… Launches mentor-mentee plan for senior officersBy Nkiruka Nnorom
The Nigeria Customs Service, NCS, has pledged to build its next decade of operations around strategic foresight with all proposals from its pioneer senior officer graduates to be embedded in a new 2026–2035 policy framework.
The Comptroller-General of Customs,Bashir Adewale Adeniyi, stated this at the graduation ceremony of 40 senior officers from the Advanced Senior Executive Course at the Nigerian Institute of International Affairs, NIIA, in Lagos.
Represented by Gabo Aliu, Comptroller, Federal Operations Unit, NCS, Adeniyi described global customs operations as dynamic and evolving, stressing that the Service must be futuristic and responsive to emerging trade realities. He added that incoming framework would be all-inclusive with the graduates’ deliverables forming the basis of the strategic policy direction for the next generation of customs officers.
Aliu said the CGC’s administration was forward-thinking, responsive and resilient with a clear objective to position the NCS at the front vanguard of trade, policy formulation and integration.
