Author: Saint Augustine

The Association of Nigerian Licensed Customs Agents (ANLCA) has frowned at the restriction order placed on trailers and articulated vehicles within and around Lagos State between the hours of 6.am and 9.pm. According to a release signed by the National Publicity Secretary of ANLCA, Dr. Kayode Farinto, the restriction was counter-productive adding that it had impacted negatively on the already worsened situation. Farinto added that the restriction order had automatically given robbers the opportunity to perpetuate their devilish acts at night saying that the amount of manpower wasted by the shippers and customs brokers alike within the last few days could…

The Managing Director of Nigerian Ports Authority(NPA), Mallam Habib Abdullahi has said that Nigerian Ports is now effective and efficient in cargo handling with improved ports operations which has enhanced the contributions of maritime sector to the nation’s economy. Mallam Abdullahi who was represented by Engr. David Omonibeke, Executive Director Marine and Operations made this statement recently while receiving a delegation of the United Parcel Service (UPS) who paid him a courtesy visit in his office in Lagos. The Managing Director disclosed that the Federal Government had approved the establishment of deep/dry seaports in some part of the country in…

…accuse NPA of flouting tally clerks payment agreement By Joy Enamuna The Dockworkers branch of the Maritime Workers Union of Nigeria (MWUN) has raised the alarm that some stevedoring companies operating inside Nigeria’s seaports don’t have ambulance. Revealing this to journalists, President of the Dockworkers branch of MWUN, Comrade Adewale Adeyanju stated that the labour union will soon be picketing some stevedoring firms that lack up to date safety equipment inside the seaports. According to him, “some service providers who work under the terminal operators at the seaports don’t have up to date safety equipment. Some don’t even have ambulance…

The Association of Nigerian Licensed Customs Agents (ANLCA) has dissociated itself from the recent Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) signed by the Importers Association of Nigeria (IMAN) and four of the five freight forwarding associations registered by the Council for the Regulation of Freight Forwarding in Nigeria (CRFFN) in which they established a strategic business relationship. It will be recalled that the associations in an MoU they signed, endorsed the appointment of the new Comptroller-General of Customs, Col. Hameed Ali (rtd) by President Muhammadu Buhari, the collection of Practitioners’ Operating Fee (POF) as proposed by the CRFFN among other issues. But…

The National Association of Government Approved Freight Forwarders (NAGAFF) has called on its members, importers and freight forwarders alike to always observe what it called simple trade regulations of the Standards Organization of Nigeria (SON) as a way of supporting the organization in its efforts to ensure quality standard of imported products. Speaking in a press release issued on Wednesday in Lagos and made available to Primetime Reporters, the founder of NAGAFF, Dr. Boniface Aniebonam stated that observing the regulations of SON was a minimum requirement expected of them as patriotic citizens of Nigeria and in conformity with the “change”…

Following the restriction of the movement of trucks and other articulated vehicles on Lagos roads between the hours of 6.am and 9pm by the Lagos State government recently, a Coalition of Truck Operators operating in the nation’s maritime sector has announced the withdrawal of services of its member. The Permanent Secretary, Lagos State Ministry of Transportation, Oluseyi Whenu, speaking on Sunday against the backdrop of a fatal container truck accident which claimed three lives at Ojuelegba on Wednesday last week, said the trailer involved in the accident contravened Section 2 (i) (ii) of the Lagos State Road Traffic Law. Whenu…

All is now set to host the Maritime National Discourse scheduled to take place at Rockview Hotel, Apapa on Thursday, September 10, 2015. According to a press statement issued to news men yesterday by Platforms Communications and signed by Mr. Kelvin Kagbare, Secretary of the Organising Committee, all arrangements have been concluded to ensure the success of the occasion. Kagbare noted that the need to discuss the future of Nigeria Maritime Sector in the next five years cannot be over-emphasized, considering the change in government and the fall in oil price which has made the maritime sector a veritable alternative.…

The Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA) has expressed its readiness to partner with the British Military in the area of human capacity building for the development of the Nigerian maritime sector. Receiving a delegation from the British Military Advisory and Training Team (BMATT) led by Commander Shaun Quinn of the Royal Navy during a courtesy visit to the Agency, the Acting Director General, Mr. Haruna Baba Jauro stated that capacity building was very vital to the growth and development of the Nigerian maritime sector. Mr. Jauro further said that the relationship between the British and the Nigerian governments…

The Seme Command of the Nigeria Customs Service has said that it generated a total of N6, 233,863,657.56 as revenue from January to August 2015. According to a release by the Command’s Public Relations Officer, Taupyen Selechang, the revenue generated was N376, 907.086.51 higher than the N5, 846,956.571.05 generated over the same period in 2014. Selechang further said that the command also made 461 seizures with a duty paid value (DPV) of N170, 984,589.00 for the period under review adding that despite the uncertainty towards the general election with a corresponding drop in trading activities in the second quarter of…

The Permanent Secretary in the Federal Ministry of Aviation, Binta Bello has said that the Nigerian Government will complete and deliver five international airport terminals across the country, concurrently being remodeled  and built to meet international standards at a total cost of $500 million (N100 billion). Binta Bello, who made this disclosure during an interview in Abuja recently, averred that finance was not an impediment to the delivery of all the projects going on simultaneously in the five major states of the country. She added that the remodeling of the airports located in Lagos, Abuja, Port Harcourt, Kano and Enugu…