Tag: Rotimi

Transport Minister Explains Fresh Agenda To Tackle Maritime Insecurity, Revenue Leakages
May 29, 2019 No Responses

Transport Minister Explains Fresh Agenda To Tackle Maritime Insecurity, Revenue Leakages

The Minister of Transportation Rt. Hon. Rotimi Amaechi has emphasized that the motivation behind the Ministry of Transport/Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA)/HLSI partnership was primarily to halt the maritime insecurity in Nigerian waters and end revenue leakages caused...
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FG to purchase four new locomotives
June 21, 2017 No Responses

FG to purchase four new locomotives

To further enhance movement of goods and passengers along Abuja-Kaduna rail route, the Federal Government on Tuesday announced plans to purchase four new locomotives before the end of August, 2017.     Speaking during the inspection of the Kaduna Inland Dry...
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FG gives agencies 60 days to harmonise operations at Seaports, insists on 24 hour services at Apapa
May 19, 2017 No Responses

FG gives agencies 60 days to harmonise operations at Seaports, insists on 24 hour services at Apapa

By Moses Ebosele –   The Acting President, Yemi Osinbajo, on Thursday signed three executive orders “that will significantly change some of the ways government business and operations are conducted in the country forthwith”.   Ahead of the signing...
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Amaechi to chair town hall on cargo handling charges
February 21, 2017 No Responses

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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Maritime University Bill scales second reading
November 17, 2016 No Responses

Maritime University Bill scales second reading

Despite scrapping of the Maritime University of Nigeria located in Delta State by the Minister of Transport, Rotimi Amaechi, a bill for its establishment on Wednesday scaled second reading at the Senate. The bill sponsored by James Manager was unanimously...
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