{"id":74046,"date":"2025-08-24T17:55:45","date_gmt":"2025-08-24T17:55:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=74046"},"modified":"2025-08-24T17:55:45","modified_gmt":"2025-08-24T17:55:45","slug":"customs-graduates-50-junior-officers-urges-discipline-innovation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/08\/24\/customs-graduates-50-junior-officers-urges-discipline-innovation\/","title":{"rendered":"Customs Graduates 50 Junior Officers, Urges Discipline, Innovation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Onyeanya Ebere Immaculata<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The Nigeria Customs Service (NCS), has graduated 50 officers from Junior Course 22 of the Nigeria Customs Command and Staff College, Gwagwalada, charging them to uphold discipline, innovation, and resilience in their service.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking at the graduation ceremony on Friday, August 22, 2025, at Ahmad Makarfi Hall, the Comptroller-General of Customs, Adewale Adeniyi, said the future of the Service depends on the young officers\u2019 dedication to excellence.<\/p>\n<p>He was represented by the Deputy Comptroller-General in charge of Human Resources Development, Greg Itotoh.<\/p>\n<p>Adeniyi urged the officers to put into practice the lessons gained from the intensive training, stressing that while the pains of training may fade, the virtues of courage, determination, and discipline must endure.<\/p>\n<p>The Commandant of the College, Assistant Comptroller-General Oluyomi Adebakin, described the graduation as a milestone, noting that the course was designed to prepare officers for emerging operational challenges.<\/p>\n<p>He explained that the training focused on leadership, discipline, and professional development, while also testing participants through health checks, physical drills, and teamwork exercises.<\/p>\n<p>Outstanding participants were honored for excellence in leadership, discipline, marksmanship, and academics.<\/p>\n<p>All 50 graduates received certificates and were charged to be worthy ambassadors of the institution.<\/p>\n<p>The NCS announced the graduation in a statement shared on X (formerly Twitter) on Sunday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Onyeanya Ebere Immaculata &nbsp; The Nigeria Customs Service (NCS), has graduated 50 officers from Junior Course 22 of the Nigeria Customs Command and Staff College, Gwagwalada, charging them to uphold discipline, innovation, and resilience in their service. Speaking at the graduation ceremony on Friday, August 22, 2025, at Ahmad Makarfi Hall, the Comptroller-General of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":74047,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74046","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74046","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74046"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74046\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74048,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74046\/revisions\/74048"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/74047"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74046"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74046"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74046"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}