CONMMEP Honours FOU Zone A Coordinator Gambo Aliyu For Excellence In Leadership, Trade Facilitation
_How Comptroller G.I. Aliyu Is Balancing Security and Trade in Nigeria’s Southwest_ By Lod Onyeji At the Congress of Nigerian Maritime Media Practitioners’ 2026 AGM in Ikeja, Lagos, one award cut through the usual ceremony. CONMMEP gave its _Leadership Excellence Award for Outstanding Enforcement and Trade Facilitation_ to Comptroller G.I. Aliyu, Coordinator of the Nigeria Customs Service, Federal Operations Unit, Zone A. The reason was not rhetoric. It was results oriented because zone A covers Nigeria’s busiest land-border corridor: Idiroko, Seme, Imeko, Ilara, and Ilaro. It is also the country’s most porous route for fuel smuggling, rice diversion, and duty evasion. Under Aliyu, FOU Zone A has shifted from raids to data. From Data based studies; the following are evidentiary of the Award winning Comptroller, 1. Revenue Protected: In a recent Operation Whirlwind action, the Unit seized and auctioned 20,500 litres of PMS and 5 vehicles with a combine...
