Shittu Chairs Customs Comptroller General’s Award Dinner Tomorrow
Prince Olayiwola Shittu, former National President of Association of Nigerian Licensed Customs Agent in mis (ANLCA) and Chairman of Skelas Group, will tomorrow chair the maritime industry stakeholders’ award dinner being organised by Nigerian Maritime Journalists to honour the Comptroller-General of Nigeria Customs Service, Bashir Adewale Adeniyi, MFR.
The event holding at the Lagos Airport Hotel, Awolowo Road, Ikeja, Lagos State, by 6pm, is expected to have the creme de la creme of the maritime industry from CEOs of government agencies to freight forwarding bigwigs, ship owners, terminal operators, shipping lines, regulators, journalists among others.
Nigerian Maritime Journalists, comprising all the associations covering the maritime beat, will tomorrow come together to honour the Customs CG as the “Iconic Maritime Personality of the year 2024″
All maritime journalists, cutting across print, electronic and online media, led by the different beat associations unanimously decided to to honour the CGC. They include 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), Congress of Nigerian Maritime Media Practitioners (CONMMEP), as well as those who do not belong to any of the beat associations.
The organisers, mainly journalists 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.