Author: Saint Augustine

Just as ten members of the National Association of Government Approved Freight Forwarders (NAGAFF) have picked forms to contest the election of the freight forwarders into the Governing Council of the Council for the Regulation of Freight Forwarding in Nigeria (CRFFN), over fifteen members of the Association of Nigeria Licensed Customs Agents (ANLCA) have equally picked nomination forms to contest the election scheduled to hold on October 9, 2021. The National Secretary of ANLCA, Alhaji Abdulazeez Babatunde Mukaila who disclosed this in an interview with our correspondent in Lagos last Friday revealed that four members of the association who served…

Multi-sectoral stakeholders will converge Thursday, September 16, 2021, at the Osun Hall of the Lagos Airport Hotel, Ikeja, the Lagos State capital, to brainstorm on critical issues, even as professional competence is celebrated, at the 2021 Annual International Marine Pollution and Seaport Environmental Health Management Conference and Leadership Excellence Awards. The event, which is organised by the Chartered Institute of Environmental and Public Health Management of Nigeria in collaboration with the Maritime Reporters’ Association of Nigeria (MARAN), will open at 10:00 AM. Earlier billed to hold at the Lagos Sheraton Hotel, Ikeja, strategic exigencies compelled a shift to the revamped…

Acting Controller of Federal Operations Unit Zone A, DC Hussein Ejibunu has directed investigation into the murder of one of the customs operatives in the rank of Customs Assistant 1 on Saturday night at Owode area of Ogun State by suspected smugglers. While condemning the killing, the Acting Controller reiterated his resolve to keep suppressing smuggling and arresting perpetrators of the criminal activity. He said the killing will not deter FOU Zone A, under his leadership, from carrying out its statutory functions in the interest of national security and economy. The Controller added that seizures of smuggled wares and arrest…

The 8th edition of the Federal Airport Authority of Nigeria (FAAN) Junior Tennis championship finals sponsored by the FAAN Lawn Tennis Club has ended in Lagos with the winners in different categories going home with different prizes. The event which took place on Saturday at the FAAN Lawn Tennis Club court located at FAAN Staff Quarters in Ikeja, Lagos featured Under 12 boys and girls, Under 14 boys and girls as well Under 16 boys and girls championship finals. Ndidi Osaji beats Vanessa Inyang 4-1, 1-4, 15-13 to emerge the winner of U-12 girls championship while Sofia Agbabiaka beats Osahirun…

… Says Customs equally complicit                                    A chieftain of the National Association of Government Approved Freight Forwarders (NAGAFF), Dr. Fred Ajuzie has blamed the impending takeover of the freight forwarders’ job by foreigners on activities of Nigerians who knowingly or unknowingly aid them to make inroads into the profession which is supposed to be the exclusive right of Nigerians. Ajuzie who made this assertion in a chat with newsmen in Lagos recently said that Nigerians were the ones who register the companies as front for the foreigners who would now step in immediately the incorporation process was over. “For you to…

… 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…