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Aug162019 by Asu BeksNo Comments

Reps C’ttee gives NPA thumbs down for under-utilization Of Eastern Ports

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August 15, 2019 The House of Representatives Adhoc Committee seeking to determine why the Warri, Port Harcourt, Calabar, Onne and Onitsha Inland Ports Complexes are not being put to maximum use, has blamed the federal government (FG) and NPA for enhancing the deliberate plot to thwart business activities in these ports. The committee at its public hearing on the matter on Thursday noted that the abandonment of the Eastern ports has led to the overwhelming business performances and congestion of the western ports. Members of the committee who unanimously frowned at the presentations of several federal government agencies to support why the ports should not work, were of the opinion that there were underlying ulterior motives to the challenges paraded by the agencies. Various ag...

Aug82019 by Asu BeksNo Comments

ALIYU SAIDU: I am a Customs Officer by Accident, My First love Remains the Army.

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Comptroller Aliyu Galadima Saidu, who oversees the Onne Command of the Nigeria Customs Service has zero tolerance for indiscipline. While growing up he had this undying passion to join the army." I love and admire the military because of the level of discipline and the way the command structure works",he says . He said his passion for the army was fueled by his grandfather who was nicknamed " 8 Generals" and was Defence Minister in charge of the Army in the first republic.He said his grand father Galadinma, drated the likes of IBB and Late Gen Mamman Vatsa and 6 others all of whom became Generals in the Army. But young Aliyu was to chicken out of the Nigeria Defence Academy on account of the rigorous training at the elite military Academy in Zaria ....

Aug72019 by Asu BeksNo Comments

NIGERIA IS TARGETING A WORLD CLASS SHIP REGISTRY – DAKUKU

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· Receives report of review committee Director-General of the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA), Dr. Dakuku Peterside, has received the report of the committee on the review of the Nigerian Ship Registry, with a declaration that the Agency’s target is to have a world-class ship registry. Dakuku said the goal was for Nigeria to have a ship registry that will meet international certification standards and compete favourably with the best in the global maritime community. Dakuku spoke yesterday in Lagos, while receiving the report of the committee tasked with reviewing the activities and operations of the Nigerian Ship Registration Office. “NIMASA is working at giving Nigerians a Ship Registry that is respected acro...

Aug42019 by Asu BeksNo Comments

FG Orders IOC’s To Clear Debt Owed Stevedoring Firms

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By Tola Adenubi The Federal Government has ordered the International Oil Companies (IOC) to clear all outstanding debt being owed stevedoring firms in the nation’s maritime sector. Disclosing this to the Tribune Online exclusively on Sunday, President of the National Association of Stevedoring Companies (NASC), Bolaji Sunmola who attended the meeting held in Abuja last Wednesday explained that the IOC’s have been given a timeline to comply with the laws of the land. NASC President said, “you know that the Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA) is mandated by law to appoint stevedoring firms at the nation’s seaports. “The stevedoring firms being owed by the IOC’s were duly appointed by the NPA, and so refusal to pay the stevedoring firms monies belonging to the maritime workers by the I...

Aug42019 by Asu BeksNo Comments

COMRADE ADEWALE ADEYANJU TO GOV WIKE: YOU LIED ON FG’s ABANDONMENT OF EASTERN PORTS.

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BY ASU BEKS Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers State has come under severe attack from stakeholders in the nation's maritime sector for alleging that management of Nigerian Ports Authority had completely abandoned the Eastern Ports. Wike who spoke weekend at the commissioning of ALCON NIG LTD low voltage plant in Port Harcourt had blamed the NPA for deliberately abandoning the Eastern Ports. But in a swift reaction, President General of the Maritime Workers Union of Nigeria, Comrade Adewale Adeyanju said there was no such a policy as ' deliberately abandoning Eastern Ports". He explained that it is a global practice that an importer reserves the right to choose where he wants his cargo delivered. Comrade Adeyanju explained that majority of ibo traders and importers ...

