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Dec12019 by Asu BeksNo Comments

Border Closure Responsible for Our Loss at IMO Council Elections – Dakuku

As widespread condemnation greet Nigeria's loss at the IMO COUNCIL elections yesterday in London, Director General of Nigeria Maritime Administration and Safety Agency, Dr Dakuku Peterside, has blamed the closure of Nigeria's land border coupled with an unprecedented international conspiracy as the reason Nigeria lost to Kenya in the crucial IMO elections. Dakuku who spoke exclusively with Shipping World on Sunday said " our African brothers mobilized against us for reasons best known to them. Benin Republic told us bluntly 'If you want our vote, go reopen your land borders ". Dakuku was surprised that despite the fatherly role Nigeria has played on the continent, some countries didn't like our rising profile and insisted on working against us. He said this was no...

Oct212019 by Asu BeksNo Comments

Citing Security, NPA Cancels $133.28M SAA Fees

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Insists Navy, NIMASA, statutorily required to secure country’s waters Shipping companies hail move Concerned by threat to national security and the cost of doing business at the country’s seaport, the Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA) has notified the Nigerian Navy of its decision to dismantle the Secure Anchorage Area (SAA), operated on behalf of the Navy by a private company, OMSL Limited. NPA insisted that the security of the country’s waterways was the statutory responsibility of the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA), Marine Police, and Nigerian Navy, which must all ensure a safe and secure Nigeria territorial waters. The move by NPA has been hailed by stakeholders in the maritime sector, who claimed the initiative was timely to stave off a financial burde...

Oct32019 by Asu BeksNo Comments

Hameed Ali to Importers: Pay Correct Duty and Get Your Seized Vehicles Back

Breaking News, Business, Port News

Succour might have come the way of vehicle owners to get back their seized vehicles courtesy the Comptroller General of the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS), Col. Hameed Ali (rtd). Some of the seized vehicles The new relief is contained in a Circular No HQ/005, 2019 titled ” Detention and Seizure of Vehicles” sighted by our Correspondent yesterday. The circular which was signed by AOB Fatade, an Assistant Comptroller General of Customs on behalf of the CG and copied to all DCGs, ACGs, Area Comptrollers and Unit heads reads. “The Comptroller General of Customs has directed that henceforth, all vehicles detained or subject to detention should be allowed to pay the correct and complete customs duty with 25% penalty levy.” The statement however gave an exception to alread...

Oct32019 by Asu BeksNo Comments

NPA commissions ultra-modern sports complex…as NIPOSA Games kick-off in Lagos

Breaking News, Port News, Sports

By Sylvanus Ekpo The Nigerian Ports Authority Managing Director, Hadiza Bala Usman yesterday commissioned the remodeled NPA Sports Club at Bode Thomas, Surulere, Lagos. Other facilities commissioned include the Lawn Tennis and Basketball Courts and Long Jump Pit. The Managing Director noted that the facilities were in a "total state of dilapidation and dereliction" before the intervention of her Management to salvage the situation. She said sports was a key factor in workers productivity, hence the need to give the sports complex a facelift. "The rehabilitation and upgrading of the facility is a further testimony to our avowed belief in Corporate Society Responsibility to our host communities", and called on users of the facility to keep the high standard in a sustainable mann...

Sep302019 by Asu BeksNo Comments

Bakassi Deep Seaport: Gov Ayade gets FG Nod

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The federal government has approved the request by Cross River State for the formal recognition of Bakassi Deep Seaport, which is under construction. Making the disclosure at the weekend while answering questions from journalists at the State House, Cross River State Governor, Prof. Ben Ayade, said the official approval of the port by the federal government had given the state the recipe to launch the port on a commercial scale. He listed the composition of the port to include an evacuation corridor and a six-lane highway linking the port with the north. Ayade, who spoke with journalists after meeting with the Chief of Staff, Malam Abba Kyari, also said the highway which is almost completed was conceived to bring the northern closer to the Atlantic Ocean. According to him, investors wi...

Sep142019 by Asu BeksNo Comments

Receive EGUNJE and risk jail term – -Customs boss

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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

Breaking News, News Feature, Port News

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

Breaking News, Maritime, News Feature, Port News, Press Release

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...