Author: Saint Augustine

The National Association of Government approved Freight Forwarders (NAGAFF) has called on the Standards Organization of Nigeria (SON) to ensure that its operatives are seen at all the border stations across the nation so as to ensure total compliance with the standard regulations and guidelines for imported products. The founder of NAGAFF, Dr. Boniface Aniebonam made this call on Thursday when he led a delegation of NAGAFF management team on a courtesy visit to the Lagos office of the agency. Aniebonam who pointed that the operatives of SON were not present at the Jibiya border where he said that for…

…Wants community leaders to embrace change In compliance to the Comptroller-General of Customs’s policy thrust and the headquarters directives on Customs-Community Consultative Forum (CCCF) with reference NO.NCS/ENF/ABJ/058/S.2/VOL.V OF 14TH September, 2015, the Customs Area Controller (CAC), Seme Area Command, Comptroller Victor Dimka has revived the CCCF and engaged the host communities to an interactive session recently. According to the press release issued by the Command’s Public Relations Officer (PRO), Mr. Selechang Taupyen and made available to this medium, the feat has shown that the CAC understands that he cannot succeed alone in the task of revenue collection and anti-smuggling activities…

The Headquarters Special Assignment Team ‘C’ Ogun State Axis headed by Assistant Comptroller of Customs Shittu Almarof recently raised the standard of its anti-smuggling campaign with the interception of a Volvo truck laden with suspected frozen poultry products. Almarof who in his statement stated that following the strengthened anti-smuggling strategy targeted at aggressive patrol activities for the degradation of smugglers, a patrol team led by Chief Superintendent of Customs, Ismaila Aminu Umar, while on routine patrol along Sagamu-Benin Expressway, intercepted a Volvo truck with registration number LND 298 XN during random checks on suspected vehicles and trucks along the axis.…

By Phrank Shaibu                                  March 6th, 2016 was another bad day in Nigeria for road users and its nation’s leadership. Indeed, If put in candid and fearless perspective, it will remain a vital remembrance day that Nigeria citizens ought use to ask its leadership to conscientiously examine its concern for their safety on the roads. The referenced day, best described as Black Sunday recorded the dreadful loss of Barrister James Ocholi, Senior Advocate of Nigeria, erstwhile Federal Minister of State for Labour alongside his dear wife, Blessing and son on the Kaduna Abuja Highway. The late James Ocholi was a major…

The Association of Marine Engineers and Surveyors has perfected plans to hold a Maritime Technical Summit on the 11th of April, 2016 in Lagos. According to a member of the organizing committee, Engr. Emmanuel Ilori who disclosed this Wednesday in a chat with newsmen in Lagos, the event which is scheduled for the Sheraton Hotels, Ikeja Lagos is being organized by the Association of Marine Engineers and Surveyors in association with the Ministry of Transportation. Ilori noted that the executive members of the association had earlier visited the Minister of Transportation, Rt. Hon. Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi at Abuja where they…

The National Publicity Secretary of the Nigerian Indigenous Shipowners Association (NISA), Engr. Emmanuel Ilori has said that contrary to the much publicized appointment of Barr. Mrs. Margaret Onyema-Orakwusi as the Chairman of Shipowners’ Forum, he was not aware any such appointment was made. It will be recalled that this medium reported yesterday that the Shipowners Association of Nigeria (SOAN) and NISA had resolved to come together following an advice by the Minister of Transportation, Rt. Hon. Chibuike Amaechi to form a common front under a united body known as the Shipowners’ Forum with the appointment of Barr. Mrs. Margaret Onyema-Orakwusi…

Following a request made by the Honourable Minister of Transportation, Rt. Hon. Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi to different shipowners’ association to present a common front for the purpose of engaging with government, members of the Nigerian Indigenous Shipowners’ Association (NISA) and the Shipowners’ Association of Nigeria (SOAN) have come together to form Shipowners’ Forum. A press statement jointly signed by the trio of the NISA President, Alhaji Aminu Umar, the SOAN President, Engr. Greg Ogbeifun and Chairman, Shipowners’ Forum, Barr. Mrs. Margaret Onyema-Orakwusi said that the resolution to form one united body was without prejudice to the fact that the respective…

The Nigerian Merchant Navy Officers and Water Transport Senior Staff Association has indicated its readiness to work with the new Director-General of the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA), Dr. Dakuku Peterside in making sure that his administration succeeds. The National President of the association, Engr. Matthew Alalade made this known in a press statement he issued in Lagos yesterday. While welcoming the Director-General, Alalade advised the NIMASA DG to appoint technocrats who would help make his administration a success even as he appealed for re-establishment of the the national carrier to gainfully engage his members. He further advised…

The General Manager Western Ports, Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA), Chief Michael Ajayi has denied media report which quoted him as alluding to the fact that truckers lose as much as N5 billion annually to extortion from the NPA Security operatives at the ports in the zone. An online medium (not Primetime Reporters) had on Tuesday reported that truck drivers operating at the Western Ports of the Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA) Lagos; lose over N5bn annually to extortion by security operatives of the NPA at port gate. The medium went ahead to quote the Chairman, Coalition of Port Dry Cargo Transport…

The Managing Director of Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA), Mallam Habib Abdullahi has assured the Bureau of Public Enterprise (BPE) and Terminal Operators at the nation’s seaports that the NPA will continue to support their efforts at enhancing the growth of Nigeria’s economy. MallamAbdullahi gave this assurance Tuesday at a meeting when the House of Representative Committee on Privatization and Commercialization visited the Headquarters of the NPA as part of its oversight functions. The meeting which had officials of the (BPE), Ports and Cargo Terminals and the JPS Terminal formerly known as JosepDam , was held at the conference room of…