State-sponsored rice smuggling

Three Cameroonians were last week arrested with 16 Nigerian accomplices, trying to smuggle in 834 bags…

Import documents falsification and the Nigerian economy

Director-General of the Standards Organization of Nigeria (SON), Osita Aboloma recently warned importers of goods and…

Maritime Development: The missing piece in President Buhari’s policy document

In campaigning for the 2019 Polls, President Muhammadu Buhari, recently launched his policy document dubbed Next…

It’s time to review salaries of Customs officers

On November 23, the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) announced that its officials had intercepted and impounded…

Ensuring safety on our waterways

Newly appointed Managing Director of the National Inland Waterways Authority (NIWA), Senator Olorunnimbe Mamora, recently had a…

Weighing the accounting implications of IMO 2020

Earlier this year, the Moore Stephens international member firm in Greece published ‘Owners’ Dilemma’, a thought…

Oil boom, the greedy few and crushing burden of subsidy

For the first time in two years, oil prices have risen steadily from $30 per barrel…

The place of human capital in Nigeria’s quest for development

Human development has been identified as Nigeria’s biggest deficiency and a root cause of the country’s…

Making a kill out of sea piracy in Nigeria

For the second consecutive quarter this year, Nigeria has occupied the number one spot in the…

Lessons from India’s economic reforms

Nigeria, other than being the most populous black nation, has attained the number one status in…

Need for rail link at Lekki port

The Lekki deep seaport has been hailed as a strategic addition to the nation’s network of…

Nigeria missing in the global maritime space

Container shipping, which is the use of containers to load, transport, and unload goods, has become…