{"id":8279,"date":"2025-07-31T16:31:15","date_gmt":"2025-07-31T16:31:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peoplesforumonline.com.ng\/about\/?p=8279"},"modified":"2025-07-31T16:31:15","modified_gmt":"2025-07-31T16:31:15","slug":"tinubu-extends-customs-cgs-tenure-by-one-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peoplesforumonline.com.ng\/about\/2025\/07\/31\/tinubu-extends-customs-cgs-tenure-by-one-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Tinubu Extends Customs CG&#8217;s Tenure By One Year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Presidency has announced that the tenure of the Comptroller-General of the Nigeria Customs Service, Mr. Bashir Adewale Adeniyi, MFR, which is due to expire on August 31, 2025, has been extended by one year.<\/p>\n<p>According to a press statement signed by Bayo Onanuga,<br \/>\nSpecial Adviser to the President on Information &#038; Strategy, the extension, approved by President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, GCFR, will enable Mr. Adeniyi to consolidate ongoing reforms and complete critical initiatives of this administration, including:<br \/>\n \u2022 The modernisation of the Nigeria Customs Service;<br \/>\n \u2022 The implementation of the National Single Window Project; and<br \/>\n \u2022 The execution of Nigeria\u2019s obligations under the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) protocol.<\/p>\n<p>The statement noted that President Tinubu recognises Mr. Adeniyi\u2019s steadfast leadership and commitment to service.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The President is confident that this extension will further strengthen the Nigeria Customs Service in achieving its strategic mandate of trade facilitation, revenue generation, and border security&#8221;, the statement added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Presidency has announced that the tenure of the Comptroller-General of the Nigeria Customs Service, Mr. Bashir Adewale Adeniyi, MFR, which is due to expire on August 31, 2025, has been extended by one year. According to a press statement signed by Bayo Onanuga, Special Adviser to the President on Information &#038; Strategy, the extension, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7306,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8279","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peoplesforumonline.com.ng\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8279","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/peoplesforumonline.com.ng\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/peoplesforumonline.com.ng\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peoplesforumonline.com.ng\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peoplesforumonline.com.ng\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8279"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/peoplesforumonline.com.ng\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8279\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8280,"href":"https:\/\/peoplesforumonline.com.ng\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8279\/revisions\/8280"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peoplesforumonline.com.ng\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7306"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peoplesforumonline.com.ng\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peoplesforumonline.com.ng\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peoplesforumonline.com.ng\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}