August 2019 – Page 4 – Shipping World News Magazine

Aug102019 by Asu BeksNo Comments

An Open Letter to the Incoming Minister of Transportation.

By Elder Asu Beks (President Maritime Media Ltd) Dear Sir, Congratulations on your nomination by President Muhammadu Buhari as a Minister and the subsequent ratification by the Senate of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. There is no doubt that your choice as the Minister of Transportation at this critical time of our nationhood is an attestation to the confidence Mr President reposes in you to reposition this sector. As a critical stakeholder in the maritime subsector and given the myriad of problems facing the Maritime Industry, I expect you to hit the ground running as soon as you take your Oath of Office. Your predecessor left no one in doubt about his preparedness to rewrite the history of the Transport sector. He engaged all critical stakeholders to acquaint himself ...

Aug82019 by Asu BeksNo Comments

ALIYU SAIDU: I am a Customs Officer by Accident, My First love Remains the Army.

Breaking News, Maritime, Port News

Comptroller Aliyu Galadima Saidu, who oversees the Onne Command of the Nigeria Customs Service has zero tolerance for indiscipline. While growing up he had this undying passion to join the army." I love and admire the military because of the level of discipline and the way the command structure works",he says . He said his passion for the army was fueled by his grandfather who was nicknamed " 8 Generals" and was Defence Minister in charge of the Army in the first republic.He said his grand father Galadinma, drated the likes of IBB and Late Gen Mamman Vatsa and 6 others all of whom became Generals in the Army. But young Aliyu was to chicken out of the Nigeria Defence Academy on account of the rigorous training at the elite military Academy in Zaria ....

Aug72019 by Asu BeksNo Comments

NIGERIA IS TARGETING A WORLD CLASS SHIP REGISTRY – DAKUKU

Breaking News, Maritime, Port News, Press Release

· Receives report of review committee Director-General of the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA), Dr. Dakuku Peterside, has received the report of the committee on the review of the Nigerian Ship Registry, with a declaration that the Agency’s target is to have a world-class ship registry. Dakuku said the goal was for Nigeria to have a ship registry that will meet international certification standards and compete favourably with the best in the global maritime community. Dakuku spoke yesterday in Lagos, while receiving the report of the committee tasked with reviewing the activities and operations of the Nigerian Ship Registration Office. “NIMASA is working at giving Nigerians a Ship Registry that is respected acro...

Aug62019 by Asu BeksNo Comments

Nigeria Can Sustain its Greatness through Sports – Dakuku, NOC President

Breaking News, Press Release, Sports

• Target 2020 Japan Olympic gold medals • Say sports can create millions of jobs The Director-General of the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA), Dr. Dakuku Peterside, says sports has a big place in the country’s development equation, as the spirit of fairness and unity, which sporting events evoke, is a vital ingredient of nation-building, just as excellence in sports can project a notion more. Dakuku said the support of all and sundry, especially corporate Nigeria, was needed to tap the huge benefits that abound in sports for the country’s greatness. He stated these at the weekend in Lagos while receiving members of the Nigeria Olympic Committee (NOC) on a courtesy visit, adding that countries like Brazil, Argentina, Germany, England, the United St...

Aug42019 by Asu BeksNo Comments

Sowore’s Arrest: Buhari’s govt behaving like Abacha’s – Soyinka

Breaking News, Opinion, Politics, Press Release

The Nobel Laureate, Wole Soyinka, has condemned the arrest of activist Omoyele Sowore. Mr Sowore, a presidential candidate in the last election, was arrested on Saturday for calling for a revolution against poor governance. “Beyond the word ‘revolution, another much mis-used and misunderstood word, nothing that Sowore has uttered, written, or advocated suggests that he is embarking on, or urging the public to engage in a forceful overthrow of government,” Mr Soyinka said. He compared the actions of the security agencies that arrested Mr Sowore to what happended during the tenure of the late dictator, Sani Abacha. “We underwent identical cynical contrivances under the late, unlamented Sani Abacha, when he sent storm-troopers to disrupt a planning session for a similar ac...

