Officers of the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) at the Seme border command have displayed sagacious nous to beat smugglers antics as they nabbed company branded vehicles used to smuggled rice as well as a fictitiously branded schoolbus intended to be …
Read More »BULLS: Diligent Army Officers
It took the dexterity of Army officers at the Barracks cantonment of Lagos/Badagry expressway to prevent a ghastly fire outbreak from happening on the road when a tanker fell and spilled petrol all over the road as a result of …
Read More »BEARS: Apapa Gridlock – New Year, Old Problem
The Apapa traffic pandemonium has outlived 2018 despite several efforts of the Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA), countless stakeholders’ meetings and deliberations. As the problem persists, a chieftain of the Federation of Agricultural Commodity Associations of Nigeria (FACAN), Mr. Peter Bakare …
Read More »BULLS: Your Beacon Goes On Break
There is a season for everything. This is our, and your season for rest. This is yuletide, a time and season of Christmas. Merry Christmas! Your news and beacon maker, MMS Plus Newspaper will be off the news stand for just …
Read More »BEARS: 10 Bills Without An Act, What is it?
December 6th, 2018 will ever be remembered as a day the Senate Committee on Marine Transport had a novel interface with the stakeholders in the maritime industry code-named:” Lunch with the Senate, a maritime stakeholders’ assembly”. It was a day …
Read More »BEARS: Aniebonam And Kpokirikpo Spirit
Surprise! Dr. Boniface Aniebonam, the founder of the National Association of Government Approved Freight Forwarders (NAGAFF) threw due process to the back door when he endorsed Dr. Alban Igwe, for the position of the Registrar of the Council for the …
Read More »BULLS: Beauty Ends War
The war ended between the Nigerian Shippers’ Council (NSC) and the Seaport Terminal Operators Association of Nigeria(STOAN) on Thursday. STOAN had gone to court to challenge the new regulatory status of the Council to determine terminal charges for the terminal …
Read More »BEARS: Senate U-turn @Alcohol, Tobacco
The Senate this week asked the Federal Government to immediately suspend the implementation of the increased excise duty on beverages and tobacco pending further consultation. Adopting the report of its Finance Committee, the upper chamber of the National Assembly said …
Read More »BULLS: Tsanni’s Fine Start
The Chairman of the Governing Board of the Council for the Regulation of Freight Forwarding in Nigeria (CRFFN) Mr. Tsanni Abubakar may not be a member of any of the leading freight forwarding associations, but he is enjoying wide support …
Read More »BEARS: Rice Import Palava
Despite the government’s ban on importation of rice through the land borders, the item continues to flood the nation’s market as dealers remain adamant in their drive to get the goods into the country via the land borders. This photo …
Read More »BULLS: Naija Helicopters
The engineering aspect of Nigeria’s aviation sector is set for massive transformation as the Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority and the National Agency for Science and Engineering Infrastructure are set to collaborate on local manufacturing of helicopters. While, NCAA is expected …
Read More »BEARS: Trapped Goods @Seaports
Some exhibitors at the just-concluded 2018 Lagos International Trade Fair have lamented their inability to evacuate their goods from the seaports in time to sell at the fair, due to the delays in clearing processes coupled with the lingering gridlock …
Read More »BULLS: Exemplary Leadership
As part of efforts to promote Made-In-Nigeria products and get more Nigerians patronize indigenous products the executives of Manufacturers Association of Nigeria (MAN) now adorn Nigerian attires to attend functions and meetings as was noticed during a recent courtesy visit …
Read More »BEARS: Chinese Workers Drink Urine, Eat Bugs
Workers at a Chinese home renovation company who failed to complete their tasks had to drink urine, eat cockroaches or get whipped by a belt. Others had to shave their heads or drink water from a toilet bowl and had …
Read More »BULLS: HBD Mary!!!
The amiable President of Women’s International Shipping and Trading Association (WISTA) Nigeria, Mrs. Mary Hamman also celebrated hers earlier on Friday last week. The management and staff of Kings Communications Limited joins all friends and well-wishers, in celebrating this eminent …
Read More »BEARS: MASS INACTION!!!
Lagos citizens failed to protest over Lagos-Badagry bad roads as anticipated after “MASS ACTION!!!” sensitization trended few weeks ago. Residents and commuters of the route were expected to mobilize to protest the gruesome traffic congestion along the expressway, to demonstrate …
Read More »FEC approves leather policy to enhance indigenous technology
The Federal Executive Council (FEC) has approved a national leather policy for the country. Minister of Science and Technology, Ogbonnaya Onu, who disclosed this after the Council’s meeting presided over by President Muhammadu Buhari at the Presidential Villa, Abuja, said …
Read More »Bears: Death Knocks!
Death knocked on the doors of the amiable Head of Corporate Communications at the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA) Mr. Isichei Osamgbi, snatching his beautiful mother; Mrs. Dorothy Ndukoso Osamgbi (Nee Eluemunor). Dorothy was a devout Catholic, a …
Read More »BULLS: Saving Endangered Species
The United States Court of International Trade has denied the Trump administration’s request to lift a ban on certain seafood imports caught with gillnets that kill the critically endangered vaquita porpoise. In July, the court ordered the government to ban …
Read More »BEARS: Khashoggi- Perils Of Journalism
As the Saudi Arabian journalist, Jamal Khashoggi has finally been confirmed dead by the authorities in Saudi Arabia, it calls for a sober reflection on the perils and prosecution suffered by the newsmen in the course of the profession. Khashoggi …
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