August 2020 – Page 2 – Shipping World News Magazine

Aug242020 by Asu BeksNo Comments

Dangerous ignorance of Nigeria’s Customs Boss…Emeka Akabogu

“Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance…” These words of Martin Luther King Jr. echoed in my mind as I listened to the Comptroller General of the Nigerian Customs Service advise against implementation of the WTO Trade Facilitation Agreement and the African Continental Free Trade Agreement in a presentation before the Nigerian Senate last week. The shock of his incredulous advice is matched only by the reasons for his position – that it will negatively impact revenue generation! Colonel Hameed Ibrahim Ali Col. Hameed Ali’s theory is that if the Trade Facilitation Agreement is implemented to ease current challenges being faced in import and export of goods, customs revenue will drop, so better not to implement the reforms. This may explain why the Nig...

Aug232020 by Our EditorNo Comments

Why Bayelsans should stop infighting, support Diri – Asu Beks

Breaking News, Politics

Elder Asu Beks Daniel Kanu Elder Asu Beks, president, Ijaw Media Forum is a journalist’s journalist. The Niger-Delta activist and publisher of Shipping World has been passionate and involved in the struggle for the emancipation of the Niger Delta region. He has gone through the thick and thin of the struggle told Sunday Sun that there is need for a new narrative in the region.He spoke on the nullification of the election of Bayelsa governor, Douye Diri by an election tribunal, what Bayelsa state needs, assessment of President Mohammadu Buhari’s leadership, 2023, and its strategies by different regions and the need for a Nigerian President of Igbo extraction in 2023, among other issues. Excerpt: The election tribunal gave a verdict during the week, nullifying the election of your s...

Aug212020 by Asu BeksNo Comments

Buhari’ll End Nigeria’s Fuel Importation, Says Sylva.

Breaking News, News Feature, Press Release

President Muhammadu Buhari The President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.) is committed to putting an end to the importation of refined petroleum products into Nigeria, the Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Chief Timipre Sylva, has said. Sylva said the government was working to reverse Nigeria’s status as a net importer of Premium Motor Spirit, popularly called petrol, and as such had been supporting the establishment of modular refineries to boost indigenous PMS production. The minister stated this after inspecting the Azikel Hydro-Skimming Refinery, the first hydro-skimming private modular refinery being built by businessman, Azibapu Eruani in Yenagoa, Bayelsa State. The refinery, which is about 75 per cent completed, has the capacity to process 12,000 bar...

Aug212020 by Asu BeksNo Comments

OLAMIDE ODUNSANYA, NIMASA’S HEAD OF AUDIT, OTHERS PROMOTED.

Breaking News, Maritime

The Governing Board of the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA) has approved the promotion of 595 staff, including nine Directors. The promotions were approved the inaugural meeting of the Board in Lagos . A statement by the newly promoted Deputy Director of Corporate Communications, Chief Philip Kyanet, explained that 9 deputy directors were elevated to substantive directors while 45 Assistant Directors were promoted to Deputy Directors, and 71 Grade Level 14 officers were promoted to Assistant Directors. Those promoted to Directors include the Agency's Head, ISPS Unit, Jidda Aishatu; Head, Marine Accident Investigation Unit, Egbuche Rita; Head, Eastern Zone, Audu Sani; and Head, Internal Audit, Olamide Odusanya. Others are Head, HSE Unit, Dr. Anselm...

Aug202020 by Asu BeksNo Comments

NIWA COMMISSIONS 36 SEATER FERRY IN YAURI, KEBBI STATE:

Breaking News, Port News

Emir of Yauri and Managing Director of NIWA at the commission in Yelwa - Yauri, Kebbi State. The National Inland Waterways Authority (NIWA) has commissioned a 36 seater ferry boat at Yelwa - Yauri, Kebbi State. Speaking at the brief but colorful event, Managing Director of NIWA , Dr. George Moghalu thanked God for the opportunity given to the Authority to procure the 36 seater ferry boat on behalf of Senator, Bala Ibn Na`Allah as part of his constituency project. 36 seater ferry boat being commissioned at kebbi State Dr Moghalu thanked the kind gesture of the Senator given to NIWA by the Yauri Emirate council in fulfilling its official responsibilities, He also expressed his appreciation to the Distinguished Senator Ibn Na' Allah for his commitment and desi...

