BY GODWIN OBI The Nigerian Maritime Administration and SafetyAgency, NIMASA and the Nigerian Immigration Service, NIS have agreed to deepen existing interagency collaboration with the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding, MoU on Seafarers’ Travel document amongst others. This agreement was reached when the Comptroller General of the NIS, Mr. Isah Idris Jere led senior officials of the Service on a workingContinue Reading

BY OUR CORRESPONDENT The Association of Nigerian Licensed Customs Agents (ANLCA) has revealed that over 400,000 consignments are currently trapped at the nation’s port due to the suspension of Guaranty Trust Bank plc for not remitting import duty running into hundreds of billions collected on behalf of the Federal Government.Continue Reading

BY MARTINS DURU The back and forth between the striking university lecturers under the umbrella of Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) and the Federal Government continued on Wednesday when the Minister of Education, Mallam Adamu Adamu, maintained that the Federal Government has not and will not rescind its decisionContinue Reading

BY GODWIN OBIThe Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA) has launched the electronic registration platform for maritime labour and issuance of Biometric Identity Cards to Dockworkers. The Agency’s Director General Dr. Bashir Jamoh described the e-platform as a major step towards attaining full automation of all its processes addingContinue Reading

BY GODWIN OBI Operatives of the Federal Operations Unit of Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) in Lagos have intercepted 20 drums of carbide, a chemical substance used in manufacturing improvised explosive devices (IEDs). Acting Controller of the unit, Deputy Comptroller Hussein Ejibunu, who made the disclosure while addressing newsmen in Lagos,Continue Reading