NIPSS Partners with Customs, Affirms Commitment to Nation Building

NIPSS Partners with Customs, Affirms Commitment to Nation Building

ZAINAB JUNAID

Ag. Comptroller General of Customs, Bashir Adewale Adeniyi MFR on Wednesday, formalized Memorandum of Understanding with National Institute for Policy and Strategic Studies(NIPSS) towards his forthcoming CGC Annual conference. 

Ag. CGC Adewale along with his counterpart, Professor Ayo Omotayo signed the MOU on Wednesday October 4, 2023 when the latter and his management team visited the former at Customs Headquarters Abuja. 

This information was obtained from official facebook page of Nigeria Customs Service(NCS). 

The collaboration, is to improve the ability of Officers and Men of the Nigeria Customs Service(NCS) in area of skills, attitudes and structures needed to function effectively.

While speaking, Ag. CGC Adewale expressed great enthusiasm for the collaboration and commended the Director General of the Institute, Professor Ayo Omotayo for the rigorous steps taken in making the dream a reality. 

He also appreciated the legal team of both Nigeria Customs Service and the Institute for working tirelessly to have the final documents. 

Emphasizing on the positivity this collaboration will bring to the Service, Ag. CGC Adewale restate commitment to ensure the motive behind the MoU is achieved.

On his part, the Director-General of the National Institute for Policy and Strategic Studies (NIPSS), Professor Ayo Omotayo, while speaking, narrated the agency’s reasons for engaging the NCS, which encapsulates assisting in the repositioning agenda of the NCS and making it more effective in the delivery of the Service's mandate.

He urged the Ag. Comptroller-General of Customs Bashir Adewale Adeniyi MFR to make the NCS become more of a repositioned Service not only in the collection of duties but also in the facilitation of trade and helping other sectors of the Nigerian economy to industrialise.

The DG of NIPSS emphasised the need for the Nigeria Customs Service to embrace data that can be used in modeling Nigeria's economy in the coming years.

The Director-General of NIPSS, Professor Ayo Omotayo, equally shared his excitement, at the same time, envisaged a new era of progress, driven by both organisations and collaboration, that would lead to the nation's advancement.