Port News – Shipping World News Magazine

Oct52024 by Asu BeksNo Comments

WALE ADENIYI: 12 Outstanding Milestones of Renewed Hope Agenda at Customs House* By ASU BEKS

There was wild jubilation across Customs formations nationwide when President Bola Ahmed Tinubu June last year announced the appointment of Mr. Wale Adeniyi as the Comptroller General of the Nigeria Customs Service. Wale Adeniyi's emergence as the new helmsman of the Service brought to an end the infamous eight year regime of Hameed Ali which will go down in history as the most repressive in the over 100 year history of the Service. For eight years, Hameed Ali ran the Customs as if it was a military cantonment. Under him, the fear of Hameed Ali was the beginning of wisdom. Management meetings were usually one sided as most officers were afraid to trade opinions that would elicit his wrath. As one observer disclosed, the Hameed Ali days were the darkest moments in the history of Nige...

Sep62024 by Asu BeksNo Comments

Compt Babatunde Olomu: A “Revenue Doubler” Berths at Apapa Port By Asu Beks

News Feature, Port News

In the history of the Nigeria Customs Service, no officer has achieved the feat accomplished by Compt Babatunde Olomu, the Customs Area Controller for Apapa, who in a single day ,raked in a whopping N16billion. This is the stuff this officer and gentleman is made of. In recent Customs history, it has been the tradition of Comptroller General of Customs to post only the " best" officer within the Comptroller cadre to Apapa . And this is for obvious reasons. As the premier port, Apapa Command accounts for at least 50 per cent of cargo traffic and revenue projection. It was therefore not a surprise that when the time came for a new helmsman to take charge at the command early this year, the mantle of leadership fell on the shoulders of Dr Babatunde Olomu. Before his assumption of dutie...

Jul232024 by Asu BeksNo Comments

KOKO BOWS OUT AS DANTSOHO TAKES OVER AT NPA

News Feature, Port News

The Managing Director/CEO of Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA), Dr Abubakar Dantsoho has expressed his deep appreciation to the President and Commander in Chief of the Armed Forces President Bola Ahmed Tinubu GCFR for the opportunity given to him to be the 29th Managing Director of NPA while promising to boost the Organisation’s revenue generation and Port efficiency. The Managing Director made these remarks during the handover ceremony which took place at the conference room Headquarters, Marina Lagos. In his words, Dr Dantsoho said “As we match towards this great journey, I wish to state that our main goal is to reposition the Nigerian Ports Authority for increased productivity and greater efficiency for increased revenue generation.” The Chief Executive Officer of the nation’s Sea...

May82024 by Asu BeksNo Comments

President Tinubu to Commission Funtua Dry Port on Thursday

Maritime, Port News, Press Release

The Federal Government of Nigeria has concluded plans to officially commission the much anticipated Funtua Inland Dry Port on Thursday, 9th May, 2024 in Katsina State. The Funtua Inland Dry Port will be commissioned by His Excellency, President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, GCFR at Funtua IDP Project Site, Katsina State. by 11: 00 a.m. prompt. The Commissioning Ceremony will feature key dignitaries, government officials and industry stakeholders. This significant milestone, marks a pivotal moment of the Nigerian Shippers’ Council’s commitment in facilitating trade in Nigeria. It is also in line with the performance bond signed by the Honourable Minister of Marine & Blue Economy, His Excellency, Adegboyega Oyetola, CON. It is worthy to note that, this initiative is part of Counc...

Dec12023 by Asu BeksNo Comments

Nigerian Shippers’ Council will continue to promote seamless movement of cargoes – Akutah Pius

News Feature, Port News

The Executive Secretary and Chief Executive Officer of Nigerian Shippers' Council ( NSC), Barr. Pius Akutah has said that Nigerian Shippers’ Council (NSC), as Port Economic Regulator will continue to promote seamless movement of cargoes at the nation's ports. Barr. Akutah stated this when the management of Lekki Deep Sea Port led by the Managing Director, Lekki Port LFTZ Enterprise Limited (LPLEL) promoters of Lekki Deep Sea Port, Mr. Du- Ruogang paid a courtesy visit to the NSC's Headquarters in Lagos on Thursday. The NSC boss, who appreciated the management of Lekki Deep Sea Port for the visit, expressed the Council's readiness to partner with the port in the areas that will boost their operations in the country. Stating their mission to NSC, Mr. Du - Ruogang, said that Lekki De...

