Customs to commission N19.6bn headquarters building tomorrow

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The Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) will commission its N19.6o5 billion new headquarters building in Abuja, this morning.

The Deputy Comptroller-General (Research and Policy) Mr. Adewale Adeniyi, who briefed the journalists this evening, described the edifice as “a smart building” with start-of-the art technology to monitor the  nation’s borders.

Conceived in 2002, Mr. Adeniyi who is the Chairman of the Commissioning Committee, disclosed that the building underwent a number of re-designs and modifications before its completion by the current administration.

The building to be Commissioned by out-going President Muhammadu has a 12in-floor tower which adds colour to the five floors of the three wings…