Esther Komolafe

  Maritime Reporters Association of Nigeria (MARAN) is set to have a meaningful breakfast discussion with Bello-Koko, Jime, Comrade Adeyanju among others on Thursday The Managing Director of Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA) Mohammed Bello-Koko, his counterpart at Nigerian Shippers Council, Hon Emmanuel Jime and the President General of the Maritime Workers Union of Nigeria (MWUN) are among the stakeholders that have confirmed their attendance for tomorrow’s event in Lagos the 6th day of July 2023. The breakfast meeting is billed to hold at the Rockview Hotel in Apapa GRA, Lagos, with the theme: "Rehabilitation of Tin Can Island Port: Proffering…

  The newly appointed Acting Comptroller General of Nigeria Customs Service Bashir Adewale Adeniyi is on familiarization visit to all the offices in NCS headquarters premises in Abuja. The CGC comprehensive tour in the Service Headquarters is to engage on one on one interaction with officers and men and to gain valuable insights into their daily activities. In the process of this interactions, the CGC listened attentively, appreciating the challenges and contributions of officers and men to build a Customs Service that supports and empowers Human Resources. His words, “We are committed to enhancing your professional development, welfare, and well-being.…

  The foremost Maritime Reporters Association of Nigeria (MARAN) has concluded plans to host maritime stakeholders to a breakfast meeting to discuss workable solutions to the deplorable state of the port. The association MARAN expressed concerns over the dilapidated and collapsing quay apron of the Tin Can Island Port of Lagos, as well as the need for the rehabilitation of other ports around the country. President of MARAN, Mr Godfrey Bivbere in a press statement on Friday said the event would also be used to inaugurate the newly elected officials of the association into office. Bivbere noted that the association…

  Nigerian Port Authority (NPA) in its strive to enhance efficient and boost port services in order to reduce cargo turn around time at the port has donated two 80 -ton Bollard pull tug boats christened M.T MAIKOKO and M.T DA-OPUKORO to the management of LekkiPort LFTZ Enterprises Limited, promoters of Lekki Deep Sea Port. The neoteric tug boats are the first of the 2813 Azimuth Stern Drive model to be available in Africa, with a maneuverability of 360 degress which will enhance the maneuvering of large capacity vessels of 300 metres LOA and above. This is essential to Lekki…

  In completion of the statutory year of service in the Nigeria Customs Service, the Controller in charge Port Terminal Multi-services Limited PTML Comptroller Ali Mahmoud Ibrahim has honorably relinquished power to next man online in the person of Comptroller Saidu Abba Yusuf to continue to stir the affairs of the Command. The new Controller, Comptroller Saidu Abba Yusuf joined the Nigeria Customs Service in 1991. He has vast experience spanning over three decades in the Service having impacted positively in various areas where he has served , now assumed office today 5th of June 2023 as the Customs Area…

  The President General of Maritime Workers Union of Nigeria (MWUN) who also doubled as Deputy President of Nigerian Labour Congress (NLC) Prince Adewale Adeyanju opined that the incoming government should overlook the clamor for the creation of Maritime Ministry but to make efficiency the key word in all parastatal. Prince Adeyanju said this during the monthly roundtable event organized by the Maritime Journalists Association of Nigeria (MAJAN) at their secretariat in Apapa, Lagos State. The NLC Deputy President is appealing to the incoming president who is a democrat and an activist to make efficiency, professionalism and people’s perspectives his…

    Glaring record of new milestone achievement as Lekki Deep Seaport again berthed the first largest vessel on Friday 17th of May 2023. The Length Over All (LOA) vessel a 300 Meter christened CMA-CGM RABELAIS with capacity of 6570 TEUs. The christened CMA-CGM Rabelais will be discharging and loading export 200 TEUs cargoes  in exchange. CMA-CGM originated the journey from Shanghai, China and called at LekkiPort being the largest vessel to have berthed since the commencement of commercial operations at the port in April 2023. The CMA CGM Rabelais which is second to Total’s Egina FPSO in the World…

...... commissions Abuja Zone while others are up coming Alongside an unfriendly economic situation that has its negative effects on the nation, the Nigerian Maritime Administration Agency (NIMASA ) has strived to acquired four landed properties for its Zonal Offices in Abuja, Port Harcourt, Calabar, Lokoja The permanent zonal offices are situated in four zones of the Country in order to boost it’s role as apex maritime administration in Nigeria. The agency commissioned Abuja Zone today while its revealed the readiness to commission a state of the art hospital to the benefit of all Nigerian seafarers and Nigerian people at…

  The Chief Executive Officer of Lekki Freeport Terminal, Mr Yann Magarian The promoters of the Lekki Deep Sea Port- Lekki Port LFTZ Enterprise Limited (LPLEL) and the terminal operator-Lekki Freeport Terminal (LFT) have announced the readiness of the Port for transhipment operations and restore the status of Nigeria as a cargo transhipment hub, especially within the West Africa region. The Chief Executive Officer of Lekki Freeport Terminal, Mr Yann Magarian, made this known while fielding questions from shipping and maritime editors during a joint media parley organised by the two companies held at the Port in Lagos on Wednesday,…