Celebrating Captain Olugbemiga Abidoye: A Maritime Legend at 70

  It is an immense honour to write about a distinguished gentleman whom I consider both…

Nigeria’s IMO Council bid as a wild goose chase 

  Past management teams at the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA) have woefully failed…

Nigeria Customs of death

  By Lasisi Olagunju Grand ancestor of Nollywood, Ayinla Olumegbon’s ‘Wole Wole Arufin’ (The Lawless Sanitary…

Bashir Jamoh: A breath of fresh air at NIMASA

  Maritime industry operators, especially Nigerian ship owners, seafarers, cadets and other workers in the maritime…

Reflections on Marvin Abe’s Journey and the Unveiling of ‘The Voyage of Saints’  

  I have never been one to succumb to emotion. In fact, for as long as…

NPA and the fallacy of port congestion

Nigerian ports, contrary to widely held notion, are not congested. The ports in Lagos are certainly…

My Maritime Man of the Year 2018

Unionism in Nigeria’s maritime industry, prior to post-port reform regime, was synonymous with thuggery, banditry and…

The Nigerian bookstore as a dinosaur

It has been a busy year and my promise this holiday season was to spend as…

INTELS and drama of cannibalistic politics

By Peter Ibie Keyhole views of the mass hysteria generated by the termination of the pilotage…

Blue economy legal and institutional frameworks: The Nigerian challenge

By Capt (NN) Sunday Daniel Atakpa Three countries considered as being in the forefront of blue economy implementation…

Anambra solution to CRFFN crisis

  Regular readers of this column will certainly require little or no education about the controversy…

From Turkey with guns 

  While Benin Republic and China are systematically undermining Nigeria economically, Turkey seems interested in the…