Nigeria Customs Service Promotes 2, 634 Officers

Nigeria Customs Service Board (NCSB) at its 52nd Regular meeting approved the appointment of Five (5) Assistant Comptrollers General of Customs, promotion of 2,634 Officers, dismissal of One (1) ACG and compulsory retirement of another ACG.

Minister of Finance, Budget and National Planning and Chairman, NCS Board, Hajiya Zainab Ahmed who presided over the meeting said decisions taken during the meeting were meant to ginger and move the Service forward in-terms of manpower and operations.

The new Assistant Comptrollers General of Customs are, Mohammed Boyi (Doctrine Development), Adewale Adeniyi  (Commandant C&SC Gwagwalada), Jack Ajoku (Strategic Research and Policy), Olakunle Oyeleke (Training and Co-ordination) and Elton Edorhe (Zonal Coordinator, Zone ‘C’)

Details of the 2,634 Officers whose promotion became effective on January 1, 2019 are, 37 Deputy Comptrollers to Comptrollers of Customs, 110 Assistant Comptrollers of Customs to Deputy Comptrollers, 138 Chief Superintendent of Customs to Assistant Comptrollers, 93 Superintendent of Customs to Chief Superintendent of Customs, and 93 Deputy Superintendent of Customs to Superintendent of Customs.

Also, 1224 officers were elevated from Assistant Superintendent of Customs I to Deputy Superintendent of Customs, 475 were promoted from Assistant Superintendent of Customs II to Assistant Superintendent of Customs I, while 464 officers were elevated from Inspector of Customs to Assistant Superintendent of Customs II

However, 205 out of the 2,634 are Support Staff who also enjoyed promotion to various ranks.

In a statement issued in Abuja, Customs Public Relations Officer (PRO), Joseph Attah, said the promotions were in-line with the reform agenda, adding that the Board took some disciplinary actions against two Senior Officers, including ACG Aminu Dahiru, who was dismissed for misconduct while ACG Bashir Abubakar was compulsorily retired for negligence.

The minister said the NCS was making progress and expressed the hope that the coming of the e-Customs will help improve NCS operations.