The Center for Marine Surveyors in Nigeria has commenced moves to bridge the gap currently being experienced in the marine surveying sub-sector of the Nigerian maritime industry as it graduates its first set of 50 students.

National Coordinator of the Port Standing Task Team, PSTT, Moses Fadipe, has said that transparent and efficient port system is a catalyst to sustained foreign investments, which has the prospect of deepening the port industry, in addition to enhancing the nation’s revenue generation system.

THE Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency, NIMMASA, has reacted to media report that its promotion were done based on nepotism.

THE extortion menace that is currently impacting on haulage businesses on the Nigeria’s Apapa port corridor has now become institutionalised as truck owners and drivers now include money for extortion as part of their operational cost.

SOME Nigerian seafarers whose vessel ‘MT Alexzandra J’ anchored at the Lagos anchorage are protesting their continued abandonment on the vessels eight months after its detention by the Nigerian Navy.

Former Director General of the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency, NIMASA, Temisan Omasteye, has described the war risk insurance, WRI, and premium slammed on cargoes coming to Nigeria as the biggest scam in the world.

The outgoing Port Manager, Lagos Port Complex, LPC, of the Nigerian Ports Authority, NPA, Mrs Funmi Olotu, has said that the most challenging situation she faced in the course of discharging her duties was the port access roads saying that the ports are efficient and effective in terms of cargo evacuation.

Journalists covering the maritime beat are mourning the death of their foremost colleague, and former Maritime Editor of Vanguard Newspaper, Ray Ugochukwu, who died last week.

AP Moller Terminals has received its certificate of registration as a regulated service provider from the Nigerian Shippers’ Council.

The exercise, hosted in Lagos, Nigeria, featured both in-port and at-sea training scenarios including maritime operations center familiarization and exchanges on medical care, search and rescue operations, and boarding techniques. 

N/A says agreement is skewed against Nigeria ‘We have surpassed set investment targets’ – STOAN By Godwin Oritse AS the controversy over the renewal of the Port concession agreements continue to rage, Chairman of the House of Representative Committee on Ports, Harbours and Waterways Hon. Patrick   Asadu, has warned against the renewal of the Port concession agreement […]

By Godwin Oritse THE Council of Maritime Truck Unions and Association, COMTUA, has petitioned the office of the National Security Adviser, NSA, over the engagement of soldiers by individuals in the movement of trucks in and out of the ports in Lagos. In the petition signed by COMUTA’s President, Comrade Yinka Aroyewun, said that the Army […]

 Arrest 10 suspects By Godfrey Bivbere The Federal Operations Unit, FOU Zone A of the Nigeria Customs Service, NCS yesterday said it has impounded 20 drums of carbide, a chemical used in the manufacture of Improvised Explosive Devices, IEDs and other contraband with Deputy Paid Value, DPV worth N579.4 million last month. Disclosing this at a […]

Efforts by road construction workers in conjunction with illegal toll collectors to prolong the construction work along the Under Bridge – Fagbems end of the Apapa-Oshodi expressway was foiled by the Managing Director of the Nigerian Ports Authority, NPA, Mohammed Bello-Koko. The elongation would have given some security operatives and their civilian collaborators the opportunity for […]

…as Board flags off regulations enforcement By Godfrey Bivbere   Nigeria’s Chief  Inspector of Diving, Julius Ugwala, has admonished all multinational and local companies to get requisite approvals from the Diving Governing Board of the Ministry of Labour before the commencement of all diving operations and to pursue adherence to the 2018 Diving at Work regulation so […]