Author: Saint Augustine

  Dr. Dakuku Adolphus Peterside has assumed duty as the Director General and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA). This was contained in a press release issued by the Deputy Director/ Head Public Relations NIMASA, Hajia Lami Tumaka on Tuesday in Lagos. Tumaka disclosed that the new DG who arrived the NIMASA Head Office on 4 Burma Road Apapa on Tuesday March 15, 2016, immediately went into a closed door meeting with members of Senior Management of the Agency. According to her, “Dr. Peterside who observed that he is aware that there are…

A factional President of the National Council of Managing Directors of Licensed Customs Agents (NCMDLCA), Chief Festus Ejiofor has written to the Registrar, Council for the Regulation of Freight Forwarding in Nigeria (CRFFN), Sir Mike Jukwe alleging plots by some elements to scuttle the peace currently enjoyed by members of the NCMDLCA. In his letter to Jukwe dated January 26, 2016 with the title,” Security Alert” and made available to Primetime Reporters in Lagos Monday, Ejiofor alleged that an illegal meeting of the National Council of Managing Director of Licensed Customs Agents was called and held in NAGAFF Village on…

The President, National Council of Managing Directors of Licensed Customs Agents (NCMDLCA), Mr. Lucky Amiwero has described as illegal the recent publications made in some national dailies by the Registrar, Council for the Regulation of Freight Forwarding in Nigeria (CRFFN), Sir Mike Jukwe on freight forwarders’ professional training and registration. It will be recalled that Jukwe on Thursday 10th and Friday 11th of March, 2016 published in some selected national dailies notice of professional trainings to be carried out by the CRFFN in Lagos, Port-Harcourt, Kaduna and Abuja and the stipulated amount to be paid by the participants. But in…

A faction of the National Council of Managing Directors of Licensed Customs Licensed Agents (NCMDLCA) led by Chief Festus Osaji Ejiofor had been embroiled in change of leadership crisis for some months now with a group known as the founding members calling for an election into the various offices of the Council including that of the National President by the end of this month. In this interview with our correspondent, the embattled President, Chief Festus Ejiofor explained his position on the entire saga warning members to clear of the said elections describing it as illegal, null and void. Excerpt; Your…

As the two weeks ultimatum given by the Minister of Transportation, Rt. Hon. Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi to the licensed customs agents to reconcile their differences with the Council for the Regulation of Freight Forwarding in Nigeria (CRFFN) or face fresh registration with the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) expired last Thursday, the former Public Relations Officer of Save Nigeria Freight Forwarders Importers and Exporters Coalition (SNIFFIEC), Mr. David Pius has called on the Minister not to waver in bringing all the freight forwarders under the umbrella of the CRFFN. Speaking with newsmen in Lagos, Pius maintained that if the Minister should…

The re-elected National President of the Merchant Navy Officers and Water Transport Senior Staff Association, Engr. Matthew Alalade has said that he would focus on unionizing the many affiliates of the association in his second term as the President of the association. Alalade who made this known in a chat with newsmen in Lagos Tuesday also said that getting the Federal Government to acquire vessels for most of the Nigerian seafarers who had no place to work and gain employment would rank second in his agenda for the association. He observed that unionization had become necessary as a lot of…

Following plans by some members of the Chief Festus Ejiofor led faction of the National Council of Managing Directors of Licensed Customs Agents (NCMDLACA) to conduct elections by the end of this month in order to usher in a new administration, the Deputy National President of the Council, Comrade Ben Ndee has called for government intervention to quell the looming crisis that is bound to cripple the Nigerian ports and by extension the Nigerian economy. Ndee who made this call in an interview with Primetime Reporters on Friday in reaction to a call by the founding members of the council…

The National Secretary General of the National Council of Managing Directors of Licensed Customs Agents (NCMDLCA), Chief Festus Ukwu has called on the Registrar of the Council for the Regulation of Freight Forwarding in Nigeria (CRFFN), Sir Mike Jukwe to compel the factional National President of NCMDLCA, Chief Festus Ejiofor to step down as the National President of the association. Ukwu who made this call in a letter he addressed to Jukwe dated the 29th day of February, 2016 said Ejiofor’s stepping down had became necessary so as to allow the association’s electoral commission conduct elections into the executive arm…

The wife of the governor of Anambra State, Chief (Mrs.) Ebelechukwu Obiano has given the people of Omasi-Uno in Ayamelum Local Government Area reason to cheer and look forward to with the promise of four new water borehole projects and the immediate reconstruction and upgrade of the existing broken borehole which is the only source of water supply to the community. Mrs. Obiano gave the assurance when she visited the community, Wednesday, to explore ways of alleviating their water supply challenges. The only source of water is from a broken borehole constructed in 1998 under the Anambra State Agricultural Development…

The Assistant Comptroller-General of Customs in-charge of Zone A, Lagos, ACG Charles Edike has promised that the now deserted Kirikiri Lighter Terminal (KLT) and the Lillypond Terminal, all in Lagos State due to cargo drought will soon be revived and put to full utilization. Edike who made this disclosure in Lagos yesterday when he paid a courtesy visit to the National Secretariat of the Association of Nigerian Licensed Customs Agents (ANLCA) stated that having pioneered the stemming of cargoes to most terminals in the Zone when he was the Customs Area Controller (CAC) at Apapa, he was set to ensure…