, by extension your unrelenting support to the media, especially the Maritime Media, we therefore nominate you as the ICONIC MARITIME PERSONALITY OF THE YEAR.”

On his part, the Chairman of Award Planning Committee, Mr Dele Aderibigbe explained that “the award is coming at no better time than during the Renewed Hope Agenda of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, who is looking for focused and dedicated leaders to take the Nigeria economy out of the woods.

According to him, “This honour is very symbolic. First, this is the first time in the maritime sub-sector that all the journalists covering the beat will come together to honour a deserving performer per excellence, who has made the Customs and Nigeria proud by his purposeful, professional and patriotic leadership.

Secondly, the Nigeria Customs Service under Adewale Adeniyi has bee reconnected to international frontiers and leading in revenue collection, Anti-smuggling activities, trade facilitation, ICT modernisation and inter-agency collaboration among others.

“This honour by maritime Journalists is also to set an agenda for other government agencies and their appointees that the ever vibrant and dogged maritime media are watching them.

“We are inviting special guests, especially others agencies head and maritime stakeholders to come and witness this great event, which is first of its kind in the Nigerian Maritime Industry.”