Year: 2019 | NigeriaMaritime360.com

2020, UN Clocks 75

The Secretary-General of the United Nations, Antonio Guterres, on Monday, said 2020 marks the 75th anniversary of the United Nations. Guterres in a special New...

Buhari allows 8 foreign trips a year for ministers

President Muhammadu Buhari, on Monday, placed ceiling on foreign trips every minister can make in a year. According to the Minister of Information, Culture &...

Liberian-flagged Container Ship Runs Aground

The Liberian-flagged container ship Songa Iridium suffered engine failure while sailing south in the Bosphorus and ran aground ashore in Istanbul, Turkey, on Friday. The 191-meter (626-foot)...

Cabin crew could prolong walkout at Lufthansa’s Germanwings

Cabin crew at Lufthansa subsidiary Germanwings began a planned three-day strike Monday, with their union warning the industrial dispute could last longer. Daniel Flohr,...

African swine fever: China bans pig imports from Indonesia

China’s customs have banned imports of pigs, wild boars, and other related products from Indonesia as a result of African swine fever, The deadly disease...

Completed, Apapa-Ojota road to last for 40 years– Fashola

The Apapa-Oshodi-Oworonsoki-Ojota highway network when completed will last for 40 years. The Minister of Works and Housing, Mr Babatunde Fashola, announced this when inspecting the...

We did not scam anyone – MWUN

The leadership of Maritime Workers' Union of Nigeria (MWUN) has debunked allegation that It scammed the disengaged dock workers due for collection of their severance...

FG, States, Others Abandon 6500 Containers at Seaports

Abiola Seun States and federal governments and other importers using the seaports have abandoned cargoes worth several billions of Naira at various terminals across the...

Med-View Airline incident, AIB releases preliminary report

Preliminary report on the serious incident involving a Boeing 737-500 aircraft owned and operated by Med-View Airline on July 23 has been released. The Accident...

Demurrage: Customs broker seeks 30-day grace period from shipping companies

Segun Oladipupo & Chinazor Megbolu A Customs broker has called on the federal government to prevail on shipping companies and terminal operators to give 30...

Car bomb kills 78, injures 128 in busy area

A massive car bomb exploded in a busy area of Mogadishu on Saturday, leaving at least 78 people dead and scores injured in Somalia's deadliest...

Ogoni clean-up project: No sign of clean up – NGO

Segun Oladipupo | A Non-Government Organisation (NGO), Ogoni Liberation Initiative (OLI) has called on President Muhammadu Buhari to review the clean-up project awarded in Ogoni...

Customs intercepts $1b cocaine shipment

Uruguayan authorities seized a record haul of 4.4 tonnes of cocaine at the port of Montevideo in what the navy described Friday as "the...

Agric sub-sectors will play significant role in government’s 100-million job programme – NIAS

The most commercialised of all the Nigeria’s agricultural sub-sectors with a current net worth of N1.6 trillion, will play a significant role in contributing...

MARITIME THIS WEEK : Recap of News and Events

MONDAY DECEMBER 23, 2019 Abiodun OBA | This medium started the week with an editorial opinion captioned “CVFF disbursement: Ending the wild goose chase” For...

FID, vote of confidence in the Nigerian economy – NNPC

The Final Investment Decision (FID) on construction of Train 7 of the Nigeria Liquefied Natural Gas (NLNG) by the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC and...