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Nigerian Maritime Journalists To Honour Customs CG As ‘2024 Iconic Maritime Personality’

Following his sterling performance as helmsman of Nigeria Customs Service (NCS), the Comptroller General of NCS, Bashir Adewale Adeniyi MFR, is set to be decorated as the “Iconic Maritime Personality of the Year 2024” by Nigerian Maritime Journalists (NMJ).

The award ceremony is scheduled to hold on Thursday, 16th January, 2025 at the Apapa Port Customs Command Auditorium, by 12noon prompt.
According to the organizers, Nigerian maritime media practitioners were unanimous with the decision to honour the CGC as journalists covering the maritime beat, cutting across print, electronic and online media, from different beat associations including; the Maritime Reporters Association of Nigeria (MARAN), League of Maritime Editors (LOME), Association of Maritime Journalists of Nigeria (AMJON), Maritime Journalists Association of Nigeria (MAJAN), Shipping Correspondents Association of Nigeria (SCAN), Online Maritime Media Association of Nigeria (OMMAN) and Congress of Maritime Reporters Association of Nigeria (CONMMEP).

The Chairman of the event’s Planning Committee, Mr. Dele Aderibigbe, observed that Nigeria Customs Service under Adewale Adeniyi has been reconnected to international frontiers as an innovative and proactive agency even as the service recorded new milestones in revenue collection, anti-smuggling activities, trade facilitation, ICT, modernisation, and inter-agency collaboration, among others.

“This honour is very symbolic. It is the first time in the maritime sub-sector that all the journalists covering the beat will come together to honour a deserving performer per excellence, who has made the Customs and Nigeria proud by his purposeful, professional and patriotic leadership.

“It is also to set an agenda for other agencies of government and their appointees that the ever vibrant and dogged maritime media are watching them. We are inviting special guests, especially other agencies’ heads and maritime stakeholders to come and witness this great event, which is first of its kind in the Nigerian maritime industry,” he said.

Aderibigbe equally remarked that the award couldn’t have come at a better time than during the Renewed Hope Agenda of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, who is looking for focused and dedicated leaders to take the Nigerian economy out of the woods.

In a nomination letter sent to the CGC by the Secretary, Award Planning Committee, Mr Innocent Orok, the NMJ stressed that Adeniyi’s accomplishments are incontestable and have attracted national and international laurels to the Customs boss, the Service, and the nation.

“It is partly for these reasons that the Leadership Newspaper Group recently honoured you with the award of the Public Service Personality of the Year. Maritime journalists, comprising both print, electronic and online media covering the beat, are happy to be part of this history-making with you as partners in progress.”

“In appreciation of your superlative performance and, by extension, your unrelenting support to the media, especially the maritime media, we nominate you as the ICONIC MARITIME PERSONALITY OF THE YEAR.”

This information was disseminated via a press statement signed by the Chairman, Award Planning Committee, Mr. Dele Aderibigbe and the Secretary, Award Planning Committee, Mr. Innocent Orok.

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