The Kanwan Katsina and District Head of Ketare, Alhaji Usman Bello Kankara The Kanwan Katsina and District Head of Ketare, Alhaji Usman Bello Kankara has facilitated the issuance of National Identity Cards for his subjects . The chairman of Ketare Youth Development Association (KEDEMA), Comrade Mudassiru Lawal... Read more
GDNL Visits NPA over Burnt Building, Donates Printers, UPS, others
maritime newsUncategorized January 12, 2021
Greenview Development Nigeria Limited (GDNL) , a member of the Dangote Group visited the management of the Nigerian Ports Authority(NPA) and donated Printers, UPS, Computers & Accessories to support the Authority over the attack on its headquarters recently. The Representative of Managing Director, and the Executive Director,... Read more
Seizure of 5,200 Live Catridges :Customs FOU,Owerri Adopts Fresh Strategies
CustomsUncategorized January 11, 2021
Controller, Customs FOU,’C’, Owerri, Comptroller Yussuf Lawal inspecting the live ammunition catridges it intercepted recently. The Nigerian Customs Service (NCS), Federal Operations Unit (FOU) , Zone C, Owerri has said it has put in place preventive strategies to nab smugglers , thus warning such economy saboteurs to... Read more
Backs Maritime Workers’ Decision to Shelve Strike NPA MD, Hadiza Bala Usman (Middle) , President General Maritime Workers Union of Nigeria(MWUN) , Comrade Adeyanju and Engineer Adams Jatto, GM, Corporate & Strategic Communications The Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA) is to finally introduce into the seaports, from January... Read more
In an incident , which the International Organization for Migration, a United Nations agency, described as the deadliest shipwreck of 2020, at least 140 people drowned when a boat carrying migrants, sank off the Senegalese coast over the weekend . The boat had left Mbour, a coastal town in... Read more
KLT Customs Revenue Rises by 41.4 % , Seizes N229m Worth of Tramadol, Others
Uncategorized October 29, 2020
By Shola Fadeyi Comptroller Nike Oladunni,(Right) Controller KLT Customs , responding to questions from the Press, during a briefing organised by the Command recently on its seizures and revenue generation. Revenue collected by the Kirikiri Lighter Terminal (KLT) of the Nigerian Customs Service (NCS) between January and September... Read more
Automation:COVID-19 Could Cost Shipping Industry 40,000 Jobs
maritime newsUncategorized August 18, 2020
The shipping industry could lose up to 40,000 jobs as more than 50% of the people in shipping lines work from home now due to the coronavirus pandemic, Lars Jensen, CEO, SeaIntelligence Consulting believes. “COVID-19 has proven that our systems work, as we’re still able to move 85% of... Read more
Mr Asu Beks ,Managing Director of Maritime Media Ltd and Publisher of the Shipping World Newspaper and the Returning Officer of an election held by the League of Maritime Editors and Publishers (LOMEP) at its old Secretariat in Festac , Lagos yesterday ,congratulating the re-elected President , Mr Kingsley... Read more
…as FG Plans to Review Copyright Act for Harsher Penalties Mr John Asein, DG, NCC The Federal High Court, Uyo, has sentenced Mr. Chinonso Ugochukwu to two years imprisonment, having convicted him on a two-count charge of selling infringing books, including Bibles, in which copyright subsists, and for being... Read more
Wang Qiongyu of CRCC and Hassan Bello, Executive Secretary /CEO, Nigerian Shippers’ Council The construction of the Ibadan Inland Dry Port , estimated to cost US$94,000,000.00 (N43,240,000,000.00) is becoming a reality, as the negotiation meeting, between the Federal Government and CRCC, the preferred bidders for the construction of the... Read more
