In 2013, the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency(NIMASA) came up with an ambitious project that is meant to stimulate…
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Category: Editorial
Nigeria Maritime University, Okerenkoko, a child of necessity
On May 30th, 2019, President Muhammadu Buhari wrote back to the National Assembly that he would not assent to a…
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Amaechi’s stewardship in maritime industry
Amaechi’s stewardship in maritime industry Until recently when President Muhammadu Buhari dissolved his cabinet, Rotimi Chibuike Amaechi, bestrode the Nigerian Maritime…
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Insecurity and vulnerability of Nigerian Ports
In recent times, the security architecture of the country has come under ceaseless bombardment by insurgents and militants, stretching our security…
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CRFFN and burden of leadership
The creation of Council for the Regulation of Freight Forwarding in Nigeria(CRFFN) was a deliberate attempt of government to reform…
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One Year of Macabre Dance of Nwabunike as ANLCA President.
Recently, Tony Iju Nwabunike, the National President of the Association of Nigerian Licensed Customs Agents(ANLCA) marked his one year in…
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Container Deposit as tool for extortion by shipping companies.
Shipping is a big business. So the shipping companies are in this business to make profit, just like all the…
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The CGC Strike Force – a monster in the making
On April 25, 2019, a circular issued on behalf of the Comptroller-General of Customs, Hameed Ali and signed by DCG…
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How much is NIMASA’s Certificate of Competence Worth?
Seafarers or seamen are essential parts of shipping activities in a maritime nation and form the nucleus of its human capacity…
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National Transport Commission (NTC): Catalyst for growth in Transport Sector
A well structured and coordinated transport sector often triggers a phenomenal growth in the economy. Most developed economies of the…
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The need to decentralise powers of NIWA over waterways transportation.
Water transport the world over is the most desirable mode of transportation due to its affordability and low maintenance costs.…
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Customs/Agents rift: Collapse of relationship built on mutual suspicion.
The Nigeria Customs Service and Customs brokers are two halves of the same coin with a symbiotic relationship. The two…
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$300 Passage Fee: NIWA’s Daily Pursuit of Revenue on Dangerous Waterways
Last February, the National Inland Waterways Authority (NIWA), in a memo dated February 4th 2019, shocked the distraught operators…
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Truck owners’ initiative on trailer parks as metaphor for government failure
The malignant traffic gridlock on Lagos ports access roads has continued to defy solutions. Not even the sluggish approach of…
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Perceival Agencies Berth Security Revolution in Nigeria
Perceival Agencies Limited, the publishers of nigeriamaritime360.com, has initiated a quiet revolution in the security industry in Nigeria. Through one of…
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Buhari’s re-election: Our expectations, our trepidation in maritime industry
On March 23rd, 2019, Nigerians, in an overwhelming show of support, renewed the mandate of President Muhammadu Buhari for another…
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FOU: The killing Machine of Nigeria Customs Service
Penultimate Sunday, February 17th, 2019, Nigerians were outraged by the footage of a video that went viral in which the…
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Registration fee: Shippers’ Council’s bold move to restore sanity to shipping industry
Early this month of February, the Nigerian Shippers’ Council announced its intention to register all regulated service providers in…
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The menace of empty containers and Lagos ports gridlock.
For seveal years till the better part of last year, 2018, Lagos ports complex was under siege . The…
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National automotive policy: Time to stop the abuse
It is a general consensus, with negligible dissenting voices, that the National Automotive policy of the Federal Government is long…
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