#BBB NEWS| Customs Names Six Deputy Comptrollers, Eight Assistant Comptrollers

The Comptroller-General of Customs, Col. Hameed Ali (Rtd) (pictured above) has appointed six new Deputy Comptrollers-General of Customs. 

The officers, who are all currently Assistant Comptrollers-General, will serve in an acting capacity in their new position, a statement by Public Relations Officer Wale Adeniyi said.    

The affected officers and their posts are: Idris Suleiman (Finance Administration and Technical Service); Iya Umar (Tariff and Trade); Dan Ugo (Enforcement Investigation and Inspection); Grace Adeyemo (Excise, FTZ & Industrial Incentive); Austin Warikoru (Human Resource Development); and Paul Ukaigwe (Strategic Research and Policy).

Mr. Ali also announced the appointment, also on an acting basis, of eight Comptrollers to occupy the new positions of Assistant Comptrollers-General:

#BBB NEWS| Nigeria Customs Release Obasanjo’s 'My Watch'

The Nigeria Customs Service on Thursday said that it had released former President Olusegun Obasanjo’s autobiography titled, My Watch.

The News Agency of Nigeria reported that the NCS Comptroller-General, Alhaji Dikko Abdullahi, made the disclosure to newsmen when he inaugurated two new patrol boats of the service in Lagos.

Abdullahi said that the container was released following the vacation of an FCT High Court order restraining the former President from publishing, printing or offering for sale, his autobiography titled, “My Watch’’ on Tuesday.

“Customs got the initial order of the court to stop the container and now that the court asks us to release the container, so be it,” he said.