By Innocent Orok
The Tin Can Island Port Command of Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) and its Area Controller, Comptroller Dera Nnadi, mni has been honoured with an award and a Certificate of Excellence at the CGC’S Awards Ceremony held on Friday, November 29, 2024 in Abuja.
Comptroller Dera Nnadi mni, nicknamed by his media friends as ” The Star Boy Controller” was celebrated by his colleagues and stakeholders at the awards ceremony. He won an award for “Distinctive Performance” and another award of “Excellence for Work Place Transformation” given his leadership and commitment to delivering on his mandates at the Tin Can Island port Command of the NCS.
The awards, were presented to him by the Comptroller General of Customs, Bashir Adewale Adeniyi MFR, in recognition of the Command’s various achievements, transformational drive , and innovative solutions to ensure trade facilitation.
The awards read ” Winner CGC’s Special Award For Work Place Transformation as well as ‘In Recognition of your Distinctive Performance and Commitment to the Ideas and Vision of the Nigeria Customs Service.”
Under the leadership of Comptroller Dera Nnadi, mni the Tin Can Island Customs Command has generated
N1.2trillion as revenue into government coffers as of November 2024 and successfully remodelled the Tin Can Island Port command Administrative building built over 40 years ago.
Comptroller Dera Nnadi dedicated the achievements recorded to Officers and Men of the command. He described the achievements as a result of teamwork, commitment, focus, and dedication of all the officers of the command.
He expressed his appreciation to the Comptroller General of Customs, Adewale Adeniyi, MFR, for the support given to the command and honour bestowed on him. He also called for continuous support from all stakeholders.
He further described the awards as a call for increased commitment and a challenge to sustain and improve on the pace of work at the command.
Comptroller Dera, also urged business men and women at the Tin Can Island port to take advantage of the Trade Modernisation project initiatives of the Comptroller General of Customs, to ensure the use of technology, trade facilitation and paperless port procedures at the port.
The Tin Can Customs CAC also admonished officers of the command to see the awards as a motivation and challenge to work harder.