Aug42019 by Asu BeksNo Comments

Namibia inaugurates new port terminal, As Nigeria Struggles with Old Sinking Ports

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By Hauwa Mustapha Namibian President, Hage Geingob has inaugurated a new $200 million dollars’ port terminal at Walvis Bay, an extension that will double the country’s port capacity from 350,000 containers to 750,000 per year. The inauguration ceremony was held on the 40-hectare platform reclaimed from the Atlantic Ocean. “Namibia has now joined countries such as Australia, Brazil, Dubai and the Netherlands in the utilisation of reclaimed land for port expansion,” said Geingob. Namport director, Nangula Hamunyela said the terminal not only increases Namport’s assets to N$7,6 billion dollars, but also launches the company’s goal to become a logistics hub for the southern African region. Namibia has now joined countries such as Australia, Brazil, Dubai and the Netherlands in ...

Aug42019 by Asu BeksNo Comments

NPA’s Abandonment Of Eastern Seaports Deliberate – Gov Wike

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The Executive Governor, of Rivers State Chief Nyesom Wike, has accused the Federal Government of deliberately abandoning Nigeria’s Eastern Seaports of Porthacourt and Onne. Wike, who spoke during the official opening of Alcon Nigeria Limited’s low-voltage products assembly factory in Port Harcourt, observed that deplorable state of the ports in Rivers was worrisome. Nyesom Wike Represented by his deputy, Dr Ipalibo Harry, the governor attributed the decline of industries in Port Harcourt to the weak operations at the Rivers ports. He said, “The body language of the Federal Government suggests that the ports’ abandonment was deliberate, noting that the Lagos ports currently booming at the moment have been overburdened and manufacturers are paying exorbitantly to use them. “...

Aug22019 by Asu BeksNo Comments

17 ships with petrol, other products arrive Lagos ports

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By Aisha Cole Seventeen ships conveying petrol and other commodities have berthed at Apapa and Tin-Can Island ports in Lagos, the Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA) said Thursday. The authority said in its daily publication, Shipping Position, that the vessels were waiting to berth with their consignments at the ports. According to it, seven of the 17 vessels are waiting to berth with petrol, while another 10 will berth with containers and general cargo. NPA said that another 29 ships are expected in the coming weeks to sail in with general cargo, bilk sugar, bilk frozen fish buckwheat, petrol and containers, while 18 ships were already discharging gypsum, container, general cargo, petrol, diesel, butane, buckwheat and frozen fish. (NAN)

Aug22019 by Asu BeksNo Comments

FG to begin construction of dry ports in Abia, Plateau, others – ICRC

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By Abbas Bamalli The Federal Government is set to begin the construction of Inland Container Dry Ports in Abia, Oyo, Plateau, Borno and Kaduna states to reduce the pressures on the sea ports. This is even as the government had also received private sector proposals for the construction of similar ports in Dagbolu in Osun State, Lolo in Kebbi State, Onitsha in Anambra State and Ogwashi-Uku in Delta State. Director General (DG) Infrastructural Concession Regulatory Commission (ICRC), Mr Chidi Izuwah disclosed this when he led the management of the ICRC to inspect some Federal Government projects in Kano, which included the dry port and the Oasis Oxygen Plant project at Aminu Kano Teaching Hospital. Izuwah said that the Federal Government was committed to the speedy com...

Jul282019 by Asu BeksNo Comments

Nigeria Customs Service receives hard knocks for primitive cargo examination method

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Management of the Nigeria Customs Service has received hard knocks for insisting on 100 percent physical examination of cargo at the nation's, seaports, airports and border stations. Comrade Tony NTED, a former President General of the Maritime Workers Union of Nigeria gave the thumbs down while speaking weekend with Shipping World. Comrade Nted wondered why after 100 years of its existence, the Nigeria Customs Service has refused to adopt globally accepted norms in the clearlance of goods. The frontline union leader says he is at a loss as to why the Nigerian Customs Service has opted for the most primitive method of cargo examination at a time cargo clearance has gone digital. Said he : " Why can't the Nigerian Customs Service deploy scanners at seaports, airports an...