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  • Passport reforms: Nigeria Immigration redeploys 15 comptrollers

    Passport reforms: Nigeria Immigration redeploys 15 comptrollers

    The acting Comptroller General, Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS) Mrs Caroline Adepoju has approved the immediate reposting of 15 passport officers in a bid to strengthen the ongoing passport reform process.

    This is contained in a statement issued by the Acting Public Relations Officer, Assistant Comptroller of Immigration, Kenneth Kure on Thursday in Abuja.

    Adepoju said that the NIS management was determined to upgrade the Passport administration both at home and in the foreign missions.

    She assured that the service would not go back on its avowed position to make passport offices across board to be purely Service oriented.

    She named some of the affected passport offices as Alausa and Festac both in Lagos, as well as the ones in Edo, Anambra, Bayelsa, Kogi, Nassarawa, Plateau, Enugu, Abia, Kano, Taraba and Ondo, among others.

    The acting CG maintained that only the best brains who have fully adopted the mantra of Service above self, would henceforth be posted to sensitive places.

    “This is so because our people deserve nothing short of the best, ” she said.

    The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the posting order was signed by the Deputy Comptroller General (DCG), incharge of Human Resources, Mr Usman Babangida.

  • Customs CG approves redeployment of 48 comptrollers

    The Comptroller-General of Customs (CGC), Retired Col. Hameed Ali, has approved the redeployment of 48 comptrollers for more effective and efficient service delivery.

    The redeployment was announced in a statement signed by the Service Public Relations Officer, Mr Joseph Attah, on Thursday in Abuja.

    The statement said that the redeployment was in line with the ongoing reforms of the service.

    It said that Comptroller Madugu Mustapha was moved from Sokoto/Kebbi/Zamfara Command to Open Company, while Comptroller Udo-aka, E.A was moved from Investigation to Oyo/Osun Command, among others.

    According to the statement, the CGC compliance team has been disbanded, adding that a new team would soon be reconstituted.

    “The new compliance team is divided into three, Team A for Western axis, Team B for Northern axis and Team C for Eastern axis.

    “They are to complement the Federal Operation Units in order to vigorously crackdown on all forms of smuggling activities nationwide with particular focus on the enforcement of non-importation of rice and vehicles through the land borders,” the statement said.

    It said that the new CGC compliance team would be coordinated by Comptroller Azarema Ahmed, who was until the appointment, Comptroller, License and Permit at the headquarter.

    The statement said that each of the axes would be led by an Assistant Comptrollers.

    It said that the CGC expressed his determination to strategically reposition the service as a crucial contributor to the success story of the nation, adding that “all revenue leakages must be blocked.”

    The statement said that the CGC called on all stakeholders to support the service by being compliant as well as provide needed information for the operatives to nip smuggling in the bud.

     

     

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