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Aug212025 by Asu BeksNo Comments

LOKPOBIRI: WHY TINUBU PICKED HIM TO LEAD NIGERIA ‘s OIL SECTOR REFORMS

Misc

While the phrase "Czar in the Nation's Oil sector" is not an official title, it is often used informally to refer to the Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Senator Heineken Lokpobiri PhD, who is playing a significant leadership role in Nigeria's oil sector. Since his assumption of office, the nation's narrative within and outside the country has changed with high-level meetings and initiatives aimed at boosting production and attracting investment within the sector. He has interpreted the reforms of the present administration of President Bola Tinubu into reality and such realities are beginning to change the oil sector policy of the present administration and transferring wealth and security to investors and Nigerians at alarge. In less than two years, the nation's oil se...

Aug142025 by Asu BeksNo Comments

Amid defection rumours, PDP Inaugurates Diri Chair of Zoning Committee *It’s Huge Responsibility, Says Bayelsa Gov

News Feature, Politics

Nigeria’s major opposition party, Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), on Thursday, inaugurated its National Elective Convention Zoning Committee at the national headquarters in Abuja. The 46-member committee is headed by the Governor of Bayelsa State, Senator Douye Diri, with his Zamfara and Plateau counterparts, Dauda Lawal and Barr. Caleb Mutfwang as vice chairman and secretary respectively. A statement issued by Diri’s spokesman, Mr. Daniel Alabrah, quoted the Acting PDP National Chairman, Amb. Umar Damagum, who inaugurated the committee, as saying that it had the onerous task of repositioning the party to make it stronger. Damagum, who expressed confidence in the leadership of the committee, said the inauguration was the first step ahead of the party’s convention slated for Novemb...

Aug132025 by Asu BeksNo Comments

Fears Mount Over Seeming Delay in Presidential Assent to Port and Shipping Economic Regulation Agency Bill ..By Asu Beks.

News Feature, Port News

Maritime Stakeholders are becoming increasingly apprehensive over the seeming delay in the Presidential assent to the Ports and Shipping Economic Regulation Agency Bill which was passed by both chambers of the National Assembly over a year ago. The Bill seeks to repeal the existing Nigerian Shippers' Council Act and aims to establish a more robust and effective regulatory framework to support the growth of Shipping and Ports sectors ,while safeguarding the interest of Nigerian Shippers. In the main, the Bill proposes the creation of the Nigerian Shipping and Ports Regulatory Agency, which is tasked with achieving an ambitious objective to create a more efficient and competitive environment for both the public and private sector in the shipping and Ports sector. One of the key provisions...

Aug92025 by Asu BeksNo Comments

Ekiti-born Olubolade Was A Bayelsan, Says Gov Diri Names Civil Servants Quarters After Late Military Administrator

News Feature

Governor of Bayelsa State, Senator Douye Diri, has described the late former Military Administrator of the state, Navy Capt. Omoniyi Caleb Olubolade (rtd), as an indigene due to his love for the state and its people. Governor Diri also said the retired Naval officer and former Minister of Special Duties, who died on May 15, 2025 at the age of 71, served the state and Nigeria with a lot of dedication and selflessness. Olubolade was appointed as the third military administrator of Bayelsa from June 27, 1997 – July 9, 1998 after the state was created by the late military Head of State, Gen. Sani Abacha, on October 1, 1996. Speaking during a service of songs held in his honour at the St. John Military Protestant Church, Bonny Cantonment, Victoria Island, Lagos, on Friday, the Bayelsa govern...

Aug82025 by Asu BeksNo Comments

Dayo Mobereola’s Mad Rush For Gold at NIMASA. BY ASU BEKS.

Misc

Despite our seemingly poor economic fortunes, rising insecurity, high inflation and poverty figures, the last couple of weeks and days have witnessed is a season of victories, laurels and Gold medals for Nigeria and Nigerians. And as usual, the motivation for the celebrations have come from the sporting arena where Nigeria's female soccer team, the super falcons and the female basket ball team , D ' Tigress conquered Africa with their scintillating performances. The victory songs and dances have defied political, ethnic and religious divides. Even the hungry and poor came out to celebrate our victorious girl. This was certainly a great relief for President Bola Ahmed Tinubu whose administration has come under intense criticism on account of some unpopular policies and decisions. For maj...