Jun302023 by Asu BeksNo Comments

BELLO KOKO INITIATES OVERTIME CARGO EVACUATION AT NIGERIAN PORTS

Port News

The sustained advocacy of the Mohammed Bello Koko- led Management of the Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA) for the decongestion of the Ports to pave way for efficient operations received a boost on 23rd June, 2023, when Permanent Secretary Federal Ministry of Transportation Dr. Magdelene Ajani led an inter-agency team comprising of the NPA, Nigerian Customs (NCS)and the Nigerian Shippers' Council (NSC) on assessment tour of overtime cargoes littering the Ports. The Lagos and Tin can Island Port Complexes and the Terminals therein including Ikorodu Lighter Terminal have over the years been occupied with 3,200 Units of overtime cars and about 3,295 units of overtime containers respectively, while the eastern ports have a combined total of 956 overtime containers. This awkward situati...

May302023 by Asu BeksNo Comments

MUAZU SAMBO TOOK NIWA TO ITS ZENITH….. Dr George Moghalu

Maritime, Port News

Muazu Jaji Sambo is a boss anybody would like to have. His grasp of the Industry is amazing and dont forgot we are talking about an Industry man, having been around previously. Don't forget that he had stint at the Nigerian Ports Authority, while he spent a longer time at the National Inland Waterways Authority, NIWA . So for us at NIWA, he is one of our own. Here is a boss who does not privatize his achievements as if it was a solo effort, he is certainly a team player and believes that the accolades should go to the entire team. But the truth still remains that he's a good boss who is always appreciative. He listens to you, he is willing to hear you out, willing to assist to make sure you succeed. He's somebody, who from my knowledge of him, sees every success as a collective effor...

Apr162023 by Asu BeksNo Comments

ASU BEKS TO HADIZA BALA USMAN: SHUT UP! YOU WERE SACKED FOR FINANCIAL IMPROPRIETY AND INSUBORDINATION.

News Feature, Port News

As the controversy surrounding her book "Stepping on Toes" in which she made scathing remarks about former Transportation Minister, Rotimi Amaechi rages, fiery maritime Journalists and Publisher of Shipping World Magazine, Asu Beks, has fired back at the former Nigerian Ports Authority Managing Director, Hadiza Bala Usman,saying she got booted out of office for acts bothering on gross financial impropriety and insubordination. Asu Beks and two other Journalists had last in 2021 dragged President Muhammadu Buhari , Attorney General of the Federation, Hadiza Bala Usman and two others before an Ikoyi High Court, presided over by Justice Garba Ringim over her premature reappointment and her flagrant abuses of the Public Procurement Act .Said Asu in a statement in Lagos weekend said,"This bo...

Jan152023 by Asu BeksNo Comments

League of Maritime Editors hail Appointment New NPA Image Maker.

News Feature, Port News

The League of Maritime Editors has reacted to the appointment of Mrs Josephine Moltok as the new image maker of the organization. The League described the appointment of Moltok as a good development considering the decades of her wealth of experience that she will be bringing to the new position. In a statement signed by the President of League, Chief Timothy Okorocha and the Public Relations Officer, Mr Francis Ugwoke, the League said Mrs Moltok is best fitted for the job. The statement described the appointment as simply putting a round peg in a round hole. Congratulating her on the appointment, the statement added that all these years in NPA, Moltok has proved herself as a worthy image maker while in the Roll-on-Roll-Off terminal/Tin Can ports and later in Apapa zonal of...

Nov182022 by Asu BeksNo Comments

Port Consultative Council to immortalise Otunba Kunle Folarin, condoles with family

News Feature, Port News

MEMBERS of the Nigerian Ports Consultative Council, NPCC has concluded plans to immortalise the immediate past Chairman of the Council, Late Otunba Kunle Folarin who passed on about two weeks ago. Speaking during a condolence visit to the family of the late maritime guru, a member of the Council, Mr. Balaji Sunmola appealed to the wife of Otunba Folarin to allow the Council to be part of the funeral ceremonies. Sunmola also said that it was when the Council is made to part of the funeral that being part of the funeral ceremonies Speaking similar his daughter said that the family Mrs. Olamide Adeosun said the family did not realize how committed their was to the maritime industry until after his passage. She said: "We did not know he was a father to maritime industry, we thought h...