The Managing Director of Beta Computers Limited, Mr. Willy Anyaegbunam, has urged operators in the Micro, Small and Medium sized Enterprises (MSMEs) to embrace industry specific hard and software IT solutions , saying it is critical for their growth, survival and efficient management in today’s knowledge economy.”

MARITIME expert and consultant to the International Maritime Organization (IMO) Dr Wilson Omene has called for the removal of the waiver clause in the Inland and Coastal Act otherwise known as Cabotage law for the successful implementation of the law.

Managing Director of the Nigerian Exports Processing Zones Authority (NEPZA), Mr. Sina Agboluaje has said that optimum ultilisation of Lagos Deep Off_Shore Logistics (LADOL) base would create thousand of jobs for Nigerians, as well as save for nation’s economy about N1.5 billion ($10 million).

By Emma Amaize WARRI – JUST about 12 hours after it announced a 60-day ceasefire, effective 00.00 hours Wednesday, July 15, the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger-Delta (MEND) said, today, the armistice was under threat by the Joint Task Force (JTF), which allegedly dispatched seven gun boats with heavily armed troops from Warri, […]

A cargo scanner installed by Global Scansysystems Ltd and valued at over 5 million dollars (N750 million) has been under_utilised at the Calabar port, the Chief Executive Officer of the firm, Mr Fred Udechukwu has said.

THE Executive Secretary and Chief Executive officer of the Nigerian Shippers’ Council (NSC), Captain Adamu Biu. has blamed state governments’ lack of commitment for the delay in the commencement of Inland Container Depots (ICDs)

As a means of subverting the Cabotage Act meant to protect the nation’s coastal trade, foreign shipowners bringing in petroleum products into the country have resorted to anchoring outside the country’s waters to prevent enforcement of the law.

IFC, a member of the World Bank Group, on Monday signed a loan agreement for $100 million with Kosmos Energy, one of the key partners developing Ghana’s Jubilee field, an offshore oil and gas project that will help diversify Ghana’s economy and meet domestic power demand.

Truck operators in the maritime sector, have again cried out to the federal government to check the excesses of the Lagos Ports Access Roads Monitoring Unit (LAPARMU), alleging their extortionary tendencies would wind the economy if allowed to continue.

THE Minister/Deputy Chairman, National Planning Commission (NPC), Dr. Shamsuddeeen Usman has said that if Nigeria must achieve the set target of becoming one of the twenty world largest economies, there was the need for the country to be knowledge driven.