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FG unveils new pricing framework for gas operations

FG unveils new pricing framework for gas operations Chinazor Megbolu The Federal Government has said it will soon unveil a new pricing framework towards regulating the operations of the gas sector. The Chairman, National Gas Expansion Programme (NGEP), Mallam Mohammed Ibrahim, made the disclosure on Friday at the 12th Nigerian...

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Road congestion: Not yet Uhuru with Apapa port access roads

Chinazor Megbolu    |     Late December 2020, the Lagos State Government took over the affairs of managing the decongestion of Apapa ports access roads. Prior to taking over, Apapa ports corridor was controlled by the Presidential Task Team, headed by Mr. Kayode Opeifa as the Vice Chairman. During the period, Apapa...

One year after, applicants still waiting for Customs job

Segun Oladipupo    |     Candidates who sat for the January 9, 2020 Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) recruitment examinations have asked the management of the Service to release the names of successful candidates and stop making them develop heart attack. In a chat with our correspondent on Twitter, a Twitter user with...

Stakeholders rue rising costs of exiting goods from Lagos Ports

Chinazor Megbolu   | The cost of moving goods from Nigerian ports to other parts of the country has continued to rise on a daily basis. The stakeholders like the manufacturers, operators of logistics as well as consumers are lamenting over the cost of goods and services, which prices have doubled...

Nigeria Customs’ units of extortion

Chinazor Megbolu    | Recently, the Lagos Chamber of Commerce and Industry (LCCI) called for urgent reform of the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) cargo clearing processes and procedures. The issues of concerns, according to the Chamber, include undue delays, weak application of technology, arbitrariness in valuation, impunity, uncertainty of international...

#ENDSARS Protests:  Bitter tales as Maritime Sector loses billions of Naira

Chinazor Megbolu Government agencies, private organisations and stakeholders' business interests in the maritime sector were not left out of the recent mayhem that trailed the #EndSARS  protest that left a bitter taste in the mouths of many. Hoodlums had hijacked the initially peaceful protests organised by Nigerian youths against police...

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...

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The SON desperate  move to return to ports

On October 26th, 2011, there was a Presidential directive which pruned down the mushroom government agencies at the ports to only eight. The directive issued by Mrs Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, the erstwhile Minister of Finance, was consequent upon  the multiplicity of agencies whose operations made clearance procedures at the ports painfully...

Will CVFF Ever Be Disbursed?

For the beleaguered indigenous ship owners, accessing the controversial Cabotage Vessels Financing Funds (CVFF) is like a proverbial camel passing through the eye of a needle. In actual fact, none has ever gotten close to accessing it since 2004 when it was established. The closest any of them could get within...

SAA Scandal: Mockery of Security at Ports

In January 2021, an odious smell of scandal oozed out from the security contraption called Secure Anchorage Area (SAA). This controversial improvised security arrangement was set up by the Oceans Marine Solutions Limited (OMSL) believed to be owned and operated by Captain  Hosa Okunbo. It was a specially carved out...

The ANLCA’ s Dance of Shame

In recent years, the Association of Nigerian Licensed  Customs Agents (ANLCA) has become a theatre of comedy where stakeholders are being treated to different tunes of absurdities. The foremost freight forwarding association has been reduced to a laughing stock and a butt of cruel jokes among the amused onlookers who...

The Tragic Irony of Delayed Border Re-opening

For 17 months from August 20th, 2019, the Federal Government shut the  land borders bordering the country at the four geo-political zones of the country in the South-West, South-South, North -Central and North- West. Only to take off the siege on December 17th, 2020. The government has blamed, and rightly...

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The day I slept off on duty – Pilot 

Our maritime Life guest this  week, Captain Nwabuokei Nkeaka is  a private pilot license holder and also a licensed Aircraft Maintenance Engineer.  He holds a Bachelor of Engineering Degree in Mechanical Engineering. He currently works as an Aviation Instructor with Fujairah Aviation Academy in United Arab Emirate. He explains to us how he had to write […]

I am neither fashionable nor sociable person — Fakanlu

Our maritime Life guest for the last weekend in August is Mr. Olumide Francis Olusayo Francis. He is the immediate past chairman of Apapa chapter of the Association of Nigerian Licensed Customs Agents (ANLCA). Fakanlu is from Ijesha tribe from Osun State. Ijesha is a tribe known among Yorubas as being resilient in debt retrieval. […]

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