Maritime – Page 22 – Shipping World News Magazine

Sep112019 by Asu BeksNo Comments

FG Records Massive Seizures at Borders

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Three weeks into the intensive joint border patrol by the security agencies, the Office of the National Security Adviser (ONSA) has announced massive seizures and arrests from the 4 sectors of North West, North Central, South West, and South South geopolitical zones. Seizures and arrests made so far include 100 illegal migrants, 8,360-50kg bags of parboiled rice; 122 bags of fertilizer; 77 vehicles; 781 drums of PMS as well as 16, 371 200 litres empty drums, 1,491 packs of assorted drugs; 3 outboard 40HP Engines; 13 cotonu boats; 185 drums of groundnut oil; 6 trucks; 114 motorcycles; among other items with 117 suspects. As part of the efforts to sustain the border patrol along the national borderlines, the Comptroller General of Customs, Col. Hameed Ibrahim Ali (Rtd), Compt...

Sep102019 by Asu BeksNo Comments

OPEC Declares Support for Global Maritime Security Conference in Nigeria

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· As AAMA Chairman, Dakuku, Confirms Participation of Over 70 Countries The Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) has commended the Federal Government of Nigeria for accepting to host the upcoming Global Maritime Security Conference, saying the talks will go a long way in addressing security concerns in the maritime domain of the entire Gulf of Guinea. Secretary-General of OPEC Mohammed Sanusi Barkindo gave the commendation in a statement to the organising committee of the conference. This is as Chairman of the Association of African Maritime Administrations (AAMA), Dr. Dakuku Peterside, confirmed the participation of over 70 countries in the conference scheduled for 7 – 9 October in Abuja. Barkindo noted in the statement th...

Sep92019 by Asu BeksNo Comments

BARR HASSAN BELLO: MARITIME LIVING LEGEND OF THE WEEK

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Even though the prefix of barrister to his name wasn’t a borrowed one, or for that matter, a honourary offer, Hassan Bello have been rumoured to plead with associates to refer to him simply as Mr or Mallam Hassan Bello. Hassan Bello e reminds us of the great Nigerian accounting octopus, Mr. Fatai Williams who found it clearly uncomfortable to wear the title of a chief, and preferred to be addressed simply as Mr. Williams. Exceptional professionals! Hassan Bello is the Executive Secretary and CEO of the Nigerian Shippers’ Council. He trained as a lawyer and began his career at the Sokoto State Ministry of Justice and the state’s Investment Company Limited, where he rose to become Acting Managing Director & CEO in the early 1990s before he joined the Council in 1998 as Deputy Direc...

Sep32019 by Asu BeksNo Comments

Two years after, jury is out on Effedua’s Tenure at Maritime Academy,Oron

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As retired Navy Commodore Emmanuel Effedua clocks the second year mark as Rector of the Maritime Academy of Nigeria, Oron, Akwa Ibom State, a muted and quizzy atmosphere characterised the institution as the jury came out on how he has fared in steering its affairs. Although some industry watchers saw his appointment as that of a square peg in a square hole, there was a very vocal minority who insisted he lacked the cognate experience for the job. The appointment of Effedua followed the sacking of a former Registrar and acting Rector of the institution, Mr. Mkpandiok A. Mkpandiok by Rotimi Amaechi, the Minister of Transportation. The emergence of Effedua coincided with the appointment of a Managemen...

Sep12019 by Asu BeksNo Comments

AHMED TIJJANI RAMALAN: MARITIME LIVING LEGEND OF THE WEEK

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In the days before port privatization and reforms became an item on the national menu, Alhaji Tijani Ramalan has been a leading maritime technocrat, an urbane politician and business player. He has put in more than two decades in the maritime industry, both as industrial relations player, policy maker and implementer, negotiator and driver of critical processes and assignments. Ramalan hails from Kaduna North Local Government of Kaduna State and was born on the 25th September 1954. He started his education at the then prestigious Igbobi College Yaba Lagos. He proceeded to Richmond College London (Now American University of London) for his degree education. Upon his return to Nigeria he worked for sometime before betting attracted into the political arena. In 1983 he was appo...

