Author: Saint Augustine

The Managing Director of Nigerian Ports Authority, Malam Habib Abdullahi has expressed the Authority’s preparedness to partner with relevant stakeholders, including the Nigerian Indigenous Ship-owners Association (NISA) so as to achieve the desired development of the maritime sector of the economy. Malam Abdullahi who made the pledge in Lagos while receiving the newly elected executive members of the NISA who paid him a courtesy visit in his office last week, reiterated that all the stakeholders have a common stake in the overall growth of the nation’s maritime sector. The Managing Director noted that the authority held the Association in high…

The National Association of Government Approved Freight Forwarders (NAGAFF) has called on the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) to consider collaborating with the Council for the Regulation of Freight Forwarding in Nigeria (CRFFN) as a means of riding the airport terminals and warehouses of touts and hoodlums. The National President of NAGAFF, Dr. Eugene Nweke who made this known while interacting with newsmen in his office in Lagos last week said unless the service considers the option of working with CRFFN with a view of identifying who is a freight forwarder, they may found out that they were only scrubbing the…

The Council for the Regulation of Freight Forwarding in Nigeria (CRFFN) has called on the Minister of Transport, Senator Idris Umar to lift the suspension on the collection of the Internally Generated Revenue otherwise known as transaction fee. Speaking during the official commissioning of the Freight Forwarders’ Headquarters and the commencement of a five day training programme for the staff of the CRFFN by the Honourable Minister of Transport, Senator Idris Umar in Lagos on Monday, the Registrar of the Council, Sir Mike Jukwe noted that the appeal became necessary to enable the council execute its numerous planned activities. Jukwe…

The National Association of Government Approved Freight Forwarders (NAGAFF) has advised its members who were licensed by the Nigeria Customs Service as its agents to take advantage of the ongoing inspection by the Customs License Inspection Committee at the NAGAFF headquarters in Lagos to verify their status with a view to renewing their licenses in the coming year. The National President of NAGAFF, Dr. Eugene Nweke who made this call in Lagos in a chat with newsmen last week said the exercise which was now brought down to Lagos as against the practice of freight forwarders having to travel to…

Barely two weeks after the suspension of the withdrawal of services embarked upon by the freight forwarders at Apapa on November 3, 2014, indications are rife that another withdrawal of service may be in the offing. It will be recalled that the Freight forwarders operating at Apapa in Lagos State under the aegis of Joint Association Committee (JAC) earlier this month withdrew their services at the AP Moller Terminals (APMT) and ENL Terminals over alleged high handedness and inefficient service delivery. However, the action was on the 14th of November, 2014 resolved with the aid of the Commissioner of Police,…

…Says announcement misleading The National Association of Government Approved Freight Forwarders (NAGAFF) has faulted a paid public announcement by the Association of Nigerian Licensed Customs Agents (ANLCA) describing the announcement as misleading and an abuse of privilege. ANLCA had on Wednesday issued an announcement on a Radio programme informing the freight forwarders and the general public that henceforth, the ongoing training programme by the Nigeria Customs service at its National Secretariat was a prerequisite for the renewal of licenses by the Nigeria customs Service. However, in a press release issued on Wednesday by the National Protocol/Head of Special Duties NAGAFF,…

There was a mild drama Wednesday at the Golden Tulip Hotel, Festac Town in Lagos, venue of a one day stakeholders forum on the maritime industry with the theme,” Seamless Importation: Building Stakeholders Synergy and Fostering Trade Without Compromising Standards”, organized by the Standards Organization of Nigeria (SON) when the two factional Presidents of the National Council of Managing Directors of Licensed Customs Agents (NCMDLCA) Mr. Lucky Amiwero and Chief Festus Ejiofor grounded the forum to a halt for about ten minutes. Trouble started when the Master of Ceremony introduced Chief Festus Ejiofor as the President of NCMDLCA, an action…

The stakeholders in the Maritime sector on Wednesday advocated for an outright embargo on goods from countries where sub standard products were being imported into Nigeria as a way of discouraging them from embarking on such venture. Delivering a lecture titled, “Building an enduring Private/Public Partnership in the Maritime Sector”, at a one day stakeholders forum on the Maritime industry organized by the Standards Organization of Nigeria (SON) in Lagos, the Secretary General, Association of Nigerian Licensed Customs Agents (ANLCA), Dr. Emmanuel Ogu Oparah stated that only when this was done could Nigeria get her war against Fake and sub…

The Murtala Mohammed International Airport Command of the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) has said that it would ensure that the cargo terminals and warehouses at the Murtala Mohammed International Airport Lagos remained closed until the terminal operators address some of the nagging issues at the airport. Speaking in a Press Conference in Lagos on Monday, the Customs Area Controller of the Command, Comptroller Tajudeen Olanrewaju stated that the action became necessary following the failure of all efforts made by the command to get the terminal operators to comply with the customs directives to ensure security at the airport as well…

A Pentecostal group, the Praise Ever Ministry and its pastor, Pastor Evelyn Calistus has instituted a court case against the Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG), its General Overseer, Pastor Enoch Adeboye, and the RCCG Heavens Gate Area Headquarter, located at Fagbile Estate in Ijegun area of Lagos. The plaintiff who spoke with our reporter said she was suing for injunction to compel Adeboye and his church to vacate the land on which her church is built and to stop further disruption of her church activities by the defendant, in addition to suing for N200million damages, allegedly, for sundry cases…