The Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) has said that it would continue to train its officers and men to meet the challenges of contemporary information management.
The Comptroller-General of Customs, Alhaji Abdullahi Diko-Inde, made the remark at a workshop for public relations officers of the service in Lagos.
Dikko-Inde told the officers that more of such training would be organised for them before the end of the year.
The Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) has said that it would continue to train its officers and men to meet the challenges of contemporary information management.
The Comptroller-General of Customs, Alhaji Abdullahi Diko-Inde, made the remark at a workshop for public relations officers of the service in Lagos.
Dikko-Inde told the officers that more of such training would be organised for them before the end of the year.
The customs boss, who was represented by Mr Victor Gbemudu, the Zonal Coordinator for Zone “A” Command, said that similar training had been held for officers in other parts of the country.
Dikko-Inde said: “The essence of this workshop cannot be over-emphasised. This workshop is ongoing and it will continue to go on. I was made to understand that in June 2011, you had one in Calabar on "the effective PRO for Nigerian Custom Service."
"In March, 2012 you had another one in Owerri on "fostering effective Customs and Media Relations", and now in September, we have one being organised by NAN on "skill for effective public relations information and press management to power transformation agenda".
"The essence of this workshop is one of the cardinal points of our controller-general, which centres on capacity building."
Dikko-Inde lauded NAN for its quick dissemination of news and expressed the hope that the officers would reflect what they had learnt on their jobs.
Speaking at the event, the Managing Director of NAN, Mrs Oluremi Oyo, said that the training was to assist the officers in disseminating information in a concise, authoritative and creative manner.
“We hope that this exercise that the customs officers are going through will help. The News Agency of Nigeria offers this ancillary service to all and sundry in the hope that, we will be contributing to the overall agenda of making Nigeria a better place, a place where services are delivered as at when due."
In his remark, Mr Alli Hakeem, the Managing Editor, NAN Multimedia Services, urged the officers to be proactive in the management of information.
Hakeem said the prevailing security situation in the country required public relations officers in government service to be thorough in the dissemination of information.
He spoke on: "Towards effective information management in public relations: Overcoming challenges and exploring opportunities."
The theme of the four-day workshop is: "Skills for effective public relations, information and press management to power the transformation agenda".
Also speaking at the event, the Public Relations Officer, Nigeria Customs Service; Mr Wale Adeniyi, urged his counterparts to embrace internet as a tool of disseminating information to the public.
He said that the customs officer could use the internet to cope with the fast pace at which the nation was changing.
“I want them to increase their capacity to relate with their environment in a better way and have a better knowledge of the nature of the changes.
“The workshop is about building the capacity of officers to deal with the challenges they face in their day-to-day information management in NCS,’’ he said
Adeniyi said that it was a known fact that the environment was constantly changing.
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