Author: Saint Augustine

…Call on Coalition members to key in The Corporate Truck Fleet Owners Association has called on their counterparts in the Coalition of Port Dry Cargo Transport Operators (CPDCTO) to key in to the minimum safety standard for trucks as stipulated by the Nigerian Ports Authority for all trucks operating in the Western Ports. The Chairman of the association, Mrs. Folake George who made this call on the sideline of the flag off of the implementation of Minimum Safety Standards by the Managing Director of NPA, Mallam Habib Abdullahi on Thursday in Lagos stated that her members had since bought into…

…Says it is not responsible for reconstruction of port access roads The Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA) Thursday flagged off the implementation of the minimum standard for trucks operating in the Western ports. It will be recalled that the event which was postponed twice namely; from the 1st of March to 21st March 2016 and from the 21st of March to 31st of March 2016was said to be at the instance of the truck owners who pleaded for more time to enable them put their trucks in order. Also recall that the Coalition of Port Dry Cargo Transport Operators (CPDCTO), which…

The attention of FRSC has been drawn to a write up in the social media on the issue of number plate registration and difficulties applicants go through in procuring vehicle number plates. FRSC wishes to make clarifications on some of the misconceptions and innuendoes contained in the said publication as follows: The FRSC responsibility is to design and produce vehicle number plates by virtue of Section 5(g) and Section 10 sub section 3(f) of the Federal Road Safety Commission (Establishment) Act, 2007. After production, the number plates are handed over to the States through States Boards of Internal Revenue (SBIRs)…

Since the sack of 26 DGs by the government, stakeholders in the nation’s digital migration are apprehensive that if current NBC leadership fails to follow Emeka Mba”s roadmap, Nigeria may miss 2017 deadline set by west Africa.Besides, the way and manner he drove the funding of Digital Switch Over with thoughtful leadership is worthy of emulation, Primetime Reporters’ correspondent reports. Over the years, Nigeria’s international obligation to transition from analogue to digital broadcasting, known as Digital Switch Over (DSO), was stalled due to lack of funds. Successive governments failed to appropriate necessary funding for this very crucial national development program.…

Stakeholders in the Nigerian Agricultural sector has described as political rather than scientific a ban placed by the European Union on the exportation of Nigerian grown dried beans to the European Union countries. It will be recalled that EU in June 2015 placed a 12 months ban on the exportation to all European Union countries Nigerian grown dried beans citing high levels of pesticides used in processing the beans before export which was said to be harmful to humans who were mainly Nigerians in the Diaspora. The stakeholders who were speaking at a workshop organized by the EU Mission in…

The Association of Nigerian Licensed Customs Agents (ANLCA) has set up a 3 member committee to liaise with the Industrial Training Fund (ITF) on information gathering and dissemination to members on the activities of the agency. According to a press release sent this medium by the Senior Special Assistant Media to ANLCA National President, Mr. Joe Sanni, the committee which comprised of Tope Ogungbemile, Pius Ujubuonu and Francis Omotosho were to collect all the requisite information and forms to enable members of ANLCA to begin to take advantage of the ITF Act 2011. The release quoted the National President of…

Following enquiries initiated by the Minister of Transportation, Rt. Hon. Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi on the alleged illegal collections by freight forwarding associations at the nation’s ports, the National Association of Government Approved Freight Forwarders (NAGAFF) has exonerated itself from the said illegal collections. In a letter to the Minister of Transportation through the Director Legal Services in the Ministry of Transportation, I. J Uche Okoro (Mrs.), NAGAFF in the letter signed by its National Secretary, Mr. Arthur Igwilo and copied the Minister of Finance and Five others stated that it had not been part of any collections. It hinted that…

The Federal Government has assured of a housing scheme for the officers and men of the Nigerian Army including those fighting Boko Haram war in the North-East zone of Nigeria. The Chief of Army Staff, Lt. Gen. Tukur Buratai who disclosed this whilst speaking to journalists in Enugu assured that as soon as those soldiers disengage from service, they would occupy their own houses. Lt. Gen. Buratai stated that aside their various insurance entitlements, the soldiers are also entitled to loan from the Federal Government Loan Board through the Federal Mortgage Bank of Nigeria (FMBN), “So that as soon as…

Following the unending fuel scarcity across the country for sometimes now, the Senate has ordered the Minister of State for Petroleum, Dr. Ibe Kachikwu to appear before it on Tuesday. The Senate Committee on Petroleum Downstream gave the Minister the order after carrying out an on-the-spot assessment of the fuel crises in major petrol stations in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT). The Senate committee visited some fuel stations in the nation’s capital with a view to ascertain what is responsible for the scarcity of the product. Some of the stations visited were not selling petrol and the operators gave reasons…

The National Association of Government Approved Freight Forwarders (NAGAFF) has declared as an act of illegality the practice of issuing licenses to the customs agents by the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) without recourse to the Council for the Regulation of Freight Forwarders in Nigeria (CRFFN). It also advise that an executive bill be initiated from the Ministry of Transport and in collaboration with Ministry of Finance to expunge Section 156 of the Customs And Excise Management Act (CEMA) through a subsidiary legislation at the National Assembly, so that the conflict between CEMA and CRFFN Act be put to rest permanently.…