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Online monitoring of petrol depots, retail outlets underway – DPR

  Chinazor Megbolu   | The Department of Petroleum Resources (DPR), has said that online monitoring of petrol depots, retail outlets is  underway. The organisation said arrangements to automate and start remote monitoring, registration and accreditation of petroleum products depots and retail outlets and the entire downstream oil and gas industry...

Group urges FG to settle exporters’ EEG backlog ahead of AfCFTA

Peter Olaniyi    | The Africa International Trade and Commerce Research (AITCR) has urged the Federal Government to settle outstanding claims of non-oil exporters to position the country well ahead of the African Continental Free Trade Area implementation. Mr Sand Mba-Kalu, the Executive Director, AITCR who made this known  in...

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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...

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...

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ICDs and struggle for survival

      In 2002, the Nigerian Shippers’ Council mooted the idea of establishing Inland Container Depots (ICDs) in different parts of the country.   The idea was driven by the desire to take shipping services to the hinterland as well as decongest the already over-stretched Lagos ports.   After...

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