Author: Saint Augustine

SIFAX Group has won two awards from one of the leading newspapers in Nigeria, the New Telegraph Newspapers. The awards are Company of the Year and Investor of the Year 2020 awards. The award was bestowed on the company by the management of New Telegraph Newspaper at the Group’s corporate head office, at Apapa, Lagos. At the presentation, Juliet Bumah, Sunday Editor, New Telegraph noted that the choice of SIFAX Group for both awards was not far-fetched owing to its aggressive expansion both in Nigeria and overseas. “After reading the profile of the company, our panel of judges and editors…

As part of the project, Action Against Trafficking in Persons and Smuggling of Migrants (A-TIPSOM), which is funded by European Union, the International and Ibero-America Foundation for Administration and Public Policy (FIIAPP) is organizing a three-day training for Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS) officers on Immigration Legislation and Act. Participants are majorly instructors from the various training institutions of Nigeria Immigration Service with a blend of other core officers from the Service Headquarters and the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) command. According to a statement in Abuja on Monday by the Service Public Relations Officer, Mr. Sunday James, they are carefully selected…

The Board of Directors of Starzs Investments Company Limited have approved the appointment of Ms Iroghama Obuoforibo as Managing Director/Chief Executive Officer of the company with effect from 1st February, 2021. This is coming on the heel of Mr. Greg Ogbeifun’s retirement as Chief Executive Officer having attained Thirty Five (35) years of meritorious service to the company and over Forty (40) years of impact in the maritime industry. Iroghama Obuoforibo, who has been the Chief Operating Officer of the company since 2014, is a high achieving senior executive with a strong commercial, financial and operational track record spanning over…

SIFAX Group, a group of companies with investment in Maritime, Aviation, Oil & Gas, Haulage & Logistics, Financial Services and Hospitality, has rewarded and honoured 46 staff at its annual Long Service Award ceremony. The SIFAX Group Long Service Award is an annual event where deserving staff, who have served for a minimum period of ten years, are rewarded with cash gifts for their meritorious, consistent and outstanding service to the company. The awardees received their gifts at a private ceremony held across various subsidiaries recently. Dr. Taiwo Afolabi, Group Executive Vice Chairman, SIFAX Group, applauded the staff for their…

Worried by the double handling of customs assessments of shippers’ cargo by the operatives of the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) and other matters connected thereto, the Shippers’ Association Lagos State (SALS) has said that it is mobilising to send Intervention Team into the ports to protect her members. The President of the association, Rev. Dr. Jonathan Nicol who made this disclosure in a statement in Lagos noted that the Intervention Team was long overdue as the association would no longer condone a situation where any of the importers or shipper should be the target by illegal compliance team when the…

…Charges them to bring their professionalism to bear Following the recent promotion of Senior Police Officers by the Police Service Commission (PSC), the Inspector-General of Police, IGP Mohammed Adamu has ordered the posting/redeployment of five (5) newly promoted Deputy Inspectors General of Police to oversee Departments of the Force, whose former heads retired recently after the completion of their service years. The promoted Senior Officers, DIG Usman Alkali Baba will now head the Force Criminal Investigations Department (FCID), DIG Ibrahim A. Lamorde to head Force Intelligence Bureau (FIB) while DIG David Oyebanji Folawiyo is to head Department of Information and…

As the world observes the birthday of Jesus Christ, the Journalists International Forum For Migration, JIFORM, has felicitated with the Christians and called on nations to also extend divine love at this yuletide to the 272 million migrants as recorded by the United Nations. The global media foundation with over 250 members focusing on migration reportage pleaded with the developed nations to stop playing lips services to the UN resolutions on rights of migrants particularly during the ravaging pandemic by allowing them to access health care facilities and other privileges saying “they are the heroes of the Coronavirus season taking…

…As UNIPORT inaugurates Jamoh as CELTRAS Chairman Director-General of the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA), Dr. Bashir Jamoh, has been inaugurated as Chairman, Governing Board of the Centre for Logistics and Transport Studies (CELTRAS), University of Port Harcourt (UNIPORT). The inauguration, which took place at the university’s Institute of Petroleum Studies Auditorium, was supervised by the acting Vice Chancellor of UNIPORT, Professor Stephen Okodudu. It had in attendance many academic and non-academic staff. Jamoh’s investiture followed his appointment in October as Chairman of the 10-member Governing Board of CELTRAS. Okodudu had said Jamoh was chosen by virtue of…

Senator Hope Uzodinma, the executive governor of Imo State has called on the members of the Association of Nigerian Licensed Customs Agents (ANLCA) to support the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) to facilitate legitimate trade and stem the tide of smuggling which he said is killing the Nigerian economy. Speaking at the National Executive Council (NEC)/Annual General Meeting (AGM) of the association held recently in Owerri, the Imo state capital, the governor hinted that efforts were on to right the wrongs of the past. Uzodinma observed that the reason why Cotonou port was very busy was because of the some of…

As the Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA) sets to commence the electronic call up system otherwise known as e-call up system for trucks operating in the Nigerian maritime industry, industry watchers have expressed doubt in the ability of the Authority to actually deploy the project on the said date given the cumbersome minimum standards set for truck park owners/operators to meet before their parks could be certified as satellite truck parks to be used for the project. NPA had in a public notice no. 4147 called for expression of interest for the certification of satellite truck parks (holding bays) to service…