Author: Saint Augustine

Hajia Idayat Bolanle Muse was born at Oyo town in Atiba Local Government Area of Oyo State Nigeria. She attended the Ansar-Ud-Deen Primary School and later at St. Bernardine’s Grammar School where she obtained her West Africa Schools Certificate. She also attended the Baron School of management where she obtained her Diploma in Secretarial Administration. Later she went to study at A and B Computer College where she acquired Computer Appreciation skills. She later proceeded to the Kano State Polytechnic, and came out with Diploma in Business Administration. She finally obtained her Masters Degree in Business Administration from the University…

The Maritime Reporters’ Association of Nigeria (MARAN) has called on the Federal Government to extend the executive approval granted the Nigerian Shippers’ Council to operate as the Ports Economic regulator from one year to five years. The President of the Association, Mr. Bolaji Akinola who made this call while presenting his welcome address at a one day seminar tagged, “Achieving Fair and Equitable Port Pricing System in Nigeria”, jointly organized by the association and the Nigerian shipper’s Council in Lagos on Monday, stated that the one year approval granted the council by the federal Government was not enough to carry…

The stakeholders in the nation’s maritime industry have expressed happiness over the rate at which the Nigeria Customs Service has been generating and transmitting the Pre-Arrival Assessment Report (PAAR) which hitherto was marred by a number of complains. A cross section of the stakeholders who spoke to Primetime Reporters in Lagos on Friday acknowledged that the Nigeria Customs Service was getting over the initial problems it encountered at the inception of the regime. Speaking on the matter, the national President, National Association of Government Approved Freight Forwarders (NAGAFF), Chief Eugene Nweke disclosed that in the last twenty-one days, the PAAR…

By Monday Japhet Emo It was like slow motion, hearts missed a beat, breathes stopped for nano seconds, deafening silence then the loud bang of explosion- sharpenels flew in a wide magnetic vortex, mauling and maiming anything within a wide radius, fire and smoke then everything became still. That instinct of self preservation, pumped adrenaline into lethargic and fear stiffened legs as people began to run away from the blast, some blood soaked, with gashes others with a cut or two yet a few others with no bruise but they had to run anyway. Pause! This scene is not from…

Rev. Jonathan Nicol is the President, Shippers’ Association of Lagos State. In this interview with Joy Enamuna, he bared his mind on the awards by the Transport & Society Newspaper and the Nigerian Television Authority (NTA), the Nigerian Shippers’ Council as the ports’ commercial regulator in Nigeria and many more. Excerpts; Sir, you have just been giving an award by the Nigerian Transport and Nigerian Television Authority as the outstanding personality in maritime sector, how do you feel? I am fascinated that for the first time in our history, Shippers Association is now being recognized publicly! Not to talk of…

By Monday Japhet Emo Arising from a drunken binge I, like most other kind hearted Nigerians went to Abuja, a week after the Nyanya bomb blast to feel the pulse of the city and see if I could also donate blood. Life seemed to have picked up as usual with Nigerians, attention has shifted to the two hundred and twenty nine or so girls abducted and taken to a forest ostensibly to be used as sex slaves or for ritual purposes one can’t really peep into the mind of the demonic extremist sect who take pleasure in killing innocent people…

The Nigeria LNG Limited has said that it has received a total of 124 (one hundred and twenty-four) entries for the 2014 edition of the Nigeria Prize for Literature which is considered to be the flagship Corporate Social Responsibility Initiative. The prize which is also considered the most prestigious literary prize in the Continent of Africa has also received a total of five (5) entries for the award for the Literary Criticism which was introduced in 2012. This was made known by the Chairman of the Advisory Board of the Nigeria Prize for Literature, Prof. Ayo Banjo on the occasion…

Following the repeated cases of boats mishaps accross the nation, commuters at the various ferry stations in Lagos have called on the National Inland Waterways Authority (NIWA) to come up with watertight safety measures that will restore passengers’ confidence in water transport as a means of transportation. Speaking newsmen in Lagos, the commuters at the Marina jetties said that introducing passengers Manifest was not enough to put confidence in the passengers that fear mishap anytime they are on sea arguing that safety was more than just passengers’ manifest. The respondonts however demanded for adequate safety measures as the only way…

As part of his tour of the facilities of the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA), President Goodluck Jonathan will on Saturday, May 10 flag-off Nigeria’s first specialised university for the maritime sector. The President will be conducted round the state-of-the-art facilities at the temporary site of Nigeria Maritime University at Kurutie, while also performing the ground-breaking of the permanent site, located at Okerenkoko, both in Warri Southwest Local Government Area of Delta State. According to NIMASA Director-General, Mr. Ziakede Patrick Akpobolokemi, President Jonathan will similarly perform the ground-breaking of NIMASA Dockyard and Shipyard, also sited at Okerenkoko, which…

The Apapa Area one Command of the Nigeria Customs Service has said that the teething problem associated with the Pre Arrival Assessment Report (PAAR) was gradually coming to an end even as it disclosed that a total of 28,861,000 (twenty-eight thousand, eight hundred and sixty-one PAARs has been released in the month of April . The command also said it has raked in a whooping N22,132,876,041.87 ( twenty-two billion, one hundred and thirty-two million, eight hundred and seventy-six thousand, forty-one Naira,eighty-seven kobo) from 1st to 28th of April, 2014. The Customs Area Controller of the Command , Comptroller Charles Edike…