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Dec262017 by Our EditorNo Comments

NIMASA set to release maritime industry forecast by first quarter 2018 – Dakuku Peterside

Breaking News, Business, Maritime, Press Release

As part of the initiative to reposition the maritime sector for greater efficiency in line with International best practices, the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA) will release the empirical forecast that will determine the outlook of the industry in Nigeria by the first quarter of 2018. The Director General of NIMASA Dr. Dakuku Peterside who disclosed this in Lagos recently further stated that the Nigeria forecast will deal with how developments on the international scene will affect the industry in Nigeria, which will also serve as a guide for investors and Stakeholders in the maritime sector. Dr. Peterside noted that the forecast will be released from a holistic perspective in order to know areas of advantage that will be of immense benefit to Stakeholder...

Dec212017 by Our EditorNo Comments

FIFA’S timely warning to Super Eagles: Five Reasons Iceland can shock the world

Sports

World football governing body and owners of the World Cup competition has warned the global audience to watch out for the mystery team called Iceland when the World Cup kicks off in June next year. Iceland, one of the two debutants and the smallest county ever to qualify for the World Cup, will feature in Group D where the Super Eagles will be attempting to cross to the next round. Iceland will be Nigeria’s second opponents after that of Croatia before facing Argentina. FIFA in its website gave five reasons why Iceland can shock the world. It remarked that there is an undeniable novelty factor to the small country’s participation at Russia 2018. “Even their manager, Heimir Hallgrimsson, acknowledged as much after their spot at the FIFA World Cup – and place in history as the sm...

Dec212017 by Our EditorNo Comments

Customs Records Highest Revenue, Hits N1.1 Trillion In 2017

Breaking News, Business

The Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) has surpassed itself by recording a revenue of one Trillion, one hundred billion naira, barely nine days to the end of the year. This spectacular performance in revenue collection this year is above the figure for 2016 to the tune of N241, 685, 276, 289.74 At a media parley in Abuja, the nation's capital, the National Public Relations Officer of the Service, DC Joseph Attah, said despite the economic recession, with low volume of imports and restriction placed on 41 items from accessing forex, the Comptroller-General of Customs, Col. Hameed Ali (rtd) undertook some strategic measures which led to the historic revenue figure. The CGCs innovative measures include the redeployment of officers and men, the retraining of Customs Intelligence Unit, maximisi...

Dec182017 by Our EditorNo Comments

NASS to Amaechi: Governing Council not Interim Management Committee for MAN Oron

Breaking News, Education, Maritime

Chairman House of Representative Committee on Maritime Administration and Education, Mallam Muhammad Umar Bago has urged President Muhammadu Buhari to immediately inaugurate a Governing Council for the Maritime Academy of Nigeria, Oron in Akwa Ibom to assist in the day to day running of the premier maritime institution in the country . Mallam Bago who gave the advice during an oversight visit to the institution last week picked holes with Transportation Minister, Rotimi Amaechi on the appointment of an Interim Management Committee to run the Academy side by side a substantive Rector. Said he: "An Interim Management Committee has no place in the Act establishing the Maritime Academy of Nigeria.As it stands today, the IMC remains an illegality and cannot pass any integrity test as it h...

Dec172017 by Our EditorNo Comments

Research is a catalyst for development – Dakuku

Breaking News, Business, Maritime, News Feature

The Director General of the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency, (NIMASA) Dr. Dakuku Peterside has stated that the Agency is ready to partner with the Defence Research and Development Bureau for the growth of the Nigerian maritime sector adding that research is a catalyst to attain sustainable development. Dr Peterside who stated this when the Director General of the Defence Research and Development Bureau, Air Vice Marshall (AVM) Jomo Osahor led his team on a courtesy visit to NIMASA in Lagos noted that what makes a great organization is the ability to initiate new processes based on detailed research, which will in turn guarantee sustainable growth with a positive multiplier effect on the nation. Speaking further, the NIMASA DG reemphasized the need to develop indigenous...

