With the failure of efforts by governments around the Gulf of Guinea (GoG) to stop piracy, kidnapping for ransom and organised crime failed, the European Union (EU) has announced the launch of the pil ...

A strong and sustainable national shipping line is emerging, the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA) has said. The Director-General, Bashir Jamoh, who spoke in Lagos while rece ...

The Nigerian Shippers’ Council (NSC) has directed foreign shipping companies operating at the Lagos ports to waive demurrage charges accrued during the #EndSARS protests that grounded economic activit ...

Kano State Governor, Dr Abdullahi Ganduje, has committed to spend N2.3bn on the development of Dala Inland Dry Port in Kano State. Ganduje, who paid a working visit to the Nigerian Shippers’ Council i ...

THE Nigerian Ports Authority, NPA, has said that it generated a total revenue of N1.02tn in the space of three years under the leadership of Managing Director, Hadiza Bala-Usman. This was contained in ...

The Nigerian Ports Authority has generated a revenue of N1.02tn in the space of three years under the tenure of Managing Director, Hadiza Bala-Usman. This is according to a tweet posted by the authori ...

Air assets acquired under the Deep Blue Project, domiciled with the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency are set for deployment by the Nigerian Air Force in support of the Federal Govern ...

Nigeria will proceed with the Regional Maritime Development Bank Project if only two-third of member states accept the decision reached by the Maritime Organisation of West and Central Africa, the Fed ...

The movement of containers by rail from the Lagos Port Complex, Apapa has been suspended for two months beginning from Tuesday, September 15, PUNCH reports. This was confirmed by the Lagos Railway Dis ...

Trouble seems to be brewing for defaulters of Customs import waivers in the last 17 years as the two chambers of the National Assembly are set to come hard on them. It is estimated that the nation has ...

The Federal Government is committed to ensuring that Nigeria achieves 30 per cent broadband penetration target set for this year. It intends to accomplish this by creating an enabling environment for ...

In a bid to facilitate clearance and improve ease of doing business at the nation’s sea ports, shipping lines are to make manifest of their cargoes available to the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) and t ...

The Federal Government realised $2 billion (N611 billion) as revenue from the operation of the Onne Oil and Gas Free Zone through the Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA) within the last six years. Umana Ok ...

The Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) is probing the circumstances surrounding the importation of 440 riffles it seized in the Tin Can Island Port, Lagos, on May 23. This followed the directive by Col. Ha ...

The Federal Government is set to implement new import process guidelines to address some of the issues causing inefficiency and delays at the ports The Federal Government has put in place measures to ...

Sunday, January 22, 2017, will remain a memorable day for Col. Hameed Ali, Comptroller General of the Nigeria Custom Service (NSC). On that day, the roving team of the NCS, Federal Operating Unit (FOU ...

Col. Hameed Ali, Comptroller General of Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) has assured the replacement of faulty scanners at the seaports b ...

The Development Bank of Nigeria, which would soon begin operations in the country, will strengthen the government’s economic diversification programme. Addressing the German-Nigeria Business Forum rec ...

The intention of the Federal Government to establish a Maritime University will soon become a reality.  The Chief of Naval Staff, Vice Admiral Ibok Ete-Ibas reiterated the determination of the governm ...

Hadiza Bala Usman, new Managing Director of the Nigerian Ports Authority,   takes over from her predecessor Habib Abdullahi, promising to overhaul and make NPA a model government agency The new Managi ...

The Minister of Transportation, Chibuike Amaechi, has expressed Nigeria’s commitment to greater collaboration with the International Maritime Organisation (IMO) to develop the maritime industry. Amaec ...

The Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) Seme Command generated N695.2 million as revenue for the month of June. Selechang Taupyen, spokesperson for the Command, said the revenue represented 69 per cent of t ...

Despite the sharp drop in importation of cargo, the Murtala Mohammad International Airport (MMIA) Command of the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) in Ikeja, Lagos exceeded its revenue targets for the firs ...

To achieve its set revenue target for the year, the Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA) has mapped out strategies to partner other stakeholders. Habib Abdulahi, Managing Director of NPA said that the organ ...

The Nigerian Shippers’ Council (NSC) has saved $2.7 billion for the Federal Government on wet cargo imports through the nation’s seaports. Executive Secretary of the NSC, Mr. Hassan Bello, who played ...

The Nigerian Export Promotion Council (NEPC) plans to increase non-oil export earnings to $30 billion in five years, Executive Director/Chief Executive Officer of the NEPC, Segun Awolowo, has said. Aw ...

There is unease in the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) over an order by its Comptroller-General, Hameed Ali directing all officers and men of the NCS to make full disclosures of their assets. Ali said t ...

