{"id":70500,"date":"2019-11-22T21:56:41","date_gmt":"2019-11-22T20:56:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?p=70500"},"modified":"2019-11-22T21:56:41","modified_gmt":"2019-11-22T20:56:41","slug":"customs-boss-threatens-to-sack-officers-living-above-means","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/news\/customs-boss-threatens-to-sack-officers-living-above-means\/","title":{"rendered":"Customs Boss Threatens To Sack officers Living Above means\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"m2565654237181786289\" class=\"mail-message expanded\">\n<div class=\"mail-message-header spacer\">Col. Hameed Ali (rtd), the Comptroller-General of Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) says he will sack any officer who cannot live within his or her remuneration and involve in illicit ways to acquire wealth.<\/div>\n<div class=\"mail-message-content collapsible zoom-normal mail-show-images \">\n<div class=\"clear\">\n<div dir=\"auto\">\n<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>Ali gave the warning while decorating some newly promoted officers of the service in Abuja on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the service recently promoted 2,508 officers to various ranks and appointed three as members of its management.<\/p>\n<p>The customs boss warned that no officer in the service should live above his or her earnings if they desire to remain in service.<\/p>\n<p>According to him, every officer could survive within the remuneration package of the service, if well managed.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>\u201cI will show the way out to any officer who thinks he can not survive with his remuneration but involve in illicit ways to acquire wealth.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI know the service gives you enough that you can survive with, it is just a question of prudence.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou can never have everything you that you desire to acquire<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou must prioritise your needs and by the time you do that, you will meet your needs,\u201d he advised.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>Ali charged the newly promoted officers to be more committed and dedicated to their duties.<\/p>\n<p>He advised them to take their jobs seriously, be fair and firm in ther decisions and actions.<\/p>\n<p>Ali gave the warning while decorating some newly promoted officers of the service in Abuja on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the service recently promoted 2,508 officers to various ranks and appointed three as members of its management.<\/p>\n<p>The customs boss warned that no officer in the service should live above his or her earnings if they desire to remain in service.<\/p>\n<p>According to him, every officer could survive within the remuneration package of the service, if well managed.<\/p>\n<div>\n<div id=\"m_7484163747892546886mrf-8\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"mail-message-footer spacer collapsible\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"conversation-footer\" class=\"spacer\"><\/div>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Col. Hameed Ali (rtd), the Comptroller-General of Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) says he will sack any officer who cannot live within his or her remuneration and involve in illicit ways&hellip;<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":60023,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70500","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Customs Boss Threatens To Sack officers Living Above means\u00a0 - Pointblank News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/news\/customs-boss-threatens-to-sack-officers-living-above-means\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Customs Boss Threatens To Sack officers Living Above means\u00a0 - Pointblank News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Col. Hameed Ali (rtd), the Comptroller-General of Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) says he will sack any officer who cannot live within his or her remuneration and involve in illicit ways&hellip;\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/news\/customs-boss-threatens-to-sack-officers-living-above-means\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Pointblank News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2019-11-22T20:56:41+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Col.-Hameed-Ibrahim-Ali.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1229\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"960\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Our Reporter\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Our Reporter\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/news\/customs-boss-threatens-to-sack-officers-living-above-means\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/news\/customs-boss-threatens-to-sack-officers-living-above-means\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Our Reporter\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/#\/schema\/person\/ba61acbe7e8967bcf3f3ba603d9db23c\"},\"headline\":\"Customs Boss Threatens To Sack officers Living Above means\u00a0\",\"datePublished\":\"2019-11-22T20:56:41+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/news\/customs-boss-threatens-to-sack-officers-living-above-means\/\"},\"wordCount\":311,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/news\/customs-boss-threatens-to-sack-officers-living-above-means\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Col.-Hameed-Ibrahim-Ali.jpg\",\"articleSection\":[\"News\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/news\/customs-boss-threatens-to-sack-officers-living-above-means\/#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/news\/customs-boss-threatens-to-sack-officers-living-above-means\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/news\/customs-boss-threatens-to-sack-officers-living-above-means\/\",\"name\":\"Customs Boss Threatens To Sack officers Living Above means\u00a0 - Pointblank News\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/news\/customs-boss-threatens-to-sack-officers-living-above-means\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/news\/customs-boss-threatens-to-sack-officers-living-above-means\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Col.