{"id":7195,"date":"2025-06-23T09:52:08","date_gmt":"2025-06-23T09:52:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/beadysword.com.ng\/blog\/?p=7195"},"modified":"2025-06-23T09:52:19","modified_gmt":"2025-06-23T09:52:19","slug":"compt-frank-onyeka-tincan-island-port-customs-area-controller-declares-odogwu-is-here-to-stay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/beadysword.com.ng\/blog\/2025\/06\/23\/compt-frank-onyeka-tincan-island-port-customs-area-controller-declares-odogwu-is-here-to-stay\/","title":{"rendered":"Compt. Frank Onyeka, Tincan Island Port Customs Area Controller, Declares &#8220;Odogwu&#8221; Is Here To Stay."},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Tincan Island Port Embraces Indigenous Technology for Streamlined Customs Clearance<\/h2>\n<p>The Tincan Island Port is experiencing a technological transformation with the introduction of &#8220;B&#8217;Odogwu,&#8221; an indigenous customs unified management system. Comptroller Frank Onyeka highlighted the platform&#8217;s potential to address shortcomings within the Nigeria Integrated Customs Information System (NICIS), which he noted was previously controlled by foreign entities.<\/p>\n<p>Comptroller Onyeka emphasised that B&#8217;Odogwu aims to streamline customs clearance, reduce container release times, and eliminate issues such as multiple alerts on cleared containers.<\/p>\n<p>He credited the Comptroller General of Customs, Bashir Adewale Adeniyi MFR, for fostering innovation and leadership within the Nigeria Customs Service.<\/p>\n<p>Assistant Comptroller Abass Oyindamola, the project manager for B&#8217;Odogwu, explained that the platform provides real-time solutions to trade-related problems, reduces delays that lead to demurrage, and promotes transparency and accountability.<\/p>\n<p>Veteran maritime journalist Elder AsuBeks lauded Comptroller Onyeka as a &#8220;Digital CAC&#8221; for his open-door policy and collaborative approach, noting the unprecedented engagement between the Customs Area Command and the media<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tincan Island Port Embraces Indigenous Technology for Streamlined Customs Clearance The Tincan Island Port is experiencing a technological transformation with the introduction of &#8220;B&#8217;Odogwu,&#8221; an indigenous customs unified management system. Comptroller Frank Onyeka highlighted&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7196,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7195","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/beadysword.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7195","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/beadysword.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/beadysword.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beadysword.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beadysword.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7195"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/beadysword.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7195\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7197,"href":"https:\/\/beadysword.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7195\/revisions\/7197"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beadysword.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7196"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/beadysword.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beadysword.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beadysword.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}