Managing Director, PTML Terminal, Ascanio Russo has raised fresh concerns over the diversion of Nigeria-bound vessels laden with vehicles to Benin Republic due to Federal Government’s auto policy whic ...

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has invited former Niger Delta warlord, Government Ekpemupolo, also known as Tompolo, over alleged N13 billion Nigerian Maritime Administration and ...

The Seme Area Command of Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) said it collected N1.2billion as revenue in November. Public Relations Officer of the command, Selechang Taupyen said in a press statement that t ...

A 35-year-old clearing agent, Isiaka Muritala, was on Monday, December 7, arraigned by the police before a Lagos State Magistrate’s Court, Igbosere, for obtaining N4.1million from a customer under the ...

Comptroller-General of Nigeria Customs Service (NCS), Hameed Ali yesterday issued a fresh threat to Customs officers as he warned that he would either discipline, dismiss or jail any officer found gui ...

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) is set to commence the prosecution of the former Director-General, Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA) over alleged financia ...

The Comptroller-General of Nigeria Customs Service (NCS), Hameed Ali, has commended officers of the Federal Operations Unit (F.O.U.) Zone ‘A’ Ikeja, for maintaining discipline, hard work and seizures. ...

The Comptroller-General of Nigeria Customs Service (NCS), Col. Hameed Ali has advocated death sentence for any Customs officer found to have indulged in stealing public fund or any corrupt practices. ...

“I am learning to be a Customs Officer, it’s so technical that I have decided to go back to school. I am reading now more than I am in the university. I’m to digest and understand and lead,” Comptroll ...

The Comptroller-General of Customs, Col. Hameed Ali (Rtd) has approved the appointment of six acting Deputy Comptrollers-General of Customs in the ongoing reorganisation in the Service. The six office ...

No fewer than nine crewmembers of a ship known as MT Tank (IMO no 8681460) died on Monday last week when the tanker collided with another vessel named MT Elixir (IMO no 9282510) along Bonga terminal o ...

Former Destination Inspection Agencies (DIAs) at the port are currently seeking to take over maintenance and provision of scanning services at the ports, two years after their contracts expired and fu ...

Customs Comptroller-General, Hammed Ali has dismissed speculations that he intends to embark on mass sack of officers of the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS). Speaking during an interactive session with ...

The Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA) and the Nigeria Customs Services (NCS) have reiterated their resolve to work together to enhance revenue generation strategies of the Federal Government at the natio ...

The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) is to collaborate with the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) and the Standards Organisation of Nigeria (SON), to seek ways of stopping the importation of count ...

Ghana’s Chief of Naval Staff, Rear Admiral Geoffrey Mawuli Biekro says maritime piracy and armed robbery cost West Africa two billion dollars every year. He said piracy and armed robbery at sea on the ...

Nigeria will keep foreign currency restrictions for now to preserve the country’s currency reserves amid falling oil revenues but the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) will ease the rules in the long-term ...

The Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) has confiscated about 5,000 fairly used tyres worth over 20 million naira in Calabar. Area Comptroller in charge of Akwa Ibom and Cross River States Command, Nicholas ...

The Nigeria Customs Service Operation Hawk Descend has seized frozen poultry products worth N37.8 million in the eighth and ninth week of its operation. This is contained in a statement signed by the ...

Chief Executive Officer & Managing Director of Airtel Nigeria, Segun Ogunsanya, has advised business leaders to be innovative and deliberate in their use of Technology, E-Commerce and Social Media ...

The Association of Nigerian Licensed Customs Agents (ANLCA) has described the appointment of retired Col. Hammed Ali as the Comptroller General of Customs as a welcome development. Speaking to newsmen ...

No fewer than 5,139 ocean going vessels with a total gross tonnage of 61,990,999 called at Nigerian ports in the first quarter of this year. The gross tonnage of crude oil tankers recorded in the peri ...

No fewer than 45 ships laden with petroleum products, food items and other goods are expected to arrive at the Lagos ports from August 26 to September 12, according to a daily publication of the Niger ...

The Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA) has introduced new seafarers medical certification documents in compliance with extant requirements of the Maritime Labour Convention (M ...

Cargo throughput inclusive of crude oil shipments recorded by the Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA) in the first quarter of 2015 stood at 49,304,407 metric tonnes, showing an increase of 7.2 per cent ove ...

The Acting Comptroller-General of Nigeria Customs Service (NCS), Dr. John Atte yesterday frowned at revenue leakages at the nation’s ports and gave Area Controllers marching orders to increase weekly ...

The reinstated Managing Director of the Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA), Mallam Habib Abdullahi has officially taken over the leadership of the agency for the second time. Abdulahi took over from Sanus ...

