Customs Comptroller Slumps And Dies In Airport

The Comptroller, Trade Facilitation Unit of the Nigeria Customs Service, Anthony Ayalogu, is dead.

Ayalogu was said to have slumped at the Malam Aminu Kano International Airport while traveling on an official assignment and died.

It was reported on Wednesday that the Comptroller-General of the NCS, Col. Hameed Ali (retd.), confirmed the death.

Ali, in a statement posted by a Superintendent of Customs, Mr Abdullahi Maiwada, on Tuesday in Abuja, said Ayalogu, who died at 57, suddenly fell ill and lost consciousness as soon as he got to the Malam Aminu Kano International Airport while on transit on an official assignment.

The comptroller-general added that efforts to resuscitate him failed as he was eventually pronounced dead at 465 Nigerian Airforce Hospital Kano.

The Customs boss, described the late officer as “a true champion and will be sorely missed.”

“We pray God grants the Ayalogu family the fortitude to bear this irreparable loss,” the statement read.