News Feature – Page 49 – Shipping World News Magazine

Sep62019 by Asu BeksNo Comments

PDP ‘ll lose Bayelsa governorship poll to APC, says Timi Frank

A political activist and former Deputy National Publicity Secretary of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Comrade Timi Frank, has insisted that the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) would lose the forthcoming Governorship election in Bayelsa state for “choosing to field a weak candidate.” He therefore congratulated the candidate of the APC in Bayelsa state, David Lyon, ahead of the elections. Frank in a statement in Abuja on Friday, noted that the APC’s candidate is better placed to win the elections in view of the fact that the PDP has curiously chosen to field a weak candidate against the APC’s flag-bearer. “APC will win the forth-coming governorship election in Bayelsa State seeing the weak candidate (Governor Seriake) Dickson and the PDP have chosen as their flag-bearer,” Fra...

Sep32019 by Asu BeksNo Comments

NON PAYMENT OF SALARY: BAYELSA AIRPORT STAFF ABANDON DUTY

Breaking News, News Feature, Politics, Travel

With barely three weeks before the commissioning of Bayelsa Cargo Airport, the more than 150 workers have abandoned their duty posts, insisting they would only return to work on the condition that, their 8 months salary arrears were paid. The workers who are yet to be issued appointment letters have not been paid since their recruitment last January. But usually dependable sources told our correspondent that the workers who were recently subjected to a staff verification exercise were excited when two months ago information reached them that the accounts of the Airport had been credited with two months salary by the Bayelsa State Government "We can confirm on good authority that the State Government has credited our accounts but to our surprise management has refused to pay...

Sep32019 by Asu BeksNo Comments

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

Breaking News, Maritime, News Feature

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 Manageme...

Sep12019 by Asu BeksNo Comments

AHMED TIJJANI RAMALAN: MARITIME LIVING LEGEND OF THE WEEK

Breaking News, Maritime, News Feature, Profile

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 app...

Aug272019 by Asu BeksNo Comments

Buhari sacks Prof Nelson Brambaifa , names Benard Okumagba as new helmsman of NDDC

Breaking News, News Feature, Politics, Press Release

President Muhammadu Buhari, has, subject to Senate confirmation, approved the composition of the Board of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) made up of the following persons: S/N Position Name State 1 Chairman Dr. Pius Odubu Edo 2 Managing Director Bernard O. Okumagba Delta 3 Executive Director Projects Engr. Otobong Ndem Akwa Ibom 4 Executive Director Finance & Admin. Maxwell Okoh Bayelsa 5 Delta Rep Prophet Jones Erue Delta 6 Edo Rep Chief Victor Ekhatar Edo 7 Rivers Rep Dr. Joy Yimebe Nunieh Rivers 8 Abia Rep Nwogu Nwogu Abia 9 Bayelsa Rep Theodore A. Allison Bayelsa 10 Akwa Ibom Rep Victor Antai Akwa Ibom 11 Cross River Rep Maurice Effiwatt Cross River 12 Ondo Rep Olugbenga Elema Ondo 13 Imo Rep Hon. Uchegbu Chidiebere Kyrian Im...

Aug272019 by Asu BeksNo Comments

AMAECHI, GBEMI SARAKI PROMISE IMPROVED WELFARE FOR WORKERS

Breaking News, News Feature, Politics

Minister of Transportation, Rotimi Amaechi has promised a better deal for staff of the ministry during an interactive session in Abuja. Amaechi who vowed to ameliorate the challenges facing the staff has accordingly promised them free bus rides. Said he: " knowing the background I come from, I felt that you people are spending more money having to transport youselves to work and I'm surprised that they are collecting monies from you for those buses ", he said. He therefore directed the Permanent Secretary in the Ministry, Sabiu Zakari, to ensure that staffers enjoy free bus rides to and fro.He also promised to ensure that henceforth training and retraining of staff would be given top priority. In her remarks ,Minister of State in the ministry Gbemi Saraki assured the workers of a smo...

Aug272019 by Asu BeksNo Comments

More than 100 feared dead as Cameroon-bound Vessel Capsizes

Breaking News, News Feature, Port News

More than 100 persons were feared dead as a Cameroon-bound vessel capsized on the high sea on Sunday. According to sources at the Nigeria Port Authority (NPA) at Marina, Lagos, the vessel which left Calabar, the Cross River State capital, for Cameroon with about 180 passengers on board on Sunday did not arrive at its destination. In the morning when some reporters went to Marina, Calabar, the takeoff location, some persons were seen discussing the incident in a sad mood. As at the time of the visit to Marina, Calabar, there was no official report from Shoreline, the official operators of the vessel and the harbour. In the afternoon, reporters were not allowed entry into the harbour. A security man at the gate at about 2:55 p.m. said all Shoreline staff had shut down for the day whereas...

Aug262019 by Asu BeksNo Comments

COMRADE ADEWALE ADEYANJU IS MARITIME LIVING LEGEND OF THE WEEK

Breaking News, Maritime, News Feature, Profile

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...

Aug252019 by Asu BeksNo Comments

‘Shell JV, SNEPCo have paid $2b to NDDC’- Samuel Adesanya

Breaking News, News Feature

The Media Relations Manager, Shell Nigeria, Bamidele Odugbesan, stated this while reacting to the allegation that the oil giant was among the 50 oil firms that owe the NDDC. The Principal Partner, Paris Trust Limited, Timothy Bagwams, who said his firm was authorised by the NDDC to serve letters to the defaulting oil companies that owe the Commission, noted that Shell was among the defaulters.Oil companies in Nigeria statutorily are mandated to pay three per cent of their annual budget to the Commission. However, Bagwams stated that the Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), National Liquefied Natural Gas (NLNG), Chevron, Shell, Agip, Pan Ocean oil, Petrobras, Seplat, Moni Pulo Petroleum Development, South Atlantic Petroleum and Slumberger, among others, owe the commission. ...

Aug212019 by Asu BeksNo Comments

BAYELSA GOVERNORSHIP ELECTION: PROF MAUREEN ETEBU JOINS RACE?

Breaking News, News Feature, Politics

Indications have emerged that Professor Maureen Etebu ,Vice Chancellor of the Nigerian Maritime University Okerenkoko in Delta State, may have indeed collected the nomination form for the governorship election in Bayelsa state scheduled for November 16. Her entry into the race brings to 7, the number of aspirants under the banner of the All Progressive Congress, APC. Usually dependable sources at the National Secretariat of the APC told our correspondent that Prof Etebu may have picked her form on tuesday. A confidant of the former Governor told our correspondent that the university don was in utter disbelief when she was informed that another APC chieftain, Chief David Lyon is the preffered candidate of former Governor,Chief Timipre Sylva. "How would His Excelle...