The Nigeria Customs Service, NCS, has restated its determination and commitment to sustain the anti-smuggling war across Nigeria’s borders.
The Comptroller General of the Service, Mr Adewale Adeniyi, made this known at the opening ceremony of the News Agency of Nigeria’s, NAN, 1st Annual International Lecture on Thursday in Abuja.
Adeniyi said that NCS as part of its constitutional duties was tackling smuggling at Nigeria’s borders and ports, to combat the proliferation of arms and other contraband which was yielding positive results.
He described the event as timely following President Bola Tinubu ‘s economic reforms, which required an enabling environment to thrive.
According to him, NAN has demonstrated its capacity to invest in other arms of the media, through its various products and services.
He said that the recent parley with the media indicated that the newspaper industry required intervention in the access to prints for their publications.
“Editors should rally round the president in addressing this,” he said.
In his goodwill message, the Minister of Steel Development, Prince Shuaibu Audu, commended NAN for bringing renowned security experts to chart a new course in proffering solutions to insecurity in the sahel region.
He expressed confidence that the event would deliver home grown solutions to end the lingering security challenge.
