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Aug132025 by Asu BeksNo Comments

Fears Mount Over Seeming Delay in Presidential Assent to Port and Shipping Economic Regulation Agency Bill ..By Asu Beks.

Maritime Stakeholders are becoming increasingly apprehensive over the seeming delay in the Presidential assent to the Ports and Shipping Economic Regulation Agency Bill which was passed by both chambers of the National Assembly over a year ago. The Bill seeks to repeal the existing Nigerian Shippers' Council Act and aims to establish a more robust and effective regulatory framework to support the growth of Shipping and Ports sectors ,while safeguarding the interest of Nigerian Shippers. In the main, the Bill proposes the creation of the Nigerian Shipping and Ports Regulatory Agency, which is tasked with achieving an ambitious objective to create a more efficient and competitive environment for both the public and private sector in the shipping and Ports sector. One of the key provisions...

Aug92025 by Asu BeksNo Comments

Ekiti-born Olubolade Was A Bayelsan, Says Gov Diri Names Civil Servants Quarters After Late Military Administrator

News Feature

Governor of Bayelsa State, Senator Douye Diri, has described the late former Military Administrator of the state, Navy Capt. Omoniyi Caleb Olubolade (rtd), as an indigene due to his love for the state and its people. Governor Diri also said the retired Naval officer and former Minister of Special Duties, who died on May 15, 2025 at the age of 71, served the state and Nigeria with a lot of dedication and selflessness. Olubolade was appointed as the third military administrator of Bayelsa from June 27, 1997 – July 9, 1998 after the state was created by the late military Head of State, Gen. Sani Abacha, on October 1, 1996. Speaking during a service of songs held in his honour at the St. John Military Protestant Church, Bonny Cantonment, Victoria Island, Lagos, on Friday, the Bayelsa govern...

Aug22025 by Asu BeksNo Comments

Stop Press! President Bola Tinubu to CGC Wale Adeniyi: Don’t Quit now, you still have more to offer Nigeria

News Feature

Just as this column was going to best, news filtered in from the Presidency extending by one year the tenure of Comptroller General of Customs, Bashir Adewale Adeniyi. Bashir Adewale Adeniyi was due to retire by the end of August after a meritorious career to his fatherland. In a terse statement signed by Presidential spokesman, Bayo Onanuga, Tinubu said he decided to extend Adeniyi's tenure given his laudable Customs Modernisation project at Customs House, which include the implementation of the National Single Window Project; Nigeria's Obligation under the African Continental Free Trade Area, among others. Congratulations, CGC Wale Adeniyi

Jul312025 by Asu BeksNo Comments

DANTSOHO FRONTLINES PRESIDENT TINUBU’S NIGERIA FIRST POLICY AS NIGERIAN-OWNED CONTAINER VESSEL CALLS AT ONNE PORT.

News Feature, Port News

Abubakar Dantsoho Managing Director Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA) has restated the readiness of the NPA to promote the indigenous ownership of shipping vessels in line with the 'Nigeria First' policy of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu GCFR. Speaking during the maiden call of wholly Nigerian-owned container vessel "MV OCEAN DRAGON" at the West African Container Terminal Onne Port Port Complex on Thursday 31st July, 2025, Dantsoho said "apart from the high loading capacity of 349 TEUs and several other distinctive features of this vessel, we are fascinated that MV Ocean Dragon is wholly Nigerian which speaks to the Renewed Hope “Nigeria first” policy of His Excellency President Bola Ahmed Tinubu GCFR and the Nigerian Ports Authority’s renewed orientation towards Nigerian content development". ...

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...