Ship Owners Association of Nigeria, SOAN, has disclosed that theassociation commands a fleet ownership of not less than 150 ships. The ships, according to the association, ranges from oil tankers,cargo handling ships, platform support vessels, pipelay vessels,dredgers, fast intervention vessels, etc. President of SOAN, Dr. MkGeorge Okon Onyung, who disclosed thisrecently at the Nigerian Oil…
The Nigerian Customs Services, NCS, says it has generated overN25.5billion in the first quarter of 2019, at the Port Harcourt IIArea Command, Onne seaport, in Rivers State. Customs Comptroller, Port Harcourt II Area Command, Aliyu GaladimaSaidu, stated that the command also seized nine containers loaded withitems such as vegetable oil, soaps, machetes, wears and rice…
The Acting Executive Chairman of the Economic and Financial CrimesCommission, EFCC, Ibrahim Magu has called on the Nigeria ImmigrationService, NIS, to brace up and support the EFCC in tackling illegalBureau de Change operators in Rivers State. Magu made this call on Thursday, April 4, 2019 in Port Harcourt,Rivers State through the Port Harcourt’s Zonal Head…
The Nigerian Shippers Council’s Director, Consumer Services, Chief CajetanAgu on Tuesday stressed the importance of trade facilitation to adeveloping country like Nigeria, highlighting that the country may remainfor long at the rung of developmental ladder even in Africa, until itseriously pursues both trade facilitation and the ease of doing businessagenda. Chief Agu stated this at…
The situation may have worsened 40-years after operators of the Ogonifield, Shell Production and Development Company, SPDC, shut downexploration activities even as communities in the area record freshoil spill. According to our sources, an oil spill occurred about one week ago. It was learnt that the spill could be either as a result of an…
Nine ships carrying various products, including premium motor spirit,also known as petrol, are expected to berth at the Port Harcourtseaports between by Friday, February 15 2019. The Nigerian Ports Authority, NPA, in its daily shipping position,revealed that three of the incoming vessels would discharge 48,000tones of PMS. Other six vessels would berth with bulk malt,…
The presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Alhaji Atiku Abubakar on Sunday in Kano said the country is witnessing unprecedented economic setback under the All Progressive Congress (APC) government. Atiku, whose campaign train berthed in the ancient city of Kano in continuation of his presidential campaign, arrived the Sani Abacha stadium at about…
President Muhammadu Buhari recently commissioned the multi billion Naira Baro Port in Niger State. At the commissioning The President said if successive governments at the federal level had implemented the comprehensive master plan for the development of the Nigerian Inland Waterways across 28 states of the country initiated by the Petroleum Trust Fund (PTF), under…
The President, Mohammadu Buhari GCFR will on Saturday 19th of January 2019, inaugurate the just completed Baro River Port in Niger State. A statement by Tayo Fadile the General Manager Corporate Affairs of Inland Water Ways Authority, The Baro River Port was built by Chinese firm (CGCC Global Project Nigeria Limited) at total cost of…
Buhari Says salaries of workers earning above the N30K threshold to be renegotiated President Muhammadu Buhari on Wednesday named a financial and economic expert, Mr. Bismarck Rewane, as chairman of Presidential Advisory Committee on New National Minimum Wage, he inaugurated today at the Council Chambers, of the State House, Abuja. This is even as President Buhari…
