Abuja, June 27, 2023: Vice President Kashim Shettima, on Monday decorated the Acting Comptroller General of the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS), Mr Adewale Adeniyi.
At the ceremony held at the presidential villa, the Vice President described the appointment of Mr Adeniyi by President Bola Tinubu as morale booster for officers in the service.
He disclosed that the federal government had finalised plans to create one million jobs for young Nigerians.
Speaking yesterday during a brief ceremony witnessed by the Chief of Staff to the President, Mr Femi Gbajabiamila, at the State House, Abuja, the Vice President, stated: “Congratulations for bringing professionalism back to the Nigerian Customs Service.
“Now, every Customs officer can aspire to occupy the pinnacle of his or her profession. I wish you well, on behalf of the President and Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces, Congratulations, once again,” Shettima added.
Adeniyi, on his part, said, “In the last eight years, the Nigeria Customs Service has gone through a period of transition. In some areas, we recorded progress – we made remarkable progress in e-Customs; we made a lot of breakthroughs in capacity building.
“But the Customs Service can still live to its full potential when we bring in more innovation to drive Customs operations. These are the kind of things we are looking at in the years ahead.
“We are going to be professional in our approach, there are a number of key stakeholders that we are going to be working with, it is a very onerous task but we are going to be working alongside other stakeholders and partners that we have identified.
“We intend to come up with innovations that will carry along all partners and stakeholders. We are going to leverage technology and innovation to break new grounds in Customs operations.”
