Editor's Pick Shippers’ Council loses steam under Jime Since the appointment of Emmanuel Jime in June, 2021 as the Executive Secretary of the Nigeria Shippers’ Council, the once vibrant agency under ... By maritimemagDecember 20, 20210
Editor's Pick [Editorial] Nigeria’s Loss of IMO Seat: One Defeat Too Many Last week Friday, Nigeria once again lost its bid to regain the Category C seat of the International Maritime Organisation (IMO) in a keenly ... By maritimemagDecember 13, 20210
Editor's Pick Editorial: Container Deposit as tool for extortion by shipping companies. Shipping is big business. So the shipping companies are in this business to make profit, just like all the players in the sector. ... By maritimemagNovember 29, 20210
Editor's Pick Interview: MOWCA will key into Nigeria’s technical committee to win IMO seat – Sec. Gen. Adalikwu The newly elected Secretary- General of Maritime Organisation of West and Central Africa (MOWCA), Dr. Paul Adalikwu has disclosed that the organisation will ... By maritimemagNovember 29, 20210
Editor's Pick Deploying Technology to Curb Attacks By Smugglers On Customs Officers Attacks on officers of the Nigeria Customs Service, especially the anti-smuggling team of Federal Operations Units, by smugglers, have reached a level that ... By maritimemagNovember 22, 20210
Editor's Pick [Editorial] Why Government Should Probe Third Governing Council Of CRFFN In a bid to sanitise and regulate the operations of freight forwarding industry in Nigeria, the Federal Government, through an Act of Parliament ... By maritimemagSeptember 13, 20210
Editor's Pick [Editorial] Securing Nigerian Ports Amidst Rising Insecurity In recent times, the security architecture of the country has come under ceaseless bombardment by insurgents and militants, stretching its security personnel and ... By maritimemagSeptember 6, 20210
Editor's Pick NAGAFF: Reaping From ANLCA’S Unending War For over three years now, the Association of Nigerian Licenced Customs Agents(ANLCA) has been embroiled in a senseless war of attrition. A needless ... By maritimemagJuly 19, 20210
Editor's Pick NIMASA’S 17 Billion New Headquarters: A White Elephant Purchase Last week Wednesday, at the end of the weekly Federal Executive Council (FEC) meeting, the Minister of Transportation, Rotimi Amaechi, told journalists that ... By maritimemagJuly 12, 20210
Editor's Pick Ease of Doing Business At Ports: How Far, How Well? It was four years ago that Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo signed an Executive Order on Ease of doing business at the ports. The order, ... By maritimemagApril 26, 20210
Editor's Pick Curbing attacks on Customs officers by smugglers Attacks on officers of the Nigeria Customs Service, especially the anti-smuggling team of Federal Operations Units, by smugglers, have reached a level that ... By maritimemagApril 19, 20210
Editor's Pick Ease of doing business : A long shot in the dark At the Annual Awards Ceremony of the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA) in 2020, the Secretary to the Government of Federation ... By maritimemagApril 12, 20210
Editor's Pick Revamping non-oil export trade for economic prosperity. It is an undisputable fact that the economic prosperity of a nation depends on the level of its export trade. A nation ... By maritimemagMarch 29, 20210
Editor's Pick NIMASA’s Floating Dock of Controversy In 2013, the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency(NIMASA) came up with an ambitious project that was meant to stimulate the maritime industry. ... By maritimemagMarch 22, 20210
Editor's Pick 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 ... By maritimemagFebruary 15, 20210
Editor's Pick 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 ... By maritimemagFebruary 8, 20210
