Bashir Adewale Adeniyi

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Alhaji Bashir Adewale Adeniyi (MFR)
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NationalityNigerian
Education * Master of Arts in Communication Science, Universitaire Svizzera D’Italiana (USI), Lugano, Switzerland (2013)
OccupationActing Comptroller General of the Nigeria Customs Service
Years activeOver 30 years in the Nigeria Customs Service
AwardsMember of the Order of the Federal Republic (MFR) (2022)

Alhaji Bashir Adewale Adeniyi (MFR) is the Acting Comptroller General of the Nigeria Customs Service. He was conferred with the national honour of Member of the Order of the Federal Republic (MFR) by Former President Muhammadu Buhari on October 11, 2022. [1]

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Early life

Alhaji Bashir Adewale Adeniyi was born in Modakeke, Osun state, in the Western part of Nigeria. He completed his secondary school education at Modakeke High School in June 1979.

Education

He holds a Bachelor of Science in international relations from Obafemi Awolowo University, OAU Ile-Ife, earned in June 1987. He also obtained a Master of Arts in communication science from Università della Svizzera italiana (USI) in Lugano, Switzerland, in November 2013.

Career

Alhaji Bashir Adewale Adeniyi joined the Nigeria Customs Service, and rose to become Deputy Comptroller of Customs in 2012, and served as the Customs National Public Relations Officer (Headquarters Abuja) among other duties. [2]

He was appointed Comptroller of Customs in April 2017, and later[ when? ] appointed Deputy Commandant of the Nigeria Customs Command and Staff College Gwagwalada, Abuja.

Adeniyi became Assistant Comptroller General in February 2020, and supervised the seizure of $8.07 million cash being illegally taken out of Nigeria through the E-Wing of the international airport tarmac. [3]

He was appointed as the Commandant of the Nigeria Customs Command and Staff College Gwagwalada, Abuja. In January 2023, he became the Acting Deputy Comptroller-General of the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) and later, in June 2023, was appointed as the Acting Comptroller General of the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) by President Bola Ahmed Tinubu. [4]

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References

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