Warri NPA pensioners accuse mgt of delaying arrears
THE Pensioners Welfare Association of the Nigerian Ports Authority, Warri, has accused the management of the agency of deliberately delaying payment of members’ accrued arrears of 30% and 15% arising from the non-implementation of the Federal Government’s policy since 2008, even as it appealed to it to expedite action to alleviate their suffering.
Leadership crisis hits freighting forwarding groups
THE National Council of Managing Directors of Licensed Customs Agents (NCMDLA) and the National Association of Government Approved Freight Forwarders (NAGAFF) are currently at each other’s throat over the leadership of the later.
N10billion Delta State maritime academy begins recruitment
THE Delta State School of Marine Technology in Burutu has begun the recruitment of workers to fill the various positions for its take off, just as it has also commenced moves to affiliate the institution to a foreign academy abroad.
Lagos NUJ pickets Daily Times
Members of Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ), Lagos State chapter, yesterday stormed the premises of Daily Times, publisher of the Times Newspapers and barricaded the entrance in protest against the sale of newspaper firm to Folio Communication by the Bureau for Public Enterprise even as the union alleged mismanagement.
NIMASA sacks 22 employed without due process
THE management of the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency has sacked twenty-two workers in the organization who the management claimed were employed without following due process, an action that is at variance with rule of law policy of the President Umoru Yar’Adua’s administration.
Anyim tasks Ebonyi natives on good conduct
By Dennis Agbo Abakaliki – Former Senate President, Anyim Pius Anyim has charged the people of his home state, Ebonyi to be good ambassadors of the state in whatever field they find themselves and strive to always make the best out their chosen professions. Senator Anyim spoke in a dinner in honour of Colonel Obi […]
Court action, crisis stalls ANLCA elections
SOME members of the Association of Nigerian Licensed Customs Agents (ANLCA) have gone to court to stop the chapter elections of the association being midwife by Alhaji Inua Mohammed led Association Electoral Commission (ASECO).
NIMASA sacks 22 employed without due process
THE management of Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency NIMASA, has sacked twenty-two workers in the agency who the management claimed were employed without following due process, an action that is at variance with rule of law policy of the President Umoru Yar’Adua’s administration.The Board it was learnt at its meeting of 29th July 2009 reviewed the recruitment exercise of the concerned staffers which did not follow laid down procedures and consequently cancelled the recruitment exercise of the 22 officers.
PPA threatens to pull out of GNU
Owerri – The Progressive Peoples Alliance (PPA) may pull out of the Government of National Unity over the poor performance of the PDP-led Federal Government, National Publicity Secretary of the Party, Chief Ben Onyechere has said. In a statement in Owerri yesterday, Chief Onyechere said his party’s decision is borne out of the “blatant violation […]
NPA trainees protestnon absorption
The 536 personnel trained by the Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA) at its Technical Training Centre between 2003 and 2007 Monday stormed the Marina headquarters of the authority demanding that management should absorb them in line with the agreement reached with NPA before they were admitted for the programme.
African Circle invests $43m to reduce ship pollution in Lagos
African Cycle Pollution Management Limited has expended not less than $43 million in a determination to reduce ship pollution and cargo residue on the nation’s waters to create cleaner sea for shipping operation in Nigeria.
