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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

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...

Jul62025 by adminNo Comments

U.S City Proclaims Ijaw Day As Diasporans Honour Jonathan, Diri, Fubara, Clark, Others

News Feature

The City of Houston in Texas, United States of America, has proclaimed July 5 as Ijaw Convention Day. The proclamation signed by the city’s Mayor, John Whitmire, was presented to the Ijaw National Congress of the Americas (INC-A) on Saturday during the award night and unveiling of the Ijaw Cultural and Heritage Centre as part of activities of its three-day second Ijaw Global Convention with the theme: “Effective Leadership in Ijaw Nation,” held at the Marriott Hotel in Westchase. The document was received by the Governor-General of the Ijaw nation and Governor of Bayelsa State, Senator Douye Diri, represented by his Chief of Staff, Dr. Peter Akpe, alongside the INC President, Prof. Benjamin Okaba, and the INC-A Chairman, Mr. Ken Anga. Mr. Whitmire described the Ijaw community in H...

Jul42025 by Asu BeksNo Comments

Bashir Adewale Adeniyi: Unveiling the World’s No1 Customs Chief. By Asu Beks.

Maritime, News Feature

When on January 8, 2025 Maritime Media Ltd., Publishers of Nigeria's flagship Maritime Journal, Shipping World , named The Comptroller General of Customs, Bashir Adewale Adeniyi as the Global Ambassador of the Renewed Hope Agenda, many thought it was a fluke. In arriving at Bashir Adewale Adeniyi's choice as the Global Ambassador of the Renewed Hope Agenda, Maritime Media Ltd had critically analysed the 8 point agenda of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu , especially in terms of service delivery, transparency , prosperity and other key performance indicators, which the Nigeria Customs Service under the leadership of Bashir Adeniyi since his appointment in June 2023 had embraced. As a transformational leader, Wale Adeniyi likes to set goals and lay them bare with timelines for achieving such targ...

Jul42025 by Asu BeksNo Comments

NIGERIAN PORTS AUTHORITY BERTHS FIRST WHOLE NIGERIAN-OWNED CONTAINER VESSEL.

News Feature, Port News

In a development that signposts readiness to maximize the gains derivable from the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA), the Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA) on 2nd July at 05:05 hours deployed its state-of-the-art marine crafts to berth the first wholly Nigerian-owned container vessel. The container vessel with International Maritime Organization (IMO) number 9508770 christened MV Ocean Dragon is owned by Clarion Shipping West Africa Limited has a capacity of 349 Twenty-Foot-Equivalent Units (TEUs) gives a boost to concerted investment drive geared towards reaping the cost and time saving benefits of short-sea shipping by plying in-country maritime trade routes across Nigeria and the West African sub-region and offers an efficient alternative to road transport as the Authority’s ef...