Author: Saint Augustine

…as ANLCA ASECO assures on conduct of the election Ahead of Thursday’s scheduled election for the members of the Board of Trustee(BOT) of the Association of Nigeria Licensed Customs Agents (ANLCA), the Treasurer ANLCA Apapa Chapter, Hajiya Bola Muse has called on both the would be winners and losers in the election to come together and work as a team in order to advance the vision of the association. Speaking to newsmen in Lagos Tuesday, Muse applauded the efforts of the outgoing members of the Board whom she said had done their best urging the incoming ones to sustain the gains…

Lucky Amiwero is the National President, National Council of Managing Directors of Licensed Customs Agents (NCMDLCA). In this interview with our correspondent NWADINAMUO SAINT AUGUSTINE, he bares his mind on his expectations from the Maritime sector in the year 2014, the commercial regulator function of the Nigerian Shipper’s Council and lots more. Excerpts;  Sir, what are your expectations from the Maritime sector as this year 2014 sets in? Our ports cost in terms of clearance is threatening the economy because every day the Shipping companies, the terminal operators, they increase their charges at will. I do not know who gave…

The Nigerian Customs Service (NCS) has been advised to employ undercover officers that will work underground to arrest erring officers of the service as a way to curb excessive corruption now glaring in the Service. Mr Bankole Akande, a security expert told newsmen in Lagos, Wednesday that corruption at the seaports, airports and land borders by men of the service has hindered the president’s reforms and that there is need to nip corruption in the bud. Advising the comptroller general of customs on the need to absorb some officials from State Security Service (SSS) into the service, the security expert…

Passes Vote of confidence on Alhassan Dantata More reactions have continued to trail the founder, National Association of Government Approved Freight Forwarders (NAGAFF), Dr. Boniface Aniebonam’s threats of withdrawing his association from the nascent group called Maritime Advocacy and Action Group ( MAAG ) as the leaders of Lagos Chamber and Commerce, Industry ( LCCI), the Association of Registered Freight Forwarders of Nigeria (AREFFN), Association of Maritime Truck Owners (AMATO) and the Save Nigeria Freight Forwarders Importers and Exporters Coalitions (SNIFFIEC)  have all taken a swipe at the association saying that it lack total coordination. The leaders present however passed vote of…

Comptroller Willy Egbudin, Customs Area Controller of Seme Area Command of the Nigeria Customs Service has urged newly promoted officers under the command to redouble their efforts in the service to the nation. Egbudin said this while formally decorating some promoted officers with their new badges of rank at the conference room of the command headquarters in Seme Border where he also admonished all other operatives of the command to keep the fight against smuggling up. ”I want to tell you today that it is of utmost importance for us to justify the confidence reposed on us by the Comptroller…

Barely two months of the establishment of Maritime Advocacy and Action Group (MAAG), there are strong indications that the National Association of Government Approved Freight Forwarders (NAGAFF) may disassociate itself from the group. MAAG a group comprising freight forwarding associations, maritime haulage associations Lagos state Chamber of Commerce and Industry (LCCI) and other relevant maritime groups with the aim to address issues surrounding ports operations has Alhaji Alhassan Dantata as the Coordinator. NAGAFF through its founder Dr. Boniface Aniebonam in a press briefing held recently in Lagos cautioned the group over policy statement directed to the government. Aniebonam faulted the group’s…

Stakeholders at the Lillypond Container Terminal has called on the newly promoted Customs Area Controller (CAC) in the command, Comptroller Talatu Isa to sustain the gains made in the last few months following the successful turnaround of that almost moribund terminal. The stakeholders who had earlier gathered at the command to celebrate the recent promotion given to the Controller who before now was a Deputy Controller was full of appreciation for the level of activity going on in the command recently. Speaking to newsmen, the Chairman,  Igbo Maritime Forum, Ijora/Lillypond Chapter, Chief Lawrence Ubah thanked the Comptroller General of the Nigeria…

The Managing Director of Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA), Mallam Habib Abdullahi has challenged the entire workforce of the authority to re-dedicate themselves to effective service delivery by the Organization in the New Year as the Authority owe economic and social responsibilities to Nigerians. Mallam Abdullahi who gave the charge at the beginning of a one-day seminar on 5-year strategic plan organized for the Management team of the Authority recently enjoined all employees of the organization to realize what their employers expected of them. The Managing Director, who appealed to the employees to re-evaluate themselves in the course of  discharging their…

The incumbent Caretaker Chairman Committee, Tin Can Island Port of the National Association Government Approved Freight Forwarders (NAGAFF), Forwarder Azubuike Ekweozor has assured that his mandate if elected, as Chairman is to unify members of the chapter irrespective of tribe, culture, ethnic and religion. Ekweozor who is also a Chairmanship aspirant promised to re-position the association’s interest at Tin Can Island Port (TCIP) even as reiterated to protect the interest of all other ethnic groups. Speaking with journalists shortly after purchasing the election’s form at the NAGAFF headquarters in Lagos Thursday, the Chairmanship Aspirant of TCIP disclosed that the flag off…

The Assistant Comptroller General of Customs in change of Zone A, Comptroller Banke Adeyemo has charged importers to brace up and fulfill the national obligations as required of them. Adeyemo who was speaking to newsmen in Lagos said that since the international trade bestows obligations on the importers which they fulfill, that it is also mandatory that they must fulfill the national obligations adding that trillions of naira were exchanged in the bank and transferred aboard to bring in all these imports even as she contended that it is just equitable for the government to have a percent of that…