By Omenihu Alfred fibmn
The Nigeria Customs Service Board (NCSB) at it’s 59th regular meeting on Tuesday,N 14th of May at Customs Service Headquarters in Abuja has validated the appointment of five (5) Deputy Comptrollers-General (DCGs) and eight (8) Assistant Comptrollers-General (ACGs) of Customs.
The meeting, which was chaired by the Honorable Minister of Finance and Coordinating Minister for the Economy, Mr. Wale Edun presented details of the confirmed appointments as follows:
*Deputy Comptrollers General (DCGs)*
I. OO PETERS DCG /Commander Training and Doctrine Command (rtd)
II. BM JIBO (DCG Enforcement Inspection & Investigation)
III. BU NWANFOR (DCG Excise, Free Trade Zone & Industrial Incentives)
IV. SA BOMAI DCG (Commander Training and Doctrine Command)
V. CK NIAGWAN (DCG Tariff & Trade)
*Assistant Comptrollers General (ACGs)*
I. B IMAM (ACG Board)
II. AAS OLOYEDE ACG (Trade & Tariff)
III. SK DANGALDIMA (ACG/Zonal Coordinator Zone ‘B’)
IV. A ABDUL AZEEZ (ACG/Zonal Coordinator Zone ‘D’)
V. SA YUSUF ACG (Human Resource Development)
VI. NP UMOH (ACG Training and Doctrine Command)
VII. CO OBIH (ACG/Zonal Coordinator Zone ‘C’)
VIII. S CHIROMA (ACG Strategic Research and Policy)
3. The new appointments were made to fill the vacancies created by some senior officers who recently retired from the Service. The principles of federal character, seniority and merit guided the appointments approved by the Board.
4. 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.
5. 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
