The Comptroller General of the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS), CGC Bashir Adewale Adeniyi, has won the Sun Newspaper’s 2024 Public Service Award.
Comptroller Adeniyi claimed the honour at the Sun Awards ceremony held at Eko Hotels and Suites, Victoria Island (VI), Lagos on Saturday, March 1, 2025.
Speaking upon receiving the award, he acknowledged that the award is a charge for improved performance at the Service.
“This kind of recognition is very encouraging and inspiring. Through our core mandates, we contribute our own quota to development, revenue generation, trade facilitation, and security. This is a call for better service delivery, a call for us to do more than we are doing, and we are ready for that in 2025,” the Customs boss said.
The Comptroller declared that the NCS will be introducing Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) initiatives in the coming weeks, aimed at positively impacting communities across the country.
“By the grace of God, we will be doing more that will impact our communities through Corporate Social Responsibility programmes that we are going to be launching in about two weeks. This is going to be community-focused, and we are going to be anchoring it on the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and the eight priority areas of President Bola Tinubu,” he disclosed.
Adeniyi explained that the initiatives will focus on critical areas such as education, healthcare, and clean water supply, ensuring that communities where Customs officers serve benefit directly from the Service’s outreach efforts.
He expressed gratitude and dedicated the award to all officers and men of the NCS, affirming their hard work and commitment to making a positive impact in the country.
Dignitaries present at the event include Senator Mohammed Ali Ndume, Minister of Aviation and Aerospace Management, Festus Keyamo; Minister of State for Foreign Affairs, Ambassador Bianca Ojukwu; Governor of Anambra State, Prof. Chukwuma Soludo.
Others are former Governor of Kano State and National Chairman of the APC, Alhaji Abdullahi Ganduje, Captains of Industries, Royal Fathers, Zonal Coordinator, Zone ‘A’, ACG Charles Orbih, Area Controllers in Zone A, to mention a few.
