Author: Saint Augustine

The Managing Director of the Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA), Hadiza Bala Usman has assured relevant stakeholders in the maritime sub-sector and beyond of the determination of the Management of the Authority at providing an enabling environment for investors to do business within the ports across the nation in order to tap the huge economic potentials available in the sector for the growth of the nation’s economy. According to her, renewed efforts were being encouraged by way of partnership, collaboration and improved synergy amongst key players in the industry towards ensuring that the Management thrusts were realized within the nearest possible…

The World Customs Organization (WCO) has conferred a prestigious Award on Tincan Island Port custom Command in this year’s International Customs Day (ICD) with the theme “To Secure Business Environment for Economic Development”. Making the presentation on behalf of the WCO Secretary General Kunio Mikuriya, the Comptroller General of Customs, Col. Hameed Ibrahim Ali (Rtd), had informed the audience that the International Customs Day celebrated by Customs Administrations all over the world, provided an opportunity to x-ray, review and evaluate the role of Customs in nation building as a revenue collecting agency, stating that the theme for the year was…

Alhaji Ibrahim Tanko is a Chairmanship Aspirant for Apapa chapter in the forthcoming National Association of Government Approved Freight Forwarders (NAGAFF). In this interview with our correspondent in Lagos, he speaks on his resignation from the National Council of Managing Directors of Licensed Customs Agents (NCMDLCA), his choice of NAGAFF as alternative to NCMDLCA, his ambition to become Apapa Chairman and many more. It promises to be an interesting and engaging piece. Enjoy it. Can we meet you sir? I still remain Ibrahim Tanko. We got the wind that you are contesting for the Chairmanship position of NAGAFF, Apapa chapter,…

A Chairmanship aspirant in the forthcoming chapter elections of the National Association of Government Approved Freight Forwarders (NAGAFF), Mr. Ibrahim Tanko has taken a swoop on the immediate past Chairman of Apapa chapter of the association, Dr. Fred Ajuzie accusing him of performing below expectation in his six years leadership of the chapter. Ibrahim who made this position known in a chat with Primetime Reporters in Lagos said that by the time he assumes office as the Chairman of the chapter, he will erase every memory of Dr. Ajuzie and silence the name with the novel achievements he would bring…

…Says appointment contravenes Act setting up Council The Association of Nigerian Licensed Customs Agents (ANLCA) has criticized the appointment of a six man Governing Council members for the Council for the Regulation of Freight Forwarding in Nigeria (CRFFN) describing it contravening the provisions of the Act establishing the Council. President Muhammadu Buhari had earlier this year announced the appointment of Hon. Donatus Ozoemena, Benson Edo, Abubakar Tsanni, Sen. Bisi Oyewo, Mr. Hassan Jonga and Otunba Moshood Tijani as members of the CRFFN Governing Board adding that the Chairman will emerge after election by the freight forwarders as the Act stipulates…

…Holds commendation service for Ekwueme Determined to ensure that all residents and indigenes of the state participate actively in the commendation ceremony for the late elder statesman and former Vice President of Nigeria, Dr. Alex Ekwueme, the Anambra State Government has declared Thursday, 1st February, 2018 work free day. A statement issued in Awka, the Anambra State Capital by the Secretary to the Anambra State Government, Prof. Solo Chukwulobelu stated that the work free day was to enable Ndi Anambra, friends, associates and well-wishers to participate in the commendation ceremony in honour of the late elder statesman by the state…

…Says importation of rice unofficially banned The Comptroller-General of the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS), Col. Hammed Ali (rtd) has said that the service will soon come up with a policy to mop up arms that are circulating in the country. Ali who disclosed this in an addressed to mark the 2018 World Customs Day celebration with the theme, “A secure business environment for economic development”, in Abuja on Friday said that the policy would not only check the influx of weapons into the country, but also would control the coming of other illicit items. He stated that border management had…

The Association of Nigerian Licensed Customs Agents (ANLCA) has pleaded with President Muhammdu Buhari to suspend the palletization policy which demands that all Nigerian bound cargoes will be palletized, describing it as not in the best interest of the country. The National Publicity Secretary of ANLCA, Dr. Kayode Farinto who made the plea in an interview with Primetime Reporters in Lagos Friday said that the association had written to the President letting him know why the policy was not necessary for the country hence the need for it to be suspended. Farinto who informed that the importers were now making…

The Director General of the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA), Dr. Dakuku Peterside has described the Nigerian maritime sector as strategic to tackling issues of insecurity in the Gulf of Guinea (GoG). Dr. Peterside, who stated this while presenting a paper titled; “Nigeria’s role in combating maritime insecurity in the Gulf of Guinea” at the Royal Institute of International Affairs, Chatham House, London, noted that Nigeria which accounts for 65 per cent of cargo generated and accounts for the largest population within the region is central to the success or otherwise of the fight against piracy in the…

The National President of the Association of Registered Freight Forwarders Nigeria (AREFFN) has recounted how he was detained at the Zone 2 headquarters of the Nigeria Police and was subsequently made to write and endorse a document portraying him as willingly recognizing the legitimacy of the newly appointed interim executives led by Alhaji Bala Lawan Daura as a condition for releasing him at the station. Ukor who recalled how he was detained for two days at the station, said he was at a meeting with Alhaji Daura faction in Lagos where he took time out to explain to them how…