By Nduka Uzuakpundu Festus Keyamo There is an ongoing fierce lobbying at the National Assembly in Abuja, about what should be the content and scope of a planned legislation that would be protective of consumer rights in the aviation industry. …
Read More »Customs Duty Exchange Rate Increment: Issues And Implications
By Dr. Eugene Nweke Dr Eugene Nweke The Sea Empowerment Research Center wish to note that, at the recently concluded World Economic Forum (WEF), one of the global concerns raised at the forum revolves around the drop in the global …
Read More »Resurrection Of Comptroller-General Of Customs Conference, A New Dawn
By Musa Omale Customs CG Adeniyi It is a tradition by government agencies especially the military and the police to set aside a period in a year to organize workshop, retreat, conference or by whatever name it is called, so …
Read More »Why NPA Restored INTELS’ Pilotage Contract
MD, NPA, Bello-Koko The Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA) says INTELS Nigeria Ltd. has waived $193 million as part of a deliberate and conscious effort to resolve the stalemate on the pilotage contract with the Federal Government under the last administration. …
Read More »Hamas-Israel War: What Impact On Global Oil Supply, Price And Consumption?
By Grace Achum and Nduka Uzuakpundu There is some informed optimism that, in spite of the outbreak of conflict between Israel and the Hamas group, in the Gaza Strip, the price of crude oil in the international market would remain …
Read More »CBN Needs To Reconcile The Value Of Our Domestic Debt-Tilewa
Chief Adetilewa Adebajo Chief Adetilewa Adebajo is the Chief Executive Officer of CPG Advisory. He is also an Economist and financial expert. In this interview with Arise TV monitored by MMS Plus, he talks on some contemporary economic worries of …
Read More »Nigeria’s Oil Industry Needs New Security Architecture
By Grace Achum and Nduka Uzuakpundu It appears that for the decade, there might be less of cheering news from the oil and gas sector of the Nigerian political economy. Apart from the windfall of the first eight years of …
Read More »The Diary Of My 100 Days In Office As CGC-Wale Adeniyi
Adeniyi Adewale, CG NCS The Nigerian Customs Service (NCS), in 100 days of the Comptroller General , Adewale Adeniyi , in office , has among other forward looking activities, entered into local and global collaborative engagements, to put into operation …
Read More »Rupert Murdoch Set To Retire From Fox, News Corporation Boards
Rupert Murdoch *The move leaves his son Lachlan as the sole executive in charge of the global media empire. Rupert Murdoch is retiring from the Fox and News Corporation boards, the companies announced Thursday morning, making his son Lachlan the …
Read More »Happy Birthday: The Mu’azu Jaji Sambo I Know
By Sam Idiagbonya Muazu Sambo I’m not one given to sycophancy or vain praise, but in the last few months, working for and walking with the highly revered Mu’azu Jaji Sambo has expanded my worldview on certain life issues and …
Read More »Fighting Food Insecurity With Agricultural Journalism
By Franklin Ogude Participants, Speakers and Awardees at the just concluded National Conference on Agricultural Journalism, NCAJ 2023, Abuja The need for Development Journalism and Communications can’t be more auspicious now in Nigeria than any other time especially in the …
Read More »NIMASA: The Diary Of Ratified Conventions, SPOMO Act And Blue Economy Ripples
By Osagie Edward Dr Bashir Jamoh, DG, NIMASA Between 2020 and 2023, the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA) has brought the country to speed in the maritime world with ratification of 6 conventions. Under the Dr Bashir Yusuf Jamoh OFR, led …
Read More »Understanding NPA’S Role In Port Operations
Koko Bello, MD, NPA Inspite of privatisation, port users still expect the Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA), to perform its pre-concession roles. This report explains the current roles of the NPA in port and cargo operations in Nigeria Since the return …
Read More »ADENIYI: A REINCARNATION OF THE GLORIOUS ERA IN THE CUSTOMS
By Musa Omale In life it is often stated that only change is constant. This behooves that for whatever happens in life, there is the beginning and end of it. This exactly is the situation in the Nigeria Customs Service …
Read More »Bello Koko : Transforming Nigerian Ports through Reconstruction, Digitalization
By Shola Fadeyi Koko Bello, MD, NPA The need to ensure that the Nigerian Seaports become more efficient , offer more quality services to port users as well as make it possible for Nigeria to take up its natural position as a maritime …
Read More »Ali’s Eight Years’ Leadership In Nigeria Customs Service: What Impact?
By Dr. Eugene Nweke Head, Research and Policy Group, National Association of Government Approved Freight Forwarders (NAGAFF) Chief Eugene Nweke PREAMBLE : 10th June, 2023 marked the end of administration and headship of now the former Comptroller General of Customs, …
Read More »Merging Customs With Other Agencies: What Government Should Do – Dr. Nweke
Last week it was reported that, a group of economic advisers proposed to the new government, for the merger of the Federal Inland Revenue Service ( FIRS), Nigeria Customs Service ( NCS) and the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency …
Read More »CATALOGUE OF LOOTING & BRIGANDAGE IN NIGERIA
By FEMI FALANA, SAN Globally, subsidies, whether for food, transportation, energy or housing, are part of good governance. So, the issue is not subsidies but who benefit from them. In Nigeria, subsidies are primarily of the rich, by the …
Read More »TOWARDS LEGITIMATE TRADE FACILITATION : A WELCOME BACK TO A PROFESSIONAL CUSTOMS ADMINISTRATION
By Dr. Eugene Nweke 1.0. PREAMBLE: This modest is a series of shared professional thoughts which seeks to offer the new management team of the Nigeria Customs Service, a professional counsel (not a road map); and it is also …
Read More »Nigerian Customs And Trade Facilitation: ACG Malata Yusuf’s Experiment In Apapa
By Kingsley Anaroke Assistant Comptroller of Customs(ACG) Malanta Yusuf has bowed out of Apapa Customs Command, Lagos in honour and gallantry having set a new record of revenue generation in the history of the command and Nigeria Customs Service(NCS). …
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