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Sep72020 by Asu BeksNo Comments

Nigeria, Korea Forge Closer Cooperation in Shipping.

DG of NIMASA, Dr. Bashir Jamoh and Consul General, Kim In-Taek. Nigeria and South Korea have agreed to intensify collaboration in trade and shipping development. This was disclosed in Lagos during a meeting between the Director-General of the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA), Dr. Bashir Jamoh, and Consul General, Embassy of the Republic of Korea in Nigeria, Kim In-Taek. Both countries have maintained good maritime and trade relations since the 1980s. But Jamoh and In-Taek said there was need to expand the relationship in line with global economic dynamics. The NIMASA Director-General told newsmen after the meeting with the South Korean envoy that development of Nigeria’s maritime potential was a critical element of President Muhammadu Buhari’s economic div...

Sep62020 by Asu BeksNo Comments

COUNT KUKU OUT OF ROT IN AMNESTY OFFICE … DAUNEMIGHA.

Breaking News

Mr Kingsley Kuku A Chieftain of the All Progressive Congress, Chief Famous Daunemigha says the National Security Adviser, Gen Babagana Mungono, should be held responsible for the massive looting at the Presidential Amnesty Program office. Chief Daunemigha who was a former Governorship candidate of the CPC in Bayelsa State was reacting to a newspaper report which allegedly indicted three past Coordinators of the Presidential Amnesty Program, PAP. Quoting the report of a Presidential panel which was instituted by the office of the National Security Adviser, the report had accused Mr Kingsley Kuku, Gen Paul Boroh and Prof Charles Dokubo of misappropriating over N700b over a period of eleven years. The APC Chieftain insisted that Gen Mungono should be held responsible for turning the PAP to...

Sep12020 by Asu BeksNo Comments

TONY IJU, FARINTO FIGHT DIRTY AS ANLCA CRISES DEPEENS.

Breaking News

President Hon Tony Iju Nwabunike The frosty leadership crisis in the Association of Nigerian Licensed Customs Agents deepened weekend when its President Hon Tony Iju Nwabunike slammed a query on his deputy, Dr Kayode Farinto. In the query letter dated August 25, 2020, Dr Farinto was asked to "explain why severe disciplinary action(s) should not be taken against him on the following grounds (i) Writing a letter in the name of our association , to the Secretary General of the World Customs Organization, WCO, dated 03/08/020 with reference no ANLCA/WCO/VOL042/08/020 without the authority of the Association. In the query, the President explained that the said letter to the WCO which was not authorized by the National body was in total violation of section 3(a), (d) and (e) of our Co...

Sep12020 by Asu BeksNo Comments

Mearsk Line Suspends Peak Season Charge.

Breaking News

Executive Secretary and CEO, Hassan Bello Mearsk Line Nigeria Ltd has bowed to pressure and reversed an earlier introduction of peak season charge. The reversal followed an intervention by Hassan Bello, Executive Secretary, Nigerian Shippers' Council. In a statement in Lagos, Mearsk Line said it has instructed its commercial department to suspend the controversial charge effective September 1, 2020. It would be recalled that the Nigerian Shippers Council had protested to the African Union of Shippers Councils on the introduction of the arbitrary charges by Mearsk Line and had asked for its immediate scrapping. Shipping World magazine can confirm on good authority that in a letter signed by Mearsk Line Nigeria Representative, Lara Lana and addressed to Nigerian Shippers Council, i...

Sep12020 by Asu BeksNo Comments

PAY A MILLION NAIRA AND GET A CUSTOMS JOB. EXCLUSIVE.

Breaking News, Press Release

Comptroller General of Nigeria Custom Colonel Hameed Ibrahim Ali Are you job hunting? Do you want to serve in the Nigeria Customs Service? Then your prayers are answered if only you are ready to cough out N1.1m gratification to a secret recruitment syndicate now holding sway at the Customs Headquarters in Abuja. Shipping World investigations revealed that bribes to secure plum postings to commands such as Onne, Apapa, Tin can, PTML and Airport Commands, also attract various sums ranging between N300,000 and N500,000.00. The source who confided with Shipping World on condition of anonymity explained thus, " My friend and i have been job hunting when this offer of N1.1m for an Assistant Superintendent of Customs came. My friend was able to meet the requirement. She was offered t...

