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Tin Can Customs buckles under #EndSARS protest — directs review of agents’ complaints

Segun Oladipupo | In view of the #EndSARS protest by Nigerian youths across the nation last week, Tin Can Command of the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS), has admitted that the protest has taken huge tolls on its operations as it did on other spheres of the economy. The command added...

STOAN seeks more security at Nigerian seaports — condemns arson on NPA headquarters

Segun Oladipupo | The Sea Terminal Operators Association of Nigeria (STOAN) has called on the federal government to beef up security at the Nigerian seaports following the recent looting and burning of the headquarters of the Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA). The chairman of STOAN, Princess Vicky Haastrup, who conveyed...

Price of smuggled rice crashes in Ogun, Lagos as hoodlums sack Customs officers from border posts

Abiola Seun | Hoodlums suspected to be rice smugglers now smuggle foreign bags of rice unabated into the country due to the withdrawal of security agents at the border posts as a result of the crisis linked to #EndSARS protest. The hoodlums now operate freely along the border axis of...

#ENDSARS Protests: The hard but effective way to speak to leaders

Protest, which is a form of civil disobedience, is always the last resort used all over the world, to force the hands of government, often the recalcitrant ones, to do the biddings of the people. It is often resorted to by the people to bring to the notice and...

Freight forwarders demand refund of demurrage incurred during #ENDSARS protests

Segun Oladipupo | The National Association of Governmemt Approved Freight Forwarders (NAGAFF) 100 percent compliance team has appealed to the management of Mearsk Nigeria Limited and other shipping lines, including terminal operators, operating in Nigeria to skip storage and demurrage charges accruable during the #EndSARS protest. The team also...

Editorial

#ENDSARS Protests: The hard but effective way to speak to leaders

Lack of Holding Bays: Who Will Tame Foreign Shipping Companies In Nigeria?

Strangulating legitimate trade through unending border closure

Nigerian Maritime Industry: A Clay-Legged Giant at 60.

Rescuing Nigeria’s fishing industry from throes of death.

News

BRT owners claim N100m loss to #ENDSARS protests

Breaking! NPA headquarters building on fire

Apapa youth set to lock down Lagos port as hundreds indicate readiness

Reps committee commences review of aviation laws Tuesday.

Stakeholders seek adequate funding for SON

How Lagos gas explosion killed 8, injured 37, destroyed 41 houses, shops

Covid-19: Transport owners tasks FG on disbursement of N10bn palliative funds

AIB rates Nigeria’s aviation sector as safest.

Port congestion looms as maritime workers join nationwide strike.

FG mulls sale of Presidential Jet … approves $1.9bn for Nigeria-Niger rail project

Big Story

Anger, disappointment greet NLC botched strike action

-- as stakeholders accuse labour leaders of sell out. Chinazor Megbolu | In the wee hours of September 28, 2020, the Nigerian Labour Congress (NLC) and the Trade Union Congress (TUC) called off the strike earlier slated for that day. The suspension of a nationwide rally to protest the hike...

Will sanity ever return to Apapa on completion of Port Access Roads?

Chinazor Megbolu | The Nigeria's maritime industry has been the sustaining force of the nation's economy after the rage of Covid-19 that bedevilled the global business.Shipping, terminal operations and other ancillary businesses make up the maritime industry. The premier port, Apapa and Tincan Island Port are the major ports in Nigeria...

Apapa gridlock: Agony of Port Users

Chinazor Megbolu | Operators at the Lagos ports have over the years borne with great pains the grueling traffic gridlock that has made access to the ports very harrowing. The security agents saddled with the task of easing the malignant traffic have cashed in...

Will Customs allow cargo scanners to ever work at Nigerian ports?

Chinazor Megbolu | After the contract award approval for cargo scanners towards efficient port operations failed twice, another approval took place recently by the Federal Executive Council (FEC) in Abuja for the Nigerian Customs Service (NCS). The NCS inherited scanners that have now become obsolete, making the acquisition of new...

Where is Nura Dalhatu, self-styled DCG?

Segun Oladipupo | On July 8, 2019, Assistant Superintendent of Nigeria Customs Service (NCS), Mr. Nura Dalhatu caused a stir when he sauntered into the Customs' headquarters, Abuja, donning a well-starched uniform of a Deputy Comptroller General ((DCG), a rank eight steps far above his official rank. The awe-stricken...

Anger, misgivings among Nigerians trail increase in fuel pump price

By Chinazor Megbolu | The recent increase in the pump price of petrol by the Petroleum Products Pricing Regulatory Agency (PPPRA), a Federal Government of Nigeria agency, has continued to generate misgivings and anger among Nigerians, especially the pauperized masses whose dwindling economic fortunes are further compounded by the ravaging...

Port Management

Freight forwarders demand refund of demurrage incurred during #ENDSARS protests

US sanctions Chinese entities for deals with Islamic Republic of Iran Shipping Lines

Customs brokers petition Buhari over storage charges during Covid-19

Arson on NPA headquarters, a ploy to cover up fraud—Maritime Journalists allege

NPA keeps mum over burnt Headquarters — as scores escape death.

Breaking! NPA headquarters building on fire

Interview

It Is Not Easy To Sanction Foreign Shipping Companies — NPA.

