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The Acting Comptroller-General of Customs, Bashir Adewale Adeniyi MFR, on Monday, 7 July 2023, assured stakeholders of the Nigeria Customs Service under his administration”s commitment to ensuring the prosperity of their businesses.   He made this known in Abeokuta, the headquarters of Ogun II Area Command of Nigeria Customs Service during his visit to the command as part of his familiarisation visit. While engaging with Excise Traders and Free Trade Zone Operators in Ogun State, the Ag. CGC said that their operations are priority to the service.  In his words, "I have made it a deliberate policy to put your operations at the cornerstone of our activities".  "My understanding is that you are critical stakeholders for us, it is through your activities that we can report our own activities, and it is, therefore, in our interest that we do everything to ensure that your companies and businesses prosper", he added.  "It is not all the time that Customs Officers are...

L-R: Head, Maritime Safety and Seafarers Standards Department of Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency, NIMASA, Mr. Taiwo Olaniyan; Managing Director, Melsmore, Mr. Danny Fuchs; Director General, NIMASA, Dr. Bashir Jamoh, OFR; Chief Engineer of Melsmore, Mr. Givol Yaron; and Head, Public, Private Partnership Unit of NIMASA, Mr. Kabiru Diso. During the handing over ceremony The Management of the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency, NIMASA has handed over the leased site at the Continental Shipyard Limited (CSL) of the Nigerian Ports Authority to the technical partners, Melsmore.   The technical partners are to liaise with the Management of the Nigerian Ports Authority in finalising site management, which include risk assessment in preparation to move the Modular floating Dock to the Continental Shipyard for the commencement of full operations. NIMASA and the technical partners also agreed to invite manufacturers of the Floating Dock, Damen Shipyard to joi...

  The Association of Igbo Maritime Practitioners in Nigeria (ASIMPIN) has maintained that the introduction of biometric identification is not to disenfranchise any member during election but to guide against what happened in the median election of the association where people came from all over the place to vote.   Addressing the press on Tuesday at a press briefing, the National Publicity Secretary of the apex Igbo maritime    practitioners association in the country,    Dr. Obicee Okonkwo explained that the idea of biometrics for the association is to have a proper database of its membership, authenticate its records nationwide and also give every bonafide member who must belong to a chapter a genuine identification card which would used for identification during any election of the elections.   Dr Okonkwo disclosed that ASIMPIN executive led by HRM, Eze Amb. Damian Obianigwe had already contracted a private company to carry out the biometrics captur...

Following the appointment of the Acting Comptroller General of Customs   Bashir Adewale Adeniyi MFR on 19 June 2023 and the retirement of some  management members in the Service, the Commander in Chief of the Armed  Forces Federal Republic Nigeria, President Bola Ahmad Tinubu GCFR has  approved the appointment of three Deputy Comptroller Generals (DCGs) and three Assistant Comptroller Generals   According to a statement from the Service spokes person, CSC Abdullahi Maiwada, the appointed DCGs includes, DCG Festus Okun, DCG Musa Baba Abdullahi and DCG Albashir Hamisu while the list of ACGs includes, ACG Kamardeen    Olumoh; ACG Auwal Baba Mohammed and  ACG Adeogun Alajogun While thanking the retired members of the management for their meritorious  service, the Acting CGC,Bashir Adewale  Adeniyi MFR congratulated the newly appointed Officers and charged them to  redouble their efforts to ensure the Service achieves greater height...

The dynamic     leadership of Comptroller MS Yusuf, the Customs Area Controller of the Muritala Mohammed Airport Command of the Nigeria Customs Sevice     has continued to achieve significant milestones, surpassing previous records in both revenue generation and anti-smuggling efforts. According to a press release by     the command’s public relations Officer,     Superintendent VU Ogagbor, the Controller   Since assuming office, has been steadfast in implementing standard best practices, thereby facilitating trade and enhancing the ease of doing business, resulting in a remarkable increase in revenue generation. The command, between January to June 2023 successfully generated a total of Thirty-eight Billion, Seven Hundred and Seven Million, Fifty-four Thousand, Two Hundred and Sixteen Naira, Forty-four Kobo (N38,707,054,216.44), representing an impressive 79.6% of the annual revenue target met. This, according to the release stands in contra...

