Author: Saint Augustine

Following the successful flag off of the implementation of the minimum standard for trucks operating in the Western Ports by the Managing Director of the Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA), Mallam Habib Abdullahi last week Thursday in Lagos and the eventual refusal of entry to non registered trucks into the ports in the Western Zone, truck drivers are now falling on each other in their bid to get their trucks registered and certified. Recall that prior to the flag off, truck owners under the auspices of the Coalition of Port Dry Cargo Transport Operators (CPDCTO) had been opposed to the N10,…

Following a petition written by one Raymond Gold Oloriode where he made some weighty allegations against the Integrated Oil and Gas and its Chairman, Captain Emmanuel Iheanacho over Tomaro Island Refinery Development Project and articulated by one Christina Armstrong Ogbonna, the communities of Onisiwo Island in Amuwo-Odofin local Government Area of Lagos State have come out to dissociated themselves from the petition describing the writers as not speaking for the communities. The communities who made their position in a resolution signed at the end of the stakeholders’ meeting between the Integrated Oil and Gas and the communities of Onisiwo Island…

The Chairman, Association of Igbo Maritime Practitioners of Nigeria has called on President Muhammadu Buhari to be more practical than theoretical in marshaling out policies that will drive the economy of the nation in the coming years. Aniezechukwu who was speaking in an interview with our correspondent in Lagos also want President Buhari to acquaint the citizenry with the policy thrust of his administration so that people could use the thrust as a yardstick to measure progress being made by the current administration even as he said that he could not figure out what the policy thrust of this administration…

The Association of Igbo Maritime Practitioners of Nigeria has called for an immediate review of the Council for the Regulation of Freight Forwarding in Nigeria (CRFFN) Act so as to enable that agency of government which has been comatose over the years to run. The Chairman of the association at the PTML chapter, Mr. Uchechukwu Aniezechukwu who made this call in Lagos in a chat with Primetime Reporters stated that the Ministry of Transportation had no business waiting for the stakeholders to make peace for that organ of government to run. Aniezechukwu who said that the Minister of Transportation, Rt.…

The National Association of Government Approved Freight Forwarders (NAGAFF) has called on the Federal Government of Nigeria to as a matter of urgency convene an International Trade Summit where stakeholders in the international trade from across the country will assemble to compare notes and come up with complete and sustainable and enduring solution to the myriad of problems confronting the industry in Nigeria. The National Public Relations Officer of NAGAFF, Mr. Stanley Ezenga who made this call in a press release he issued in Lagos last week also said it was time President Muhammadu Buhari called to order every party…

The National President of the National Council of Managing Directors of Licensed Customs Agents (NCMDLCA), Mr. Lucky Amiwero has described as a welcomed development the registration and standardization of trucks to operate at the Nigerian ports as being championed by the Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA) Western Ports. Amiwero who made this position known in a press statement he issued in Lagos and made available to Primetime Reporters however stated that the NPA should do the needful by immediately repairing all the access roads to the ports as well as stop what he called the duplication of collection of the Vehicle…

The Seme Area Command of the Nigeria Customs Service has said that it collected a total of Nine Hundred and Sixty-Three Million, Seven Hundred Thousand, Five Hundred and Ninety-Six Naira, Eighty-Five Kobo (N963,700,596.85)as revenue for the month of march 2016. The command also made sixty (60) seizures with a duty paid value of One Hundred and Fifteen Million, One Hundred and Eighty-Four Thousand, Six Hundred Naira, Fifty-Eight Kobo (N115, 184,600.58)and arrested three (3) suspects in the month under review. A release signed by the Command’s Public Relations Officer (PRO), Mr. Selechang Taupyen stated that despite the numerous interruptions in the…

Following the recent position taken by the stakeholders at a workshop held recently at Abuja by the European Union Mission in Nigeria at the instance of the Netherlands, that the ban on the exportation of the Nigerian grown dried beans to the European Union Countries was more political than scientific, a maritime stakeholder, Mr. Uchechukwu Aniezechukwu has faulted that position saying that the ban has nothing to do with politics. Aniezechukwu who was speaking in an interview with Primetime Reporters in Lagos last week was reacting to the recent return of containers of beans of Nigerian grown beans exported to…

The Chairman, the Association of Igbo Maritime Practitioners, PTML Chapter, Mr. Uchechukwu Aniezechukwu has commended the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) over its decision to once again ban importation of rice from the land borders describing the action as a welcomed development. Aniezechukwu who made the commendation in an interview with Primetime Reporters in Lagos last week stated that the action was desirable owing to the fact that the Nigerian borders were porous adding that people who were calling for rice to be imported through the borders were people who were used to smuggling. He stated that government had more control…

Following the recent flag off of the implementation of the minimum safety standard for trucks by the Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA) for all trucks operating in its premises at the Western ports, stakeholders in the Nigerian maritime industry have hailed the courage of the authority to have finally commenced the programme after many years of postponement. The stakeholders who aired their feeling on Primetime Reporters’ social media platform congratulated the agency for the feat describing it as laudable and capable of reducing accidents on the road as a result of containers falling off the moving trucks. In his opinion, the…