Former Customs Comptroller-General Dikko Inde Abdullahi has formally handed over to Deputy Comptroller-General John Atte who assumes the role of Acting Comptroller-General of Customs. The handover cer ...

Comptroller General of the Nigeria Customs Service, Dikko Abdulahi has warned owners of commercial buses operating in the South Western area against allowing smugglers use their vehicles to conceal an ...

President Muhammadu Buhari is not aware of plans by the Comptroller-General of Customs, Dikko Abdullahi to resign from office, says Presidential Spokesman, Mallam Garba Shehu. In response to an enquir ...

An aggrieved company, Mercury Oil company, alongside four crew members, Folorunso Olayiwola, Joshua A. Arthur, Asabalahie O. Johnson and Wale Alade, have slammed a N200 million suit on the Nigerian Na ...

The Standards Organisation of Nigeria (SON) has said lack of presence of its personnel at the nation’s seaports to check containers bringing goods into Nigeria accounts for a 200 per cent rise in the ...

The Federal Ministry of Transport has mediated in the crisis rocking the nation’s seaports as it directed the management of the Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA) to settle all issues of salary arrears ow ...

The Oyo/Osun Area Command of Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) said it has generated more than N5.8 billion between March and July this year. The command’s Customs Area Controller, Muhammed Bawa told jour ...

The Calabar Channel Management Limited (CCML) has come out to clear the air on the lingering controversy over the dredging of Calabar port.  According to the firm, the dredging of the Port channel was ...

Controller, Apapa Area command of the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS), Comptroller Charles Edike has explained the rationale behind the recent decision by the Customs management to deploy some officers ...

The Nigeria Customs Service (NSC) has made seizures worth N28, 660,717 in the third week of its fight against smuggling of frozen poultry products tagged Operation Hawk Descend. The seizures which con ...

A pressure group has dragged the leadership of Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) before the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Com­mission (ICPC). The group, Nigerian Customs Transpa ...

The management of the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) has said that it will no longer shut down the prestigious Intercontinental Hotel located in Victoria Island, Lagos over rice import duty allegedly o ...

APM Terminals Apapa has announced the appointment of Olufemi Ransome-Kuti as its new Deputy Managing Director.  Ransome-Kuti brings to this role 14 years of experience in supply chain operations and p ...

Just few days after he was removed from office as the director general of the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA) Patrick Akpobolokem, seems to be in trouble. Officials of the ...

A rare insight was recently provided into the concession agreement signed between the Federal Government and private terminal operators otherwise known as concessionaires operating at the nation’s sea ...

Hassan Bello, the Executive Secretary of the  Nigerian Shippers’ Council (NSC) is to hold a one-day Consumer Consultative meeting with shippers, shipping agencies, freight forwarders, government agenc ...

The Managing Director of Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA), Sanusi Ado Bayero has reiterated that the Eastern Ports of Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA) shall remain relevant in future maritime development ...

The Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) has sealed the warehouses and business premises of four major rice importing firms over N23.6 billion unpaid rice duty and levies. The Public Relations Officer of NCS ...

The Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) has suspended three commercial banks from collecting customs duties over their non-compliance with the partnership agreement with the agency on the matter. The NCS Pu ...

The Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) has said that its recently launched anti-smuggling operation against illegal importation of frozen poultry products code named ‘Hawk Descend’ has recorded seizures wo ...

An importer, Messrs Elopetx Resources Limited has petitioned the Comptroller-General (CG) of Customs, Dikko Abdulahi over alleged looting of three of her fully loaded containers containing glass beer ...

The Comptroller-General of Customs, Alhaji Dikko Abdullahi, has urged the Nigeria Shippers Council (NSC) to ensure that shipping companies and concessionaires automate their operations to enhance clea ...

The International Maritime Bureau (IMB) has reported that so far this year, 250 crew members have been taken hostage, 14 assaulted, 10 kidnapped, nine injured and one killed in incidents of piracy and ...

The Maritime Workers Union of Nigeria (MWUN) has given the Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA) up till July 30 to meet its demands without which it would embark on a strike. MWUN President-General, Tony Nt ...

APM Terminals Apapa has set a new productivity milestone for container terminals in Nigeria. Whilst handling the 4,500TEU Safmarine Chambal on 29th June 2015, APM Terminals Apapa handled an unpreceden ...

After 55 months as the Director General of the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA) Patrick Ziakade Akpobolokemi has formally handed over the running of affairs of the agency to ...

By Pita Ochai The Tin Can Island Container Terminal Limited (TICT) has invested about N70billion on the provision and development of facilities at the terminal since it commenced operation in 2006. Th ...

