Author: Saint Augustine

The National Association of Air Freight Forwarders and Consolidators (NAFFAC) has said that it agreed totally with the position of the Association of Nigerian Licensed Customs Agents (ANLCA) and two other freight forwarding associations that a declarant for customs formalities is the corporate company licensed by customs as its agent as against the individual canvassed by one of the associations. It will be recalled that at a meeting between the Minister of Transportation, the Registrar of the Council for the Regulation of Freight Forwarding in Nigeria (CRFFN) and the leaderships of the five accredited freight forwarding associations at Abuja on…

Truly, life has its special way of producing reasonable and unreasonable coincidences or even a mix of both, depending on how one’s lenses are polarized. Specifically, about a week before the November, 20th commemoration of 2016 World Day of Remembrance, WDR for road crash victims, as the Management of Nigeria’s lead agency on road safety, Federal Road Safety Corps, FRSC was busy effectively co-ordinating activities in respect of annual memorials for road crash victims and drawing public attention to the huge preventable road deaths, suddenly, a worrisome headline appeared in many Nigerian newspapers, “Missing Nigerian Journalist Found Dead”. According to…

L-R: World Bank Customs and Trade Specialist, Robert Struthers; Managing Director Nigerian Ports Authority, Hadiza Bala Usman and Mikiko Imai Ollison, the Trade Logistics Specialist, West and Central Africa, during a technical visit to the Managing Director by the World Bank team at the NPA HQ in Lagos. Send your news, press releases/articles to info@primetimereporters.com. Also, follow us on Twitter @reportersinfo and on Facebook on facebook.com/primetimereporters or call the editor on 07030661526, 08053908817.

  A Cameroonian Nollywood actress, Okawa Shaznay was one of the winners at the just concluded Eloy Awards at the Intercontinental Hotel, Lagos. She coasted home the award of TV ACTRESS OF THE YEAR for her role in DELILAH. Other nominees for the coveted award include Toyin Aimakhu for her role in Iya Ibadan; Ruth Kadiri for her role in Matters Arising; Meg Otanwa for her role in Hush; Juliana Olayode for her role in Jennifer’s Diary and Iyabo Ojo for her role in Black Val. While expressing delight over the award, Okawa said, “Oh my God I really was not…

The Wife of the Anambra State Governor, Chief Mrs. Ebelechukwu Obiano has said that infrastructural development and improvement in the quality of life of the average onye Anambra is of paramount importance to Chief Willie Obiano and his team in Anambra State. Mrs. Obiano stated this Thursday while addressing the people of Abatete, Abacha and Eziowelle in Idemili North Local Government Area during her ongoing Community Tour and Christmas outreach to the less privileged. The wife of the governor told the crowd gathered at the squares in the three communities that the governor was determined to improve the status of…

…Approves only 3 deep seaports …Ibom project delights investors Federal Government has approved a 50 year concession period for Ibom Deep Sea Port (IDSP) to help attract investors, as stakeholders have declared the project most viable in the West and Central African region. Both the Federal Ministry of Transport and the Infrastructure Concession Regulatory Commission (ICRC) which confirmed the long concession period, during the week, at the Ibom Deep Sea Port stakeholders visioning workshop, affirmed that only three deep seaports in  Nigeria have been captured in the nation’s port development master plan. The three deep sea ports are: Ibom Deep…

The importing public and indeed Nigerians were on Monday startled by the news of the ban on importation of vehicles both new and used from land borders across Nigeria by the Federal Government. You may recall that the federal government on Monday announced the ban on importation of vehicles through the nation’s border with effect from January 1, 2017 urging those who had imported through the ports of the neighboring countries to clear their consignments on or before 31st December, 2016. Mixed reactions followed the announcement with majority of the stakeholders at the Lagos ports especially the terminal operators who…

The Registrar, Council for the Regulation of Freight Forwarding in Nigeria (CRFFN), Sir Mike Jukwe has said that the provisions in the draft Bill for the amendment of the Customs and Excise Management Act (CEMA) as it relates to the Customs Representative, as a segment of freight forwarding profession in Nigeria are inconsistent with those in the existing CRFFN Act No. 16 of 2007. Jukwe who stated this in a submission he made at the public hearing on the draft amendments to the Customs and Excise Management Act (CEMA) organized by the Senate Committee on Customs,Excise and Tariffs at Abuja…

The Commissioner for Information and Strategy in Anambra State, Ogbuefi Tony Nnacheta has said that the ongoing Operation Python Dance exercise being conducted by the Nigerian Army in the South Eastern part of the country and Anambra in particular has been unnecessarily politicized by some elements in the state who were out to cause disaffection among the inhabitants of the state. Nnacheta who made this known in a statement he issued in Awka on Thursday said that the exercise had been mis-presented by some persons  as an exercise designed to inconvenience the Igbos and in particular Ndi Anambra adding that…

By Dr. Eugene Nweke What really gave rise to the importation of such policy? I am at lost! Such policy has the capacity to increase the smuggling activities through unapproved routes. I beg to maintain my position, the application of age limit in the importation of “Tokunbo” should be benchmarked, the older the vehicle the higher applicable duty rate it incurs and the newer the vehicle the lesser the applicable duty rate. This approach will go along way in promoting an enduring policy application and implementation, and will drastically reduce smuggling tendencies. Under the Trade Liberalisation Schemes of the World…