Hope rises for importers, freight agents, As Customs receives scanners at Tin Can Island Port
BY GODWIN OBI Importers and their freight forwarders who operate at the Tin Can Island Port may now heave a sigh of relief, as the Tin Can Island Port Area Command of Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) on Monday received mobile scanning machines to enhance operations at the port. According toContinue Reading
Angry Residents In Sokoto Community Set Ablaze Six Suspected Bandits
By Godwin Obi Some angry community members in Tangaza Local Government Area of Sokoto State have set ablaze six suspected armed bandits said to have been involved in an attack that took place on Friday. During the attack on Friday, the bandits were said to have killed two people andContinue Reading
Nigige begs striking Doctors to go back to work while negotiation continues
By Godwin Obi, Frontline Reporters The Minister of Labour and Employment, Dr Chris Ngige has appealed to the National Association of Resident Doctors (NARD) to shelve their industrial action as the Federal Government continues to negotiate with the union to end the dispute. Ngige made the appeal while speaking toContinue Reading
Obasanjo Spits Fire, Says -Borrowing To Accumulate Debt For Next Generation Is Criminal
BY GODWIN OBI, FRONTLINE REPORTERS Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has reacted to the Federal Government’s plan to source for fresh loans, saying borrowing to accumulate debt for the next generation is criminal. Speaking in an interview on the sidelines of an event in South Africa, Obasanjo noted that if theContinue Reading
Modular Floating Dockyard: NIMASA Receives Business Compliance Certificate from ICRC, As Jamoh commends Dry Dockyard
BY GODWIN OBI, FRONTLINE REPORTERS The Infrastructure Concession Regulatory Commission (ICRC) has issued a Certificate of Compliance for an outline Business Case (OBC) for the operation of the Modular Floating Dockyard acquired by the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA). Acting Director General of the commission, Mr. Michael Ohiani, led aContinue Reading
Environmental Polution: Experts Worry Over Likely Outbreak of Epidemics in Nigeria
L-R: The Director General, CIEPHMN, Dr. George Ayoade presents a certificate to the representative of the Vice Chancellor of Rivers State University, Prof. Confidence Wachukwu as Prof. Bamidele Badejo joins in the photograph; during the recent conference on marine pollution organized by CIEPHMN in collaboration with Maritime Reporters’ Association ofContinue Reading
Holy Spirit instructed me to write a Book -“Beauty for Ashes”
BY GODWIN OBI Beauty For Ashes is a unique book and indeed, a must read by all and sundry. In this interesting, revealing and incisive chat, the latest author in town, Miss Oluwatoyin A. Olojo revealed how she was inspired in clear and unmistaken language to write her book. NarratingContinue Reading
GOVERNOR El RUFAI APPLAUDS NIMASA MANAGEMENT ON CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY
L-R: Secretary to the State Government, Kaduna State, Balarabe Abbas; Director General, Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA), Dr. Bashir Jamoh; Executive Governor Kaduna State, Mallam Nasir el-Rufai and the Attorney General and Commissioner of Justice, Kaduna State, Lady Aisha Dikko during the presentation of relief and empowerment materials by the DirectorContinue Reading
NPA to position Nigeria as regional trade hub with Bonny port
BY GODWIN OBI The Acting Managing Director, Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA), Mohammed Bello-Koko, has said the authority would provide the enabling environment for the speedy actualisation of the multi-billion-naira Bonny Deep Seaport project.Bello-Koko, who spoke while on an assessment tour of the Onne Port Complex and the Rivers Port ComplexContinue Reading
New Customs’ Controller, Ejibunu vows to fight smuggler
Smugglers operating along Lagos Ogun state axis may be towards oblivion, as the new Controller of the Federal Operations Unit (FOU) Zone A Nigeria Customs Service (NCS), Deputy Compt. Hussein Ejibunu has vowed to take the fight to smugglers operating within his Command in Lagos and Ogun states. Deputy ComptrollerContinue Reading