The Comptroller-Basic of the Nigeria Customs Provider, Adewale Adeniyi, has bagged the Iconic Maritime Persona of the Age 2024 award, which is organised by way of maritime newshounds.
This used to be contained in Tuesday’s reduce signed by way of the chairman and secretary of the Award Making plans Committee, Dele Aderibigbe and Blameless Orok, respectively.
Aderebigbe defined that the desire for the Nigerian maritime media practitioners to proclaim Adeniyi used to be a unanimous determination by way of all maritime newshounds slicing throughout print, digital, and on-line media.
“They believe that Adeniyi has registered sterling and excellent performance since he assumed office as the customs boss,” he stated.
Aderibegbe defined that the award got here at a hour when the president, Bola Tinubu, is searching for centered and devoted leaders to whisk the Nigerian economic system out of the logs.
“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 NCS and Nigeria proud by his purposeful, professional, and patriotic leadership,” Aderibegbe stated.
He identified that the carrier beneath the flow CGC has been reconnected to world frontiers and is well-known in earnings assortment, anti-smuggling actions, industry facilitation, ICT, modernisation, and inter-agency collaboration, amongst others.
Aderebigbe wired that the proclaim could also be to prepared the time table for alternative companies of presidency and their appointees that the ever-vibrant and dogged maritime media are staring at them.
“We are inviting special guests, especially other agencies’ heads and maritime stakeholders, to come and witness this great event, which is the first of its kind in the Nigerian maritime industry,” he stated.
Previous, the committee secretary, Orok, stated, “There is no gainsaying that Adeniyi has 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.”
Consistent with Orok, additionally it is incontestable that Adeniyi’s record-breaking efficiency has attracted nationwide and world laurels to the carrier and Nigeria as a complete.
“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,” he said.
Orok identified that during adoration of Adeniyi’s superlative efficiency and his unrelenting help to the media, particularly the maritime media, “we nominate you as the Iconic Maritime Personality of the Year.”