Aug42019 by Asu BeksNo Comments

FG Orders IOC’s To Clear Debt Owed Stevedoring Firms

Breaking News, Maritime, Port News

By Tola Adenubi The Federal Government has ordered the International Oil Companies (IOC) to clear all outstanding debt being owed stevedoring firms in the nation’s maritime sector. Disclosing this to the Tribune Online exclusively on Sunday, President of the National Association of Stevedoring Companies (NASC), Bolaji Sunmola who attended the meeting held in Abuja last Wednesday explained that the IOC’s have been given a timeline to comply with the laws of the land. NASC President said, “you know that the Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA) is mandated by law to appoint stevedoring firms at the nation’s seaports. “The stevedoring firms being owed by the IOC’s were duly appointed by the NPA, and so refusal to pay the stevedoring firms monies belonging to the maritime workers by the I...

Aug42019 by Asu BeksNo Comments

BASHIR JAMOH: MARITIME LIVING LEGEND OF THE WEEK

Breaking News, Maritime, Profile

Dr. Bashir Jamoh is no doubt many things to many people. An evolving persona dramatis, Jamoh has in the past couple of years appealed to authorities, corporate and institutional personalities, veterans, thinkers, policy and decision makers, chieftains of industries, fellow technocrats, profile engineers to name but a few. Naturally, many have conceded many different titles to him, despite that many see him first and foremost as one of the finest and youthful manager of men and resources, others see him as an emerging transportant with an unusual patriotic national appeal, seemingly eager to begin the process of purposeful and corrective national renaissance, especially in the maritime and transport sector where he presently holds forth. And in actual fact, Jamoh h...

Aug42019 by Asu BeksNo Comments

COMRADE ADEWALE ADEYANJU TO GOV WIKE: YOU LIED ON FG’s ABANDONMENT OF EASTERN PORTS.

Breaking News, Maritime, Port News

BY ASU BEKS Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers State has come under severe attack from stakeholders in the nation's maritime sector for alleging that management of Nigerian Ports Authority had completely abandoned the Eastern Ports. Wike who spoke weekend at the commissioning of ALCON NIG LTD low voltage plant in Port Harcourt had blamed the NPA for deliberately abandoning the Eastern Ports. But in a swift reaction, President General of the Maritime Workers Union of Nigeria, Comrade Adewale Adeyanju said there was no such a policy as ' deliberately abandoning Eastern Ports". He explained that it is a global practice that an importer reserves the right to choose where he wants his cargo delivered. Comrade Adeyanju explained that majority of ibo traders and importers ...

Aug42019 by Asu BeksNo Comments

Namibia inaugurates new port terminal, As Nigeria Struggles with Old Sinking Ports

Breaking News, Maritime, News Feature, Port News

By Hauwa Mustapha Namibian President, Hage Geingob has inaugurated a new $200 million dollars’ port terminal at Walvis Bay, an extension that will double the country’s port capacity from 350,000 containers to 750,000 per year. The inauguration ceremony was held on the 40-hectare platform reclaimed from the Atlantic Ocean. “Namibia has now joined countries such as Australia, Brazil, Dubai and the Netherlands in the utilisation of reclaimed land for port expansion,” said Geingob. Namport director, Nangula Hamunyela said the terminal not only increases Namport’s assets to N$7,6 billion dollars, but also launches the company’s goal to become a logistics hub for the southern African region. Namibia has now joined countries such as Australia, Brazil, Dubai and the Netherlands in ...

Aug42019 by Asu BeksNo Comments

NPA’s Abandonment Of Eastern Seaports Deliberate – Gov Wike

Breaking News, Maritime, Politics, Port News

The Executive Governor, of Rivers State Chief Nyesom Wike, has accused the Federal Government of deliberately abandoning Nigeria’s Eastern Seaports of Porthacourt and Onne. Wike, who spoke during the official opening of Alcon Nigeria Limited’s low-voltage products assembly factory in Port Harcourt, observed that deplorable state of the ports in Rivers was worrisome. Nyesom Wike Represented by his deputy, Dr Ipalibo Harry, the governor attributed the decline of industries in Port Harcourt to the weak operations at the Rivers ports. He said, “The body language of the Federal Government suggests that the ports’ abandonment was deliberate, noting that the Lagos ports currently booming at the moment have been overburdened and manufacturers are paying exorbitantly to use them. “...