Author: Saint Augustine

The Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport (CILT) Nigeria has said that the planned concession of the nation’s airports is a step in the right direction as it would create room of efficient and effective management of the sector. The National Director, CILT Nigeria, Mr. Paul Ndibe who disclosed this in an interview with our correspondent in Lagos stated that it served nobody any good if there are airports in the country and there is no power to energize the cooling system as well as other sections of the airports. On the resistance coming from some quarters, Ndibe recalled that…

The Chairman, National Association of Government Approved Freight Forwarders (NAGAFF), Rev. Emmanuel Agubanze has decried the state of inactivity of the Lillypond/Ijora container depot few months after it was re-designated Tincan 2 by the Federal Government describing it as another effort in futility. Agubanze who made his feeling known in an interview with newsmen in Lagos stated that nothing has actually happened at the terminal to justify the re-designation since the terminal could best be described as a desert as it is presently. He contended that since it was the availability of cargo that make a terminal or a depot…

Chief Sir Ernest Elochukwu is the former National President, Association of Nigerian Licensed Customs Agents (ANLCA). In this interview with our correspondent, he speaks on Dr. Aniebonam’s comment on the recently concluded Direct Trade Input (DTI) operation training by the leadership of ANLCA, the Minister of Transportation’s intervention in the CRFFN crisis among other salient issues. Excerpt; When you were talking earlier, you seemed not to be comfortable with Dr. Boniface Aniebonam’s position on the ANLCA’s DTI training for members recently held at its National Secretariat at Lagos. What are your reservations about his comments? My concern is that in…

Alhaji Barr. Bisiriyu Lasisi Fanu is the Chairman, Association of Nigerian Licensed Customs Agents (ANLCA) Seme Border Chapter. In this internview with our correspondent at Seme last Friday, he made a peep into the business environment at Seme in last eight months, ban on importation of rice through land borders, diversion of already cleared vehicles from Seme to Idiroko or Abeokuta command by operatives of the Federal Operations Unit among other issues. He says that Comptroller Dimka is a man who has zero tolerance for smuggling. Excerpt; How would you describe business here in Seme in the last eight months?…

The Association of Nigerian Licensed Customs Agents, Seme Border chapter has said that the Federal Government through the Comptroller-General of the Nigerian Customs Service (NCS) was misinformed into banning rice importation through the land borders few months after the ban was lifted by the Comptroller-General of Custom, Hameed Ali on assumption of duty. The Association which made this disclosure through its chapter Chairman, Alhaji Barr. Bisiriyu Lasisi Fanu in an interview with our correspondent at Seme Friday recalled that Seme command of the Nigeria Customs Service and other Customs commands along the border line made enormous revenue which accrued to…

…Attracts Kwara State Government’s commitment to reactivate Oro General Hospital The Governor of Kwara State, Alhaji Dr. Abdulfatah Ahmed has promised the people of Okeola-Oro in Irepodun local government council area, that the refurbishment and renovation of Oro General Hospital is underway, especially with the capturing of it in the 2016 budget with an allocation of N150million. He spoke through the Commissioner for Health, Alhaji Sulaiman Bolaji Alege, who also informed that all paperwork had been concluded but a snag holding execution was the encroachment on the site assuring that once the issue was resolved, work on the General Hospital…

A 911 Lorry with registration number XB 751-PHC yesterday crushed a mother and her grandchild to death at IKB Junction, Ejighinandu, near Eke Awka-Etiti along Nnobi-Ekwulobia Express Way in Idemili South local government of Anambra State. With the corpses of the victims decapitated, heads crushed and the woman’s hand cut off, the children of the woman were crying uncontrollably beside their late mother, while the crowd watched helplessly until Obiano’s convoy coming back from a function at Mbosi arrived the scene. Anambra State Governor, Chief Willie Obiano who could not hold back tears on seeing the gory site ordered his…

Glory Shipping Agency Limited, Uba Sylvester, Nwaofor Ben, Iheobom Chijioke Reginald and Faniz galaxy investment Limited have sued the Management of the Tincan Island Container Terminal (TICT) for imposing what it called a painful and overcharging demurrage of 17 days amounting to the sum of N158, 960.00 (One Hundred and Fifty-Eight Thousand, Nine Hundred and Sixty Naira) for a delay that was caused by them. The five who are the plaintiffs in the matter, in their statement of claim recalled that upon the arrival of their consignments on 14th August 2015, they promptly took steps to clear their goods but…

The National Association of Government Approved Freight Forwarders (NAGAFF) has written to the Management of the Ports and Terminal Multi-Services Limited (PTML) to protest the attachment of the ownership of customs license as a condition to issue access card to those intending to do business at the terminal. In a letter addressed to the Managing Director of PTML by the Legal Adviser of the association, Barr. Fred Akokhia and copied to the Secretary to the Government of the Federation and 7 others, NAGAFF stressed that the development was not acceptable in law and to it for the that a freight…

Lagos State Governor, Mr. Akinwunmi Ambode on Wednesday expressed confidence in the ongoing efforts to permanently resolve traffic congestion in the Apapa axis due to activities at the Port, just as he restated his administration’s commitment to restore the glory of the area. Governor Ambode, who spoke at the Lagos House, Ikeja when he received the management team of the Nigeria Ports Authority (NPA) led by its Managing Director, Hadiza Bala Usman on a courtesy visit, said he was highly desirous of transforming the Apapa axis to be a beauty to behold. While expressing confidence in the ability of the…