NIMASA team at Customs HQ, canvasses synergy, revenue, trade facilitation

NIMASA team at Customs HQ, canvasses synergy, revenue, trade facilitation

The Director General of the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA), Dr. Dakuku Peterside, has stated that NIMASA and the Nigerian Customs Service (NCS) are partners in progress in bringing the desired growth and development to the Nigerian maritime...
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EFCC recovers 17 vehicles from Dikko, ex-Customs boss

EFCC recovers 17 vehicles from Dikko, ex-Customs boss

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on Wednesday disclosed that  it has recovered 17 “exotic vehicles’’ in a warehouse belonging to a former Comptroller-General of Customs, Abdullahi Dikko Inde. A statement issued by Wilson Uwujaren, Hea...
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Strategic role of professionalism in maritime’s development, by NIMASA DG

Strategic role of professionalism in maritime’s development, by NIMASA DG

The Director General of the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA) Dr. Dakuku Peterside has stated that professionalism has a key role to play in the development and growth of the maritime industry in Nigeria. Dr. Peterside who made...
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NSE lists Forte Oil’s N9B Bond

NSE lists Forte Oil’s N9B Bond

The Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE) has listed N9billion bond for Forte Oil as part of the planned N50 billion bond issuance programme for the leading energy company.  Under the arrangement, proceeds of the N9 Billion Series 1, five year bond...
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Photo News

Photo News

The Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed (middle), flanked by the Chairman, Leadership/Folio Limited, Mr. Fidelis Anosike, and the Permanent Secretary, Federal Ministry of Information and Culture, Mrs. Ayotunde Adesugba, at the signing of M...
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NPA boss canvasses quick passage of maritime bills

NPA boss canvasses quick passage of maritime bills

AS part of measures to boost Port Development, the Managing Director, Nigerian Ports Uthority ( NPA) Ms Hadiza Bala Usman has appealed to the  National Aasembly to pass the  Ports and Harbours Bill, National Transport Commission Bill and other maritime...
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Unauthorised Employment: Labour faults alleged agenda to sack 3,500 workers

Unauthorised Employment: Labour faults alleged agenda to sack 3,500 workers

Organised Labour under the aegis of Association of Senior Civil Servants of Nigeria (ASCSN) has flayed alleged plan by the Federal Government to  sack 3,500 public servants “under the guise that their appointments were irregular and unauthorized”. In a pr...
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Amaechi to chair town hall on cargo handling charges

Amaechi to chair town hall on cargo handling charges

Against the backdrop of a recent audit report revealing that private terminal operators in Nigerian ports lost about N58.9 billion to the rising foreign exchange scarcity, Consumer Price Index (CPI), among others, in eight years, a one-day town hall meeting...
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CBN announces new foreign exchange policy

CBN announces new foreign exchange policy

The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has unveiled a new foreign exchange policy with immediate effect. According to the CBN, in order to ease the difficulties encountered by Nigerians in obtaining funds for foreign exchange transactions, it would henceforth be...
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Maritime Photo News

Maritime Photo News

L-R: The Managing Director, Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA),Hadiza Bala Usman; Deputy Chairman, House of  Representatives Committee on Ports, Habours and Waterways, Hon. Kabir Ajanah Muhammed; Chairman of the Committee, Hon. (Dr.) Patrick Asadu; Executive Secr...
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PwC survey predicts distruption of Nigeria’s financial service sector

PwC survey predicts distruption of Nigeria’s financial service sector

Nigerian Retail banking and Payments sectors will be the most disrupted by a group of new companies building financial technology (FinTech) solutions, PwC’s Nigeria FinTech Survey 2017 report has predicted. According to PwC, the report is the result of insig...
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FG to open grain reserves

FG to open grain reserves

If the prices of food stuff continue to escalate across the country, the Federal Government will open the national grain reserves. Speaking after the inauguration of the management of three Federal Unuversities of Agriculture in Abuja, the Minister of Agricult...
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UBA Photo News

UBA Photo News

L-R: Minister of African Integration & Ivoirians of the diaspora, Ally Coulibaly; MD, UBA Cote d’Ivoire, Sarata Kone; Director, Marketing & Corporate Communications, Bola Atta and Minister of Culture & Francophony of Cote d’Ivoire Maurice Banda...
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Nigerian Chamber of Shipping training holds  in March

Nigerian Chamber of Shipping training holds in March

Come Wednesday, March 15 to Friday, March 17, 2017, the Nigerian Chamber of Shipping will hold a three day training programme on the “ABC of Shipping” in Apapa, Lagos. According to an official statement issued by the Chamber, the training,...
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