Author: Saint Augustine

… Says trend worrisome, suspicious … ACG’s visit to commands not secret, meant to familiarize with officers first The Sea Empowerment and Research Centre has faulted what it called the ‘secret’ visit embarked on customs commands within the Lagos ports namely; Apapa, Tincan and PTML commands by the new Zonal Coordinator of Zone A of the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS), ACG Modupe Aremu on Thursday. The Director General of the Centre, Mr. Uchechukwu Aniezechukwu who made the position of the Centre known in a statement he sent to Primetime Reporters on Thursday noted that the visit was genuinely worrisome considering…

… Describes Dala IDP as pace-setter Dala Inland Dry Port (IDP) will boost trans-sahara trade developments and indeed, the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA), so says the Executive Secretary and Chief Executive Officer of the Nigerian Shipper’s Council (NSC), Hon. Emmanuel Jime who is in Kano participating in the 16th National Council on Transportation. He also declared the Dala Inland Dry Port as a pace-setter for other Dry Ports in the country. The Shippers’ Council boss made these declarations while responding to the Dala IDP Chairman’s welcome address during inspection of the on-going construction at the Dala Inland Dry…

… Asks importers to reject jacked-up duty … Customs don’t fix duty rate, says Attah The Association of Nigeria Licensed Customs Agents (ANLCA) has flayed the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) over what it called the “arbitrary increase” in the duty rate for the purpose of generating the Pre-Arrival Assessment Report (PAAR) for import into the country. The National Vice President of ANLCA, Dr. Kayode Farinto who expressed his sadness over this development in a news briefing in Lagos on Friday said that the Service had jacked up the duty rate in the last 24 hours (Thursday) without prior notice to…

Contrary to expectations, the National Association of Government Approved Freight Forwarders (NAGAFF) has said that it would not be going into discussions with the Association of Nigeria Licensed Customs Agents (ANLCA) or any other accredited freight forwarding association with the intent of sharing the fifteen seats allotted to the freight forwarders in the Governing Council of the Council for the Regulation of Freight Forwarding in Nigeria (CRFFN) in the coming election. The founder of NAGAFF, Dr. Boniface Aniebonam who disclosed this in a chat with newsmen in Lagos said that he had tried to address that issue but members of…

As the debate over takeover of licensed customs agency work from Nigerians by foreigners rage on, the National Association of Government Approved Freight Forwarders (NAGAFF) has uncovered different strategies employed by the shipping lines and foreign portfolio holders in going about their business. Speaking in a chat with newsmen in Lagos on Wednesday, the Chairman, NAGAFF, Apapa chapter, Mr. Ndubuisi Uzoegbo disclosed that some of these foreigners in the name of shipping companies were going about registering companies here with the intent to carry on freight forwarding jobs which he said were supposed to be exclusively reserved for Nigerians. Uzoegbo…

… Wants security prioritized    The apex Igbo socio-cultural organization, Ohanaeze Ndigbo has appealed to President Muhammadu Buhari to see to the release of Igbo youths detained by various security agencies across the country. The President General, Ohanaeze Ndigbo, Prof. George Obiozor who made the apeeal in an address he presented at the occasion of the visit of the President to Owerri, Imo State on Thursday also identified security as the most urgent and imperative need of Ndigbo. Obiozor noted that the security of Ndigbo in Nigeria and beyond had become a compelling primary responsibility of serious concern for Ndigbo.…

The National Association of Government Approved Freight Forwarders (NAGAFF) says its participation in the 2021 CRFFN Governing Council election is to correct the malfunctioning of the regulatory body in order to reposition it to perform its statutory functions in the total logistics chain management industry. Founder of NAGAFF, Dr. Boniface Okechukwu Aniebonam made this known on Thursday during an interactive session with members of the association who have signified their intention to contest the October 9th, 2021 election into the Governing Council of the CRFFN. Speaking at the interactive session which was held at the association’s national headquarters in Apapa,…

President Muhammadu Buhari Thursday in Owerri said that he would want to be remembered as the President who stabilised Nigeria in the area of security, economic prosperity and triumph over corruption. The President, who spoke at a town hall meeting with South East leaders during his one-day official visit to Imo State, said with less than two years left in his eight-year tenure as President, security still remains a major priority for his administration. ‘‘If there is no security, there is nothing anyone can do no matter how much you try or the initiative you have. ‘‘Security is number one…

Apparently to avert the imminent increment in storage charges, the Association of Nigeria Licensed Customs Agents (ANLCA) has urged the federal Government of Nigeria to provide palliatives to the terminal operators so as to cushion the effect of inflation and fluctuation of the nation’s currency, the Naira. The National Vice President of ANLCA, Dr. Kayode Farinto who made this call during the just concluded National Executive Council (NEC) meeting of the association held recently in Lagos said that the various terminal operators had attempted to increase their storage charges by about 50 percent but were resisted by the association. Farinto…

The Chairman, National Association of Government Approved Freight Forwarders (NAGAFF), Apapa chapter, Mr. Ndubuisi Uzoegbo has said that he will go beyond representing his immediate association if elected to represent the freight forwarders in the Governing Council of the Council for the Regulation of Freight Forwarding in Nigeria (CRFFN). It will be recalled that the Ministry of Transportation through the Chairman, Electoral Committee, A.D. Suleiman, had on the 2nd September,2021 released a timetable for the conduct of election of freight forwarders into the Board of CRFFN. Speaking to newsmen shortly, after he picked his nomination form to contest the said…