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Shippers’ Council Converts 800 Importers

Shippers’ Council Converts 800 Importers

Determined to ensure that shippers comply with the extant rules, the Nigerian Shippers’ Council(NSC) has deepened  its  markets awareness campaign in major markets in Lagos. This exercise, last week, yielded surprising result among over 1,300 members of the Agric- Coker …

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Suspend vehicle importation ban, Reps tell Buhari

CTN: Buhari Snubs Shonekan

Says: “It must go on” FG to probe MAN activities on import Nigeria loses N672bn to Illegal Shipping Surcharges Irked by the incessant disturbances from the anti-International Cargo Tracking Note (ICTN) lobbyists, President Mohammed Buhari had to recently snub Chief …

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Customs Canvass Youth Enlightenment On Maritime Business

Customs Canvass Youth Enlightenment On Maritime Business

The Assistant Comptroller General of Customs in Charge Of Zone ‘A’ Command, Mr. Charles Edike has pledged to provide venues as conference centres for the Nigerian Shippers Council to enlighten youths on the enormous potentials in the maritime industry. Edike …

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Shippers Will Deploy Cargoes To Support ICD Development - Nicol

Stakeholders Mourn State Of Nigeria’s Shipping Industry

The President of Shippers Association Lagos State, Rev Jonathan Nicol has called on maritime stakeholders to figure out ways to resolve the numerous problems facing the Nigerian shipping sector. Nicol made this emotional plea while speaking at a one-day sensitization …

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Amaechi accuses Customs of frustrating port operations

FG Allocates N120bn For Rail Projects Nationwide

The Federal Government has set aside N120bn for different railway projects across the country in the 2016 budget proposals, the Minister of Transportation, Rotimi Amaechi, has said. Amaechi stated this in Abuja on Thursday after an inspection tour of the …

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Shippers Council, Customs Synergize To Enhance Nigerian Ports Efficiency

Shippers Council, Customs Synergize To Enhance Nigerian Ports Efficiency

The Nigerian Shippers Council (NSC) recently solicited the support of Nigeria Customs Service when the Executive Secretary of the Council, Hassan Bello led his management team on a courtesy visit to Apapa and Tin can Customs Commands. The visit was …

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Ship Owners Accuse FG Of Encouraging Piracy

Ship Owners Accuse FG Of Encouraging Piracy

Nigeria Ship owners Association, NISA, has accused the Federal Government of encouraging piracy through the neglect of the nation’s seafarers’ cadets who are left helpless after their training. Chairman of NISA, Capt. Niyi Labinjo, in a chat with media, said …

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NAGAFF Blames NPA For Eastern Ports Neglect

NAGAFF Partners SFU To Fight Corruption

The Anti- Corrupt arm of the National Association of Government Approved Freight Forwarders (NAGAFF) has joined forces with the Special Fraud Unit (SFU) of the Nigeria Police in the fight against corruption. This collaboration was sealed when the Founder of …

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Shippers’ Council Converts 800 Importers

NSC To Hold Sensitization On Kaduna Inland Dry Port

The Nigerian Shippers’ Council (NSC) under the auspices of the Federal Ministry of Transport and in collaboration with the Inland Container Nigeria Limited (ICNL) would hold a one-day sensitization programme for stakeholders in the maritime industry at Hotel Seventeen, Kaduna …

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Biafran palliatives: Buhari To Appoint Igbo, Head, Maritime Agency

Buhari Sacks Budget DG, 26 Others

President Muhammadu Buhari, yesterday, in a move to douse the tension over the 2016 budget controversy, fired the Director-General for Budget, Mr Yaya Gusau, and announced a replacement in the person of Mr. Tijjani Abdullahi. Similarly, Mr. Ben Akabueze was …

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NNPC, IOCs join forces against oil, gas sabotage

WAR RISK INSURANCE SCAM: NNPC Pays Foreign Oil Tankers N180m Daily

Nigeria loses N1.5 trn on Mid-stream discharge There seems to be a stream of fraud running in the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation(NNPC)  with  the  latest discovery that the corporation fraudulently pays a whopping   $900,000 (N180million) daily as  war risk insurance  …

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DU&T Organises 2016 Maiden Annual Logistics, Transport, Port Management Conference

DU&T Consulting, a reputable consulting company, is organising the 2016 maiden annual edition of logistics, transport and port management conference scheduled to hold on 25– 26 February with the theme:‘Improving Transportations, Logistics and Port Service Delivery and Effectiveness in West Africa’, in …

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Shippers’ Council Converts 800 Importers

Shippers Council To Sensitize Freight Forwarders

Nigerian Shippers Council (NSC) is set to organize another roundtable to sensitize industry stakeholders on Thursday 18th February 2016.   The symposium will take place in Rockview Hotel, Apapa, Lagos state and Nigerian Shippers’ Council has called on all stakeholders …

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Pirates Attack Boat, Kill Two, Injure Others

Pirates Attack Vessels In Bonny Island, Abijan

Pirates have attacked two vessels in Bonny Island of Rivers State and South off Abidjan in Ivory Coast both within the Gulf of Guinea, last week.   A company security officer alerted that one of his vessels has been attacked …

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CRFFN Cards Should Guarantee Entry Into Ports - Agents

CRFFN Cards Should Guarantee Entry Into Ports – Agents

The issue of port pass is one of the most pertinent worries of a freight forwarder in Nigeria and it was a recurring issue when the General Manager, Western Ports of the Nigerian Ports Authority, Chief Michael Ajayi yesterday paid …

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Court refuses to lift restriction on Tompolo’s N3bn account

EFCC Declares Tompolo Wanted

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission on Thursday declared a former Niger Delta militant leader, Government Ekpemupolo, alias Tompolo, wanted. The anti-graft agency, in an advertorial signed by its Head of Media and Publicity, Wilson Uwujaren, said it decided to …

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Graft: FG gets 5,000 tips from whistle-blowers

FG Proposes Improved Pay For Customs

The Federal Government is projecting to improve the salaries of officers and men of the Nigeria Customs Service to encourage them in the bid to raise the level of revenue generation for the nation. The Minister of Finance, Mrs. Kemi …

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Nigerian Society Of Engineers Decry Shortage Of Safety Regulations

Nigerian Society Of Engineers Decry Shortage Of Safety Regulations

The Nigerian Society of Engineers (NSE) has lamented at the inadequacy of safety regulations and enforcement by its regulatory body, the Council for the Regulation of Engineers in Nigeria (COREN). The president of NSE Engr. Otis Anyaeji made this known …

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Executive Order: NAGAFF Commends Efforts Of Govt. Agencies

ICPC Tasks NAGAFF Over Eradication Of Corruption In Cargo Clearance

The National Association of Government Approved Freight Forwarders (NAGAFF ) has been advised by the Independent Corrupt Practices and other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) to ensure  compliance to organisational and business ethics in a manner that can help curb corruption …

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EFCC To Prosecute Firms Not Remitting Pensions

EFCC Grounds Activities In NIMASA, Picks Ag. DG

Jauro raises committee to generate N70bn monthly Ship owners lament dying NIMASA Operational activities in the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency(NIMASA) have been virtually grounded  to a halt  by on-going investigation by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission(EFCC) into …

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