FG SHOPS FOR NEW CUSTOMS BOSS

…rejects Dikko’s request for extension of service
IN efforts to sustain the ongoing reforms in Nigeria Customs Service, NCS, the Federal Government has turned down the application for extension of service by the current head of the agency, Abdullahi Dikko.
It was gathered that the Comptroller General, CG, of Customs had been making frantic efforts to keep his job, but the Presidency resisted the move.
After months of speculations, it had now been confirmed that government is now in search of a replacement for the Customs Comptroller General.
Sources at the Ministry of Finance told Vanguard last week that the minister, Dr. Ngozi Okonjo Iweala, who is also the chairman of the board of Nigeria Customs Service, had been able to convince the Presidency of the need to find a replacement for Dikko.

CUSTOMS CG DENIES MEETING WITH ATIKU IN LAGOS

The Comptroller-General of the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS), Alhaji Abdullahi Dikko Inde (CFR) has denied that he met with former Vice President Atiku Abubakar at an undisclosed hotel in Lagos last week, as was reported in some newspapers and other media of mass communication (LEADERSHIP not included).
In a statement issued and signed by the media aide to the Customs CG, Mr Joseph Chidi, the Customs boss said it was important to put the fact straight, and declared that he never met with the former VP, but was in Lagos on ‘a working visit’ to assess the readiness of the NCS to take over the destination inspection (DI) from concessionaires by December this year.