Nigeria Maritime Journalists to Honour Customs Boss on February 13.

By Joe Njoku,
Global Freight News.

An award dinner organised by the Nigerian Maritime Journalists to Honour the excellence performance of the Comptroller-General of Customs Service, Bashir Adewale Adeniyi MFR, comes up on Thursday February 13, 2025.

The epoch-making event, which is the first of its kind in the Nigerian Maritime Industry, will hold at the Lagos Airport Hotel, Awolowo Road Ikeja, Lagos State, by 6pm.

Recall that Nigerian Maritime Journalists, comprising all the associations covering the maritime beat, came together to honour the Customs Boss as the “ICONIC MARITIME PERSONALITY OF THE YEAR 2034. The event, which was earlier scheduled to hold on January 16th, was postponed due to some unforseen circumstances.

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

These include the Maritime Reporters Association of Nigeria (MARAN), League of Maritime Editors (LOME), Association of Maritime Journalists of Nigeria (AMJON), Maritime Journalists Association of Nigeria (MAJAN), Shipping Correspondents of Nigeria (SCAN), Online Maritime Media Association of Nigeria (OMMAN) and Congress of Nigeria Maritime Media Practitioners (CONMMEP), as well as those who do not belong to any association.

They believe that CGC Adeniyi has registered sterling and excellent performance since assumption of office as the Customs Boss.

These include unprecedented revenue collection, Anti-smuggling activities, trade facilitation, national security, staff welfare, inter-agency collaboration, infrastructural upgrade, information and communication technology, and corporate social responsibility, among others.

The organisers, besides this superlative performance, also appreciate the Customs Boss, unrelenting support to the media, especially the Maritime Media.

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