Author: Saint Augustine

In a sustained strive to ensure total adherence to the Presidential Order as it affects 24 hour operations at the ports, the Managing Director of the Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA), Ms Hadiza Bala Usman has urged stakeholders at the nation’s seaports to collaborate effectively towards the actualization of the tenets of the Executive Order across the ports through the window of the institutionalized ease of doing business. Usman who inspected operations at the Lagos Ports Complex, Apapa from Saturday  midnight to the wee hours of Sunday morning assured that the port environment had been prepared for total compliance to the…

The Director General of the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA), Dr. Dakuku Peterside has stated that the agency will ensure that Nigerians benefit optimally from shipping and also assured that the maritime domain will be safe, secured and clean for all to do business. The DG who stated this shortly after receiving the TELL Award of Excellence for the 2016 Public Organization of the year 2016 in Lagos noted that the award was to challenge the agency to continue in its quest to improve on the ease of doing business in the Nigerian maritime domain and assured investors…

It is no longer news that the Acting President, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo on the 18th of last month issued the Executive orders on port operations in Nigeria where he spelt out in clear terms, the dos and the don’ts in the nation’s maritime industry, all in an effort to further boost the ease of doing business policy of the Federal Government in relation to the Nigeria’s maritime industry. The Executive Orders stipulated that; there shall be no touting whatsoever by official or unofficial persons at any port in Nigeria. On duty staff shall be properly identified by uniforms and official…

Senate President, Dr. Abubakar Bukola Saraki, has reiterated the commitment of the Senate to bring to an end all forms of discrimination against people with albinism, known as Albinos. Saraki, in a statement by his Special Assistant on Public Affairs, Mohammed Isa, further promised to provide equal opportunities for the albinos to enable them contribute their quota to national development. The Senate President gave the assurances while addressing members of the Board of the Albino Foundation that paid him a courtesy visit on Thursday, in Abuja. Saraki said: “I want to assure you that our meeting today is to send…

Following stories trending in the public domain stating that arms were found in a vehicle offloading yams at Nnewi, the Anambra State Government and the security agencies after a thorough investigation have come out to describe the stories as false and unfounded. The State Government which made its position on this matter known to the public through a statement signed in Awka by the Commissioner for Information and Strategy, Ogbuefi Tony Nnacheta, while further describing the development as a fib, however called on residents of Nnewi and Ndi Anambra in general to go calmly about their business and continue to…

…Vows to continue cargo screening at ports A total of 15, 064kg of Cocaine and Heroin valued at about N225 trillion have been seized by the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) at the Tincan Island and Apapa ports of Lagos since 2006. This figure was disclosed by the Chairman of the agency,  Col.Muhammed Mustapha Abdallah in a recent statement signed by the agency’s spokesman, Mitchel Ofoyeju. Abdallah, according to the statement further disclosed that drug barons were targeting the ports for their illicit drug activities while vowing that NDLEA would resist their scheming. A breakdown of the seized drugs…

The Comptroller-General of the Nigeria Customs Service, (NCS), Col. Hameed Ibrahim Ali (rtd), the Director-General of the Standards Organisation of Nigeria (SON), Dr. Osita Aboloma and other heads of government agencies and private operators in the maritime industry will be guests in a Town Hall Meeting on 24-hour Port Operations in line with the Executive Orders recently issued by the Acting President, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo. Areas of individual organization’s functions and collective responsibilities that will make the 24 hour port regime successful in Apapa port are expected to be deliberated upon with a view to achieving a robust national economic…

In ensuring that navigational safety and security occupies a prime position in operations at the nation’s seaports, the Management of the Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA) has stated that it would collaborate meaningfully with stakeholders towards the sustenance of effective hydrographic charting of the navigable channels. Furthermore, the Management has assured operators in the sub-sector and international community that it would uphold the highest standards in all operational activities in order to attract more businesses to the Nigerian Ports. The Managing Director of NPA, Hadiza Bala Usman stated this when a team from the Nigerian Hydrographic Society (NHS) led by Commodore…

That Comptroller Emmanuel Edede will leave the Murtala Mohammed Airport Command (MMAC) of the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) better than he met it is not in doubt. This is because he is a man that is associated with result from his days in the lower cadre in the Service to this present position of the Controller of Customs. Hailed from Abia State, South East Nigeria, Comptroller Edede has worked in so many Area Commands all over the federation before becoming a Controller. He has worked in Onne, Rivers state, Apapa Command in Lagos State, he has worked in the Customs…

By Olutayo Irantiola Nigeria is a great country with a lot of consumer goods across the broad spectrum of the manufacturing industry. There are some products that are produced within our shores while some are imported from across the globe by both renowned international and national brands. Recently, there have been a lot of revelations about the quality of the products available to Nigerian consumers from within and outside the country. I heard a story some years ago about the export of some alcoholic beverages from Nigeria to other parts of the world because it was believed that the quality…