Some exhibitors at the just-concluded Lagos Maritime Expo (NIMAREX) have suggested that the Federal Government should improve on port infrastructure, to boost maritime trade. An Exhibitor, Mr Moses Ma ...

The Kaduna Inland Container Depot (ICD) has been declared as a port of origin and final destination by the government. This declaration is contained in a government gazette No. 60 Vol.102 of 26th of M ...

The Managing Director of Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA), Prince Sanusi Ado Bayero has urged stakeholders in the nation’s maritime industry to collectively strive to reposition its maritime potentials ...

An officer of the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS), Seme Customs Command, Mr Olonitola G.M, was on Tuesday attacked with a petrol bomb by a dare devil smuggler while in the line of duty. According to rep ...

The Country Manager, APM Terminals Nigeria, Mr David Skov, said the company had invested not less than $350 million (N80.5 billion) in yard expansion since port concession commenced in 2006. Skov said ...

The Executive Secretary of the Nigerian Shippers’ Council (NSC), Hassan Bello has spoken out concerning the harsh conditions investors at the nation’s ports are currently facing. Bello who spoke at th ...

The National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) said it would collaborate with the office of the National Security Adviser (NSA) to evolve mechanisms to tackle maritime crimes. The Director General, N ...

It will no longer be business as usual for smugglers of poultry products in the country as the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) has launched a special anti-smuggling operation against illegal importation ...

The Nigeria Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA) has called for synergy among the indigenous ship-owners in the Nigerian maritime sector in order to attract the attention of the Federal ...

“For the maritime industry to prosper and realize its potentials, there must be collaboration and consultation all the time because there are many interests in the port system and among these interest ...

The Executive Secretary of Nigerian Shippers’ Council (NSC), Hassan Bello has challenged terminal operators in the Nigerian ports to work on improving cargo dwell time at their terminals. Bello who vi ...

A Federal High Court, sitting in Lagos has ordered the Admiralty Marshall to commission the valuation and sale of a vessel MV Regina, which is lying at Lagos Port under the lawful custody of the court ...

The Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) said it is set to collect a N10 billion from importers of textile materials uncovered in 75 warehouses in Kano. The recovery of the amount, according to a press state ...

Nigeria has taken a major step towards concluding the process of domesticating five International Maritime Organisation (IMO) regulatory instruments with the submission of the instruments of assent to ...

The lingering gridlock on the Apapa Road leading to the nation’s ports complex is adversely affecting revenue generation from the ports. According to Abdulraman Lamina, acting Port Manager of Lagos Po ...

The Nigerian Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (NEITI) has expressed displeasure over the refusal of the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA) to comply with the 2012 ...

The House of Representatives Ad hoc Committee on Rice Quota and Duty Payments on Rice Imports has recommended that all importers involved in the alleged import duty scam refund N25 billion to the fede ...

The Standard Organisation of Nigeria (SON) has intercepted 10 containers of suspected fake baby diapers worth over N200million allegedly imported by three Chinese nationals. The seizure took place at ...

In line with its efforts to enhance capacity in ship building, the Nigerian Navy has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with a United Arab Emirates (UAE) based company, Prinvest for the upgrad ...

The Poultry Association of Nigeria (PAN) has lamented that Nigeria currently loses over $2 billion to smuggled poultry products, noting that the situation poses a serious threat to the nation’s poultr ...

Despite its risk of boat capsides, Nigeria still has a high record of migration to Europe by the sea via North Africa. According to a recent report by UN International Organisation for Migration (IOM) ...

The Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) has continued to win its war against smugglers. Recently, the Federal Operations Unit (FOU) Zone ‘A’ intercepted smuggled goods with a Duty Paid Value (DPV) of N122.5 ...

The ownership of Integrated Logistics Facilities and Services, (Intels) has become a major concern for stakeholders in the nation’s maritime industry. A recent report linked Alhaji Ado Bayero, the lat ...

The Nigerian shipping waterways has been rated as the most dangerous in the first quarter of 2015. In a new report on threats to shipping, the Nigerian shipping waterways is said to have become the mo ...

It is no longer business as usual for importers of fake drugs in the South Eastern  part of the country. The Federal Operations Unit (FOU) Zone ‘C’, Owerri of the Nigeria Customs Service, (NCS) has im ...

The Australian Deputy High Commissioner to Nigeria, Angela Tierney has expressed her country’s desire to partner with the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA) in the provision o ...

Members of the Seaport Terminal Operators Association of Nigeria (STOAN) are worried that the sliding value of the Naira and low import value has significantly eroded their income. Princess (Dr.) Vick ...

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The crisis in the Nigerian Shipowners’ Association (NISA) has continued to deepen. The association has said that Capt. Niyi Labinjo ceases to be its President. Aminu Umar, the Acting President of the ...