PTML Customs Holds Leadership Seminar for Senior Officers

.Rewards Two for Outstanding Performance

ZAINAB JUNAID 

In line with the vision of Comptroller -General of Customs, Adewale Adeniyi in promoting an efficient, motivated, and service-oriented workforce, the Port & Terminal Multiservices Limited (PTML) Area Command of the Nigeria Customs Service on Tuesday, 11 August, 2026 held a seminar aimed at strengthening leadership capacity, professionalism, and teamwork among senior officers of the Command.

Declaring the seminar open, the Acting Area Controller, DC Nura Ibrahim Miko, emphasised that effective leadership is critical to achieving the Service’s core mandates of revenue generation, trade facilitation, and suppression of smuggling.

This was disclosed in a statement issued on Friday, 13 August, 2026, by the Command’s spokesperson, CSC Abdullahi Tsafe Abubakar, who noted the seminar was held at the Conference Hall of PTML Command.

According to the statement, DC Miko noted that the Command remains committed to initiatives that promote the welfare, health, and productivity of officers, including the recently commenced Work-Life Balance Initiative.

Participants were taken through sessions on strategic leadership, effective communication, decision-making, conflict management, and ethical conduct. The Acting Area Controller delivered the lecture of the first session on the topic : “Leadership and Followership: Building a Culture of Collaboration and Excellence.”

DC Miko commended participants for their active engagement and charged the officers to translate the lessons learnt into improved service delivery within the Command. He also used the opportunity to reassure stakeholders and the trading community of the Command’s commitment to professionalism, transparency, and ease of doing business .

Officers were drawn from the rank of Chief Superintendent of Customs to Deputy Comptroller of Customs.

The training also featured recognition of excellence as two officers, Assistant Comptroller J.O. Ezekuse, Officer-in-Charge, Mile 2 Gate; and Chief Superintendent of Customs C.A. Ibrahim, Officer-in-Charge, Legal Unit of the Command were rewarded for their outstanding performances.

The Acting Controller admonished all officers to keep giving their best in their services to the country as the command has a mechanism to identify and reward diligence, selflessness and efficient service delivery