Author: Saint Augustine

The Head of the Customs Unit at Mosafejo Aradagun of the Seme Area Command of the Nigeria Customs Service,  Nwaeze F.C  may face dismissal from the Nigeria Customs Service if found guilty of the alleged acid bath of his salesgirl. Nwaeze a Chief Superintendent of Customs was said to have allegedly attacked  a young lady, Tope Fadipe with acid after a disagreement over money. Fadipe, who was said to be a salesgirl at a local food business operated by Nwaeze’s family for three years, was attacked by an angry Nwaeze on Friday May 9th, after she argued with him for…

The National President of the National Association of Government Approved Freight Forwarders (NAGAFF), Fwdr. (Chief) Eugene Nweke was recently awarded with a professional Doctorate by the Ports and Terminal Management Academyof Nigeria. At a brief presentation, representative of the Academy, Dr. Samuel Babatunde said the award was in recognition of Chief Nweke’s invaluable contributions to academics and the growth of the logistics Chain industry, Dr. Babatunde said the academy has watched with keen interest the various contributions of the new awardee, which are enough to earn him a place in the academic world. He said Fwdr. Nweke’s various papers should…

The Management of the Seaview Properties Limited (SPL), a subsidiary of the Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA) has been challenged to explore its local market and compete favourably with its competitors in the property market. The Managing Director of NPA, Malam Habib Abdullahi while urging the Management of the Company to continue to look outward in the nation’s property market, reiterated that the Authority shall continue to give some level of autonomy to Management of the Company to enable it achieve its targets. Mallam Abdullahi was speaking in Lagos Thursday shortly after commissioning some working tools for the SPL which includes…

Following the alleged gang raping a 23 year old lady, two officers of the Nigerian Customs Service, Seme Border Command have been nabbed by the Police. The suspects identified as Felola Uzezi and Mohammed Sanni, have already been transferred to the State Criminal Investigations Department (SCID), Panti, for further interrogation. The victim told policemen from Area K Police Command that she met one of the customs officers on Facebook and visited him after an invitation. The visit however turned nasty as her Facebook friend and his colleague allegedly raped her. It was gathered that the men were picked and quizzed…

The General of the National Inland Waterways Authority (NIWA), Hajia Inna Maryam Ciroma has said that the Authority would henceforth ensure the total compliance to the use of life jackets by the boats/ferry passengers in order to reduce the rate of casualties in the event of any boat mishap. Hajia Ciroma who stated this in an interview with newsmen in Lagos recently observed that the use of life jackets by the passengers using the waterways is not negotiable adding that the efforts were on to include the use of life jackets in the new safety code being put together by…

…As stakeholders identify challenges to 48-hourclearing at the ports The Lagos State Government on Thursday indicated its intention to end the ongoing rift between it and the National Inland Waterways Authority (NIWA) saying that it was not in the best interest of its citizens. The Commissioner for Transportation, Comrade Kayode Opeifa who stated this at a one-day National Discourse on Attaining 48-hour clearance of cargo at Nigerian seaports disclosed that the state government was ready to put an end to the dispute and build a good working relationship with NIWA for the interest of its teeming citizens who use waterways…

The National Inland Waterways Authority (NIWA) on Thursday said it was satisfied with the judgements so far delivered by the courts over the lingering disputes with between it and the Lagos State Government. Speaking on the occasion of the Safety and Awareness visit of the Management of NIWA to Lagos, the Managing Director of NIWA, Hajia Inna Maryam Ciroma recalled that on her first official visit to Lagos on assumption of office almost one year ago, she did promised to dialogue with the officials of Lagos state and to go to court for adjudication if nothing positive was arrived at…

By Monday Japhet Emo Ekiti State is reputed have produced more professors than any other state in Nigeria, in fact legend has it that every family has at least two professors. So it is understandable that the process of selecting such cerebral people into positions of leadership will be fierce and stiffly contested, especially that of the position of Executive governor who normally has puppets as legislators and has proverbial powers of “the genie” to dispense largesse from the crumbs allocated to the state from the federal purse. Given the allure for lucre the stake cannot be higher, this is…

The Director General of the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA), Mr. Ziakede Patrick Akpobolokemi has described the problems at the nation’s maritime sector as one that requires emergency solutions. Akpobolokemi who was speaking in an interview with journalists at the just concluded one day National Workshop on PPP Strategy for Infrastructural Development and Modernization in the Nigerian Maritime Sector held in Lagos recently stated that because the problems could be seen as emergency, there was no further need to keep waiting for the government’s intervention to address the myriads of problems in the sector rather than to engage…

Following the protests that greeted the partial implementation of the new automotive policy by the Nigeria Customs Service, the Secretary, National Association of Government Approved Freight Forwarders (NAGAFF), Hon. Increase Uche has described the protests as wrong step in the wrong direction. Uche who was speaking in an exclusive interview with Primetime Reporters at his office in Lagos on Tuesday, also said that NAGAFF has called its members to order telling them that the association was not in support of those that were against the implementation of the government policy. He disclosed that as intermediaries, Freight Forwarders and agents were…