Author: Saint Augustine

… As NAGAFF pickets bonded terminal over fraudulent transactions A retired Assistant Comptroller of Customs, Mr. Godswill Ojogwu has accused the management of the Clarion Bonded Terminal of using his license to steal 19 containers from the Tincan Island port in 2018. Addressing journalists in Lagos on Monday, Ojogwu who is the Managing Director of Ajaji Continental Limited explained that those containers were moved as bonded transferred goods adding that they were supposed to be move from Tincan Island port to Clarion Bonded Terminal but document showed that those containers did not follow due process because they were not released…

The Nigeria Customs Service Board (NCSB) at its 54th Regular Meeting on Tuesday, 29th March, 2022 approved the promotion of 3,466 General Duty and Support Staff officers. The Honorable Minister of Finance, Budget and National Planning and Chairman, NCS Board, Hajiya Zainab Ahmed who presided over the meeting highlighted the importance of discipline and engendering a work ethic based on transparency and an all-encompassing reward system. Among Comptrollers promoted are: SA Bomoi, AA Anthony, BO Olumo, CK Niagwan, MM Tilleygyado, MC Ugbagu, CD Wada, A Bako, AM Adegbite, KI Adesola (Mrs), NP Umoh, OO Orbih and RC Nwankwo. A breakdown…

By Chukwuma Moghalu On Sunday 3rd April, 2022, a video emerged on social media where a patrol vessel with the inscription NIMASA-Barugu on it and belonging to Messers Global West Specialist Vessels Limited sank in Lagos. The Boat was one of the Vessels owned by GWSVL and deployed for patrol during the implementation of a contractual agreement between the Company and the Agency, NIMASA. The contract which was entered into in 2012 was for Global West to provide platforms and other equipment for NIMASA to patrol the Nigerian Maritime domain effectively in the quest to attain the status of an…

The Nigerian team was made up of representatives of JMSF Agribusiness Limited, Eupepsia Place Limited (Soilless Farm Lab) along with the leading communicator, the Africa Farmers’ Stories while Koppert Biological Systems, Pan African Seeds BV, Priva, Viscon, Leiden Delft Erasmus Universities and Seed2Feed Foundation represented the Dutch Partners. A member of the Nigerian delegation to the Netherlands, Mrs. Victoria Madedor noted that her team had been having virtual meetings with the Dutch side for almost two years and that it was great to finally have the Nigerian delegations visiting the Netherlands to actualise the partnership. The Memorandum of Understanding (MOU)…

… Says Customs spokesman goofed on rate of duty The Association of Nigeria Licensed Customs Agents (ANLCA) has advised all freight forwarders not to capture their vehicle with 35% rate of duty. The National Vice President of ANLCA, Dr. Kayode Farinto who issued this advice in a statement in Lagos on Monday observed that the rate of duty on used vehicles with HS code 87033320 was now 20%. Farinto pointed out that the National Public Relations Officer of the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) goofed to have inform the general public that the changes on the rate of duty was done…

… As CP Moronkeji Adesina takes charge of Ekiti State Police Command The Inspector-General of Police, IGP Usman Alkali Baba has ordered the posting of Assistant Inspector-General of Police, AIG John Ogbonaya Amadi, mni, as Ag. DIG Department of Research and Planning, Force Headquarters, Abuja and DIG representing South-East Geo-political zone. The IGP has equally ordered the posting of CP Moronkeji Olusegun Adesina, psc, as Commissioner of Police in charge of Ekiti State Police Command. The new Deputy Inspector-General of Police, Research and Planning, Ag. DIG John Ogbonaya Amadi, who hails from Ebonyi State, is a versatile police officer with…

As Nigerians are yet to recover from the shock occasioned by the recent bombing of the Abuja-Kaduna train by terrorists, the Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport (CILT) Nigeria has said that one cannot accuse the federal government of negligence because nobody set a standard for government. The National Executive Director, CILT Nigeria, Mr. Paul Ndibe who made this submission in a chat with our correspondent in Lagos recently observed that it’s only when a standard was set and one failed to meet the standard that the aspect of negligence could be contemplated adding that in this case, nobody gave…

The immediate past Director-General of Anambra State Digital Entrepreneurship Office who is the leading aspirant for Njikoka II State Constituency under the platform of the All Progressives Grand Alliance, (APGA), Engr. Ifeanyi Aniagoh has made bold his intention to win the seat of Njikoka ll State Constituency in the 2023 general election. Speaking to the press at the APGA Headquarters in Abuja, ANIAGOH, who is the Convener of APGA Digi-Family disclosed that he has picked the expression of interest and nomination forms that will enable him vie for the ticket of the fastest growing political party in Africa, APGA as…

The Theatre Commander, Joint Task Force(JTF), North East (NE), Operation HADIN KAI (OPHK), Major General Christopher Musa, today Friday, 1st April, 2022 conferred medals of operations LAFIYA DOLE (OPLD) and TURA TAKAI BANGO on officers and soldiers in recognition of their gallantry in the theatre of operations. The ceremonial event took place at Headquarters, Theatre Command OPHK, Maimalari Cantonment, Maiduguri. General Christopher Musa who was the reviewing officer at the medal parade commenced the event with a visit to 7 Division Medical Services and Hospital (DMSH) where he conferred medals on officers and soldiers who suffered deprivations as a result…

The Journalists International Forum For Migration (JIFORM) comprising over 300 journalists covering migration across the continents has congratulated the multiple international awards winner and one of the African migration legends, Dr. Princess Asie Kabuki Ocansey and the Director General of the World Trade Organization, Professor Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala for winning the global women awards. The duo received the awards on March 30, 2022 in Dubai during the Millennial International Edition of the African Women of Excellence Awards to commemorate the United Nations Women’s month held in collaboration with the renowned IFZA POLO Lounge. Dr. Ajibola Abayomi, President of JIFORM, in a…