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29 Jul

COMTUA Loses Lives and Millions to Touts on Port Access Roads

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Amen The President, Council of Maritime Transport Unions and Associations (COMTUA), Mr Yinka Aroyewun has cried out for help on how the hood looms on port access roads have being damaging their trucks and even attacks on human lives in the process. The President revealed this during a virtual interactive session with the Maritime Reporters Association of Nigeria (MARAN). He said that the activities of hoodlums at extortion points have led to the destruction of trucks, goods worth million of naira with human lives topping the list of losses. Adeyinka disclosed that several appeals has been made not only to…

22 Jul

Seme Border to be reopened on Mutual Trade Agreement As checkpoints are minimize

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The Comptroller General of Nigeria Customs Service, Wale Adeniyi on his working visit to SEME border on Friday has assured all the legitimate trade border nations that Federal Government of Nigeria will reopening the border only if all the stakeholders are ready to comply with the trade rules. The CGC has also called upon all the security agencies on the axis to come together for a meeting towards the reduction of the multiple checkpoints along the border communities to boost bilateral trade and good diplomatic relationships between borders nations for improved national security. Speaking during a working visit to the…

17 Jul

Adeniyi, CGC, Assures Media of providing Good Leadership in Customs

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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…

12 Jul

MARAN Solicits FG to Appoint Professional as Transportation Minister

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*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…

07 Jul

Maritime Sector to Experience Seamless Operations only if FG would Adhere to Advice

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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…

05 Jul

MARAN Hosts the Big Wig of Maritime Sector to a Breakfast Meeting tomorrow

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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…

04 Jul

Customs Acting CG Tours the service offices at Headquarters in Abuja

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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.…

01 Jul

MARAN Sets to Inaugurate new Executives, Holds Breakfast Meeting on Collapsing Tin Can Port Quay Apron

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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…

13 Jun

NPA Delivers Tug Boats to Lekki Port to Enhance Port Services

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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…

05 Jun

Change of Baton at PTML Ibrahim bows out As Yusuf takes over

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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…