Author: Saint Augustine

The Lagos State AIDS Control Agency (LSACA) has commenced a sensitization programme to encourage Traditional Birth Attendants (TBAs) and their clientele to utilize the free HIV testing facilities and also embrace the Prevention of Mother-to-Child Transmission (PMTCT) services available in the State. The Chief Executive Officer of the Agency, Dr. Oluseyi Temowo, while speaking during an interview advised that pregnant women attending ante-natal clinic should undergo HIV Testing while those who tested positive must avail themselves the opportunity provided by the Prevention of Mother-to-Child services for appropriate medical attention. Dr. Temowo said the sensitization programme, being held in collaboration with…

The Managing Director of the Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA), Hadiza Bala Usman has flagged off the first export consignment of manganese, a solid mineral resource from the Ikorodu lighter Terminal even as management is keen in provision of intermodalism as part of efforts to further decongest the Apapa Port axis. Speaking at the event, the Managing Director said that “NPA is ready to partner with any agency or company which will give a pride of place to intermodal transport as the continuous reliance on our road is no longer feasible and should be discouraged’’. Usman added that the event was…

The Managing Director of Gani-Tarzan Marine Enterprises Nigeria Limited, Mr. Ganiyu Sekoni Balogun has declared his willingness to assist in evacuation of cargoes from the Apapa and Tincan ports in Lagos with his barges if called upon to do so by importers and their agents. Balogun who made this disclosure in an interview with our correspondent in Lagos however said that his barges could only carry cargoes that were duly released and existed from the ports by the releasing authorities and all documents regarding the cargoes intact to avoid seizure of his barges for carriage of illegally released goods. According…

The Council for the Regulation of Freight Forwarding in Nigeria (CRFFN) has recanted its former position on the crisis rocking the Association of Registered Freight Forwarders Nigeria (AREFFN) where it recognized the Dr. Frank Ukor led executive as the authentic leadership of the association as against the one led by the interim National President, Alhaji Bala Lawan Daura. CRFFN had earlier in a letter dated 11th January, 2018 with reference CRFFN/AREFFN/RG/014 given credence to the Frank Ukor led executive which got extension of its tenure by six months from the National Executive Council (NEC) of the association following the expiration…

The Federal Operations Unit (FOU) Zone A, Ikeja, Lagos has described as untrue an allegation by some licensed customs agents that operatives of the unit now stationed one of its vehicles permanently at the Leventis axis of Apapa obstructing free movement of already exited cargoes from the port. The National Publicity Secretary of the Association of Nigerian Licensed Customs Agents (ANLCA), Dr. Kayode Farinto had last week accused the operatives of the unit of permanently positioning their vehicle at the Leventis area of Apapa where they collect SGDs of already exited cargoes from the port describing the development as illegal…

The Association of Tourists Boats Operators and Water Transportation of Nigeria (ATBOWATN) has called on the government to install navigational signs and lights along the nation’s waterways to guide boat operators on safe navigation on waterways in order to reduce the rate of accidents on waters. The National President of ATBOWATN, Mr. Ganiyu Sekoni Balogun who spoke on behalf the association in an interview with our correspondent in Lagos said that since it was obvious that the government don’t have the capacity to dredge the whole of the nation’s waterways, it was imperative for it to install navigational signs along…

The Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA) has said that it generated the sum of N299.56 billion in the 2017 fiscal year. A statement issued in Lagos by the General Manager Corporate and Strategic Communication of NPA, Abdullahi Goje said that the 2017 figure exceeded the 2016 revenue of N162.20 billion by 84.65% thereby becoming the highest revenue generated by the authority in the last five years. A breakdown of the revenue generated by the NPA in the last five years according to the statement showed that the agency generated the sum of N154.50 billion in 2013, it increased to N159.30 billion…

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has cautioned the police and other security agencies not to allow themselves to be used by the sinking All Progressives Congress (APC) as instruments of persecution against Nigerians perceived to be unsupportive of the unpopular re-election bid of President Muhammadu Buhari. This is just as the party said it believed that the reported moves to arrest the media adviser to former military President Ibrahim Babangida, Mr. Kassim Afegbua over General Babangida’s declaration that President Muhammadu Buhari should not be voted to continue in office by 2019, was a ploy to set the table for a…

…Recovers N91.3 billion The Federal Operations Unit (FOU) Zone A of the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) with headquarters in Ikeja, Lagos has impounded 31 assorted vehicles valued at One billion, four hundred and twenty-nine million, nine hundred and fifty-three thousand, nine hundred and forty-one naira, fifty kobo (N1,429,953,941.50). The vehicles which includes 4 Rolls Royce, 1 Porche Panamera, 1 Jaguar, 1 Bentley, 2 Lexus Jeeps, 2 G-Wagons, 1 Toyota Land Cruiser, 5 Toyota Corolla, 7 Mercedes Benz among others were all 2017 models. While some of the vehicles were intercepted along Ijebu-Ode expressway, others were evacuated during various raids in…

Justice Saliu Saidu of the Federal High Court yesterday in Lagos ordered the final forfeiture of the sums of £578,080 found by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) in the account of a maritime firm, ZAL Marine Limited, domiciled in Diamond Bank. The said amount was allegedly stolen by some staff of the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA). Justice Saidu granted the order after entertaining the final forfeiture application argued by the counsel to the EFCC, Rotimi Oyedepo, under the provisions of section 17 of the Advance Fee Fraud and Other Related Offences Act, 2006. Oyedepo had…