Comptroller General of Customs, Bashir Adewale Adeniyi MFR.

All is set for much-anticipated award dinner organised by Nigerian Maritime Journalists to honour the excellent performance of the Comptroller-General of Nigeria Customs Service, Bashir Adewale Adeniyi, MFR, today, Thursday. February 13, 2025.

The event will hold at the Lagos Airport Hotel, Awolowo Road, Ikeja, Lagos State, by 6pm, and is expected to have the creme la creme of the maritime industry stakeholders ranging from CEOs of government agencies to freight forwarding bigwigs, top ship owners, terminal operators, shipping lines, regulators, among others.

Nigerian Maritime Journalists, comprising all the associations covering the maritime beat, have come together to honour the Customs CG as the ‘Iconic Maritime Personality of the year 2024’

A one-time President of Association of Nigerian Licensed Customs Agents ANLCA and Chairman of Skelas Group, Prince Olayiwola Shittu, is expected to chair the event where many maritime industry stakeholders have also confirmed their attendance. 

The need for the Nigerian maritime media practitioners to honour the CGC is a unanimous decision by all maritime journalists, cutting across print, electronic and online media, led by the different beat associations.

These include the Non-Aligned Maritime journalists, who a made up of those, who do not belong to any of the associations, 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 Nigerian Maritime Media Practitioners CONMMEP.

They believe that CG Adeniyi has registered sterling and excellent performance since assumption of office as the Customs CGC.

These include unprecedented revenue collection, anti-smuggling activities, trade facilitation, national security, staff welfare, inter-agency collaboration, infrastructural upgrade, Information and Communication Technology, and Corporate Social Responsibility, among others.