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Apr282022 by Asu Beks1 Comment

PETER OKOCHA TO TONY IJU: RESIGN NOW AND SAVE ANLCA FROM DISINTEGRATION ….says ANLCA died the day Shittu left office

Following allegations that the President of the Association of Nigerian Licensed Customs Agents , Tony Iju Nwabunike, may have gone on AWOL, Shipping World Magazine engaged a former President of ANLCA, Chief Peter Okocha, in an interview on the State of Affairs of the once very vocal Association . Here are excerpts from the interview: S/W: You were once President of the Association of Nigerian Licensed Customs Agents, ANLCA. What was the vision of ANLCA under your leadership? OKOCHA: Well ,under my leadership then, I was with Otunba Fashawe who was my Vice President.Our vision was to reposition ANLCA and help the sector to reposition itself as the second largest revenue earner ,which it actually is. But our tenure was short lived because our frien...

Apr282022 by Asu BeksNo Comments

JAMOH WINS MARITIME PUBLIC SECTOR ICON 2021.

Maritime

The Director General of the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency, NIMASA, Dr. Bashir Jamoh has been named winner of the Vanguard Public Sector Icon, Maritime, 2021. The Editor of Vanguard Newspapers, Mr. Eze Anaba who announced this while presenting a conveyance letter to Dr Jamoh in Lagos said other awardees are President of the African Development Bank, ADB, Akinwunmi Adesina, Group Managing Director of the NNPC, Mele Kyari, Governor Godwin Obaseki of Edo State amongst others. Mr. Anaba noted that, the screening committee of the Vanguard Awards reviewed Dr. Jamoh’s nomination critically and all indices in good corporate governance pointed at the NIMASA DG as an outstanding public sector official in year 2021. He noted the consistency of the Dr. Jamoh led manageme...

Apr272022 by Steve AzaikiNo Comments

Obi Visits Diri, Says I’m Desperate To Make Nigeria Work *Bayelsa Gov Restates Call For Power Shift

News Feature, Politics

Presidential aspirant on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Mr. Peter Obi, has said he is not desperate to be president but eager to see Nigeria work. The two-term governor of Anambra State and vice presidential candidate of the PDP in 2019 stated this on Wednesday when he paid a courtesy visit to Governor Douye Diri at the Bayelsa State Government House in Yenagoa. Obi said Nigeria was a great country with untapped potentialities, noting that he is desperate to move the nation away from a consumption economy to a productive one. He stressed that Nigeria was not working because of its unproductive state, which he said was unacceptable to the nation’s young, intelligent and smart population. The presidential hopeful, who reeled out the statistics of agricultural...

Apr142022 by Asu BeksNo Comments

Hoodlums invade Bayelsa High Court,injure three persons ….sporadic shooting at APC secetariat

News Feature, Press Release

Hoodlums numbering over thirty on Wednesday distrupted proceedings into the hearing over a suit into the disputed ward,local government and State congresses of the All Progressive Congress (APC) at the Bayelsa State High Court. An official of the court, the claimant, Alex Blackson and his brother, Osom Blackson were injured during the stampede and violence inside the court. The presiding Judge, Justice Nayai Aganaba was stoned with plastic bottles by the hoodlums but was taken to safety by his police orderly. Leadership gathered that most of the lawyers in Court were also chased out, while those that came with the claimant were brutalised. Leadership gathered that the hoodlums may have been provoked by the allege insistence of the Presiding Judge, Justice Aganaba to hear the suit ...

Apr132022 by Asu BeksNo Comments

Gov. Diri Pledges Support For Capacity Building Of Lawyers

Law, News Feature

Bayelsa State Governor, Senator Douye Diri, has said he would support any initiative towards enhancing the capacity of legal practitioners in the state. Governor Diri made the pledge when President of the Nigeria Bar Association (NBA), Mr. Olumide Akpata, paid a courtesy visit to Government House, Yenagoa, on Tuesday. He applauded the NBA President for the initiative to go round branches of the association nationwide to know their challenges. While commending Akpata’s vision for capacity building for lawyers, the governor said a basic problem of the judiciary in the state was training and retraining jand pledged his support for any training initiative. In response to a request that courts be also provided in rural areas apart from the state capital for easy access to justice, D...

