The Comptroller General of the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS), Bashir Adewale Adeniyi, has won the Iconic Marítime Personality Of The Year 2024.
The award was conferred on the Customs CG by the Nigerian Maritime Journalists (NMJ).
In a press statement signed by the chairman award planning committee, Dele Aderibigbe, the need for the Nigerian maritime media practitioners to honour the CGC was a unanimous decision by all maritime journalists covering the maritime beat, cutting across print, electronic and online media, led by the different beat associations
The groups believed that CG Adeniyi has registered sterling and excellent performance since his assumption of office as the Customs CGC.
According to Aderibigbe, the nomination letter sent to the CGC read , “there is no gainsaying 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, infrastructural upgrading, Information and Communication Technology, and Corporate Social Responsibility, among others.
“It is also incontestable that your record-breaking performance has attracted national and international laurels to you, the Service, and Nigeria as a whole. Unarguably, it is partly for these reasons that the Leadership Newspaper Group recently honoured you with the award of the Public Service Personality of the Year.
“We, the maritime journalists, comprising both print, electronic and online media covering the beat, are happy to be part 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 nominate you as the ICONIC MARITIME PERSONALITY OF THE YEAR,” he stated.
Aderibegbe further 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 Nigerian 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 par excellence, who has made the Customs and Nigeria proud by his purposeful, professional and patriotic leadership.”
The award ceremony comes up on Thursday, 16th January, 2025 at the Apapa Port Customs Command Auditorium.
