Meritorious service : Customs board confirms appointment of 5 DCGs, 8 ACGs

Meritorious service :
Customs board confirms appointment of 5 DCGs, 8 ACGs

Following what can be described as meritorious service and exemplary conduct, the Nigeria Customs Service Board (NCSB) has confirmed appointment of five (5) Deputy Comptrollers-General (DCGs) and eight (8) Assistant Comptrollers-General (ACGs) of Customs during its 59th regular meeting.

The meeting, chaired by the Honourable Minister of Finance and Coordinating Minister for the Economy, Mr. Wale Edun, was held at the Nigeria Customs Service Headquarters in Abuja, on Tuesday, May 14, 2024. Details of the confirmed appointments are as follows:

Deputy Comptrollers General, DCGs include O. O. PETERS DCG /Commander Training and Doctrine Command (rtd); B. M. JIBO (DCG Enforcement Inspection & Investigation; B. U. NWANFOR (DCG Excise, Free Trade Zone & Industrial Incentives); S. A. BOMAI DCG (Commander Training and Doctrine Command); C. K. NIAGWAN (DCG Tariff & Trade).

Others include Assistant Comptrollers General (ACGs); B. IMAM (ACG Board); AAS OLOYEDE, ACG (Trade & Tariff);
S.K. DANGALDIMA (ACG/Zonal Coordinator Zone ‘B’); A. ABDUL AZEEZ (ACG/Zonal Coordinator Zone ‘D’; S. A. YUSUF ACG (Human Resource Development); N. P. UMOH (ACG Training and Doctrine Command);
C. O. OBIH (ACG/Zonal Coordinator Zone ‘C’); S. CHIROMA (ACG Strategic Research and Policy).

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.

These appointments are a testament to the officers’ exemplary services and dedication to Nigeria Customs Service. The NCSB remains committed to providing strategic leadership to ensure effective and efficient service delivery for optimum performance.

While thanking the retired members of management for their meritorious service, the Comptroller General of Customs, CGC Bashir Adewale Adeniyi MFR, 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 in line with global best practice.