Nigeria Customs Service Board appoints of DCGs, ACGs

By Bisi LAWAL

The Nigeria Customs Service Board has confirmed the appointment of five Deputy Comptrollers-General (DCGs) and eight Assistant Comptrollers-General (ACGs) to fill the vacancies created by some senior officers who recently retired from the Service.

The Board at its 59th regular meeting chaired by the Minister of Finance and Coordinating Minister for the Economy, Mr. Wale Edun at the Nigeria Customs Service Headquarters in Abuja confirmed as follow: OO Peters (rtd), DCG /Commander Training and Doctrine Command; BM Jibo, DCG Enforcement Inspection & Investigation; BU Nwanfor, DCG Excise, Free Trade Zone & Industrial Incentives; SA Bomai, DCG Commander Training and Doctrine Command, and CK Niagwan, DCG Tariff & Trade.

B Imam, ACG Board, AAS Oloyede; ACG Trade & Tariff, SK Dangaldima; ACG/Zonal Coordinator Zone ‘B’; A Abdulazeez, ACG/Zonal Coordinator Zone ‘D’; SA Yusuf, ACG Human Resource Development; NP Umoh, ACG Training and Doctrine Command; CO Obih; ACG/Zonal Coordinator Zone ‘C’, and S Chiroma, ACG Strategic Research and Policy.

The Comptroller General of Customs, Bashir Adewale Adeniyi congratulated the newly confirmed officers, charging 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.

The principles of federal character, seniority and merit guided the appointments approved by the Board.