Dec172017 by Our EditorNo Comments

565 NPA Staffers honoured for long service, merit, gallantry

Business, Maritime

A total of 565 staffers of the Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA) were honoured by management for long service, merit and bravery at a colourful ceremony held at the NPA sports ground, Bode Thomas, Surulere, Lagos, at the weekend. Most of the awardees had served the organisation for 25 years and above; seven staffers received merit awards while special recognition went to fire officers, pilots and engineers. In her address at the occasion, NPA Managing Director, Hadiza Bala Usman commended the workforce for their cooperation, understanding and sacrifices and for helping management attain her goals in 2017. She noted that her open door policy in the organisation was deliberate and intended to enable her achieve the "important task of repositioning port operations in Nigeria for bette...

Dec142017 by Our EditorNo Comments

President Buhari Authorized NNPC to Hide N50b from TSA Account “

Breaking News, Business

The House of Representatives on Tuesday raised questions over a “purported” presidential approval withholding some special Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation accounts from being transferred to the Treasury Single Account. The accounts, with funds worth N50bn, are still being kept by commercial banks in breach of the TSA policy, which provides that all accounts belonging to Ministries, Departments and Agencies of government should be transferred to the TSA. The TSA, a centralised Federal Government revenue account, is kept by the Central Bank of Nigeria. A Nigerian firm, SystemSpecs, provides the Remita electronic platform for running the TSA, saving the Federal Government revenue that could, ordinarily, have been lost. An ad hoc committee of the...

Dec142017 by Our EditorNo Comments

The Agony of Seafarers

Opinion

by Egodor Cementina The Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA) was established with the major responsibility of developing indigenous capacity for shippers, training, certification and welfare of seafarers. Specifically, the agency was created, among others, to provide regulations that are related to Nigerian Shipping, Maritime Labour, Safety and Security in our waters. NIMASA, as the apex maritime agency, has failed in almost all of its duties from the administration of the activities to the clearance and security of the seafarers. Stakeholder's have had cause to lampoon the Apex Maritime Regulatory Agency over its handling of issues concerning seafarers. Recently the Nigerian Merchant Navy and Water Transport Senior Officers accused the agency of tardine...

Dec142017 by Our EditorNo Comments

Rotimi Amaechi is an Ignoramus and Here Are The Facts to Prove it

Opinion

-By Reno Omokri It is quite possible that Rotimi Amaechi is losing his marbles otherwise why else would he be asking former President Jonathan to account for the $65 billion that former Olusegun Obasanjo left in the Excess Crude Account when there was never any such amount? Former President Olusegun Obasanjo and the former Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria who served under his tenure, Professor Charles Soludo, are both alive and journalists can take advantage of the Freedom of Information Act signed into Law by former Jonathan to verify from them if there was ever any $65 billion in the Excess Crude Account. Rotimi Amaechi is a notorious ignoramus who speaks without thinking and it is suspected that either he is speaking under the influence of drugs or he is going senile. ...

Dec112017 by Our EditorNo Comments

Full Text of Engr. Ogbeifun’s Address At Shipowners Dinner Night

Business, Maritime

OPENING ADDRESS BY MR. GREG OGBEIFUN PRESIDENT, SHIPOWNERS ASSOCIATION OF NIGERIA (SOAN) ON THE OCCASION OF THE ALL SHIPOWNERS WORKSHOP AND DINNER PROTOCOL- RECOGNITIONS The events at the recent International Maritime Organization (IMO) elections into Category C of the Council where Nigeria lost and actually came second to the last position underscores the importance and urgency of the theme of this end of year Workshop and Dinner “Giving a Critical Lifeline to the Nigerian Maritime Industry”. Our performance at that election has dealt a hard blow on our psyche as a maritime nation. The world has told us that our maritime domain is sick and almost moribund, that we are not a maritime nation that can be relied on for maritime trade, maritime security, maritime infrastructure or ...