Author: Saint Augustine

…As Nnadi urges stakeholders to de-emphasize blame game, insist on collaboration  The Association of Registered Freight Forwarders Nigeria, AREFFN has visited the Customs Area Controller of the Tincan Island port command of the Nigeria Customs Service, Comptroller Dera Nnadi with a request for him to take measures to improve the general work environment by addressing some of the nagging issues bothering on trade facilitation in the command. The National President of the association, Alhaji Bala Daura who led a delegation of the National and Tincan Island Port chapter officers on the visit, listed officers lateness to work, multiple alerts on…

By Mmaduabuchi Onwumelu As part of plans to get youths in Anambra State to fully explore the benefits that abound with the 21st Century’s emerging technologies, the UNIZIK Blockchain Lab and the Crypto Bootcamp Community, CBC is organizing the UNIZIK Blockchain Conference. The conference with the theme, “Opportunities in Blockchain and the Future of Web3”, is to be held on the 21st of October, 2023 at Chike Okoli Centre, Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Awka. Sponsored by Yellow Card and CBC, the event has its ecosystem Partners including the Anambra State ICT Agency, SiBAN, and Digital Nigeria under the National Information Technology…

…To present 2023 supplementary budget to OYHA The Oyo State Governor, Engr. Seyi Makinde has approved the promotion of all civil and public servants whose promotions were due in 2022. In a media briefing today, at the 7th Executive Council meeting of Omituntun 2.0, the Commissioner for Information and Orientation, Prince Dotun Oyelade said the development is consistent with government policy on workers’ welfare in the past 4 years. The Commissioner for Information and Orientation recalled that the Seyi Makinde-led administration conducted the 2017-2021 promotion exercises. For the 2022 exercise, the Governor has given approval for the conduct of the…

Key institutions in the business, finance and insurance sub sectors of the economy  have confirmed their participation in the Finance and Business Online Publishers, FiBOP). 2023 Annual Conference. Eggheads from the National Insurance Commission, NAICOM and the Nigeria Insurers  Association, NIA will form part of the Special Guests at the event. According to a press statement jointly signed by the Chairman of the Conference Planning Committee, Mr. Abel Orukpe and the President of FiBOP, Mr. Charles Onwuatogwu, the Commissioner for Insurance, Mr. Sunday Thomas will present an opening remark on the occasion while the Managing Director of Old Mutual Life…

Former Acting National President of the Association of Nigerian Licensed Customs Agents, ANLCA, Dr. Kayode Farinto has said that rising cost of diesel, declining value of the naira and high rate of inflation, among other factors, justify the need for upward review of terminal operators’ charges.  “We all know that the indices of working in the port now are not as it used to be and things have changed. The terminal operators too are Nigerians and if we juxtapose what is happening vis-a-vis the fact that there has been an increment in prices of fuel and the dollar has risen,…

…Award is motivation to serve more – Jamoh The award for the best Federal Ministry, Department and Agency, MDA in Digital Transformation from the Presidency through the Bureau of Public Service Reforms was last weekend conferred on   the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency, NIMASA. Other recipients of the Presidential recognition include the University of Benin Teaching Hospital and Edo State Government. Individual awards were received by Anambra State Governor, Professor Chukwuma Soludo and the Director General of NIMASA, Dr Bashir Jamoh OFR, who was honoured with the Distinguished Trailblazers award for exemplary leadership. Dr. Jamoh who led NIMASA…

Employees of Bureau de Change in Nigeria have appealed to the new management of the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN under the leadership of Dr. Olayemi Michael Cardoso to reverse the suspension of foreign exchange, forex sale to Bureau de Change operators placed by the former CBN Governor, Mr. Godwin Emefiele on July 27, 2021. The employees in a statement made available to Primetime Reporters on Sunday recalled that for over 26 months that the pronouncement was made, the BDCs had not generated any income or revenue to service their operation. The statement noted that their technical exclusion of the…

…Appeals for tax reductions for local businesses The Chairman, National Association of Government Approved Freight Forwarders, NAGAFF, Tincan Island Port chapter, Mr. Emeka Paul Chiedozie has called on all his members to capitalize on the Foreign Exchange ban lifted on 43 items recently by the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN to plan ahead of November and December 2023 which is usually the peak period. Chiedozie who made this call in a chat with some journalists in his office in Lagos on Friday applauded the federal government through the CBN for taking a bold step towards lifting the forex ban on…

The Oyo State Government has charged waste contractors to be duly registered with the Ministry of Environment and Natural Resources, as every unauthorized consultant would be fished out and sanctioned according to Oyo State Environmental laws. The Commissioner for Environment and Natural Resources, Arc. Abdulmojeed Mogbonjubola said this during a meeting with the waste consultants in Ibadan. He urged them to regularize their triennial and monthly technical reports, like Environmental Audit Reports and the Environmental Impact Assessment report with required standards. Mogbonjubola called on the consultants otherwise known as Accredited Franchisees to harmonize all regulators’ policies, relating to adequate registration.…

…Set to Deploy Technological Solutions to Drive its Operations The Nigeria Customs Service, NCS delegation, led by the Acting Comptroller General of Customs, Bashir Adewale Adeniyi MFR, recently participated in the World Customs Organization, WCO Technology Conference and Exhibition held in Hanoi, Vietnam from 10th to 12th October 2023. The event welcomed twelve delegates from the Nigeria Customs Service and the management and staff of the trade modernization project representing the private sector. The presentations in the performances showing the dynamic economy of Vietnam set the tone for the event. Welcoming participants at the conference, the Secretary General of the…