Port efficiency: Remove rail from exclusive list, maritime workers beg FG
BY FRANCIS EZEM The Maritime Workers Union of Nigeria MWUN inadvertently added its voice to calls for the restructuring of the country, saying that the Federal Government should remove rail…
Blue Economic Development: Senate mulls creation of Maritime Ministry
President of the Senate, Dr. Bukola Saraki BY FRANCIS EZEM The Senate, Nigeria’s upper legislative chamber is currently considering the possibility of the creation of Federal Ministry of Maritime/Shipping as…
Economic diversification: Senate, Transport Ministry canvass maritime alternative …As NIMASA DG proposes synergy among agencies
From left: Former President, Nigerian Bar Association Dr. Olisa Agbakoba, SAN, Director-General, Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA), Dr Dakuku Peterside and pioneer Chairmant of the Nigerian Ship owners…
Asset Management Partners to rake in over N740bn bad loans, AMCON assures
Mr. Aliyu Kalgo, the Group Head of Enforcements at Asset Management Corporation of Nigeria (AMCON) and representative of AMCON MD, Mr. Ahmed Lawan Kuru (sitting middle) with a cross-session of…
Intelligence gathering, crucial to effective port security, says MD NPA
MD NPA, Hadiza Bala Usman BY FRANCIS EZEM The Managing Director of Nigerian Ports Authority, Hadiza Bala Usman has urged the various security agencies operating at the seaports to…
Nigeria’s economic structure promotes capital flight, says Folarin
Otunba Kunle Folarin, Chairman, PCC BY FRANCIS EZEM Chairman of Nigerian Ports Consultative Council PCC, Otunba Kunle Folarin has said that Nigeria’s economy as presently constituted is inadvertently structured to…
Nigeria to champion Africa’s blue economic development, says Amaechi
Minister of Transport, Rotimi Amaechi BY FRANCIS EZEM The Federal Government of Nigeria has said it is willing to partner sister African countries and relevant development agencies as part of…
We have remitted N30.4bn 2017 operating surplus, NPA replies Senate
MD NPA, Hadiza Bala Usman BY FRANCIS EZEM The Nigerian Ports Authority NPA has denied any wrong doings in its 2017 financial transactions, saying it has already remitted the total…
Tin Can Customs seizes 13 containers of Tramadol, other prohibited items …Nets N303.5bn revenue in 11 months
BY FRANCIS EZEM The Tin Can Island Command of the Nigeria Customs Service has seized a total of 13 containers of prohibited goods comprising 11 units of 40-foot containers loaded…
Apapa Customs intercepts 40 containers of Tramadol imported from India …Also seizes two aircrafts concealed in export containers
Comptroller General of Customs, Col. Hameed Ali (in caftan) inspecting some packs of the seized tramadol at the Lagos Ports Complex, Apapa, yesterday. BY FRANCIS EZEM The Nigeria Customs Service,…