Aug22025 by Asu BeksNo Comments

Stop Press! President Bola Tinubu to CGC Wale Adeniyi: Don’t Quit now, you still have more to offer Nigeria

News Feature

Just as this column was going to best, news filtered in from the Presidency extending by one year the tenure of Comptroller General of Customs, Bashir Adewale Adeniyi. Bashir Adewale Adeniyi was due to retire by the end of August after a meritorious career to his fatherland. In a terse statement signed by Presidential spokesman, Bayo Onanuga, Tinubu said he decided to extend Adeniyi's tenure given his laudable Customs Modernisation project at Customs House, which include the implementation of the National Single Window Project; Nigeria's Obligation under the African Continental Free Trade Area, among others. Congratulations, CGC Wale Adeniyi

Aug22025 by Asu BeksNo Comments

Anxiety mounts on the fate of B’ Odogwu Under the National Single Window Project. By Asu Beks.

Maritime

Worried about what the future holds in stock for the innovative B' Odogwu "Magic Wand" initiated by the Nigeria Customs Service, under the leadership of Bashir Adeniyi Adeniyi ,as the Presidency unveils Q1'26 as the take off date of the National Single Window Project( NSW), I put a call through to Mr Tola Fakolade, the Director of the NSW on Wednesday July 30. I needed an official clarification on the status of B' Odogwu post National Single Window. Project B' Odogwu which has been successfully launched in the PTML, Tin Can Island and Apapa commands of the Nigeria Customs Service, is a homegrown IT solution designed to modernise Customs operations by enhancing trade facilitation and cargo processing efficiency. The " B" in B' Odogwu stands for " Border" , representing all Customs processes...

Jul312025 by Asu BeksNo Comments

DANTSOHO FRONTLINES PRESIDENT TINUBU’S NIGERIA FIRST POLICY AS NIGERIAN-OWNED CONTAINER VESSEL CALLS AT ONNE PORT.

News Feature, Port News

Abubakar Dantsoho Managing Director Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA) has restated the readiness of the NPA to promote the indigenous ownership of shipping vessels in line with the 'Nigeria First' policy of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu GCFR. Speaking during the maiden call of wholly Nigerian-owned container vessel "MV OCEAN DRAGON" at the West African Container Terminal Onne Port Port Complex on Thursday 31st July, 2025, Dantsoho said "apart from the high loading capacity of 349 TEUs and several other distinctive features of this vessel, we are fascinated that MV Ocean Dragon is wholly Nigerian which speaks to the Renewed Hope “Nigeria first” policy of His Excellency President Bola Ahmed Tinubu GCFR and the Nigerian Ports Authority’s renewed orientation towards Nigerian content development". ...

Jul292025 by Asu BeksNo Comments

African Must Translate Marine Comparative Advantages To Economic Prosperity- Dantsoho

News Feature, Port News

The President of the Port Management Association of West and Central Africa (PMAWCA), Dr Abubakar Dantsoho, on Monday said there is an urgent need for African countries to translate their marine comparative advantages into opportunities for the collective prosperity of their respective countries. Speaking at the PMAWCA Board of Directors and Ports Statisticians Network Meetings in Luanda, Angola, Dantsoho who is also the managing director of the Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA), stated that the sustainability of Africa countries rests heavily on the sustainability of their seaports. According to the PMAWCA boss, apart from being linked by water, countries in West and Central Africa are linked by challenges and opportunities. "The need to translate our marine comparative advantages i...

Jul282025 by Asu BeksNo Comments

BOB MARLEY’S MUSIC AS WEAPON FOR REVOLUTIONARY CHANGE : IMPLICATION FOR A DYSFUNCTIONAL NIGERIA By Emmanuel Gandu

Misc, News Feature

His songs have not only become indelible consolation melody for the marginalized, but universal struggle anthems and prayer emissaries to Jah. Bob Marley's artistic musical fearlessness and radical ideological commitment to economic and political freedom should become a catalyst for an enduring and a people's vanguard for democratic change from a begger and dysfunctional state to an egalitarian country where no one goes to bed hungry. Whatever happens, Bob Marley though since gone beckons on Nigeriains to revolutionarise the country through democratic change.Marley's smiling benevolence in heaven is a shining sun, a waving palm leaf. He is a string of musical hits which will continue to reverberate in oppressed and suppressed corners of a marginalised Nigeria.] Bob Marley was a re...