Apr132022 by Asu BeksNo Comments

PDP Consensus Candidate Will Oust APC From Power, Says Saraki *Gov. Diri Cautions Against Factions In Party

Politics, Press Release

Former Senate President, Dr. Bukola Saraki, has said the quest by some presidential aspirants in the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to form a united force is for the party to take over power from the All Progressives Congress (APC) in 2023. Dr. Saraki said this informed their decision to advocate for a consensus candidate among the aspirants. The presidential hopeful spoke on Monday while briefing journalists after a closed-door meeting alongside his co-aspirants, Governor Aminu Tambuwal of Sokoto State and Senator Bala Mohammed, Governor of Bauchi State, with Governor Douye Diri at the Creek Haven Government House in Yenagoa, Bayelsa State. Saraki stressed that as an opposition party, the PDP cannot wrest power from the APC if it is not united. According to him, the interest o...

Apr132022 by Asu BeksNo Comments

UTOMI CALLS FOR SYMBOLIC RESISTANCE AND SOLIDARITY TO PREVENT ANARCHY FROM OVERTAKING NIGERIA

Politics, Press Release

Noted Political Economist and former Presidential Candidate Professor Pat Utomi has called out Nigerians to a spiritual, symbolic and practical halt of the advance of anarchy. In a statement in Lagos this morning April 12, 2022 Utomi called Nigerians to come out in groups everywhere they are in the country wearing white tops over black to symbolize light over darkness, light candles and shake hands in extension of solidarity and the universal brotherhood of men and sing the song Nigeria will rise up again and post it on social media #lightoverdarkness. The statesmen titled they are all God’s children reads. To Fellow Compatriots THEY ARE ALL GOD’S CHILDREN TOO In the last two weeks the pain pangs from our poorly governed country failings have touched all, from the grandmother returnin...

Apr122022 by Asu BeksNo Comments

Oil Firms, Regulatory Bodies Unfair To Host Communities,Gov Diri fumes

News Feature, Press Release

Bayelsa State Governor, Senator Douye Diri, has condemned what he described as unfair collusion of oil firms and regulatory bodies against the interest of host communities in the Niger Delta. Governor Diri stated this on Tuesday when the Chief of Defence Staff, Gen. Lucky Irabor, paid him a courtesy visit in Government House, Yenagoa. A statement by his Chief Press Secretary, Mr. Daniel Alabrah, quoted the governor as saying that part of the security challenges in host communities were as a result of the injustice and unfair treatment by the oil companies aided by the regulatory authorities. Governor Diri cited last November month-long oil and gas spillage in Nembe Local Government Area of the state from an AITEO Exploration and Production Limited facility, which eventually result...

Apr92022 by Asu BeksNo Comments

NPA REDEPLOYS SENIOR OFFICIALS

News Feature, Press Release

Management of the Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA) has effected some changes at the upper echelon of the organization, in furtherance to its goal to reposition the country’s port system as the preferred cargo destination in Africa. In the latest redeployment, Madubuike E. Ugo (Mrs.), General Manager Monitoring & Regulatory Services, is now General Manager Public Private Partnerships (PPP); Williams E. Idowu (Mrs.), General Manager Public Private Partnerships (PPP) takes over as General Manager Monitoring & Regulatory Services. Engr. Ajibola S. Olagoke, General Manager Administration is now General Manager Superannuation; Moltok Josephine Adar (Mrs.) General Manager Servicom, moves to Administration whilst Musa Shehu Yaro, General Manager Procurement, now heads the Servicom Unit...

Apr82022 by Asu BeksNo Comments

PROFILE OF THE NEXT EXECUTIVE GOVERNOR OF KADUNA STATE, DR BASHIR YUSUF JAMOH

Maritime, Politics, Profile

Bashir Yusuf Jamoh (Ph.D), the Director General, NIMASA has over 29 years of public service experience. He had served in the Kaduna State Government before transferring his services to the then National Maritime Authority (NMA) in 1994. Dr. Jamoh was until this appointment the Executive Director, Finance & Administration in NIMASA. Prior to that, he was the Assistant Director in NIMASA in charge of Training and Development. He had the privileged experience of serving not only in executive management, but also in the operations and administrative departments in NIMASA at management level and brings this knowledge to bear on his new assignment. Dr. Jamoh holds a Ph.D in Logistics and Transport Management from the University of Port Harcourt, a Master’s degree in Management from the K...