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Sep142019 by Asu BeksNo Comments

Receive EGUNJE and risk jail term – -Customs boss

The Comptroller-General of Nigeria Customs Service, NCS, Col. Hameed Ali has warned officers and men of the service to desist from all forms of illegality or risk being arrested and jailed. Col Ali gave the warning in Calabar while addressing a joint parade of officers and men of the service and those of the Nigeria Immigration Service, NIS, during an inspection visit to border posts in Cross River. Ali, who visited Ikang border post in Bakassi Local Government area of the state and the Calabar Shore Line, said the days of illegality in the services were over. According to him, the Nigerian Customs Service has been repositioned for better and effective service delivery for the growth of the Service and the country. “The days of illegality in the Service are over. It’s high ti...

Sep142019 by Asu BeksNo Comments

Lekki Deep Seaport to Create over 170,000 jobs

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The proposed Lekki Deep Sea Port at the Lagos Free Trade Zone (LFTZ) in Ibeju Lekki, Lagos state, Nigeria. The Infrastructure Concession Regulatory Commission (ICRC) has recommended the connection of all Port Terminals to the national rail network. It said this would facilitate fast actualization and commencement of operations at the proposed Lekki Deep Sea Port at the Lagos Free Trade Zone (LFTZ) in Ibeju Lekki, Lagos state. The ICRC Director-General, Mr Chidi Chidi Izuwah, gave the recommendation during a monitoring visit by a joint delegation from the Commission and the Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA) to the site. Izuwah said on completion of the seaport, over 170,000 new jobs would be generated. He said that the visit to the site was in compliance with Section 20 of the ICR...

Sep132019 by Asu BeksNo Comments

SHIPPERS COUNCIL SLASHES PORT CHARGES BY 34 PERCENT

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The Nigerian Shippers’ Council, NSC, yesterday disclosed that it has slashed port charges by 34 percent thereby redirecting Nigerian bound cargoes hitherto diverted to ports of neighbouring countries. Speaking at the third annual Ministerial stakeholders meeting in Lagos, Executive Secretary of the Council, Mr. Hassan Bello said that the processing of further production is ongoing. Although, the Council was silent on the details on the reduction of port charges he, however said that the container cleaning fee that was collected by shipping firms from importers has been cancelled. Bello said that negotiation with terminal operators and shipping companies with regards to port charges is going on adding that with time more of the charges will be reduced. He said: ‘We have reduce...

Sep132019 by Asu BeksNo Comments

AMAECHI : I WILL CONCENTRATE ON RAILWAYS, WHILE MINISTER OF STATE HANDLES MARITIME AGENCIES

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Addressing maritime journalists during the third Maritime Stakeholders Interactive Forum in Lagos, Amaechi reveals that the Minister of State for Transportation, Senator Gbemisola Saraki will personally be in charge of all maritime agencies while he will be focusing on the Railway sector. Amaechi said “In my first term as Minister, I completely abandoned the maritime sector to the Heads of Agencies. This time around, that won’t be happening again as I have instructed that the Honourable Minister of Transportation for State should personally supervise the maritime agencies, while I just oversight what is happening.” He also said that he has discuss with President Mohammadu Buhari on the maritime security and Single Window projects. “There are two things I discussed with Mr Pre...

Sep112019 by Asu BeksNo Comments

FG Records Massive Seizures at Borders

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Three weeks into the intensive joint border patrol by the security agencies, the Office of the National Security Adviser (ONSA) has announced massive seizures and arrests from the 4 sectors of North West, North Central, South West, and South South geopolitical zones. Seizures and arrests made so far include 100 illegal migrants, 8,360-50kg bags of parboiled rice; 122 bags of fertilizer; 77 vehicles; 781 drums of PMS as well as 16, 371 200 litres empty drums, 1,491 packs of assorted drugs; 3 outboard 40HP Engines; 13 cotonu boats; 185 drums of groundnut oil; 6 trucks; 114 motorcycles; among other items with 117 suspects. As part of the efforts to sustain the border patrol along the national borderlines, the Comptroller General of Customs, Col. Hameed Ibrahim Ali (Rtd), Comp...

Aug312019 by Asu BeksNo Comments

FOU ZONE C OWERRI MAKE LANDMARK SEIZURES

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The Customs Area Controller Nigeria Customs Service Federal Operations Unit Zone ‘C’ Owerri, Comptroller Olusemire Kayode has advised Nigerians to acquaint themselves with the country’s import and export prohibition list to avoid running afoul of the law. Comptroller Olusemire who made this known in a press briefing yesterday at Nigeria Customs Service government warehouse in Aduwawa Benin, said the Service is not against legal trade or business but against illegal importation and smuggling. He disclosed that the Unit has made various seizures with a cumulative duty paid value of N501, 650,025 from July 2019 till date. While responding to complaints and public outcry against constant seizures by the Unit, he advised would be importers to confirm the status of any import or export t...

Aug272019 by Asu BeksNo Comments

FG Directs Shippers’ Council to Carry out Audit of All Port Terminals

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The Federal Government of Nigeria has directed the Nigerian Shippers’ Council (NSC) to carry out a comprehensive audit of all seaport terminals in the country. The government also decried the arbitrarily high shipping charges in West and Central Africa sub-region and called for a downward review of the charges to promote trade among countries in the sub-region. Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo gave the directive in Abuja at the opening session of a three-day sub-regional summit on ‘Unfair Shipping Surcharges and High Local Shipping Charges at the Ports of West and Central Africa Sub-region’ hosted by the NSC. He said, “The Federal Government has mandated the NSC in her capacity as the port economic regulator to carry out a comprehensive audit of all seaport terminals in Nigeria to as...

Aug272019 by Asu BeksNo Comments

More than 100 feared dead as Cameroon-bound Vessel Capsizes

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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

COMPT MORENIKE OLADUNNI: BREAKING THE KLT JINX.

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Since the emergence of the Apapa/Tin Can gridlock over a decade ago, the KLT Command of the Nigerian Customs Service has been one of many of victims of dearth in cargo and inactivity . Successive Customs Area Controllers have tagged it the "Seberia Command " where officers go and mark time until they are called up for retirement. Carved out of Tin Can Command over a decade ago, KLT usually depended on cargo from feeder commands like Apapa and Tin Can from where containers are transferred . But eventhough this was seen as well thought out plan by the Customs High Command in Abuja to lift the burden off the busy ports of Apapa and Tin Can, this seem no longer to be paying off due to the impassable access roads leading to KLT.Besides , Customs agents no longer find it attractive to...

Aug162019 by Asu BeksNo Comments

Nigerian Ports Incapable To Accommodate Big Ships —Hull Blyth Boss

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Christian Holm, Managing Director of Hull Blyth Nigeria Limited on Thursday ,stated that Nigeria seaports lack capacity to handle bigger vessels as a result of infrastructure decay. Holm dropped the hint during his submission at an Ad-Hoc Committee of House of Representatives inquiring into under utilisation of Eastern ports that modern ports infrastructure can attract cargoes there. Mr. Blyth said ports in the country are far from being modernised and incapable of accommodating bigger vessels and process cargoes in good time. According to him,poorly developed ports will attract smaller vessels and increase cost of shipping. While harping on the issues surrounding security in the country the Hull Blyth boss added that maritime policing has been compromised on Nigeria’s Ter...