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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...

Jul202025 by Asu BeksNo Comments

28 Years After Creation, Bayelsa Seek Additional 25 LGAs

News Feature

Bayelsa State has made a request for the creation of 25 additional local government areas separate from the existing eight in the state. The state also proposed fiscal federalism, establishment of state police, electoral as well as judicial reforms. The Attorney General and Commissioner for Justice, Mr. Biriyai Dambo, a Senior Advocate of Nigeria, presented the state’s position at the ongoing public hearing organised by the South South Centre A (comprising Bayelsa, Delta and Edo) of the House of Representatives’ Committee on the Review of the 1999 Constitution at the DSP Alamieyeseigha Banquet Hall in Yenagoa on Saturday. According to Mr. Dambo, creating new councils in the state had become necessary as the extant local government areas were over-populated with some having more th...

Jul192025 by Asu BeksNo Comments

Tinubu an epitome of Sustainable Peace, Stability, Development In Niger Delta – Otuaro

News Feature

The Administrator, of the Presidential Amnesty Programme, Dr Dennis Otuaro, has urged stakeholders of the Niger Delta to maintain the prevailing peace in the region and remain resolute in their support for the administration of President Bola Tinubu. Otuaro spoke at a three-day strategic training on leadership, alternative dispute resolution and mediation organised by the Presidential Amnesty Programme in collaboration with the Nigerian Army Resource Centre for some stakeholders of the PAP on Wednesday in Abuja. Otuaro stressed the need for the people of the Niger Delta to consolidate on the region's peace process and stability so that socio-economic growth and development could thrive in the communities as encapsulated in the president's Renewed Hope Agenda. He assured the people...

Jul192025 by Asu BeksNo Comments

Serial Constitutional Review Exercises a Waste of Resources…8 LGAs for Bayelsa unjust.. Gov Diri

News Feature

Governor of Bayelsa State, Senator Douye Diri, has faulted the endless process of reviewing the 1999 Nigerian Constitution. Speaking in Government House, Yenagoa, on Friday, when he hosted members of the House of Representatives Committee on Constitution Review, Governor Diri recalled that he was a member of the committee when he was in the National Assembly from 2015 to 2020, and expressed concern that successive administrations in the country had not implemented the committee’s recommendations. A statement by his Chief Press Secretary, Daniel Alabrah, quoted the governor as saying that the exercise was becoming a waste of time and resources as every National Assembly session embarked on same process without the recommendations being implemented. The Bayelsa governor expressed the h...

Jul42025 by Asu BeksNo Comments

Bashir Adewale Adeniyi: Unveiling the World’s No1 Customs Chief. By Asu Beks.

Maritime, News Feature

When on January 8, 2025 Maritime Media Ltd., Publishers of Nigeria's flagship Maritime Journal, Shipping World , named The Comptroller General of Customs, Bashir Adewale Adeniyi as the Global Ambassador of the Renewed Hope Agenda, many thought it was a fluke. In arriving at Bashir Adewale Adeniyi's choice as the Global Ambassador of the Renewed Hope Agenda, Maritime Media Ltd had critically analysed the 8 point agenda of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu , especially in terms of service delivery, transparency , prosperity and other key performance indicators, which the Nigeria Customs Service under the leadership of Bashir Adeniyi since his appointment in June 2023 had embraced. As a transformational leader, Wale Adeniyi likes to set goals and lay them bare with timelines for achieving such targ...

Jul42025 by Asu BeksNo Comments

NIGERIAN PORTS AUTHORITY BERTHS FIRST WHOLE NIGERIAN-OWNED CONTAINER VESSEL.

News Feature, Port News

In a development that signposts readiness to maximize the gains derivable from the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA), the Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA) on 2nd July at 05:05 hours deployed its state-of-the-art marine crafts to berth the first wholly Nigerian-owned container vessel. The container vessel with International Maritime Organization (IMO) number 9508770 christened MV Ocean Dragon is owned by Clarion Shipping West Africa Limited has a capacity of 349 Twenty-Foot-Equivalent Units (TEUs) gives a boost to concerted investment drive geared towards reaping the cost and time saving benefits of short-sea shipping by plying in-country maritime trade routes across Nigeria and the West African sub-region and offers an efficient alternative to road transport as the Authority’s ef...