Author: Saint Augustine

As Nigerians await the nomination of the Ministers that would help President Buhari administer the Nigerian economy, a financial expert, Mr. Johnson Chukwu has called on President Muhammadu Buhari to ensure that he appoints a Minister who has a basic knowledge of the local economy to head the Ministry of Finance. Chukwu who gave this advice in an interview with Primetime Reporters in Lagos said such a person should understand the nuances of the local economy and has sound political knowledge or what he called the social intelligence so as to understand the social structure of the economy. He said,”…

The Shippers Association of Lagos State (SALS) has called on Nigerians to give President Muhammadu Buhari a minimum of three months to settle down in office to enable him put together members of his cabinet that would serve the interests of Nigerians in the long run. The President of SALS, Rev. Jonathan Nicol who made this appeal in congratulatory message he sent to President Buhari said such time would help the President not to hurriedly make mistakes that all Nigerians and those living in the country would regret. Nicol hinted that the President had a lot on his table now…

The Association of Nigerian Licensed Customs Agents (ANLCA) has on Saturday commissioned an electricity transformer donated to it by the Director-General, Standards Orgainzation of Nigeria (SON), Dr. Joseph Odumodu to power its National Secretariat. Speaking on the sidelines of the commissioning, the National Publicity Secretary of ANLCA, Dr. Kayode Farinto observed that with the installation and subsequent commissioning of the transformer by the National Secretary of the association, Dr. Emmanuel Ogu Oparah, the cost of powering the Secretariat would be drastically reduced. Farinto noted that prior to the donation of the transformer, the association has three generators which it spent…

Following the heat generated by the Practitioners’ Operating Fees (POF) instituted to be collected from the freight forwarders by the Council for the Regulation of Freight Forwarding in Nigeria (CRFFN) in all the entry and exit points in the country, the Minister of Transport has finally waded into the matter as it has invited the freight forwarders for a meeting at Abuja on Wednesday this week. It will be recalled that the CRFFN on the 4th of May, 2015 released a public notice announcing its readiness to begin collection of the POF on the 11th May, 2015 in all the…

A financial expert, Mr. Johnson Chukwu has advised President Muhammadu Buhari to focus on diversifying the economy further so as to grow other sectors of the economy that showed strong prospect. Chukwu who made this known in an interview with Primetime Reporters in Lagos noted that the entertainment industry had grown in the last eight years saying that the industry should be encouraged to grow further. He observed that the manufacturing sector had also grown to about 9% from 3% it used to be in the past adding that the present administration should do more to grow the sector since…

…Calls for attitudinal change The Founder, National Association of Government Approved Freight Forwarders (NAGAFF), Dr. Boniface Aniebonam has called on the Federal government to strive towards upholding the law using the instrument of constitutional provisions and established platforms rather that the use of ad-hoc committees in the administration of the state affairs. Aniebonam who made this call in a press release he issued in Lagos stated that to achieve this objective, a total welfare package for the government operatives and the law enforcement agents must be ensured and implemented. He noted that government should strive to create wealth for the…

The National Director, Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport Nigeria (CILT) Mr. Paul Ndibe has called on President Muhammadu Buhari to sustain the gain so far achieved by the Jonathan’s administration in the area of rail transport. Ndibe who was speaking in Lagos stated that part of what the government should do was to think of connectivity depending on the route, the axle weight and whether or not the rail sector should be commercialized. According to him,” Government should look into these aspects. There is a lot of support for the railway, government should sustain it but then look at…

As the controversy over t the success or otherwise of the picketing action embarked upon by the Association of Nigerian Licensed Customs Agents (ANLCA), Tincan Island Ports Chapter on Monday against the Tincan Island Container Terminal (TICT) rages on, the association has come out with the reasons behind its action against the terminal. It will be recalled that ANLCA had early on Monday morning embarked on the picketing of the TICT by shutting down the terminal denying staff and customers alike of the terminal exit and entry into the terminal but had to suspend the action on the intervention of…

The Managing Director, Cowry Asset Management Limited has said that Nigeria would suffer on the interim following the implementation of the Common External Tariff (CET) of the West African sub-region owing to its current posture of a consuming nation. Chukwu who made this position known while speaking in an interview with Primetime Reporters in Lagos however added that if Nigeria would in the long run convert its economy into a manufacturing economy where it would be in a position to export some of its products to other countries of the world, it would be the most beneficiary of the new…

Dr. Boniface Aniebonam is the founder, National bAssociation of Government Approved Freight Forwarders (NAGAFF) as well as the National Chairman, New Nigeria People’s Party (NNPP).In this interview with our correspondent, he bares his mind on the ongoing Practitioners’ Operating Fees (POF), the problem of Council for the Regulation of Freight Forwarding in Nigeria (CRFFN) and many other salient issues bedeviling the Nigerian maritime industry. Excerpt; The Association of Nigerian Licensed Customs Agents (ANICA) before now did not tell us why it advised its members not to pay the Practitioners’ Operating Fees. Now that it has given the absence of a…