Author: Saint Augustine

President Goodluck Jonathan has reappointed the Director-General of the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA), Mr. Ziakede Patrick Akpobolokemi as the Director-General of NIMASA. The Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Senator Anyim Pius Anyim, in a statement on Wednesday said that the appointment takes effect from the 20th day of December, 2014. It will be recalled that Akpobolokemi was first appointed to head the apex Maritime Safety and Security agency on the 20th day of December, 2010. With this development, Akpobolokemi will continue to steer the ship of NIMASA for the next four thereby affording him the…

…As Ports Gist marks 3rd Year Anniversary The National Association of Government Approved Freight Forwarders (NAGAFF) has called on the Nigeria Customs Service to hasten the ongoing full integration/automation process so as to link up the critical stakeholders in the industry on the platform. Speaking at the 3rd Year Anniversary of Ports Gist and Events on MITV and a one day Workshop on appraisal of the Pre-Arrival Assessment Report (PAAR) in the last ten months in Lagos on Wednesday, the National President of NAGAFF, Chief Eugene Nweke also called on the Shipping Companies and Terminal Operators to do the same…

The Association of Nigerian Licensed Customs Agents (ANLCA) has congratulated Capt. Dada Niyi Labinjo on his recent election as the new President of the Association of Nigerian Licensed Customs Agents last Friday. In a congratulatory message to Capt. Labinjo signed by the National Secretary of the association, Dr. Emmanuel Ogu Oparah and made available to Primetime Reporters, ANLCA described the election as a deserved reward for Labinjo whom he said had nurtured and pioneered NISA to an enviable position. While reminding him of the cordial relationship it had enjoy with his immediate predecessor Chief Isaac Jolapamo, the association however expressed…

Following the successful election that ushered in a new executive for the Nigerian Ship Owners Association (NISA) last Friday in Lagos, some stakeholders have commended the elections describing it as another feat the maritime industry had recorded in recent times. Recall that NISA last Friday in Lagos had their elections, the first in ten years which saw the incumbent Secretary-General of the Association, Capt. Dada Olaniyi Labinjo and twelve others elected to steer the ship of the association in the coming years. Speaking in an interview with Primetime Reporters, a member of NISA, Mr. Akin Olaniyo described the election as…

The Commissioner of Police Western Ports Police Command, Mrs. Hilda Ibifuro Harrison has bemoaned the poor state of infrastructure in the Western Ports Police Command and in the entire police formations nationwide. Harrison who was speaking on the backdrop of the present state of the Police Transit Camp in Lagos State decried the state of the station which supposed to be the pride of every Policeman working under the Command even as she described the place as a sorry sight. According to her,” for the transit camp, it is actually a sorry sight, I agree with you. There is no…

Last week, stakeholders converged on Rockview Hotels Apapa in Lagos to draw a road map towards building what they called a new port order in the Nigerian maritime industry. The event, a one day seminar organized by the Shippers’ Association of Lagos state (SALS) with the theme,” Working Towards a New Port Order”, saw in attendance the crème-de-la-crème of the Maritime and the shipping world with a singular aim of identifying what has gone wrong with the industry that was once the pride of every Nigerian. A lot of organizations namely; the Nigerian Shippers’ Council, the Nigerian Maritime Administration and…

Following the successful election of the new executives of the Nigerian Ship owners Association (NISA) last Friday in Lagos, stakeholders have continued to reel out their expectation of the newly elected executives of the association. Speaking in an interview with Primetime Reporters, the Managing Director of Fablo Ventures Limited, Capt. Ogunsakin Rotimi Ishola Williams said that he would want the new executives to focus their attention towards bringing back their jobs which had been taken away by the foreigners. Capt. Williams stated that he would also want to see how these aliens who had virtually taken over every aspect of…

The newly elected President of the Nigerian Ship owners Association (NISA), Capt. Dada Olaniyi Labinjo has said that the association would form what he called a Maritime Cluster as part of his agenda for the association. Speaking on the sideline of his election as the new President of NISA in Lagos on Friday, Capt. Labinjo opined that creating a Maritime Cluster was what the association needed to do immediately in order to get their jobs back. He disclosed that on the 15th of October, 2014, South Africa formed their own Maritime Cluster adding that Nigeria would form her own without…

…Promises to bring back their jobs The incumbent Secretary-General of the Nigerian Ship owners Association (NISA), Capt. Dada Olaniyi Labinjo has been elected the new President of the association in an election that was held last Friday at the Rockview Hotels Apapa, Lagos. It will be recalled that the election was the first the association is organizing in the last ten years. Capt. Labinjo polled a total of 31 (thirty-one) votes to defeat his closest rival, Engr. Greg Ogbeifun who polled a total of 23 (twenty-three) votes to rank second and the former Director-General of the Nigerian Maritime Administration and…

The Maritime Workers Union of Nigeria (MWUN) has called on the federal government not to go ahead with its plan to designate INTELS Terminal located in Onne, Port Harcourt a national terminal for the clearance of heavy lift cargos and deep draught vessels saying that such move would lead to job loss on the part of the nation’s dockworkers. The union which made this observation at the end of the meeting of its Central Working Committee (CWC) warned that the plan if implemented would create industrial crisis in the maritime industry and affect other terminal operators in the nation’s sea…