[EDITORIAL] How secured are Nigerian Ports amidst unrestricted access, poor crowd control? By maritimemag
Editor's Pick 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 Chidi, gave a ... By maritimemagMay 1, 20190
Editor's Pick 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 and shipping development. ... By maritimemagApril 28, 20190
Editor's Pick 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 world use transport ... By maritimemagApril 15, 20190
Editor's Pick 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. It is an ... By maritimemagApril 12, 20190
Editor's Pick 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 need each other ... By maritimemagApril 6, 20190
Editor's Pick $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 on the Nigeria’s ... By maritimemagMarch 25, 20190
Editor's Pick 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 government to the ... By maritimemagMarch 18, 20190
Editor's Pick 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 its subsidiary companies, ... By maritimemagMarch 11, 20190
Editor's Pick 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 four years. Despite ... By maritimemagMarch 4, 20190
Editor's Pick 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 operatives of the ... By maritimemagFebruary 27, 20190
Editor's Pick 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 the maritime industry. ... By maritimemagFebruary 18, 20190
Editor's Pick 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 siege of intractable ... By maritimemagFebruary 13, 20190
Editor's Pick 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 overdue for complete ... By maritimemagFebruary 6, 20190
Editor's Pick Third Party Clearance: Taming the monster in cargo clearing process Early this month, precisely January 4th, 2019, Hameed Ali, the retired Colonel in charge of the Nigeria Customs Service ordered immediate suspension of ... By maritimemagJanuary 31, 20190
Editor's Pick NIWA’s Waterways of Death Nigeria, as a coastal country, is blessed with vast navigable inland waterways. This natural resource base of waterways span an estimated 10,000 ... By maritimemagJanuary 24, 20191
Editor's Pick NIMASA Awards: Fiddling by Nero While Rome Was Burning Perhaps one of the most infamous Roman Emperor, Nero Claudius Caesar (37-68 AD), ruled Rome from 54 AD. Despite his several vices, he ... By maritimemagJanuary 18, 20190
