Mohammed Abba-Kura is the new Customs Area Controller, Apapa Command. In this chat with Vanguard Maritime Report before his deployment, he explained how the department uses the audit to prevent revenue losses and recover revenues already lost

Chairman of the Association Electoral Commission, ASECO, of the Association of Nigerian Licensed Customs Agents, ANLCA, Onyimba Raymond Enekwechi, has been discharged and acquitted by a high court presiding in Enugu for lack of the prosecutor’s due diligence in the case.

The Economic Community of West Africa States, ECOWAS, is the least integrated region in the world in terms of cross border trade, a report by the Borderless Alliance group has said.

The National Union of Textile, Garment and Tailoring Workers of Nigeria, NUTGTWN, has lauded the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, for banning sales of foreign exchange to importers of textile materials, arguing that the action will not only protect efforts at reviving the local industry but protect the industry against unscrupulous elements.

Piracy attacks in the country have been linked to crew members that are off duty leading others to attack their own vessels. This is even as stakeholders have called for improved safety and security training for seafarers to ward off piracy attacks on the nation’s waterways.

THE Nigerian Immigration Service, NIS, has said that the menace of illegal migrants in Nigeria has become a major challenge obstructing cross border trade at the Seme border point.

PARTICIPANTS at the just concluded Borderless Alliance workshop on dissemination and launch of Economic Community of West African States, ECOWAS, held in Lagos have indicated that there is a high level of forgery in international trade documents.

The Federal Government has restated its commitment to prompt and effective service delivery, especially in its Ministries, Departments and Agencies (MDAs), saying it is an essential condition for economic development.

The Nigerian Shippers’ Council, NSC, has called for the removal of obstacles to intra-regional integration in the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) sub-region saying that it “will be beneficial to the small scale traders that conduct cross-border commerce within the region.”

The All Ports Unified Freight Forwarding Practitioners Association has said it is set to galvanize other freight associations in the Nigerian port industry to resist the regime of arbitrary levies by shipping lines.