PTML Command Organises Leadership Seminar For Senior Officers To Enhance Service Delivery
By Asuquo Nuwak
PTML Command Organises Leadership Seminar For Senior Officers To Enhance Service Delivery
••• As Acting Customs Area Controller, Deputy Comptroller Nura Miko presents certificates of excellence to two deserving officers
The Port & Terminal Multiservices Limited (PTML) Area Command of the Nigeria Customs Service on Tuesday the 11th of August , 2026 successfully organised a Leadership Seminar aimed at strengthening leadership capacity, professionalism, and teamwork among senior officers of the command.
The seminar which was held at the conference hall of PTML command was organised in line with the vision of the Comptroller-General of Customs, Bashir Adewale Adeniyi, PhD, MFR, FNIPR, PSC+, to build a more efficient, motivated, and service-oriented workforce.
The Acting Customs Area Controller, DC Nura Ibrahim Miko, who declared the seminar open emphasised that effective leadership is critical to achieving the Service’s core mandates of revenue generation, trade facilitation, and suppression of smuggling.
He 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.
During the seminar, participants were taken through sessions on strategic leadership, effective communication, decision-making, conflict management, and ethical conduct, while the Acting Customs Area Controller delivered the lecture of the first session on the topic : “Leadership and Followership: Building a Culture of Collaboration and Excellence”.
DC Miko, who commended participants for their active engagement and charged the officers to translate the lessons learnt into improved service delivery within the command, also used the opportunity to reassure stakeholders and the trading community of the command’s commitment to professionalism, transparency, and ease of doing business .
Significantly, participants in the leadership seminar were drawn from the rank of Chief Superintendent of Customs to Deputy Comptroller of Customs.
According to official report from the command, some of the highlights of the event included the presentation of certificates of excellence to 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.
At the end seminar, the Acting Customs Area 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.
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