Shittu Leads Maritime Maritime Stakeholders To Award Dinner Customs CGC on Thursday.

By Joe Njoku,
Global Freight News.

A Former National President of the Association of Nigerian Licensed Customs Agents (ANLCA) and Chairman of Skelas Group, Prince Olayiwola Shittu, will lead maritime industry stakeholders as the chairman to the much anticipated award dinner being organised by Nigerian Maritime Journalists to Honour the excellence performance of the Comptroller-General of Nigeria Customs Service, Bashir Adewale Adeniyi MFR, on Thursday.

The event, which will hold at the Lagos Airport Hotel, Awolowo Road Ikeja, Lagos State, by 6pm is expected to have creme de la creme of the maritime industry from CEOs of government agencies to freight forwarding bigwigs, top ship owners, terminal operators, shipping lines, regulators, among others.

Nigerian Maritime Journalists, comprising, all the associations covering the maritime beat, have come together to honour the Customs Comptroller-General as the “ICONIC MARITIME PERSONALITY OF THE YEAR 2024.

The need for the Nigerian Maritime Media Practitioners to honour the CGC is a unanimous decision by all maritime Journalists cutting prints, 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 Association 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, information and communication technology, and Corporate Social Responsibility among others.