Author: Saint Augustine

…Says it moved 55, 000 containers from Apapa in 2014 The Nigeria Customs Service has faulted the claims that it focused more on revenue collection and meeting targets set at the detriment of trade facilitation describing it as misleading. Barr. Osuala Nwagbara had in the course of his paper presentation tagged,” Towards A New Port Order; The Journey So Far: A Lawyer’s Perspective”, which he presented at the 1st Shippers’ Day Celebration in Lagos noted that while the Customs Service World over were not only revenue generating agents of government but were also international trade facilitators at the ports, noted…

…wants re-establishment of Price Control Board The Shippers’ Association of Lagos State (SALS) has said that it would vigorously pursue its goal of getting the federal government to give it more concessions which it said may be in the form of a complete duty waiver for industries. The President of the association, Rev. Jonathan Nicol who made this assertion in a welcome address he delivered to mark the 1st Shippers’ Day Celebration in Lagos with the theme,” Working Towards A New Port Order: The Journey So Far”, also called for the re- establishment of Price Control Board. While recalling that…

By James Eze When Governor Willie Obiano took over the leadership of the All Progressive Grand Alliance (APGA) as the Chairman BoT and National Leader on December 17 last year, he quoted the Italian Renaissance man, Michelangelo, to his fellow party men and women. In a powerful emotional voice, Obiano said; “the greatest danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it.” The tremendous resurgence of APGA since this ambitious statement has since shown that Governor Obiano knew exactly what he was…

Technopreneurs, a team of contestants in the CEO Challenge, from the University of Ibadan, has qualified for the Chief Operating Officer (COO) Phase in the on-going Procter & Gamble (P&G)’s CEO Challenge. With this feat, the team will carry the Nigerian flag at the regional level when it will be competing with other teams from Africa to determine who advances to the final stage of the competition. Technopreneurs team, comprising of Ololade Olaleye, Olamide Oladeji and Dolapo Salawu defeated the HHR, Midas, Incredible and Nudocs from the University of Ibadan, Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile Ife, Federal University of Technology, Owerri,…

The wife of the governor of Anambra State, Chief Mrs. Ebelechukwu Obiano has boosted the education and upkeep of indigent members of the Holy Childhood Association (HCA) of the Nnewi Diocese of Catholic Church with financial support of N500, 000.00‎. \ Mrs. Obiano made the grant during the Annual Feast at Our Lady of Holy Rosary Pilgrimage Centre, Okija. HCA is an initiative of Nnewi Diocese which seeks the moral upbringing of pupils in the Primary Schools. Speaking at the centre, Mrs. Obiano told the pupils that she honored their invitation in spite of her busy schedule because anything that…

The governor of Anambra State, Chief Willie Obiano stormed the ancient city of Abeokuta at the weekend with the stalwarts of the All Progressive Grand Alliance (APGA) to present the party’s flag to Prof. David Olufemi Bamgbose who is running for the governorship seat of Ogun State on the platform of the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA). Governor Obiano who was accompanied by his wife, Chief Mrs. Ebelechukwu Obiano told a large crowd of party faithful that gathered at the Palace of the Alake of Egbaland for the symbolic presentation of flag to the gubernatorial candidate that the arrival of…

Mr. Paul Ndibe is the National Executive Director, Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport (CILT) Nigeria. In this interview with our correspondent, he bares his mind on the successes recorded in the transport sector in the year 2014, the prospect of the industry this year, the National Transport Policy bill before the National Assembly among other issues. Excerpts:           What is your assessment of the transport industry in the year 2014? The transport sector is fluid in the sense that it is not static; a couple of faults can really upturn major development and it can also create new initiatives in…

The Principal Partner, Maritime and Commercial Law Partners, Apapa Lagos, Barr. Osuala Emmanuel Nwagbara has called on the Nigeria Customs Service to jettison the benchmark method of valuation as well as all arbitrary value method of arriving at the duty payable on imports as it adds to the high cost of doing business in the port. Barr. Nwagbara who made this call while presenting a paper titled,” Towards A New Port Order: The Journey So Far- A Lawyer’s Perspective” at the 1st Shippers’ Day Celebration, organized by the Shippers’ Association of Lagos State (SALS) in Lagos last weekend, stated that…

A frontline licensed customs agent, Sir Tony Anakebe has hailed the move by the Federal government to automate all its agencies at the nation’s seaports describing it as a wonderful idea. Recall that the Senior Special Assistant to the President on Maritime Services, Mr. Leke Oyewole late last year announced the federal government’s plan to fully automate all its agencies in the ports so as to eliminate human contacts in the clearance procedures in the ports and enhance efficiency in the clearing processes. Anakebe who spoke with newsmen in Lagos recently noted that he had been calling for the creation…

It is no longer news that the implementation date for the federal government’s auto policy has again been postponed to commence in April 2015 having been previously postponed on two occasions in the year 2014. The first was when the Federal government had to shift the implementation date for the policy from around February, 2014 when the agents protested the implementation of the new policy to July 1, 2014 and subsequently to January 1, 2015. But the latest shift in the implementation date for the policy had been variously interpreted to mean so many things by the stakeholders in the…