IMO Member States Back HFO Risk Mitigation Measures in Arctic
International Maritime Organization’s (IMO) Member States have supported a proposal to identify measures aimed at mitigating the risks posed by the use of heavy fuel oil (HFO) in Arctic waters,…
Optimally utilise your financial benefits, NPA warns retirees
MD NPA, Hadiza Bala Usman The Nigerian Ports Authority has warned its retiring members of staff to put into good use all financial benefits accruing to them at retirement. The…
Ferrari F1 team inks new long term Marlboro agreement
Ferrari has extended its Formula 1 sponsorship agreement with Philip Morris International, even though the brand will likely never again appear on the car. The team announced over the weekend…
Hurricane Irma-Themed Cakes Have Hit Florida Grocery Stores
Hurricane season this year has brought devastation and chaos everywhere from Texas to the Caribbean. But that has not stopped Floridians preparing to take on Hurricane Irma by eating cake.…
Guinness World Records 2018: Long Fingernails, Long Eyelashes And Big, Big Hair
Ayanna Williams of Houston has fingernails with a combined total length of 18 feet, inches. Ayanna Williams scratched her way to fame with fingernails measuring 18 feet, inches. When it…
Tin Can Customs nets N183bn in eight months, attributes feat to innovativeness
CAC Tin Can Command, Bashar Yusuf The Tin Can Island Port Command of the Nigeria Customs Service has raked in a whopping N183billion naira in eight months covering January-August 2017.…
We’re committed to improving ports’ access roads, says MD NPA …Commits N1.8billion to Wharf Rd repairs
MD NPA, Hadiza Bala Usman Managing Director of the Nigerian Ports Authority, Hadiza Bala Usman has said that the authority is more than ever before committed to improving the current…
Imbibe Rotary’s spirit of giving, service to humanity, expert tells Nigerians …As Ikoyi Rotary Club Metro inaugurates new President
From left: Immediate Past President, Rotary Club of Ikoyi Metro, Florence Egbeyemi, New President, Laurine Ubanozie and Chartered President, Dr Mike Ileka at the installation of Rotarian Laurine as the…
Nigeria out of recession, as GDP grows 0.55% in Q2
Nigeria's Vice President, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo The National Bureau of Statistics NBS has said that Nigeria’s Gross Domestic Product GDP recorded a growth rate of per cent in the second…
Fuel Oil Spills from Bulker in New Orleans
Maltese-flagged bulk carrier M/V Vitahorizon has been involved in a fuel oil spill during bunkering operations while anchored at New Orleans area, Louisiana. Namely, on September 4, the Plaquemines Parish…
