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July 14, 2017 No Responses

Dakuku seeks support for marine ecosystem

The Director General of the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA) Dr. Dakuku Peterside has stressed the need for concerted and collaborative efforts of all stakeholders towards the conservation and sustainable use of ocean resources for the protection of...

July 14, 2017 No Responses

FG to scrutinise panama papers, wikileaks, BVN, CAC documents, others

By Moses Ebosele, ebosele@hotmail.com – Determined to trackdown highprofile tax defaulters in Nigeria, the Federal Government is to study revelations contained in the panama papers and wikileaks especially as it relates to Nigerian firms and indiv...

July 13, 2017 No Responses

FG explores new areas of collaboration with IITA

Research being conducted by the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA) in seed yam multiplication holds promise and could help Nigeria to quadruple yam production, says Nigeria’s Minister for Agriculture and Rural Development, Chief Audu Ogbe...

July 13, 2017 No Responses

Customs FOU intercepts N200m Contraband, recovers N28.9m duty payment

The Federal Operation Unit (FOU) of the Nigeria Custom Service, Zone ‘A’ Ikeja, has intercepted not less than 40 seizures valued at N200.9million, between June 13 and July 10, 2017. Among items seized were Tramadol (225/120mg), vegetable oil, frozen...

July 13, 2017 No Responses

BMW Group delivers 1.2m vehicles in six months

BMW Group sales achieved their best ever June, with sales in the month totalling 232,620, a 2.1% increase year-on-year. It was also a record first half-year with sales of the BMW Group’s three premium brands, BMW, MINI and Rolls-Royce,...

July 13, 2017 No Responses

REDTV gets multiple 2017 NEA awards nomination

The pan-African online network REDTV has received nominations in several categories in the prestigious Nigerian Entertainment Awards (NEA). The lifestyle entertainment network is powered by the United Bank for Africa. In its second year of operation, REDTV has...

July 13, 2017 No Responses

Obaseki inaugurates committee on Primary Health Care

Edo State Governor, Godwin Obaseki on Wednesday, inaugurated a committee on Primary Health Care (PHC) remodelling, tasking its members to facilitate the proper functioning of PHCs in the state. Inaugurating the committee, Obaseki noted that the current stat...

July 13, 2017 No Responses

Shell aquires Turritella FPSO

Shell Offshore has revealed that its affiliate, Shell E and P Offshore Services, will exercise a contractual right to buy the Turritella floating, production, storage and offloading (FPSO) vessel from SBM Offshore. The 159,100 dwt vessel is contracted for the....

July 12, 2017 No Responses

NSE lifts suspension on Sovereign Trust Insurance

The Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE) has lifted suspension placed on the share of Sovereign Trust Insurance Plc following the submission of the 2016 audited and 2017 first quarter result of the company. A statement signed by Godstime Iwenekhai, Acting Head,...

July 12, 2017 No Responses

Workers shutdown Seaports over proposed law

Maritime Workers Union of Nigeria (MWUN) and the maritime branch of the Senior Staff Association of Communication, Transportation and Corporation (SSACTAC) on Tuesday shut down Seaports across the country to protest against which seeks to privatise some as...

July 12, 2017 No Responses

NSC Photo News

L-R: Executive Secretary/CEO Nigeria Shippers Council (NSC), Hassan Bello and Minister of Transport, Rotimi Amaechi at a workshop on establishment, management and operation of Truck Transit Park (TTP) in Abuja on Tuesday.

July 12, 2017 No Responses

Critical role of Admiralty law to maritime sector’s growth, by Dakuku

The Director General of the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA), Dr. Dakuku Peterside has said that there can be no maritime sector without admiralty law and that every aspect of shipping is governed by one law or the...

July 12, 2017 No Responses

IMO Okays life safety performance criteria guidelines

The International Maritime Organization’s (IMO) Maritime Safety Committee has approved the Guidelines for the Selection of Life Safety Performance Criteria for use in Alternative Design and Arrangements for Fire Safety (SOLAS Regulation II-2/17). As explaine...

July 11, 2017 No Responses

Capacity building takes centre stage as Boss Mustapha mark one year at NIWA

Today, July 11th 2017 make it exactly one year since Boss Mustapha assumed duty as the Managing Director/Chief Executive Officer of National Inland Waterways Authority (NIWA). According to NIWA, within that Bench Mark, so much has happened under Mus...