By: Tunde Umar  The Nigeria Customs Service has witnessed a refreshing and encouraging transformation since the appointment of Acting Comptroller General of Customs Bashir Adewale Adeniyi MFR. The reception he has received from well-wishers and the impressive results achieved under his leadership have been nothing short of remarkable. Adeniyi's tenure has breathed new life into the Customs Service, fostering an atmosphere of camaraderie and success. His approach of engaging with various agencies, installations, and stakeholders has proven to be a winning strategy, leading to astonishing seizures in just a few weeks. One of the notable stride was on 5th of July at Ports Terminal and Multi Services Limited Command where an examination of a 40ft container revealed a concealment of 10 dangerous arms and various rounds of live ammunition inside a plastic drum. These include: 3 new pump action rifles and one new unit of an armed rifle, 6 new different makes of pistols, 14 empty magazines...

The Apapa Command of Nigeria Customs Service has collected a total of N502,987,516,219.26 from January 2023 to date and made 16 seizures with     a duty paid value (DPV) of N1.4 billion within the same period. The Customs Area Controller (CAC) of the Command , Comptroller Auwal Baba Mohammed, according to the press release by the command Public Relations Officer, CSC A Usman, described the revenue collection and seizures made as a fallouts of increased compliance, urged officers to redouble    their efforts in revenue collection, trade facilitating and strict enforcement of anti smuggling activities. The statement revealed that the command, on July 20, 2023, made a collection of N9.2b which is the highest daily collection ever achieved by the command in its existence since the port was established It was also revealed that    seizures made within the period comprised of prohibited drugs, used tyres, rice, vegetable oil, and    sundry items. It is ...

The Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA) has raised alarm against increasing extortions goin on along the access roads of the Lagos and Tin Can Island Port Complexes.   This is coming on the heels of the    clearance operations the Authority undertook on 16th to 18th July to rid the Port corridor of shanties and illegal erections which harbor the criminal elements who perpetrate these acts of extortion.  On the eve of the port corridor clearance operations carried out in collaboration with Lagos State Government earlier this month, the Managing Director /CEO of    NPA Mohammed Bello Koko had lamented that "these acts of extortion and allied illegalities are injurious to trade facilitation, which is our core function and we cannot allow these nefarious characters make nonsense of the gateways to the national economy which the ports constitutes". Speaking further, Bello Koko said "we had in the past visited punitive measures on our staff who were complicit in such ...

The Director General of Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA) Dr. Bashir Yusuf Jamoh, OFR, has lauded the life style and ethical behaviour of Late Prince Paeke Dongban, who until his death on July 23, 2023 was an employee of the agency.   While commissioning a multi-purpose hall built in honour of Late Paeke in Ngootlong, Plateau State, Jamoh described the deceased as a morally upright young man who was ethically conscious and a good example in the midst of his peers.   According to a statement from NIMASA, the DG while describing prince Paeke who was born on 29th January 1984  but died on 23rd July 2022 from the workplace perspective, said the deceased was known for punctuality, commitment to work and sincerity to the cause of nation building.   Dr. Jamoh said "An emotional void created in the hearts of the NIMASA family members by the demise of Prince is filled by the noble deeds he was noted for and the many positive ways he touched lives at ...

In order to further strengthen the traffic management on the Lagos port access roads which has gained momentum since the launch of the Expanded Port Standing Task Team (PSTT), the National Coordinator of the Presidential Port Standing Task Team (PSTT), Mr Moses Fadipe together with the Lagos Sector Commander of the Federal Road Safety Corps, Mr Babatunde Farinloye have agreed to introduce Mobile Courts within the ports corridors They    took the decision during a courtesy visit by the PSTT boss to the FRSC Commander in the Ojudu area of Lagos. After reviewing the progress of the ‘Operation Free Port Corridors’ they jointly agreed that the collaborative efforts of multiple government agencies including security agencies, FRSC, Apapa Local Government etc; under the PSTT has yielded positive results that needs to be sustained. Mr. Farinloye commended PSTT for the restoration of sanity on one side of the Oshodi-Apapa Express road (inward Apapa), but said something needs to be done...