Author: Saint Augustine

The National Association of Government Approved Freight Forwarders (NAGAFF) is to go into strategic partnership with the AP Muller Terminal (APMT) towards entrenching better ports operations for the enhancement of international trade in the country. This was the outcome of a facility tour of the Terminal in Apapa by a delegation of NAGAFF led by the Founder, Dr. Boniface O. Aniebonam. Speaking during the meeting which trailed the facility tour, Dr. Aniebonam informed the APMT management that NAGAFF came on the visit as part of the association’s agenda to establish corporate relationship with other major stakeholders in the sector. The…

The Shippers Association of Lagos State (SALS) has advocated for the automation of the various terminals in the nation’s seaports to guarantee a stress free clearing process. The Vice President of the association, Chief Kris Keme who stated this while contributing at the stakeholders’ meeting organized by the Apapa Area Command of the Nigeria Customs Service on Wednesday said that effort should be made towards management of AP Moller Terminal to automate its gate as well as the process of issuing the Terminal Delivery Order (TDO). Keme also called for the establishment of a truck terminal capable of warehousing about…

The National Council of Managing Directors of Licensed Customs Agents (NCMDLCA) has called on the Customs Area Controller (CAC) of Apapa Area Command, Comptroller Charles Edike to identify and flush out of the command those officers who had been redeployed to other commands but refused to go to their new posts. The Chairman, NCMDLCA Apapa Chapter, Alhaji Tanko Ibrahim who made this appeal at a stakeholder’s meeting held at Apapa Lagos on Wednesday also want the retired officers of the service who are still working at the command to be identified and brought to book. Ibrahim wondered what would make…

The Customs Area Controller (CAC), Apapa Area Command, Comptroller Eporwei Charles Edike has emphasized on the need for both the Customs officers and the terminal operators to make national security their priority while carrying out their duties in the nation’s ports. Edike who made this observation at a stakeholders’ meeting organized by the command to appraise the performance of the Pre-Arrival Assessment Report (PAAR) in the last one year at Apapa Lagos on Wednesday stated that this should be so because any lapse on the part of the officers on duty would spell doom for the entire nation. He reminded…

The art of giving and sharing of goodwill, captured in the Igbo saying that “nma nma n’ezu ora”- which literally means goodwill traverses the community – may have found good expression in the way the wife of the governor of Anambra State, Chief (Mrs.) Ebelechukwu Obiano, has carried on with sharing of the gift of love during the Christmas festivities and the 2015 New Year celebrations The art of giving have been second nature of Mrs. Obiano long before she came into public office, and during the last Christmas through the New Year Ndi Anambra became fully aware of her…

The decision of the All Progressive Grand Alliance (APGA) to adopt President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan as the party’s candidate in the February 14, 2015 Presidential election, yesterday received a boost from the unanimous decision of traders in the South east geopolitical zone to adopt President Jonathan as their own candidate in the coming presidential election. The traders who came together under the aegis of the South-East Amalgamated Market Traders Association (SEAMATA) also resolved to adopt all the candidates standing election on the platform of the All Progressive Grand Alliance (APGA) as their candidates in the coming general elections. In a…

In its bid to boost efforts at ensuring that wastes generated by vessels at the nation’s seaports do not litter the Nations water ways, the Management of Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA) has commissioned five gabage trucks at Tin Can Island Port on Thursday. The trucks were procured by African Circles under a joint venture arrangement between the company and the Authority. The acquisition of the trucks is in compliance with the provisions of the International Maritime Organization (IMO) code on Marine Pollution which NPA is a signatory. Speaking shortly before the commissioning, the Executive Director, Marine and Operations of the…

By Ifeanyi Afuba At the end of the Nigeria – Biafra war, folks on the eastern divide greeted each other with the prayer – salutation, ‘happy survival!’ It was a natural impulse that surged on meeting with a relative, friend or associate whose fate in the harrowing events had remained unknown to you. The  scary signatures of the conflict were everywhere; intruding into your psyche even if you wanted to avoid them – malnourishment all around, blown up bridges,  buildings pock marked with bullet holes,  abandoned artillery pieces and cases of spent cartridges,  queues for essential commodities and so on. It was merciful providence…

As part of its efforts towards empowering women in Nigeria, Procter & Gamble (P&G) Nigeria, a leading consumer goods manufacturing company, has entered into a strategic partnership with the Nigerian Government on advancing the cause of the Growing Girls and Women in Nigeria (G-Win) initiative in the country. In the partnership, which was sealed at a ceremony held at the Federal Ministry of Finance, Abuja yesterday, P&G Nigeria will provide training resources, in the form of facilities and personnel, for G-Win to train the selected candidates. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, the Minister of Finance and the Coordinating Minister of the Economy, and…

Stakeholders in the maritime industry have again bemoaned incessant alerts that trail cargo clearance in the Nigerian Seaports describing it as a clog in the wheel of progress in the business of shipping in Nigeria. The stakeholders made their feelings known at a one day stakeholders’ meeting organized by the Apapa Command of the Nigeria Customs Service at Apapa Lagos on Wednesday to appraise the performance of the Pre-Arrival Assessment Report (PAAR) which clocked one year on December 1, 2014. The meeting which was well attended had the Freight Forwarders, terminal operators, government agencies including the Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA),…