Aug282020 by Asu BeksNo Comments

NCDC Certifies Bayelsa Molecular Lab

Breaking News

The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) has activated the newly inaugurated Bayelsa State Molecular Laboratory, Research and Diagnostic Centre as a COVID testing laboratory in the country. Governor Douye Diri The facility, which was inaugurated by Governor Douye Diri on Tuesday, brought the number of NCDC accredited laboratories in the country to 66 in 34 states. The NCDC in a letter signed by the Laboratory Network Advisor, Celestina Obiekea, and addressed to the Bayelsa State Commissioner for Health, stated that the laboratory had fulfilled the necessary requirements for a molecular laboratory to test for COVID as well as met all successful validations and optimisations. It further explained that the state will be responsible for procurement of consumables, equipment an...

Aug262020 by Asu BeksNo Comments

Buhari names Col MD Dikio Adviser on Presidential Amnesty Program

Breaking News, News Feature

Colonel MD Dikio President Muhammadu Buhari has appointed a new Cordinator for the Presidential Amnesty Program. He is Col Milland Dixon Dikio. Usually dependable Presidency sources told Shipping World that Col Dikio's appointment takes immediate effect. Col Dikio hails from Rivers State. Colonel Milland Dixon Dikio (rtd) is from Mbiama In Ahoada West Local Government Area of Rivers State. He attended Baptist High School, Port Harcourt (1971-1975). He was admitted into Nigerian Defence Academy (NDA) 21st Regular Combatant Course and was appointed the Academy Cadets Adjutant in recognition of his leadership qualities. He was posted to the elite Nigerian Army Armored Corps on commission as a Second Lieutenant effective Jan 03, 1977. He is a seasoned professional who held command, diplo...

Aug262020 by Asu BeksNo Comments

Breaking News: President Muhammadu Buhari has appointed a new Cordinatorfor the Presidential Amnesty Program

Breaking News

Col Milland Dixon Dikio President Muhammadu Buhari has appointed a new Cordinator for the Presidential Amnesty Program. He is Col Milland Dixon Dikio. Usually dependable Presidency sources told Shipping World that Col Dikio's appointment takes immediate effect. Col Dikio hails from Rivers State.

Aug262020 by Asu BeksNo Comments

Bayelsa Faults FG On Insolvency Status *Restates Call For Restructuring

Breaking News, Politics

Bayelsa state governor, Senator Douye Diri Bayelsa State Government, on Tuesday, described as incorrect Federal Government's categorisation of the state as insolvent due to its low internally generated revenue profile. It also restated its call for restructuring of the country to address the current lopsided federalism that denied states, particularly Bayelsa, the due revenue from the resources in their land and region. Chairman of the Revenue Mobilisation Allocation and Fiscal Commission (RMAFC), Mr. Elias Mbam, while receiving receiving the Annual States Viability Index (ASVI) from the Editor-in-Chief of the Economic Confidential in his office in Abuja on Monday, stated that Bayelsa, Borno, Katsina, Kebbi and Taraba states had become insolvent because of their “extremely poor IG...

Aug262020 by Asu BeksNo Comments

Make Service Your Watchword, Diri Charges New Commissioners *Bayelsa Gov Swears In 25 Cabinet Members

Breaking News, Press Release

Newly appointed commissioners with Senator Douye Diri Bayelsa State Governor, Senator Douye Diri, has told new commissioners in the state that service to the people was the essence of their appointment. The governor also charged them to work towards actualising the dreams of the state's founding fathers. Speaking during the swearing in of 24 new commissioners and a Special Adviser on Political Affairs at the Executive Council Chambers of Government House, Yenagoa, Governor Diri said they were assuming office at a difficult moment occasioned by the COVID-19 pandemic. He stressed that they would need to put in their best to meet the yearnings of people of the state. His Acting Chief Press Secretary, Mr. Daniel Alabrah, in a statement, quoted the governor as saying the commissi...