By Ajibola Adedoye
The Nigerian Maritime Journalists (NMJ) has fixed Thursday, February 13, 2025 to bestow the Comptroller-General of Nigeria Customs Service, Bashir Adewale Adeniyi, with the “Iconic Maritime Personality of the Year 2024”
Innocent Orok, Secretary, Award Planning Committee of NMJ made this known in a statement issued to journalists today.
The epoch-making event, which is the first of its kind in the Nigerian maritime industry, will hold at the Lagos Airport Hotel, Awolowo Road, Ikeja, Lagos State, by 6pm.
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The event, which was earlier scheduled to hold on January 16th, was postponed due to some unforeseen circumstances.
According to Orok; “The need for the Nigerian maritime media practitioners to honour the CGC is a unanimous decision by all maritime journalists covering the maritime beat, cutting across print, electronic and online media, led by the different beat associations”.
These 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), Congress of Nigerian Maritime Media Practitioners (CONMMEP), Shipping Correspondents Association of Nigeria (SCAN) and Online Maritime Media Association of Nigeria (OMMAN) as well as those who do not belong to any association.
He said “NMJ 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.
“The organizers, beside this superlative performance, also appreciate the Customs boss’ unrelenting support to the media, especially the maritime media. This honour is also to set an agenda for other agencies of government and their appointees that the ever vibrant and dogged maritime media are watching them”.
The award ceremony will attract special guests from sister-agencies, terminal operators, shipping companies, freight forwarders, Customs brokers, as well as other maritime stakeholders.
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