Shake-up in Customs as Acting CG reshuffles Controllers, Appoints 2 Ag. ACGs

Shake-up in Customs as Acting CG reshuffles Controllers, Appoints 2 Ag. ACGs

 

Joy Mmereole Okoli

 

 

The Acting Comptroller-General of Nigeria Customs Service (NCS), Adewale Adeniyi MFR, has appointed two new Assistant Comptrollers-Generals and redeployed some Area Controllers.

 

This was disclosed In a press statement made available by the National Public Relations Officer, Abdullahi Maiwada, on Wednesday,September 6, 2023. 

He said the development was in response to the statutory retirement of some management members of Nigeria Customs.

The newly appointed Acting Assistant Comptroller Generals are; ACG Florence Nanu  Ogar-Modey and Queen Ogbudu as Training and Doctrine Command (TRADOC) and Zonal Coordinator Zone B, respectively.

Some of the Comptrollers redeployed to various Customs formations include Compt. Jaiyeoba Jide from Oyo/Osun Area Command to Apapa Area Command, Compt. Dera Nnadi from Seme to Tin-Can Island Port, Compt. Timi Bomodi from KLT to Seme, Compt. Ahmed Abe from PCA Zone ‘C’ to Kaduna Area Command and Compt. Babandede Mohammad from Lilypond Export Command to Lagos Free Trade Zone Command.

Others are Compt. Dauda Ibrahim Chana from Investigation Headquarters to Kano/Jigawa Area Command, Compt. Martina Tilleygyado from Non-Intrusive Inspection to KLT Area Command, Compt. Oloyode Adekunle from Tin-Can Island Port to Import &/Export Headquarters while Compt. Zanna Chiroma will be leaving Import & Export for PCA Zone ‘C, among many others.

The Acting Comptroller-General congratulated the newly appointed/redeployed officers and charged them to put more efforts into achieving the service’s core mandates of Revenue Generation, Suppression of Smuggling, and Trade Facilitation.