Author: Saint Augustine

The Nigerian Senate has enjoined investors to take advantage of viability of the Nigerian ports to invest in the sector. This was even as the Chairman, Senate Committee on Marine Transport, Ahmed Sanni  Yerima disclosed that senate has passed the Nigerian Ports and Harbours Authority (NPHA) Bill and on the verge of enacting the National Transport Commission (NTC) as an independent multimodal transport sector regulator. Yerima who stated this at a trade forum organized in Lagos Tuesday in honour of a business delegation from Miami Dade’s County, United States of America (USA) by the Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA) said that…

The Managing Director of the Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA), Ms Hadiza Bala Usman has sought improve trade relationship between both Nigerian ports and Miami port, Florida, United States of America. Usman who made this known at a trade forum with the business delegation from Miami Dade’s County, USA in Lagos Tuesday  assured the international communities of the authority’s will to activate the instrumentality of the Federal Government policy on the ease of doing business at the nation’s seaport. The trade forum was organized for the promotion of bilateral economic ties between Nigeria and the trade delegation from Miami Dade’s Office…

…Wants maritime schools to evolve new training curriculum Ahead of 2019 commencement of operation by the refinery being constructed by Dangote Group, the General Manager, Monitoring and Compliance in the Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA), Captain Iheanacho Ebubeogu has called on the Federal Government to properly define pipeline vandalization and stealing and bunkering if the country is to serve as one of the bunkering stations of the world. Speaking at a conference in Lagos tagged, A Day with Nigerian Maritime Students, organized by Platform Communications, Ebubeogu maintained that bunkering is a legitimate business with huge capital gains hence the need for…

A former President of the National Association of Government Approved Freight Forwarders (NAGAFF), Dr. Eugene Nweke has described as ambitious, the Council for the Regulation of Freight Forwarding in Nigeria (CRFFN) amendment bill 2017 as packaged by the Chairman, House Committee on Ports, Harbours and Waterways, Hon. Patrick Asadu. Speaking in an interview with Primetime Reporters in Lagos, Nweke decried the lack of consultations of the critical stakeholders in the freight forwarding industry on the areas of amendment before the bill was put up by the sponsor. He recalled that the Act which was signed into law in 2017 which…

Democracy Day Speech by His Excellency, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo, SAN, the Acting President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, commemorating the second anniversary of the Buhari Administration, May 29, 2017. Dear Nigerians, I bring you good wishes from President Muhammadu Buhari, GCFR, who as we all know is away from the country on medical vacation. Today marks the second anniversary of our assumption of office. We must thank the Almighty God not only for preserving our lives to celebrate this second anniversary, but for giving us hope, strength and confidence as we faced the challenges of the past two years.…

Governor Yahaya Bello of Kogi State on Saturday described those calling for his resignation as political jokers even as he said he won’t resign his position as the governor of the state over issues generated by voter registration. Bello who made his position known through his Director-General on Media and Publicity, Mr. Kinglsey Fanwo said that the issue was overblown by his opponents who want to score cheap political point adding that the issue was straight forward enough as he had accepted the decision of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to cancel the latter registration. While assuring that that…

The National Association of Government Approved Freight Forwarders (NAGAFF) has said that the non-compliant attitude of practitioners in relation to declaration of import/export goods gives the Nigerian Customs Service a serious course for concern. The founder of NAGAFF, Dr. Boniface Aniebonam who made this known in a press release he issued in Lagos maintained that wrong description of imports for Customs declaration was in breach of Sections 46, 47 and 161 of the Customs and Excise Management  Act 2004 as amended adding that the penalty thereto included but not limited to seizure of goods and prosecution of offenders in a…

The Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA) on Friday dashed the hope of the numerous maritime students who gathered at a conference organized by Platform Communications in Lagos tagged: A Day with Nigerian Maritime Students (Season 2), as it failed to present a lead paper titled,” Solving the Challenges of Nigerian Maritime Students: The NIMASA Game Plan” assigned to it by the organizers of the conference, where the students had hoped to get many questions agitating their minds answered by the agency. Although the theme of the conference was centred on NIMASA’s efforts at solving the many challenges facing…

Maritime Stakeholder, Rear Admiral Godswill Ombo (rtd.) has called on the federal government to get the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA), lawyers and everybody concerned to find out what is tying down a vessel MV Horten at the Marina that it could not be used to train cadets in the country. Ombo who made this call Friday in Lagos at the second edition of A Day with the Nigerian Maritime Students with the theme; Solving the Challenges of Nigerian Maritime Students: The NIMASA Game Plan, revealed that the vessel, a mother vessel to six other vessels that had…

The wife of Governor of Anambra State, Chief Mrs. Ebelechukwu Obiano (Osodieme) has criticized the spate of physical violence against children. She stated this in a statement on the occasion of the celebration of Children’s Day in Awka, Anambra State. Mrs. Obiano stated that parents and stakeholders needed to pay more attention to the issue of physical violence against children so as to help in the prevention since they were the closest to the average child. Her words:  “It has become increasingly clear that some parents often ignore or unwittingly aid the perpetration of physical violence against children in their…