In her drive to enhance the nation’s economy, the Managing Director, Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA) Ms Hadiza Bala-Usman has promised to work with professionals in the maritime sector and make the ports attractive to business.Usman said this when members of …
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The World Bank is to support Nigeria’s maritime sector with N12.2bn ($40m) to help clear the traffic congestion that characterises most roads around the Nigerian Ports Authority in Apapa, Lagos, the Nigerian Shippers Council has said. According to the NSC, …
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The Senate Committee on Aviation says the industry needs a total restructuring as it is plagued with problems that have defied solutions over the years. At an interactive session with the heads of various agencies in the industry in Lagos …
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* To unfold maritime niche master plan * No promotion without vacancy * Floating dockyard to raise N2bn annually Following the termination of Government Epkemupolo aka Tompolo’s contract, over 20 vessels in the inventory of Global West were alleged to …
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L-R: National President of the Association of Nigerian Licensed Customs Agents (ANLCA), Prince Olayiwola Shittu, with the Customs Area Controller at Tin Can Command, Comptroller Yusuf Bashar, when the ANLCA President paid a courtesy visit to the Tin Can Customs …
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Associations of Licensed Customs Agents have accused the Minister of Transportation, Hon. Rotimi Amaechi and the Registrar of the Council For the Regualtion of Freight Forwarding in Nigeria (CRFFN), Mr. Mike Jukwe of illegalities in the collection of the Practitioners …
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The Benue State Governor, Samuel Ortom, has said that the proposed N38bn cargo airport for the state is a private initiative being carried out by a consortium. He wondered where his administration could have secured money to build the airport …
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The Senate has ignored the Minister of Transport, Hon. Rotimi Amaechi’s call to for the dismissal of the Nigerian Maritime University project sited at Okerenkoko in Delta State, as the bill scaled second reading at the Senate, months after Amaechi …
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Following the recent re-location of the Air France-KLM Cargo to Skyway Aviation Handling Company Limited (SAHCOL), the Vice President, Africa, Indian Ocean and Caribbean of Air France-KLM Cargo, Jean-Jacques Castillo, has visited the SAHCOL. During his visit, Jean-Jacques Castillo, who …
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The Federal Government has congratulated the Nigerian Alternate Permanent Representative (ARP) to the International Maritime Organisation (IMO), Mr. Dikko Tahir Bala over his election, as the Chairman of International Mobile Satellite (IMSO). The election was conducted in London last week, …
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The Federal Government has deployed contractors in the Abuja, Enugu, Port Harcourt and Lagos airports to fix some of the infrastructural problems at the facilities. Some of the infrastructural issues being fixed, according to the Minister of State for Aviation, …
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The Nigerian Ports Authority has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with BudgIT Information Technology Network to open up its budget for the public. The General Manager, Public Affairs, Chief Michael Ajayi, in a statement on Monday in Lagos, said the …
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*Why concessionaires can’t meet up *To sign new agreement in “Principle” As the Federal Government threatens to revoke the concession licences of the of Inland Container Depots(ICDs) and Container Freight Stations(CFSs), also called dry ports, over the inability of the …
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The federal government is to rehabilitate Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport runway, Abuja, with about N1 billion. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reported that a reliable source from the Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN) disclosed this to aviation correspondents in Lagos …
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The Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) has collected a total of two trillion, five hundred and twenty-eight billion, four hundred and sixty-six million, nine hundred and sixty-four thousand, one hundred and fifty-six naira, seventy-four kobo (N2, 528, 466, 964, 156. 74) …
Read More »The Nigerian Shippers’ Council (NSC) has received an award as a foremost anti-corrupt and transparent organization by the Independent Corrupt Practices and other related offences Commission last week. ICPC gave the Nigerian Shippers’ Council the award during the Council’s 2nd …
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The Director General of the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA), Dr. Dakuku Peterside has said that the agency is set to deliver what will be Africa’s fifth largest modular floating dockyard in 2017. Dr. Peterside said this during …
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Smugglers of foreign rice are beginning to flood Nigerian markets with smuggled products as the Yuletide season approaches and have warehoused over one million tonnes of the commodity in neighbouring countries. In October, the Federal Government stated that it had …
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The board of the Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA) is set to review port concessionaires agreement with a view to improving on operational procedures in all the nation’s seaports. The board also assured that it would work optimally towards enforcing and …
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The Senate on Tuesday began a probe into the concession of the eastern and western rail lines to General Electric, a United States-based company, without following due process. The lawmakers made the move following a motion by Senator Bassey Albert …
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