Author: Saint Augustine

The Managing Director of Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA), Malam Habib Abdullahi, has inaugurated a 5 man Committee charged with responsibility of midwifing the entire concession of terminal B of the old Warri Port in Delta State. Tagged Project Delivery Team (PDT), the Committee which was inaugurated on Wednesday has been saddled with responsibility of ensuring a seamless transaction of the project in conjunction with the Bureau of Public Enterprises (BPE). The committee which was inaugurated in the presence of the BPE Director General, Mr. Benjamin Dikki, has as its terms of reference collation of submitted expression of interests by…

By Sylvanus Obasi Barely a week after he held a general meeting whereby he called for peace, unity and reconciliation amongst all aggrieved members of the chapter, it appears the banana peel syndrome which has become synonymous with his chapter is again rearing its ugly head against him. This is because the newly installed chairman of the National Association of Government Approved Freight Forwarders (NAGAFF), Tincan Island Chapter, Hon Fwdr Azubuike Ekweozor has threatened to abdicate his chairmanship position due to what he described as financial pressure from members of Board of Trustee of the association at the headquarters level.…

Enugu state Governor, Sullivan Chime has commended the National Association of Government Approved Freight Forwarders (NAGAFF) for its giant strides in the logistics and supply chain management. Governor Chime gave this commendation when some officers of the Association visited him in his office in Enugu state recently. The Governor enumerated his government’s efforts towards maximizing the potentials in the upgrading of the Akanu Ibiam Airport to international status which are all geared towards ensuring that the state taps benefits inherent in the status. Governor Chime said his government was quite aware of the benefits in harnessing the full potentials in…

The Nigerian Navy Central Command, Yenagoa has handed over 16 suspected oil thieves and a vessel, MV MARO to the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, for further investigation and prosecution. According to the Commanding Officer, Navy Captain N.M. Madugu, the vessel and the suspects were arrested on July 22, 2014 at Agbara, Yenagoa. Aboard the vessel were three Ghanaians: Robert Gakpetoe, the captain of the vessel; Quarshie Kofi Eric and Hanson Jacob. Others are two Nigerians, Wilfred R Fianu and Raphael Agidi and eleven Indians: Mohammad Towavalam, Soni Kumar, Parveen, Heeray Yodam, Pradeep Kumar Sharma, Ajay Kumar, Ankit Rana,…

The Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA) has blamed its poor performance in the outgone year, 2013 0n the Federal government’s policies and market forces. Speaking in a recent 2013 scorecard released by the Authority, the Managing Director, Mallam Habib Abdullahi, blamed government’s fiscal measures that restricted some imports into the country and other sundry factors as the Authority’s operational bane. The report signed on his behalf by the Assistant General Manager (AGM), Public Affairs, Mallam Musa Iliya, also added that market forces were part of factors that limited the activities of the NPA in the year under review. According to him,…

The Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA), recently disclosed reasons while the agency has not disbursed the much talked about Cabotage Vessel Financing Funds (CVFF) to indigenous Shipowners. Speaking in Lagos, the Director General of the Agency, Patrick Akpobolokemi said the Ministry of Transport had not given the agency the go ahead to disburse the money after sending names of qualified beneficiaries to it. Akpobolokemi who was represented at the event by the Executive Director, Shipping Services of the agency, Capt. Ezekiel Bala Agaba said the agency had done its own part leaving the remaining for the Ministry. He…

The Nigeria Customs Service recently explained why the Pre-Arrival Assessment report (PAAR) was not yet a final document for customs clearing as envisaged during the conecption of the instrument. Speaking in a television programme monitored by Primetime Reporters, the Customs Area Controller (CAC), Apapa Area Command, Mr. Eporwei Charles Edike stated that it was so because the Information and Communication Technology (ICT) infrastracture was still outside the control of the service. Edike added that the moment the PAAR was added to a well structure ICT infrastructure, only then would it become a final document for customs clearing. According to him,”…

The National Association of Government Approved Freight Forwarders (NAGAFF) has identified the need for proper identification of persons doing business within the Nigerian airports, seaports and border stations as a mean step towards the enhancement of the national security and in compliance with the ISPS Code. In a press release issued last weekend by the head of Duties, NAGAFF headquarters, Fwdr. Onyeka Ezeonala advised the Freight Forwarders who are not the representatives of Corporate bodies licensed by the Nigeria customs Service to be registered by NAGAFF and the Council for the Regulation of Freight forwarding i Nigeria (CRFFN). The statement…

Rev. Dr. Alex Favour Okwuashi is the Rector, Certified Institute of Shipping, Nigeria. In this interview with our correspondent, he bared his mind on the Marine Notice issued by the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA) recently, he shipping sector in the last six months, the Nigeria Maritime University and many more. Excerpts; Recently, the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA) said that it would not recognize any certificate issued by any Maritime Training Institutes it did not accredit and it listed the names of the institutions it accredited and the name of your institute, the Certified Institute…

After about eight months respite, the largest terminal in Nigeria, if not the whole of Africa, AP Moller Terminal otherwise known as APMT, Apapa in Lagos state of Nigeria is in the news again probably not for a good reason with the truckers recently protesting the delays in they go through in an attempt to lift containers from the terminal occasioned by what they called obsolete equipment at the terminal. It can be recalled that it was exactly eight months ago that the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) raised an alarm over what it called a misleading information dished out to…