Author: Saint Augustine

The Independent National Electoral, Commission (INEC) has excluded the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) from participating in the re-run election for Anambra Central senatorial zone scheduled for March 5. In the same vein, the All Progressives Congress (APC), All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) and Social Democratic Party (SDP) were also excluded from participating in re-run elections in Kogi, Abia and Adamawa States respectively. In a timetable released Tuesday for the conduct of elections as ordered by the Court of Appeal, INEC also disallowed parties from fielding new candidates for the re-run election thereby putting paid to the idea of conducting fresh primaries.…

The Nigerian Shippers’ Council (NSC) has said that it has in collaboration with the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) saved for the Federal Government, a total of $2.7 billion that would have gone down the drain from the oil subsidy claims by the importers of the wet cargoes. The Executive Secretary of the Nigerian Shippers’ Council, Mr. Hassan Bello who stated this while briefing the members of the House Committee on Ports, Harbours and Waterways who paid a visit to the Council’s headquarters in Lagos Tuesday observed that the money was saved in the last five years. Explaining further on…

I received series of text messages that I needed to revalidate my data at the nearest MTN service centre. I had registered before and l was not happy to receive those messages. I work on the island and stay in Alimosho LGA in Lagos. Besides my work that makes my weekly schedule very tight, my weekend is not different as I have my family to spend time with having been away all through the week. These reasons made me contemplated leaving the MTN network. Added to this, I see crowd at the centre nearest to me. As I got more…

The Senate Committee on Marine Transport was yesterday advised to focus its attention on ensuring that Nigeria acquire ships that could serve as National Carrier so as to boost the economy of the country in the maritime business. The Executive Secretary of the Nigerian Shippers’ Council (NSC), Mr. Hassan Bello who gave the advise in Lagos when the Senate committee on Marine Transport paid a visit to the Council’s headquarters however said that Nigeria with about 8, 000 coastlines could not rank as a maritime nation without a national carrier. While recalling the fact that Nigeria used to have national…

The President, Centre for Marine Surveyors Nigeria, Prince Adebambo Ademiluyi has hailed the Minister of Transportation, Rotimi Chibuike Amaechi for summoning the courage to cancel the Nigerian Maritime University proposed to be sited at the Okerenkoko in Delta State. Ademiluyi who made his feeling known in an interview with Primetime Reporters in Lagos said he was unaware of the capacity of the cancelled Nigerian Maritime University to do what a proper Maritime University could do adding that that the set up of the university was more in the press than real. He argued that if a maritime university was to…

The former Secretary, Association of Nigerian Licensed Customs Agents (ANLCA) Tincan Island chapter, Evang. David Chuks Kanikwu will be laid to rest on Friday 5th February, 2016, Primetime Reporters can authoritatively report. Kanikwu slumped and died at his Ibadan residence where he had gone to visit his family in December 2015. According to the funeral programme released by the ANLCA Public Relations Officer (PRO) of the Tincan Island chapter, Mr. Emmanuel C. Onyeme, there will be a service of song in Kanikwu’s honour at the ANLCA Tincan Island chapter Secretariat on Tuesday 2nd February, 2016 at 4pm. Also, there will…

The Wife of the Anambra State Governor, Chief Mrs. Ebelechukwu Obiano may have opened a new vista in humanizing governance in Nigeria as she handed the keys to three functional bungalows to three widows, Thursday. The gesture forms a part of the central thrust of Chief Mrs. Obiano’s NGO, the Caring Family Enhancement Initiative (CAFE) which the wife of the governor established as an interventionist organ that makes critical interventions in the lives of society’s vulnerable members like widows, women, children, the mentally and physically challenged and the destitute. Handing the house over to indigent widows in Alor, Agulu and…

The President, Centre for Marine Surveyors Nigeria, Prince Adebambo Ademiluyi has described the Nigerian Maritime sector as being stagnant in the last one year. Ademiluyi who made this known in an interview with Primetime Reporters in Lagos said there was nothing spectacular that occurred in the sector that could be described as a major achievement in the industry in the year 2015. He stated that the development could be attributed to vacuum in the leadership of the Ministry of Transport most of the year saying that the out gone Minister of Transport was inactive from March 2015 while the new…

The Association of Nigerian Licensed Customs Agents (ANLCA) has said that it will soon launch Operation Rewire in the maritime industry as its policy direction in the year 2016. The National Publicity Secretary of ANLCA, Dr. Kayode Farinto who disclosed this in an exclusive interview with Primetime Reporters in Lagos on the activities lined up for members of the association this year, explained that by Operation Rewire, ANLCA was to ensure that where its members were having operational challenges, it would intervene and where such challenge could not be solved at the command level would be taken to the Customs…

…Says NAGAFF has no business with Ali, Customs The Association of Nigerian Licensed Customs Agents I(ANLCA) has faulted the National Association of Government Approved Freight Forwarders (NAGAF)’s letter to the Comptroller-General of Customs, Col. Hameed Ali (Rtd.)over its exclusion from the IDP committee set up by the CGC saying NAGAFF has nothing to do with the Nigeria Customs Service. It will be recalled that NAGAFF had earlier written to Ali protesting the exclusion of NAGAFF, ANLCA and the Council for the Regulation of Freight Forwarding in Nigeria (CRFFN) from the Committee set up by the CGC to oversee the distribution…