{"id":172020,"date":"2025-07-31T17:41:13","date_gmt":"2025-07-31T16:41:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/tinubu-extends-tenure-of-customs-boss-adeniyi"},"modified":"2025-07-31T19:11:36","modified_gmt":"2025-07-31T18:11:36","slug":"tinubu-extends-tenure-of-customs-boss-adeniyi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/tinubu-extends-tenure-of-customs-boss-adeniyi","title":{"rendered":"Tinubu extends tenure of Customs boss Adeniyi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>President Bola Tinubu has approved a one-year extension of the tenure of the Comptroller-General of the Nigeria Customs Service, Bashir Adewale Adeniyi.<\/p>\n<p>Adeniyi, whose tenure was initially scheduled to end on August 31, 2025, will now remain in office until August 2026.<\/p>\n<p>The announcement was made on Thursday in a statement by the President\u2019s Special Adviser on Information and Strategy, Bayo Onanuga.<\/p>\n<p>According to the statement, the extension is intended to allow Adeniyi to consolidate ongoing reforms and complete key initiatives under the Tinubu administration.<\/p>\n<p>Onanuga said the President recognised Adeniyi\u2019s leadership and expressed confidence that the extension would further strengthen the Customs Service in areas such as trade facilitation, revenue generation, and border security.<\/p>\n<p>Adeniyi was appointed Comptroller-General in October 2023 after serving in an acting capacity.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Nigeria<\/span> Follow <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Africa-Press<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. President Bola Tinubu has approved a one-year extension of the tenure of the Comptroller-General of the Nigeria Customs Service, Bashir Adewale Adeniyi. Adeniyi, whose tenure was initially scheduled to end on August 31, 2025, will now remain in office until August 2026. The announcement was made on Thursday in a statement by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":172019,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,14],"tags":[9081,1578,254,945],"class_list":["post-172020","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-policy","tag-adeniyi","tag-breaking","tag-nigeria","tag-tinubu"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Tinubu extends tenure of Customs boss Adeniyi - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"President Bola Tinubu has approved a one-year extension of the tenure of the Comptroller-General of the Nigeria Customs ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/tinubu-extends-tenure-of-customs-boss-adeniyi\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Tinubu extends tenure of Customs boss Adeniyi\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"President Bola Tinubu has approved a one-year extension of the tenure of the Comptroller-General of the Nigeria Customs ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/tinubu-extends-tenure-of-customs-boss-adeniyi\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2025-07-31T16:41:13+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2025-07-31T18:11:36+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2025\/07\/sm_1753972404.702991.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1200\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"720\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/tinubu-extends-tenure-of-customs-boss-adeniyi#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/tinubu-extends-tenure-of-customs-boss-adeniyi\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Tinubu extends tenure of Customs boss Adeniyi\",\"datePublished\":\"2025-07-31T16:41:13+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2025-07-31T18:11:36+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/tinubu-extends-tenure-of-customs-boss-adeniyi\"},\"wordCount\":145,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/tinubu-extends-tenure-of-customs-boss-adeniyi#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2025\/07\/sm_1753972404.702991.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Adeniyi\",\"breaking\",\"Nigeria\",\"Tinubu\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"Policy\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/tinubu-extends-tenure-of-customs-boss-adeniyi#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/tinubu-extends-tenure-of-customs-boss-adeniyi\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/tinubu-extends-tenure-of-customs-boss-adeniyi\",\"name\":\"Tinubu extends tenure of Customs boss Adeniyi - 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