Author: Saint Augustine

Following the downwards slide in the global oil prices, the former Chairman, Association of Nigerian Licensed Customs Agents (ANLCA) Tincan Island Chapter, Dr. Kayode Farintho has predicted that the year 2015 may not be a good year for the Federal government as it relates to revenue generation. Speaking in a chat with newsmen in Lagos, Farintho stated that the federal government should embark on efforts towards developing alternative source of revenue for itself to enable it meet up with its responsibilities to the people. He called on the government to revisit the import prohibition list with the aim of reducing…

The Nigerian Shippers’ Council (NSC) has called on the Maritime reporters to create a forum where government agencies and the critical stakeholders in the industry should be brought to render account of their stewardship in the industry. The Executive Secretary of the Nigerian Shippers’ Council, Mr. Hassan Bello who made this call in Lagos on Tuesday at a one day Media Perspective Forum on the Nigerian Shippers’ Council as the Ports’ Economic Regulatory stated that by this the press would make it mandatory for people and agencies to be focused on why they were set up. According to him,” they…

As the dust raised by the comments of Rev. Fr. Ejike Mbaka of the Adoration Ministries, Enugu Nigeria (AMEN) on the 2015 presidential poll is yet to settle, another Catholic priest, Rev. Fr. Emmanuel Ikeri has said that President Goodluck Jonathan has failed Nigerians. Fr. Ikeri who was preaching in a homily entitled,” Follow Me”, to mark the 3rd Sunday in the Ordinary time of the year at the St. Flavius Catholic Church, Oworonsoki Lagos on Sunday however stated that unless President Jonathan own up to the fact that he had made some mistakes, he may not win the confidence…

…condemn attacks on President Jonathan With barely one month to the 2015 presidential poll, the New Nigeria People’s Party (NNPP) has said that it is yet to decide on which of the two prominent Presidential Candidates to support in the coming election. It will be recalled that the two prominent Presidential candidates in the 2015 presidential election are the incumbent President and the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) Presidential Candidate, President Goodluck Jonathan and the All Progressives Congress (APC) Presidential Candidate, General Muhammadu Buhari (Rtd.). Speaking at the flag off ceremony of the NNPP Lagos Governorship Campaign on Friday in Lagos,…

Communities and residents of Nnewi and Ekwusigo Local Government Areas of Anambra State have pledged total support to the Governor Willie Obiano’s administration and all the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) candidates in the forthcoming February 2015 elections. The widespread endorsement of APGA and its candidates by the Ekwusigo and Nnewi South LGAs was done in appreciation of N16.5 billion road projects the APGA led-government has awarded in the areas over the years, the latest being the 6.22 kilometre Coscharis-Onuzilike Okonkwo-Francis Maduka road project at Nnewi and the 7 Kilometre Ozubulu – Ihembosi – Ukpor road projects inaugurated by Governor Obiano on…

By Onyedika Okonkwo As the race for the Anambra Central Senatorial Seat gathers momentum, Chief Victor Umeh, the APGA candidate walks around with an indulgent smile on his face. And why not? Unlike other candidates who are engaged in a titanic race against the wind, Chief Umeh is running a great race with all the elements in his favour. And here are the reasons – Of all the candidates locked in this battle of the woodpeckers, Victor Umeh seems to be the one with an iron head. Umeh is the only one among the titans who hasn’t lost a battle yet;…

It was a triumphant entry of a bold and courageous warrior as over fifty thousand residents gathered at the Civic Centre in Agulu to endorse Chief (Sir) Victor Umeh as their candidate of choice for the Anambra Central Senatorial election. People from the four wards and the twenty-two villages that make up Agulu trouped out en masse to Agulu Civic Centre to receive Umeh. Various speakers at the event echoed that if not for Chief Victor Umeh’s support for their son, former Gov. Peter Obi, Agulu people would not be boasting today of producing a governor of Anambra State. They…

Stakeholders in the maritime industry has expressed divergent views over the inability of the Nigeria Customs Service to meet up with the revenue target set for it by the Federal Government in 2014. It will be recalled that the Federal Government in 2014 set for the Nigeria Customs Service a revenue target of N1.2 trillion out of which the Service was able to rake in over nine Hundred Billion Naira by the end of 2014. Speaking on the matter, the former Public Relations Officer, Save Nigeria Freight Forwarders, Importers and Exporters Coalition (SNIFFIEC), Mr. David Pius was unable to meet…

The National Association of Government Approved Freight Forwarders (NAGAFF) has condemned calls in some quarters that the Federal Government should increase the revenue target it normally set for the Nigeria Customs Service this year so as to make up for shortfalls from the oil market describing it as the greatest mistake the government would make. The National Secretary of NAGAFF, Hon. Increase Uche who disclosed this in an interview with Primetime Reporters in Lagos stated that setting target for the Nigeria Customs by the Federal Government at the beginning of every year had not been the best for the industry.…

As the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) targets to win both the State and National Assembly seats in the forthcoming general elections billed for next month, the governor of Anambra State, Chief Willie Obiano has flagged off the Anambra South Senatorial District Campaign of the party and intensified massive grassroots mobilization and sensitization of the electorate to get their voter’s cards in order to be eligible to vote candidates of their choice. Flagging off the campaign of the party at Ekwulobia, Tuesday, the Governor said that APGA had entrenched the culture of good governance in the State and urged the people to vote for…