The new Comptroller-General of the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS), Adewale Adeniyi has been decorated by Vice-President Kashim Shettima.
His decoration comes a week after he was appointed by President Bola Tinubu.
The Vice President described the appointment of Adeniyi by the President as a morale booster for officers in the service.
The brief ceremony witnessed by the Chief of Staff to the President, Mr. Femi Gbajabiamila at the Presidential Villa.
Shettima, in a statement on Monday by the Director of Information, Office of the Vice President, Olusola Abiola, congratulated Adeniyi for bringing professionalism back to the service.
According to the statement, “Now, every Customs officer can aspire to occupy the pinnacle of his or her profession.
“In the last 8 years, the Nigeria Customs Service has gone through a period of transition. In some areas, we recorded progress – we made remarkable progress in E-Customs; we made a lot of breakthroughs in capacity building.
“But the Customs Service can still live to its full potentials when we bring in more innovation to drive Customs operations. These are the kind of things we are looking at in the years ahead,” Shettima said.
