By Innocent Orok The founder of National Association of Government Approved Freight Forwarders ( NAGAFF), Dr. Boniface Aniebonam has called on the Council for Regulation of Freight Forwarding in Nigeria (CRFFN) and the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) to synergized in ensuring seamless trade facilitation in Nigeria ports. Aniebonam who spoke on sundry issues affecting the maritime sector in Lagos on ...

The Minister of State for Transportation, Senator Gbemisola Saraki, has said that Nigeria ports still remains the most expensive in doing business in the West African sub- region. Saraki attributed the high cost of doing business in Nigerian ports to the duplicity of functions by the multiple government agencies operating in the ports. According to a statement signed by Mr ...

BY Innocent Orok The industryAkwa Ibom State House of Assembly has moved to establish a law for the provision of free tuition and examination fees in public schools in the state. This follows a “Bill For a Law to Provide For Free Tuition and Examination Fees in Public Primary and Secondary Schools in Akwa Ibom State and for Related Matters,” ...

By Innocent Orok The Management of the Nigerian Shippers’ Council (NSC) led by the Director, Consumer Affairs Department, Chief Cajetan C. Agu, has paid a courtesy visit to the newly appointed Assistant Inspector General, (AIG) Marine Command, Muhammad Uba Kura in his office in Lagos State. The visit among other things was for the Council to congratulate the new AIG ...

By Innocent Orok The Public Relations Officer of the PTML Command, Nigeria Customs Service, Yakubu Mohammad has attributed the protest by some Agents at his Command this afternoon to non compliance Agents who are relying on “Valuation Outside,” instead of paying the real valuation given to them by the Customs. Yakubu also said most of the protesters are not real ...

By Innocent Orok The House of Representatives ad- hoc Committee to determine why the eastern ports in Nigeria are not being put to maximal use has identified inadequate survey and unreliable nautical charts as some of the optacles that scare away vessels from the region. This was part of the Committee findings contained in their final reports which was obtained ...

Anambra State billionaire and owner of Fireman Generators, Chief Ignatius Odunukwe who went missing since first week of December 2019 has been found dead. The billionaire was killed, cut into pieces and his body packed into a ”Ghana Must Go” bag which his murderers took to the Badagry expressway in Lagos state and dumped inside a forest. Chief Ignatius Odunukwe ...

By Innocent Orok The House of Representatives, National Assembly report of the add -hoc Committee to determine why the Warri, Port Harcourt, Onne, Calabar and Onitsha Ports complexes are not being put to maximal use has concluded its findings. In a 16 pages report, the Seventeen- member committee has indicted the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA) and the ...

Innocent Orok The Port and Terminal Multiservice Limited (PTML) Command of the Nigeria Customs Service has in 2019 surpassed its revenue target by N34,000,489,882, representing 31%. The tatal sum realized by the Command in 2019 is N159.3billion. This amount also beats the 2018 revenue record which was N109.6b.The revenue target for the 2019 year was N123.2b. According to a statement ...

BY Innocent Orok Despite the discordance tunes by maritime stakeholders on the collection of the Professional Operations Fees (POF) by the Council for Regulation of Freight Forwarding in Nigeria (CRFFN), the Association of Nigerian Licensed Customs Agents (ANLCA) says they are fully in support of the fees collection. The decision was contained in a statement titled “POF Collection – the ...