By Seun Ibiyemi The Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA) says it has recruited 250 new cadets to man its various platforms in the Lagos-Bayelsa coastal corridor. The agency’s Director General, Dr Bashir Jamoh made this known to journalists…
By Seun Ibiyemi Nigeria and the Inter Regional Coordination Centre (ICC) Yaoundé have formed a forum to galvanise regional and international efforts to ensure security in the Gulf of Guinea (GOG). Gulf of Guinea Maritime Collaboration Forum (GOG-MCF/SHADE) was floated…
By Seun Ibiyemi The Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA) and the Nigerian Shippers’ Council (NSC) have agreed to implement joint measures to reduce delay and corrupt practices at the country’s ports. This emerged in Lagos during a working…
By Seun Ibiyemi The Nigerian Shippers Council (NSC) over the weekend lamented that Nigerians, since 2018, have been paying around N16bn annually as container deposit fees to foreign shipping companies. This is even, as the agency also revealed that its…
By Seun Ibiyemi In a bid to link the Apapa port with the standard gauge rail to evacuate containers and to reduce gridlock at the port environment, the Federal Government has said that the old scanner, other obstructing infrastructures will…
…Agency Vital Organ of Economic Development – Court of Appeal President The Suppression of Piracy and Other Maritime Offences (SPOMO) Act, signed into law by President Muhammadu Buhari in June 2019, is producing a better appreciation of Nigeria’s determination to…
By Moses Adeniyi The Lagos Government (LASG) has flagged off the commencement of the First Phase of the Lagos Rail Mass Transit (LRMT) Red Line Project, which is projected to move its first passenger in the fourth quarter of 2022.…
Barth Ndubuwah,Port Harcourt In a bid to have smooth operations at the ports,in line with the ease-of-doing-business policy of the federal government, the Nigerian Shippers Council (NSC) Tuesday organized a one day workshop in Port Harcourt,the Rivers State capital to…
The National Inland Waterways Authority (NIWA) said the inter-agency committee has again clamped down on six unseaworthy barges operating illegally within the Lagos inland waterways. Recall that following increasing reports of abuses of process in the operation of barges and…
Despite the gridlock rocking the Apapa Port access road, the Apapa Command, Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) said it facilitated the exportation of cargoes worth N41.6billion in the first quarter of 2021. The command also generated a whooping N160bilion from the…