Aug192020 by Asu BeksNo Comments

WE SHALL MAKE IMPROVED DOCKWORKERS WELFARE OUR PRIORITY…NIMASA

Breaking News, Maritime

· The Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA) has assured stakeholders of its commitment to the protection of the rights and welfare of dockworkers as guaranteed in the International Labour Organisation (ILO) Decent Work Agenda. The Agency’s Executive Director, Maritime Labour and Cabotage Services, Mr. Victor Ochei, gave the assurance in Lagos during a meeting of the National Joint Industrial Council (NJIC). All the Stakeholders at the Meeting The meeting discussed a revised minimum wage and improved living standard for dockworkers through the Collective Bargaining Agreement (CBA) initiative endorsed by NIMASA and NJIC in 2018. Ochei stated, “Dockworkers are integral to efficient and effective stevedoring operation and the NJIC has remained resolute in ens...

Aug182020 by Asu BeksNo Comments

Advanced Nigeria Democratic Party in Bayelsa Guber election did not present a validly nominated candidate…INEC

Breaking News, Politics

The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC said on Monday that the Advanced Nigeria Democratic Party in the November 16, 2019 Governorship election in Bayelsa State did not present a validly nominated candidate. The electoral umpire said in a statement in Abuja that the nomination of its Deputy Governorship candidate Peter Esinkuma David was flawed because it fell short of the mandatory age limit of 35 years as stipulated in section 177(b) of the constitution. The electoral body was reacting to a ruling by the Bayelsa Elections Petition Tribunal, Abuja which declared the election of Governor Douye Diri as illegal and consequently ordered for fresh elections. In the statement, INEC said it observed that the Deputy Governorship candidate was born on the 10th day of February...

Aug132020 by Asu BeksNo Comments

HASSAN BELLO: THE BIG BROTHER OF NIGERIA’S MARITIME FAMILY

Breaking News, Maritime, Port News

Clearly, the above headline sounds not only a bit disagreeable but to a large extent antithetical for those who are familiar with Hassan Bello in the discharge of his national assignment, in the past one decade or so. Mr. Hassan Bello But the casting is deliberate and by no means intended to subtract from an already established fact that the Executive Secretary/CEO of the Nigerian Shippers’ Council, Mr. Hassan Bello remains the beacon of the ports industry development agenda, a master technocrat, avid performer, great initiator and facilitator; with a knack for uncommon strategy and conquest in matters of utmost urgency. It is in the light of the qualities aforementioned that the headline finds expression, since no nation or strategists appeared to have been able to respond adequ...

Aug132020 by Asu BeksNo Comments

REVEALED!!! HAMEED ALI WAS NOT INVITED TO MARITIME AGENCIES MEETING.

Breaking News

Contrary to insinuations in some quarters that the Comptroller General of Customs, Hameed Ali snubbed an invitation to attend yesterday's meeting of Heads of Maritime Agencies which was hosted by Dr Bashir Jamoh, Director General of Nigeria Maritime Administration and Safety Agency, NIMASA in Lagos, Shipping World magazine can report on good authority that the Customs Chief was indeed not invited to the parley. All The CEOs at the meeting A usually dependable source at Customs House, Abuja confided in this magazine that no formal letter of invitation was indeed extended to Hameed Ali. Said the source who pleaded for anonymity, " I am in position to know if such an invitation was extended to my boss, i can tell you categorically that there...

Aug132020 by Asu BeksNo Comments

ANTI PIRACY WAR: BASHIR JAMOH BREAKS JINX AS COURT JAILS PIRATES

Breaking News, Maritime

Director General of Nigeria Maritime Administration and Safety Agency, Bashir Jamoh may written his name in gold. The Federal High Court in Port Harcourt Tuesday convicted three persons accused of involvement in the hijack of an Equatorial Guinean flagged vessel named, MV ELOBEY VI, off Equatorial Guinea's coast on March 21. This is the first test of the anti-piracy law which was signed into law by President Muhammadu Buhari last year. Delivering judgement, Justice Mohammed Sani summarily convicted Binaebi Johnson, Daniel Lemmar and Ghane Gordon on Counts 1 and 2, and were ordered to pay a fine of N20 million each under the new Antipiracy Act 2019. The Nigerian Navy had arrested nine persons, namely, Binaebi Johnson, Daniel Lemmar, Ghane Gordon, Hassan Hakeem, Gregory Sm...