NPA’s timidity to regulate terminal operators causes their impunity – Adeniyi Ajayi

Return of Wharf Rats: The security at the terminals has been compromised – Adeyanju

We shall move against terminal operators who don’t kit dockworkers well – Adeyanju

Olokola Deep seaport, a viable alternative to Lagos Ports – Otunba Olatunji

About 80 percent of our cargoes are still being moved by roads – ICNL boss

Customs Service

Tin Can Customs buckles under #EndSARS protest — directs review of agents’ complaints

Price of smuggled rice crashes in Ogun, Lagos as hoodlums sack Customs officers from border posts

Three arrested in connection with Kwara Customs attack

Dangote seeks outright ban of tomato importation

Kwara Customs Zonal Operation Revenue hits N2bn

Hoodlums attack Ogun Customs Officers, kill one

Apapa Customs intercepts 72 containers of fake drugs

Customs generates N39.9bn at Oyo/Osun command

Manufacturers, importers accuse Customs of frustrating business at ports.

CGC showers encomium on 11 Customs officers who facilitated seizure of N1 billion worth of cannabis

Editor's Pick

#ENDSARS Protests: The hard but effective way to speak to leaders

Lack of Holding Bays: Who Will Tame Foreign Shipping Companies In Nigeria?

The foreign shipping companies in Nigeria operate with unbridled impunity. They behave like tin gods who seem to be above the laws. They treat the guidelines and directives of relevant government agencies, which have the statutory duties to superintendent over their operations, with annoying disdain and disrespect. Their act...

Strangulating legitimate trade through unending border closure

This week makes it one year and two months since Nigerian government shut its border posts in the four geo-political zones of the country on August 21st, 2019. The action has reverberated throughout the country, rippling through other neighbouring countries, especially Benin Republic, Ghana and Togo. The closure has had...

Nigerian Maritime Industry: A Clay-Legged Giant at 60.

Like a clay-legged giant that could crumble at the slightest push, the maritime industry has been wombling and fumbling through a web of challenges that have over the years slowed its development and stunted its growth. It is an irony of fate that the sector which predated the Nigerian nation...

The Sale of Nigeria Customs to Highest Bidders

Penultimate week, the Federal Executives Council (FEC) approved the concession of the modernisation process of the Nigeria Customs Service. The project, worth the sum of $3.1billion, was concessioned to a Consortium of companies consisting of Messers E-Customs HC Project Limited, Y. Technonogies, the Bionica Technologies West Africa Limited, Bargain Securities and Supplies...

FG finally concessions Nigeria Customs — as FEC approves $3.1bn for automation processes.

Abiola Seun /Peter Adeniyi | In what appears as a discreet concession of the Nigeria Customs service by the Federal government and utter disregard for stakeholders' opinions on the issue, the Federal Executive Council (FEC) on Wednesday approved $3.1bn for the service's automation operations. The Minister of Finance, Budget and National Planning,...

Transport

Truck drivers, clearing agents paralyse economic activities at Lagos Ports over extortion

Private transport owners threaten to hike fares by 500% over multiple taxation.

Buhari renews tenure of Okhiria as Railways helmsman.

Only registered transport unions will access N10bn transport palliatives- Saraki

Federal Government defends rail construction to Niger Republic.

Flour Mills, Dangote Group construct Atan-Agbara, Apapa-Oworonshoki Roads on tax credit scheme-Fashola

Kudos and Knocks

Garland for Amazon Hadiza

The Olympic-sized swimming pool at Mid-Maritime

The Wharf Road debacle

THESE ADAMANT PORT TRUCK OPERATORS!

A garland for MWUN Executives

Compliance teams of freight forwarders as metaphor for timidity of regulatory agencies

Oil & Gas

DPR to partner NUPENG, PENGASSAN on Covid-19 management

Chinazor Megbolu | The Department of Petroleum Resources (DPR) has said the agency...

Nigeria spent N10 trillion on oil subsidy in 10 years – Oil marketers.

Peter Olaniyi | Oil marketers in Nigeria have rejected any attempt to take...

Oil & Gas companies rake in N400bn from Capital Market

Chinazor Megbolu | The oil and gas companies in Nigeria have raked over...

STOAN seeks more security at Nigerian seaports — condemns arson on NPA headquarters

NIMASA DG gets new appointment at UNIPORT

VIDEO: Police arrest 10 hoodlums over attack on ANLCA Secretariat

NIMASA set to bar unregistered vessels from Cabotage operations by 2021

Another boat mishap claims eight lives in Delta State

Aviation

Airline operators suspend flight operation at Lagos airport over curfew

NAHCO dismisses allegations of gun-running, drugs, money laundering

FG renews pledge to provide enabling environment for investors in aviation industry

Aviation workers strike: Minister barred from entering Airport

I out performed nine men in exams at NIWA- Engr. Sarat Braimah

Maritime Lifestyle guest for this week, Engineer Sarat Omolara Braimah, is the Lagos Area Manager, National Inland Waterways Authority (NIWA). Lagos area is the one with the busiest activities on waterways and it is also the area that generates the highest revenue for the authority, no doubt. Such area requires a capable hand to […]

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