-Hameed-Ibrahim-Ali.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2019-11-22T20:56:41+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/#\/schema\/person\/ba61acbe7e8967bcf3f3ba603d9db23c\"},\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/news\/customs-boss-threatens-to-sack-officers-living-above-means\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/news\/customs-boss-threatens-to-sack-officers-living-above-means\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/news\/customs-boss-threatens-to-sack-officers-living-above-means\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Col.-Hameed-Ibrahim-Ali.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Col.-Hameed-Ibrahim-Ali.jpg\",\"width\":1229,\"height\":960},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/news\/customs-boss-threatens-to-sack-officers-living-above-means\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Customs Boss Threatens To Sack officers Living Above means\u00a0\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/\",\"name\":\"Pointblank News\",\"description\":\"Just the news\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/#\/schema\/person\/ba61acbe7e8967bcf3f3ba603d9db23c\",\"name\":\"Our Reporter\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/83b3820ef93d502ae3a617b2c881ca42?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/83b3820ef93d502ae3a617b2c881ca42?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"Our Reporter\"},\"url\":\"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/author\/admin\/\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Customs Boss Threatens To Sack officers Living Above means\u00a0 - Pointblank News","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/news\/customs-boss-threatens-to-sack-officers-living-above-means\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Customs Boss Threatens To Sack officers Living Above means\u00a0 - Pointblank News","og_description":"Col. Hameed Ali (rtd), the Comptroller-General of Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) says he will sack any officer who cannot live within his or her remuneration and involve in illicit ways&hellip;","og_url":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/news\/customs-boss-threatens-to-sack-officers-living-above-means\/","og_site_name":"Pointblank News","article_published_time":"2019-11-22T20:56:41+00:00","og_image":[{"width":1229,"height":960,"url":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Col.-Hameed-Ibrahim-Ali.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"Our Reporter","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Our Reporter","Est. reading time":"2 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/news\/customs-boss-threatens-to-sack-officers-living-above-means\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/news\/customs-boss-threatens-to-sack-officers-living-above-means\/"},"author":{"name":"Our Reporter","@id":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/#\/schema\/person\/ba61acbe7e8967bcf3f3ba603d9db23c"},"headline":"Customs Boss Threatens To Sack officers Living Above means\u00a0","datePublished":"2019-11-22T20:56:41+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/news\/customs-boss-threatens-to-sack-officers-living-above-means\/"},"wordCount":311,"commentCount":0,"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/news\/customs-boss-threatens-to-sack-officers-living-above-means\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Col.-Hameed-Ibrahim-Ali.jpg","articleSection":["News"],"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"CommentAction","name":"Comment","target":["https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/news\/customs-boss-threatens-to-sack-officers-living-above-means\/#respond"]}]},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/news\/customs-boss-threatens-to-sack-officers-living-above-means\/","url":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/news\/customs-boss-threatens-to-sack-officers-living-above-means\/","name":"Customs Boss Threatens To Sack officers Living Above means\u00a0 - Pointblank News","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/news\/customs-boss-threatens-to-sack-officers-living-above-means\/#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/news\/customs-boss-threatens-to-sack-officers-living-above-means\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Col.-Hameed-Ibrahim-Ali.jpg","datePublished":"2019-11-22T20:56:41+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/#\/schema\/person\/ba61acbe7e8967bcf3f3ba603d9db23c"},"breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/news\/customs-boss-threatens-to-sack-officers-living-above-means\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/news\/customs-boss-threatens-to-sack-officers-living-above-means\/"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/news\/customs-boss-threatens-to-sack-officers-living-above-means\/#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Col.-Hameed-Ibrahim-Ali.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Col.-Hameed-Ibrahim-Ali.jpg","width":1229,"height":960},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/news\/customs-boss-threatens-to-sack-officers-living-above-means\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Customs Boss Threatens To Sack officers Living Above means\u00a0"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/#website","url":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/","name":"Pointblank News","description":"Just the news","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/#\/schema\/person\/ba61acbe7e8967bcf3f3ba603d9db23c","name":"Our Reporter","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/83b3820ef93d502ae3a617b2c881ca42?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/83b3820ef93d502ae3a617b2c881ca42?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"Our Reporter"},"url":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/author\/admin\/"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70500","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70500"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70500\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/60023"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}