Penultimate week, when the Council for the Regulation of Freight Forwarding in Nigeria (CRFFN) rose from…
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Evolving a consolidated shipping charge system
Against the background of alleged arbitrary charges in the maritime industry, particularly on cargoes, the issue…
Beyond arrest of alleged killers of GWVS boss NIMASA
Last Monday the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA) paraded 10 persons suspected to be…
Of the new Lagos State Traffic Law and port operations
Penultimate Thursday, the Lagos State Governor, Mr. Babatunde Raji Fashola, signed the new Lagos State Traffic…
Has the ‘banana peel’ syndrome spread to NPA?
The firing and hiring of chief executives of government organisations in the Nigerian maritime industry is…
Storm over CRFFN accreditation of freight forwarding associations
For industry watchers, cases of disagrements between persons within a particular feight forwarding association and persons…
The truth in Customs’ sermon on zero tolerance for corruption
When Alhaji Dikko Inde Abdullahi was appointed the Comptroller-General of the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS), promoting…
Between the Presidential Committee on Port Reforms and Customs agents, who is lying?
For a couple of weeks now, the issue of the purported return of evicted agencies from…
UMAR AND SULEIMAN: Who copied who?
All through last week, from Monday to Friday, the Port Management Association of West and Central…
How NIMASA could do real good with the current re-jigging of NSDP
Obviously disenchanted by the lukewarm attitude by most state governments and the Federal Capital Territory (FCT)…
Now that the trucks are off the Lagos Ports access roads, what next?
Motorists, especially port users, have been having a nice time plying the Apapa-Oshodi Expressway and other…
Finding real solutions to trade facilitation
Good governance exists only when there is synergy and symbolic relationship between the government and the…