The Nigeria Customs Service Board (NCSB) has confirmed the appointment of five Deputy Comptrollers-General (DCGs) and eight Assistant Comptrollers-General (ACGs) of Customs during its 59th regular meeting, a press statement signed by the National Public Relations Officer of the service, CSC Abdullahi A. Maiwada has said.
The meeting, chaired by the Honorable Minister of Finance and Coordinating Minister for the Economy, Mr. Wale Edun, according to the statement, was held at the Nigeria Customs Service Headquarters in Abuja on Tuesday, 14th May 2024.
The details of the confirmed appointments are as follows:
*Deputy Comptrollers General (DCGs)*
* OO PETERS DCG /Commander Training and Doctrine Command (rtd)
” BM JIBO (DCG Enforcement Inspection & Investigation)
* BU NWANFOR (DCG Excise, Free Trade Zone & Industrial Incentives)
* SA BOMAI DCG (Commander Training and Doctrine Command)
* CK NIAGWAN (DCG Tariff & Trade).
The Assistant Comptrollers General (ACGs) are:
* B IMAM (ACG Board)
*AAS OLOYEDE ACG (Trade & Tariff)
* SK DANGALDIMA (ACG/Zonal Coordinator Zone ‘B’)
* A ABDUL AZEEZ (ACG/Zonal Coordinator Zone ‘D’)
* SA YUSUF ACG (Human Resource Development)
* NP UMOH (ACG Training and Doctrine Command)
* CO OBIH (ACG/Zonal Coordinator Zone ‘C’)
* S CHIROMA (ACG Strategic Research and Policy)
The statement hinted that the new appointments were made to fill the vacancies created by some senior officers who recently retired from the Service, adding that principles of federal character, seniority and merit guided the appointments approved by the Board.
“These appointments are a testament to the officers’ exemplary services and dedication to the Nigeria Customs Service. The NCSB remains committed to providing strategic leadership to ensure effective and efficient service delivery for optimum performance,” the statement stressed.
“While thanking the retired members of the management for their meritorious services, the Comptroller General of Customs, Bashir Adewale Adeniyi, congratulated the newly confirmed officers and charged them to redouble their efforts to ensure the service attains greater heights in its mandates of revenue generation, suppression of smuggling and trade facilitation amongst others,” the statement further added.