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By Mmaduabuchi Onwumelu In a move that underscores its commitment to fostering African climate tech entrepreneurship, IDEA Africa spearheads the Climate Action Africa Forum 2024, CAAF24 Deal Room, in partnership with Climate Action Africa and Silicon-Valley based Founder Institute. This strategic collaboration underscores IDEA Africa’s pivotal role in advancing innovation across the African continent, with a focused emphasis on the crucial area of climate technology. Scheduled for June 19th in Lagos, Nigeria, the Deal Room will serve as the centerpiece of CAAF24, providing a premier platform for African climate tech startups to engage with investors and stakeholders alike. With IDEA…

By Mmaduabuchi Onwumelu In a bid to develop and grow Beach Soccer in Nigeria, the Nigeria Beach Soccer League, NSBL, has entered into an agreement with Nigeria’s first indigenous automobile manufacturing company – Innoson Motors. This was confirmed during the second round of the 2024 Nigeria Beach Soccer League in Nnewi, Anambra State. The partnership, according to them, was to ensure the grassroots and indigenous growth of beach soccer in the country. The CEO of Innoson Motors, Chief Innocent Ifediaso Chukwuma who attended the opening games and performed the ceremonial kick off affirmed his love and support for the game.…

The Comptroller-General of Customs, Adewale Adeniyi, on Wednesday, decorated thirteen (13) members of his management team with their new ranks at the Nigeria Customs Service Headquarters in Abuja amidst calls to redouble their commitment and dedication to the success of the service. In a press statement signed immediately after the ceremony by Chief Superintendent of Customs Abdullahi Maiwada, the spokesman of the service revealed that CGC Adewale Adeniyi decorated 5 Deputy Comptrollers-General and 8 Assistant Comptrollers-General following the approval of their appointments by the Nigeria Customs Service Board (NCSB) on Tuesday, 14 May, 2024. According to the statement, their appointment…

Dr. Taiwo Afolabi, Chairman, SIFAX Group, has identified coastal tourism and renewable energy generation as some of the potential areas of growth that Nigeria needs to take advantage of in developing its blue economy. Afolabi, while delivering the 16th Convocation Lecture of the Ladoke Akintola University of Technology, LAUTECH, Ogbomoso on the topic “Towards a sustainable blue economy and marine development in Nigeria: Trends, Challenges and Prospects”, noted that the country has many untapped opportunities in the maritime sector. He said developing the country’s blue economy is now more imperative than ever due to the government’s policy of moving away…

The Chairman, Trade Facilitation Committee of the National Association of Government Approved Freight Forwarders, NAGAFF, Dr. Fred Ajuzie has given reason why the federal government is still retaining the services of Webb Fontaine despite evidence of poor service delivery by the company over the years. Ajuzie who spoke in an interview with Primetime Reporters in Lagos recently, insisted that there must be somebody in Webb Fontaine that the government is interested in, hence its inability to act upon several complaints and protests by different stakeholders in the port industry against the tech firm. He noted that when such thing is…

…Advocate for workshop for ship owners, managers The Nigerian Association of Master Mariners, NAMM has thrown its weight behind the Director General of the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency, NIMASA, Dr. Dayo Mobereola over his plans to automate the Nigerian ship registry to boost shipping development in Nigeria, describing it as the way to go to get it better. Recall that the Director General had at a meeting with the maritime industry stakeholders held in Lagos last week, reassured shipowners that the Agency is committed to expediting the automation of the ship registry, a move that will significantly boost…

…Honours deserving individuals By Mmaduabuchi Onwumelu  The Nigerian Red Cross Society, Anambra State Branch, recently, joined her counterparts all over the world to celebrated this year’s World Red Cross Day in Awka, the Anambra State Capital. It has “Keeping Humanity Alive” as its theme. Addressing the gathering, the Anambra State Chairman of the Nigerian Red Cross Society, Professor Ifeyinwa Emelie, commended the healthy collaboration that exist between the organization and the state government, and pledged that Red Cross would continue to support the administration to achieve key goals, especially those that have direct impact on the people. The University Don…

The Nigeria Customs Service Board, NCSB has confirmed the appointment of five (5) Deputy Comptrollers-General, DCGs and eight (8) Assistant Comptrollers-General, ACGs of Customs during its 59th regular meeting. The meeting,chaired by the Honorable Minister of Finance and Coordinating Minister for the Economy, Mr. Wale Edun, was held at the Nigeria Customs Service Headquarters in Abuja on Tuesday, 14th May, 2024. The details of the confirmed Deputy Comptrollers – General are: OO Peters, DCG /Commander Training and Doctrine Command (rtd); BM Jibo, DCG Enforcement, Inspection & Investigation; BU Nwanfor, DCG Excise, Free Trade Zone & Industrial Incentives; SA Bomai, DCG/Commander…

The members of the National Association of Government Approved Freight Forwarders, NAGAFF is to hold prayer session for peace in the New Nigeria Peoples Party, NNPP currently rocked by crisis. The association will also pray for Sen. Rabiu Kwankwaso, the 2023 presidential candidate of the NNPP who was expelled by party for anti party activities. Recall that NNPP is the brainchild of NAGAFF, founded by the association’s founder, Dr. Boniface Aniebonam. In a statement by National Publicity Secretary of NAGAFF, Dr Clement Iwegbuna on Tuesday in Lagos, the prayer session had been scheduled for Thursday, May 16,. “NAGAFF and its…

The Nigerian Association of Master Mariners, NAMM has called for the establishment of the Merchant Navy Training Board to help in determining the training needs of the maritime industry in Nigeria. The President of the association, Captain Tajudeen Alao who made this demand in an interview with Primetime Reporters in Lagos on Monday said that with the Board in place, there won’t be any need to just take people to go and train them without first determining the need of the industry and train them to serve the identified need. According to him, “You don’t just carry people and go…