Author: Saint Augustine

The Director General of the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA), Dr. Dakuku Peterside has noted that to achieve the Agency’s vision of becoming the leading maritime administration in Africa advancing Nigeria’s global maritime goals, it is important that there is no disconnect between policy formulation and policy implementation. Peterside was speaking at the opening of a strategy retreat for members of the Board of NIMASA holding in Calabar, Cross River State from November 21 -23, 2016. Describing the Board as the bridge between policy formulation and policy implementation, the NIMASA DG expressed gratitude that the Board was peopled…

The crisis rocking the Council for the Regulation of Freight Forwarding in Nigeria (CRFFN) may be far from being over as the National Association of Government Approved Freight Forwarders (NAGAFF) has said that unless a declarant is properly defined in inline with the Act establishing CRFFN, it will not support the collection of the Practitioners’ Operating Fee (POF) as proposed by CRFFN. It will be recalled that the Association of Nigerian Licensed Customs Agents (ANLCA) had last year when the POF was initially conceived opposed its collection on the ground that associations cannot be partakers in the sharing formula proposed…

The Managing Director, Oil and Gas Free Zones Authority (OGFZA), Mr. Umana Okon Umana has called on the Buhari administration to support the authority in repositioning the oil and gas free zones in its development efforts to diversify the economy. Umana who made this call in a paper titled,”Oil & Gas Free Zones As A Catalyst To Economic Diversification” which he delivered at  the just concluded All Nigerian Maritime Journalists’ Retreat organized in Lagos by the Association of Maritime Journalists of Nigeria (AMJON) stated that the call became pertinent because OGFZs had the potential of stimulating growth and general economic…

That the current Minister of Transportation, Rt. Hon. Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi is one year old in office this November is no longer news. What is news now is whether or not he has delivered in his assigned role as the Minister of Transportation. In the preceding weeks, the media were awashed with the assessments of the Minister’s one year in office and this medium being a responsible one will not overlook the need for people to know what has happened in the Transportation Ministry under Amaechi as the superintendent. Recall that one year ago, precisely in November 2015, the maritime…

A maritime expert, Rear Admiral Godswill Siepre Ombo (rtd.) at the just concluded All Nigerian Maritime Journalists’ Retreat, convened by the Association of Maritime Journalists’ of Nigeria, (AMJON) proffered solutions which if implemented could permanently resolve the Apapa gridlock menace. The stakeholders at the event earlier recalled that the pains, damages and loses suffered by port uusers as a result of the deplorable state of the port access roads rises by the day while government continues to collect levies daily in billions  of naira from hapless citizens, who, in the struggle to survive, have no choice but to face the…

Son of ANLCA’s former Vice President and Board of Trustee (BOT) member, Adedayo Lateef Azeez got traditionally engaged to his heart throb-Adeola on Saturday, 19th November 2016 at the Red Carpet Hall, Oniru main Road, lekki, Lagos. The traditional engagement ceremony, which almost turned to a church service, with praise worship, was attended by parents, families, relatives, friends and admirers of the couple from all walks of life. The ceremony was mainly the traditional formal introductions of the families of both groom and Bride, prayers for a fruitful married life, and music from a live band, dancing, wining and dining,…

Mr. Dikko Bala, Alternate Permanent Representative to the International Maritime Organisation (IMO) has been appointed the Chairman of the International Mobile Satellite Organisation (IMSO) for a period of two years. The appointment was confirmed during the 24th session of IMSO in London recently. Mr. Bala, a Deputy Director with the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA) is currently the Alternate Permanent Representative of Nigeria to the IMO. Commenting on his appointment, the Director-General of NIMASA, Dr. Dakuku Peterside said the IMSO would not be disappointed by Mr. Dikko Bala’s leadership. He described Mr. Bala as a committed individual who…

The Association of Nigerian Licensed Customs Agents (ANLCA) has finally pledged to support the Council for the Regulation of Freight Forwarding in Nigeria (CRFFN) in its bid to commence the collection of the Practitioners’ Operating Fee (POF). It will be recalled that several attempts by CRFFN management to commence collection of the said fee were truncated by ANLCA which seemed not to be comfortable with the sharing formula proposed by the CRFFN especially as it had to do with who a declarant is. Rising from its National Executive Meeting held in Lagos yesterday, ANLCA stated that it was now ready…

The Deputy Governor of Anambra State, Dr. Nkem Okeke has condemned the orchestrated smear campaign targeted at the governor of Anambra State, Chief Willie Obiano which got to a new height with the recent false claim by elements within the opposition that he hired a private jet to take him to Abuja, when in actuality the private jet belongs to former Vice President Atiku Abubakar. Okeke pointed out that contrary to this vicious campaign, Governor Obiano was waiting to catch his flight on Arik Airlines to Abuja on the said day. Dr. Okeke made the condemnation at Saints Anglican Church…

National Association of Government Approved Freight Forwarders (NAGAFF) has indicated its intention to reopen a pending appeal before the Appeal Court on the status of the Council for the Regulation of Freight Forwarding in Nigeria (CRFFN). The founder of NAGAFF, Dr. Boniface Aniebonam who disclosed this in an interview with our correspondent in Lagos said that having lost the case at the Federal High Court level, the association approached the Appeal Court to either uphold the ruling of the Federal High Court or overturn it. It will be recalled that members of NAGAFF few years ago approached a Federal High…