Maritime Journalists Honour Comptroller General of Customs.

Maritime Journalists Honour Comptroller General of Customs.

By Fly Cable News

Maritime Journalists are set to honour the Comptroller General of Customs, Bashir Adewale Adeniyi, with the “Iconic Maritime Personality of the Year 2024”, award.

It is the first time that all the different media associations reporting the Maritime sub-sector of the economy are agreeing to give an individual a joint award.

A statement signed by the Chairman of the organizing committee Mr. Dele Aderibigbe and the Secretary, Mr. Innocent Orok says Mr. Adeniyi deserves the award because of his sterling and excellent performance since his assumption of office.

The nomination letter sent to him reads: “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.”

The Chairman Award Planning Committee, Mr. 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 Nigerian economy out of the woods.

He said that the Customs Service under Mr. Adewale Adeniyi has been reconnected to international frontiers and leading in revenue collection, anti-smuggling activities, trade facilitation, ICT, modernisation, and inter-agency collaboration, among others.