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In a symbolic gesture of respect and commitment to fostering positive relations, the Comptroller-General of the Nigeria Customs Service, Bashir Adewale Adeniyi, paid homage to the Emir of Kano, Aminu Ado Bayero at his Palace in Kano. During the meeting, CGC Adeniyi reiterated the importance of strengthening the bond between the Nigeria Customs Service and the Kano community, stressing the Service’s more profound commitment to collaboration and mutual understanding. Expressing his dedication to facilitating trade in the state, CGC Adeniyi pledged to implement policies aimed at streamlining business processes and engaging with stakeholders. Speaking further, the CGC revealed that the…

…Proffers other workable solutions A foremost maritime Journalist, Mr. Kingsley Anaroke has called on the management of the Nigerian Ports Authority, NPA to license two more electronic call up companies in order to give room for competition and continuous improvement. This is just as he also advocated continuous reviewing and improving the infrastructure and enforcement as well as prosecute officers or culprits involved in electronic call up racketeering so as to serve as a deterrent to others. Anaroke who made the recommendations in a paper titled, “NPA’s Electronic Call Up System (ETO): Prospects, Challenges And The Way Forward”, which he…

The Comptroller-General of the Nigeria Customs Service, Bashir Adewale Adeniyi, MFR, has reiterated his commitment to improving the welfare of Customs personnel across the federation by providing shelters. The Comptroller-General of Customs made this known on Thursday, 7 March 2024, in Kaduna during the flag-off ceremony of the NCS housing scheme at Gidan Iyali Estate, Millennium City, Kaduna. He said, “This ceremony is not the last episode of what we have planned. There are projects similar to this in Kano, Asaba, Yola, Abuja, Enugu, and Uyo ready for flag-off. The national spread is aimed at providing officers and men of…

Stakeholders in the nation’s maritime industry has advocated for Terminal Delivery Orders, TDOs to be tied up to Eto call up tickets in order to stem the tide of racketeering that is fast eroding the gains of the initiative. Speaking at a breakfast meeting on electronic call up system with the theme “Repositioning E-Call Up System For Optimal Performance”, organized by the Maritime Reporters’ Association of Nigeria, MARAN held in Lagos on Thursday, representative of the Nigerian Ports Authority, NPA technical partner on e-call up, Trucks Transit Parks, TTP, Mr. Adekunle Ojo re-echoed a suggestion by one of the participants…

SIFAX Group, one of the leading business conglomerates in Nigeria with investment in Maritime, Aviation, Oil & Gas, Haulage & Logistics, Financial Services, and Hospitality, has appointed Basil Agboarumi as its new Executive Director, Corporate and Intergovernmental Affairs. Agboarumi recently completed his term as the Managing Director/CEO of the Skyway Aviation Handling Company Plc. (SAHCO Plc.), one of the subsidiaries of SIFAX Group. Agboarumi holds a National Diploma (OND) in Mass Communication from the Federal Polytechnic, Auchi and a Higher National Diploma (HND) in Mass Communication from the Federal Polytechnic, Oko, a Master in Communications (MSc) from the Lagos State…

…As stakeholders calls for automation of Eto call up system  The Nigerian Ports Authority, NPA has said that unless the confusion created by petroleum tankers along the Mile 2 – Tincan Island road are brought under control, there maybe no end in sight to the perennial traffic witnessed every year along that axis. The Port Manager, Lagos Port Complex, Apapa, Mr. Charles Okaga who disclosed this in a goodwill message at the breakfast meeting on Eto Call Up System put together by the Maritime Reporters’ Association of Nigeria, MARAN in Lagos today, said, “If we can bring the issue of…

…This will boost our digitalization efforts – Jamoh The Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency, NIMASA, yesterday, signed a Memorandum of Understanding MoU with Sternula Denmark on full-scale Very High Frequency, VHF Data Exchange System, VDES space capabilities between the Agency and Sternula. The Director General of the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency, NIMASA, Dr. Bashir Jamoh, OFR, who signed on behalf of the Agency noted that the international partnership to enhance vessel to vessel/ land communication in Nigeria will not only enhance safety and security of navigation in Nigerian waters, but also improve productivity of seafarers. Jamoh, who…

…Set to sell beans at discounted price to Nigerians The Seme Command of the Nigeria Customs Service, NCS, on Tuesday auctioned a total of four hundred (400) 30 litre kegs of Premium Motor Spirit, PMS popularly known as petrol to the members of the public. The PMS which is equivalent of 12,000 litres and with a Duty Paid Value, DPV of Eight Million, Three Hundred and Forty-Seven Thousand, Six Hundred and Eighty Naira (N8,347,680) was intercepted by the officers of the command in Saturday 2nd March, 2024 along the creeks. Speaking to newsmen on the seizure at Seme, the Customs…

…As Nigeria marks World Engineering Day The Director General, Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency, NIMASA, Dr. Bashir Jamoh, OFR has described the Engineering profession as crucial to the actualization of the Blue Economy ideals. He made this statement yesterday in commemoration of the World Engineering Day. Expatiating further on the role of Engineering in the maritime sector, he disclosed that being in a digital age, there is nothing that can be done manually; hence, everything about the maritime sector evolves around technology, which points to the important role of the Engineering profession. “Today, we are in the digital age…

Following a directive from the Honourable Minister of Finance and Coordinating Minister of the Economy, Wale Edun, the Nigeria Customs Service, NCS has announced a 90-day window for Importers of improperly imported vehicles to regularize import duties on them. The Service, in a statement issued by its National Public Relations Officer, CSC Abdullahi Maiwada in Abuja on Sunday, informed that the move was made pursuant to enhancing compliance and streamline import processes. According to the statement, this initiative applied solely to vehicles imported into Nigeria where the requisite customs duty had not been fulfilled or vehicles detained due to undervaluation.…