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    Still in the move of rebuilding a new Customs Service, a goal to strengthen the working relationship between the Nigeria Customs Service ( NCS) and the Media, the Acting Comptroller General of Customs, Bashir Adewale Adeniyi MFR, has met with the Guild of Editors and all the Customs Area Controllers of Zone A in Lagos. The meeting took place at Marriott hotel on Sunday, 16th July 2023 The President, of the Nigeria Guild of Editors, Eze Anaba congratulated the Customs Boss on his appointment and assured them of their support, while also noting the importance of Communication. “Your…

*In its efforts to ensure that Nigeria gainfully harnesses the maritime sector worth of over $9trillion, the Maritime Reporters' Association of Nigeria (MARAN) has called for the appointment of a maritime professional as the next Minister of Transportation. The President of MARAN, Mr. Godfrey Bivbere made this appeal in a press statement issued on Wednesday 12th July 2023. Although the Association MARAN is aware that Mr President Bola Ahmed Tinubu might have concluded plans to unveil his Ministerial cabinet, but seek for a second thought. According to Bivbere, the nation's maritime sector holds immense potentials to transform the economic fortunes…

  The Maritime Sector in Nigeria has in a recent time being married to handful of problems which is making the juicy business unattractive as it ought to be. Experts in the sector were hosted to a breakfast meeting in order to proffer solutions by the foremost association in the sector, Maritime Reporters Association of Nigeria (MARAN) in Lagos yesterday under the theme “ Rehabilitation of Tin Can Island Port: Proffering Workable Solutions,”. Among the solution provider at the meeting was the President General of Maritime Workers Union (MWUN) Prince Adewale Adeyanju, who had called on the Federal Government to…

  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…