Author: Saint Augustine

Worried by the level of systemic corruption in the nation’s international gateways, the National Association of Government Approved Freight Forwarders (NAGAFF) has established and inaugurated the Anti-Corruption and Transparency Unit (ACTU). The Unit which has Hon. Increase Uche as its National Chairman, Mr. Joachim as the Vice Chairman while Mr. Stephen Ibe will serve as the Secretary is expected to o find the remote and immediate causes of corruption in the nation’s international gate ways and find solutions to them. According to a public notice issued by the NAGAFF headquarters recently, the Unit would collaborate and network with the Anti-Corruption…

…Says he will be greatly missed The Association of Nigerian Licensed Customs Agents (ANLCA) has announced the demise of its Tincan Island Chapter Secretary, Evangelist David Chuks Kanikwu. A statement signed by the Senior Special Assistant to ANLCA National President on Media, Mr. Joe Sani disclosed that Kanikwu a former Director General of the National Secretariat of ANLCA, former Presidential Liaison Officer (PLO) and currently the secretary of Tin Can Island Chapter died on Tuesday at Ibadan after a brief illness. According to Sani, “While his absence will be missed a great deal by the ANLCA family, and indeed the…

In keeping with her commitment to the wellbeing of indigent women, widows and orphans in Anambra state, the wife of the governor of Anambra state, Chief (Mrs.) Ebelechukwu Obiano has commenced distribution of rice and money for soup condiments to beneficiaries across the 177 communities in the state as part of her community tour which kicked-off at Ayamelum and Anambra East on Monday and Oyi and Dunukofia Local Government Areas on Tuesday. Addressing the crowd at St. Joseph Field, Anaku, Ayamelum and Otuocha, Anambra East comprising beneficiaries from the various communities, and members of the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) in…

The Acting Director General of the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA), Mr. Haruna Baba Jauro has reiterated the commitment of the Agency towards stamping out the activities of unscrupulous elements that are bent on disrupting the peace in its areas of operation. Speaking as a special guest of honour at the opening ceremony of the Nigerian Army School of Public Relations and Information (NASPRI) media workshop in Lagos on Monday, the DG said that NIMASA had committed itself to ensuring the success of the working agreements with the Nigerian military in order to keep the Nigerian maritime environment…

The Managing Director of Nigerian Ports Authority, Mallam Habib Abdullahi has said that the provision of adequate rail lines connecting the ports with major cities in Nigeria remains a major panacea to the perennial problems of gridlock in Apapa area of Lagos State. Mallam Abdullahi made this assertion while speaking at a stakeholders’ forum with the Senate Committee on Marine Transport held at the Eko Hotels and Suites Victoria Island, Lagos on Monday. He said the Nigerian Ports Authority was the most affected organization in the Industry and therefore, it was very eager to see that permanent solution was proferred…

A former Presidential Candidate, Professor Pat Utomi has called on the Nigerian Shippers’ Council (NSC) to put machinery in motion towards bringing the maritime agencies and stakeholders together on monthly basis to brainstorm on the problems militating against the maritime industry in Nigeria with a view to proffering lasting solutions to them. Pat Utomi who made this call Tuesday while delivering a lecture titled,” Economic Rights and the Ports as Gateway to Growth and Prosperity”, at a one day forum organized by the Nigerian Shippers Council in conjunction with Akabogu and Associates with the theme: Benefits of Regulation at Nigerian…

The Senate Committee on Marine Transport has revealed that failure to pay the contractors handling the construction of the truck park opposite Tin can Island Container Terminal (TICT) in Lagos, led to the suspension of work at the terminal. The truck park which was said to be at 95 percent completion has been abandoned since last year for failure to pay the contractors N1.5 billion. It added that the Apapa port was the dirtiest among all the ports visited in the world. The Chairman Senate Committee on Marine Transport, Sen. Sani Yerima gave the hint Monday in Lagos at a…

The Anambra State Governor, Chief Willie Obiano has fulfilled yet another election promise made as part of his youth development programme with the flag-off of the 2015 Anambra U-17 Academicals Governor’s Cup Competition. The Flag-off of the football competition involving seventy girls’ teams and eighty boys teams from different secondary schools across the state was performed by the governor Saturday at the St Charles Special College Onitsha playground, with a kick-off in the match between Washington Grammer School, Onitsha and Dennis Memorial Grammer School (DMGS), Onitsha. Addressing the people, Governor Obiano said that his administration was reviving the soccer academicals…

The Federal Ministry of Transport has described as false and baseless, the various allegations of N13 billion fraud and threat of sack against the Rector of Maritime Academy of Nigeria (MAN) Oron, Mr. Joshua Okpo. Speaking to The Journal in an exclusive telephone interview, Mrs. Yetunde Osinaike, the Deputy Director, Press and Public Relations of the Federal Ministry of Transport described the stories making the rounds as false. “Please disregard the stories. It’s not true. As I speak with you now, I am doing a rejoinder which I will send out to the media after the Minister must have approved…

The Standard Organisation of Nigeria (SON) has said that it destroyed goods worth N10 billion Naira between 2011 and 2015 even as it urged the freight forwarding associations to collaborate with it to rid the country of sub standard and fake goods. Director General of SON, Dr. Joseph Odumodu gave the figure recently when officials of the agency paid a working visit to the headquarters of National Association of Government Approved Freight Forwarders (NAGAFF) in Lagos. The Director General however urged Freight forwarding practitioners to collaborate with the organisation to stop importation of sub-standard products into the country. According to…