…Calls for 48-hour cargo clearance at ports The Minister of Transportation, Mr. Rotimi Amaechi, on Monday, ordered an immediate staff and financial audit of the Nigerian Maritime and Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA). Amaechi gave the directive in the course of his maiden tour of the Lagos ports and the NIMASA’s Resource Centre facilities, domiciled at Kirikiri area of Lagos. But the Minister gaffed and showed his ignorance of the maritime industry operations when he tasked the Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA) to redouble its efforts towards ensuring a 48 hour cargo clearing regime in Nigeria, failing to realize that the…
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Saint Augustine
Saint Augustine is a seasoned freelance journalist and the chief editor of Primetime Reporters.
…Writes Tincan Island command CAC The Anti-Corruption and Transparency Unit (ACTU) of the National Association of Government Approved Freight Forwarders (NAGAFF) is set to conduct a public hearing on Wednesday at NAGAFF headquarters in Lagos to ascertain the veracity of the allegations against DC Saidu Aliu who has been alleged to be involved in sundry corruption acts at the CPC of the Tincan Island Command of the Nigeria Customs Service. This was contained in a letter addressed to the Customs Area Controller (CAC), Tincan Island Command by the Secretary of ACTU NAGAFF, Fwdr. Arthur Igwilo to intimate him of the…
The wife of the governor of Anambra State, Chief (Mrs.) Ebelechukwu Obiano is collaborating with Federal Road Safety Commission (FRSC) and the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) on road safety and anti-drugs and substance abuse advocacy campaign as part of her programmes in the ongoing tour of communities in Anambra State. The collaboration and sensitization campaign aimed at ensuring accident and violence-free Christmas has so far reached women in communities across ten Local Government Areas already visited by the wife of the governor. The council areas include: Ayamelum, Anambra East, Oyi, Dunukofia, Onitsha North, Onitsha South, Idemili North and…
Minister of Power, Works and Housing Mr. Babatunde Fashola, said Nigerians should expect increase in electricity tariff in no distant time. This is as he also indicated the Ministry of Petroleum has signified their interest to build certain critical pipelines to transport gas to the power plants that will add another 2,000 mega watts to the national grid within 12-15 months. According to him, “By far the most complex challenge is the problem of tariff. It is complex because it is more in the hands of citizens than in the hands of Government. “The role of Government is to set…
The Association of Nigerian Licensed Customs Agents (ANLCA) and the National Association of Government Approved Freight Forwarders (NAGAFF) has requested all the freight forwarding practitioners in Nigeria to support the Nigerian Shippers’ Council (NSC) in its quest to add value to international trade supply chain through the instrumentality of Cargo Tracking Note (CTN). The two leading freight forwarding associations which made their position known in a press release they issued in Lagos under NAGAFF-ANLCA initiative said although the cargo tracking note would come with an administrative charge which would be borne by the carrier, it would not in any way…
A financial expert, Mr. Johnson Chukwu has observed that the only practical way to reduce the recurrent expenditure of the Federal Government will be to grant financial autonomy to revenue generating agencies of the Federal Government. Chukwu who made this known in an interview with Primetime Reporters in Lagos contended that since it would not be in the interest of the government to retrench its employees or to rationalize the existing Ministries since it would still lead to job loss, granting semi-autonomy to revenue generating agencies of the Federal Government like the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), the Nigerian Maritime…
Mr. Johnson Chukwu is the Chief Executive Officer of Cowry Asset Management limited. In this interview with our correspondent, he bared his mind the Nigeria’s economy in the outgoing year, the massive lay off of employees in some companies, the clamour for more bailout funds by the state governors and many more. Excerpt; What is your assessment of the nation’s economy in the outgoing year 2015? Well, if you look at the statistics published by the Nigerian Bureau of Statistics, it is clear the economy went through a difficult period in 2015. We saw the GDP growth rate in the…
The Republic of Ghana has finally launched its National Single Window (NSW) platform with a seminar titled,” “National Single Window -‘Collaboration Towards A Facilitated Trade Environment”. The event which held at La Palm Royal Brach Hotel, Accra from the 1st to 4th December, 2015 was followed by a National Conference which was regrouped into plenary sessions and later broke in three technical sessions. The National Single Window was launched by the Ghanaian President, John Dramani Mahama who was represented by the Deputy Speaker of the Parliament and was supported by Hon. Seth Terpker ( the Minister of Finance ), Hon. Dzifa…
The anti-Corruption and Transparency Unit (ACTU) of the National Association of Government Approved Freight Forwarders (NAGAFF) has said that it has delegated 3- man freight agents operating at the Tincan Island Ports to investigate the alleged systemic corruption of Deputy Comptroller (DC) Saidu Aliu and Assistant Comptroller (AC) Zarma at the Customs Processing Centre (CPC) at the Tincan Island Ports. The National Chairman of the Unit, Hon. Increase Uche who made this known in a press statement he issued in Lagos on Tuesday said that the delegation was to investigate the alleged corruption leveled against the customs officers in t5he…
The President of the Association of Nigerian Licensed Custom Agents (ANLCA), Prince Olayiwola shittu, has advised members, particularly those in the Western Zone Chapter, to avoid patronizing those who parade themselves as godfathers ahead of the forth-coming Chapters Elections in the Zone. Shittu gave the warning while addressing executive officers and members of chapters of the Western Zone at a Zonal meeting held under the auspices of the office of the Zonal Coordinator, Comrade john Alfred Ofobike at the National Secretariat, Amuwo Odofin, Lagos, recently. According to him, godfatherism has nothing positive to offer in the polities of ANLCA, instead,…