BY Innocent Orok The Comptroller General of the Nigeria Customs Service, Col.Hameed Ali (rtd) yesterday directed that all Officers and Men of the Service working in the lockdown States of Lagos, Ogun and the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja should report to their duty post for work. The order was contain in Circular No. 2020/001 dated March 30, 2020 addressed to ...

By Innocent Orok The National President of Association of Nigerian Licensed Customs Agents (ANLCA), Iju Tony Nwabunike has called on all his members to remain calm while he carry out further consultations to work out the operational guidelines on activities in Nigeria ports as regards the national broadcast by President Muhammadu Buhari on Sunday evening. President Buhari has ordered the ...

By Innocent Orok Nigeria Maritime regulatory body, Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASAl) has issued safety guidance to all ships berthing in Nigeria by banning vessels without thermal screening facilities from operating in Nigerian waters. According to a release issued by Isichei Osamgbi, Head, Corporate Communications of NIMASA today, March 29, 2020, the Director General of the agency, Dr. ...

There is a threat of legal action going on between two maritime publishers over the reception party organized few weeks ago for the new NIMASA, DG, Dr Yusuf Jamoh. Controversy has ensued over the reception party held in honour of the newly appointed Director General of Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA), Dr Bashir Yusuf Jamoh which held last ...

By Innocent Orok Despite the ravaging Covid19 pandemic, operations at the Federal Operations Unit , Zone ‘A’, Lagos is still in top gear as the Unit has recorded N20,678, 400 worth of seizures within a week. The goods were said to be poultry products which have since been destroyed by the Unit. Acting Controller of the Unit, Deputy Comptroller Usman ...

By Innocent Orok The 2019 presidential election came, with Rotimi Amaechi still occupying the same position as Chief Campaign Manager to President Mohammadu Buhari. Though, this time his powers were trim down by making him report to Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, the All Progressive Congress (APC) national leader as the Chairman of the Presidential Campaign Organisation. Political observers then have ...

A Fidelity Bank staff who recently returned from a trip to the United Kingdom has tested positive for COVID-19 as confirmed in a statement released by the bank. Though the Fidelity Bank staff who tested positive for coronavirus has not been at the bank’s facility as he has been self-isolating since he returned to the country, he however brought some ...

By Innocent Orok The Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA) on Friday, disagreed with the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) on fresh reported six cases of the Covid19, saying , no case of the coronavirus has been confirmed at any seaport in Lagos state. The NPA said the collaboration with officials from Port Health has not confirmed any cases to date. ...

BY Innocent Orok When in 2015, Hon. Rotimi Chubuike Amaechi was appointed as the Director General of the Presidential Campaign Organisation by Mohammadu Buhari during the presidential election, many knew such position is given to a trusted political ally with the hope to master not only financial resources, but the act of election power match to lead his candidate to ...

By Innocent Orok United Bank for Africa Plc (UBA) on Wednesday 26th March 2020 announced a donation of over N5 billion (USD14 million), to African Countries to tackle the ravaging Coronavirus pandemic (Covid19). According to a statement the donation was made through the UBA Foundation to catalyse a comprehensive pan-African response to the fight against the Coronavirus (COVID-19) global pandemic. ...