Author: Saint Augustine

The Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency, NIMASA, and Chatham House, London have agreed that the issue of Maritime Security in the Gulf of Guinea should be raised at the United Nations Security Council, UNSC this month, emphasizing the progress made by NIMASA in combating piracy and sea robbery in the region. This decision was reached during a session between Dr. Dayo Mobereola, Director General of NIMASA, and Dr. Alex Vines, Director of the Africa Programme at Chatham House, accompanied by his team. Nigeria’s Alternate Permanent Representative at the International Maritime Organization, Bwala William was in attendance. The Agency and…

… Reels out his track record of service in ANLCA The immediate past Sole Administrator of the Association of Nigerian Licensed Customs Agents, ANLCA and Board of Trustees, BoT hopeful, Otunba Abdulazeez Babatunde Mukaila has urged members of the association who will be voting at the forthcoming Annual General Meeting, AGM to elect members of the association’s Board of Trustees, BoT, to vote in people with track record of service. Mukaila who made this appeal during an interaction with the media in Lagos on Thursday stated that for ANLCA to get it right this time around, members should be meticulous…

The campaign media team of the group of nine Like -minds, contesting the Board of Trustees, BoT of the Association of Nigerian Licensed Customs Agents, ANLCA has expressed confidence in the group’s capacity to transform the association’s fortunes in collaboration with the National Executive Committee, NECOM. Speaking during a meeting with members of the association in the Western Zone in Lagos on Tuesday, Messrs Joe Sanni and Sulaimon Ayokunle described the nine candidates as the most innovative and stunning political engineers in ANLCA’s history, poised to address the association’s problems and challenges. They emphasized the candidates’ commitment to revitalize the…

…Says I don’t need to be Board Chairman, Secretary to bring desired change The immediate past Sole Administrator of the Association of Nigerian Licensed Customs Agents, ANLCA, Otunba Abdulazeez Babatunde Mukaila has said that he is contesting for a slot in the Board of Trustees, BoT of the association to redefine the relationship between the Board and the Executive arms of the association. Mukaila who disclosed this in a chat with newsmen in Lagos on Thursday, said that ANLCA Board needed to innovate and jettison the idea of doing the same set of things with the same parameters, expecting to…

…Sign MoU to enhance seamless movement of cargo The Nigerian Shippers’ Council, NSC and the Nigerian Railway Corporation, NRC, on Thursday, led stakeholders to x-ray the factors inhibiting the actualization of optimal and seamless movement of cargoes by rail from the nation’s seaports to the Inland Dry Ports, IDPs and the hinterland in general at a one-day stakeholders summit held in Lagos. The event which has the Council for the Regulation of Freight Forwarding in Nigeria, CRFFN, the Nigeria Customs Service, the Nigeria Police, the Federal Road Safety Commission, the Chairman of Apapa Local Government Area, freight forwarders, transport operators’,…

Mr. John Jenkins, Managing Director, Ports & Cargo Handling Services Limited, a subsidiary of SIFAX Group, has raised concerns over the delay of port concession renewal in Nigeria. Port & Cargo terminal is one of the port operators waiting on the government for the renewal of their port concession which expired a few years ago. According to him, the delay has destabilised Ports and Cargo’s operations, caused uncertainty among customers, and hindered potential new business opportunities. Jenkins said this during a courtesy visit by Bashir Ambi Mohammed, Head, Complaints Unit, Nigerian Shippers’ Council to the company in Lagos. He lamented…

A Leading Port Terminal Operator, Onne Multipurpose Terminal, OMT, Onne, Rivers state has again received KOTA CEMPAKA, the largest container ship ever to carry out full operations at Nigeria’s eastern ports. This is the second visit of the ship to the terminal in three months. KOTA CEMPAKA, owned by Pacific International Lines, PIL, is 300 metres long, has the capacity to carry 6,600 TEUs of containers. The ship made its maiden visit to the Onne Port on April 27, 2024 when it loaded and discharged over 2,000 containers full of Nigerian imports and exports. The vessel was received on its…

…Advocates Transition To Renewable Energy The new Managing Director of the Nigerian Ports Authority, NPA, Dr. Abubakar Dantsoho, Wednesday paid a courtesy visit on the facility of the Truck Transit Park, TTP Nigeria Limited to get first information of the workings of the electronic traffic management firm engaged by the Authority. During his visit, Dr. Dantsoho was given a comprehensive tour of TTP’s operational facility, including a firsthand view of truck traffic management at Lilypond and the real-time CCTV live feed and monitoring systems employed by TTP at its control centre to oversee port gates, terminals, and pre-gates. He was…

…Insists government, its agencies should take responsibility Following the demands for waivers by freight forwarders as a result of the ongoing nationwide protest, the National Secretary of the Association of Registered Freight Forwarders Nigeria, AREFFN, Ichie Frank Obiekezie has said that freight forwarders have genuine reasons to abstain from taking delivery and to ask for waiver. Obiekezie who stated this in a chat with our correspondent in Lagos Tuesday, maintained that freight forwarders were not just asking for waiver for some days but for as long as the protest would last adding that they should not charge anything on any…

By Francis Omotosho In the recent Logistic Performance Index by World Bank, Nigeria was ranked 95th Position as other African countries like South Africa, Egypt, Benin Republic and others beat Nigeria in the ranking. The word logistic means reduction in total cost in addition to quality service delivery to customers. In simple words, it is all about delivery of quality services or goods at the most economic cost to customers. This is exactly what the consumers want for him to be satisfied. He wants a cheaper price with good quality; that is logistics. However, the three costs components of any…