ABUJA, Nigeria — President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has granted a final six-month tenure extension to the Comptroller-General of the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS), Mr. Bashir Adewale Adeniyi, MFR.
The strategic administrative extension was officially announced on Friday evening, June 19, 2026, by the Presidency to stabilize key ongoing border-tech reforms and oversee an orderly institutional succession.
Okay News reports that Adeniyi’s initial tenure extension was originally slated to expire on August 1, 2026. With this latest executive directive, his leadership has been pushed to February 2027, explicitly tasking him to complete and consolidate the full operational implementation of the National Single Window project—the federal government’s flagship digital trade portal designed to streamline port clearing processes and eliminate massive revenue leakages.
Special Adviser to the President on Information and Strategy, Mr. Bayo Onanuga, clarified that during this transition window, Adeniyi will work closely with the Nigeria Customs Service Board to fast-track the promotion of eligible senior officers to the rank of Comptroller of Customs. Concurrently, the Customs boss will oversee the compulsory statutory retirement of personnel who have reached the 60-year age limit or completed 35 years of active service. Adeniyi, an alumnus of Obafemi Awolowo University who joined the service in the late 1980s, rose through the ranks from a core public relations specialist to an Assistant Comptroller-General in 2020, before his ultimate elevation to the apex office by President Tinubu in June 2023.
