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Jul302025 by adminNo Comments

Otuaro: Building Enduring Peace in the Niger Delta. By Our Reporter.

News Feature

Building on the successful intensive leadership and technical skills development training for Phase 1 stakeholders and leaders that took place two weeks ago, the Administrator of the Presidential Amnesty Programme (PAP), Chief Dennis Brutu Otuaro, PhD, earlier today launched the programme for the Phase 2 stakeholders and leaders from across the Niger Delta. Both training sessions are part of a strategic initiative to strengthen leadership and foster lasting peace in the Niger Delta. Held in collaboration with the Nigerian Army Resource Centre (NARC) in Abuja, the three-day program, themed "Leadership, Alternative Dispute Resolution, and Mediation," is designed to equip key stakeholders with the essential knowledge, skills, and attitudes needed for effective peace-building and conflict m...

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...

Jul272025 by adminNo Comments

Cabotage Vessel Financing Fund: How Many Shipowners Can Put N6.1b on the Table?By ASU BEKS.

Maritime, News Feature

Dear, Dayo Mobereola, Director General, Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency, NIMASA, in my weekly Marine and Blue Economy Digest column in the Sunday Sun of May 19, 2025, i sent you an open letter in which i commended your bold initiative to break the over 20 years jinx on the disbursement of the Cabotage Vessel Financing Fund, CVFF. I also paid glowing tribute to the Minister of Marine and Blue Economy. Adegboyega Oyetola ,for his commitment towards a timely disbursement. As DG NIMASA, I had ,in thst letter appreciated the burden on your shoulders as you navigate through these turbulent times to justify the confidence reposed on you by President Bola Ahmed Tinubu and that God should bestow on you the wisdom of Solomon and the heart of a lion to overcome the myriad of proble...

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...

Jul182025 by adminNo Comments

The Many Sins of Nigeria’s Bonded Terminals. By ASU BEKS.

News Feature, Port News

A bonded terminal is a secure facility, typically near a port or airport, where imported goods can be stored under customs supervision without immediate payment of duties and taxes. These goods remain in the terminal until they are either re-exported or cleared for domestic use, at which point the necessary duties and taxes are paid. Essentially, it's a designated area for the temporary storage of imported goods, allowing businesses to defer duty payments. Bonded terminals operate under the strict supervision of the Nigeria Customs Service Bonded terminals are strategically located near major points of entry and exit for international trade. The primary benefit is the ability to defer duty payments, which can be a significant advantage for businesses with large import volumes or...

Jul122025 by adminNo Comments

Time to Scrap Council For the Regulation of Freight Forwarders? By Asu Beks.

Misc

If there was any iota of doubt that the 2007 Act which gave birth to the Council For the Regulation of Freight Forwarding in Nigeria, CRFFN, ought to have been abrogated last week's judgement by Justice D.E. Osiagor was the final nail on its coffin. The controversial CRFFN Act, No16 was enacted on April 30, 2007.Under the Act,the Council was charged with the responsibility, amongst others, to regulate and control the practice of Freight Forwarders in Nigeria, promote the highest professional standards and competence among members . The passage of the bill and eventual signing into law was however greeted with mixed feelings. The propriety or other wise of the Council came mostly from the key associations in the sector viz; the Association of Nigerian Licensed Customs Agents, ANLCA, the ...

Jul122025 by adminNo Comments

Douye Diri: The Burden of a Reluctant Defector. By ASU BEKS.

News Feature, Politics

A defector is a person who quits something despite a perceived duty or obligation. In some other climes, a defector is categorised as a deserter, some one who jumps ship. If there is any Nigerian politician that has been as troubled since the gale of defections currently sweeping across the length and breadth of Nigeria in the last couple of months, that person is mostly likely to be Sen Douye, Executive of Bayelsa State. Yes, his mien does not reveal he is troubled, but those very close to him can attest to the fact that he is worried. For Gov. Diri, this perhaps seems the most challenging and traumatic period in his entire polical career, spanning over three decades. Not even with his initial loss to David Lyon in the Bayelsa Governorship election before he was installed by the Supreme C...