Aug312019 by Asu BeksNo Comments

FOU ZONE C OWERRI MAKE LANDMARK SEIZURES

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The Customs Area Controller Nigeria Customs Service Federal Operations Unit Zone ‘C’ Owerri, Comptroller Olusemire Kayode has advised Nigerians to acquaint themselves with the country’s import and export prohibition list to avoid running afoul of the law. Comptroller Olusemire who made this known in a press briefing yesterday at Nigeria Customs Service government warehouse in Aduwawa Benin, said the Service is not against legal trade or business but against illegal importation and smuggling. He disclosed that the Unit has made various seizures with a cumulative duty paid value of N501, 650,025 from July 2019 till date. While responding to complaints and public outcry against constant seizures by the Unit, he advised would be importers to confirm the status of any import or export th...

Aug272019 by Asu BeksNo Comments

Dakuku: Buhari’s Economic Agenda Dependable

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· As NIMASA is Named Most Reliable Government Organisation Director-General of the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA), Dr. Dakuku Peterside, has said that the economic programme of the President Muhammadu Buhari administration is not only succeeding, but it is also reliable. Dakuku stated this at the seventh edition of the Pan African International Recognition Awards/Annual Discourse held in Accra, Ghana. The Director-General’s remarks followed the recognition of NIMASA as the “Most Reliable Government Organisation of the Year” at the occasion. Organisers of the annual awards, Pan African International magazine, said NIMASA was recognised for “its giant achievements in the maritime sector, locally and globally.” The theme of this year's event was...

Aug272019 by Asu BeksNo Comments

FG Directs Shippers’ Council to Carry out Audit of All Port Terminals

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The Federal Government of Nigeria has directed the Nigerian Shippers’ Council (NSC) to carry out a comprehensive audit of all seaport terminals in the country. The government also decried the arbitrarily high shipping charges in West and Central Africa sub-region and called for a downward review of the charges to promote trade among countries in the sub-region. Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo gave the directive in Abuja at the opening session of a three-day sub-regional summit on ‘Unfair Shipping Surcharges and High Local Shipping Charges at the Ports of West and Central Africa Sub-region’ hosted by the NSC. He said, “The Federal Government has mandated the NSC in her capacity as the port economic regulator to carry out a comprehensive audit of all seaport terminals in Nigeria to asc...

Aug262019 by Asu BeksNo Comments

COMPT MORENIKE OLADUNNI: BREAKING THE KLT JINX.

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Since the emergence of the Apapa/Tin Can gridlock over a decade ago, the KLT Command of the Nigerian Customs Service has been one of many of victims of dearth in cargo and inactivity . Successive Customs Area Controllers have tagged it the "Seberia Command " where officers go and mark time until they are called up for retirement. Carved out of Tin Can Command over a decade ago, KLT usually depended on cargo from feeder commands like Apapa and Tin Can from where containers are transferred . But eventhough this was seen as well thought out plan by the Customs High Command in Abuja to lift the burden off the busy ports of Apapa and Tin Can, this seem no longer to be paying off due to the impassable access roads leading to KLT.Besides , Customs agents no longer find it attractive to ...

Aug262019 by Asu BeksNo Comments

COMRADE ADEWALE ADEYANJU IS MARITIME LIVING LEGEND OF THE WEEK

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A crusader and soldier of social change, Comrade Adewale Adeyanju hit the limelight during the federal government privatization's programme in 2003, as one the of young Turks in the Maritime Workers Union of Nigeria (MWUN), to be invited for briefing as part of the Nigeria Labour Movement delegates. His voice rang out in informed protestations against seeming gaps contained in workers disengagement document, which he insisted must be adjusted to reflect adequate protection for those to be disengaged in line with the rules of engagement. Currently the President General of the Maritime Workers Union of Nigeria, Adeyanju has continued to remain on the firing line, constantly in battle with government alongside the NLC and operators of the maritime industry, demanding improved and ...