Customs, agents disagree over National Single Window operations
By Godwin Oritse & Efe Onodjae There are indications of festering disagreements over the implementation of the National Single Window (NSW), a centralized digital portal launched by the Federal Government in March this year to address delays in import-export processing at the ports. It allows importers and exporters to submit trade documents once, replacing duplicate paperwork […]
Gaps creating problems for regional integration
IT may be one thing to write a rule — it is quite another to implement it. A new study is identifying gaps between the written ECOWAS’s Trade Liberalisation Scheme (ETLS) and actual practices in its implementation across the West African region.
FG launches Campaign for Made in Nigeria goods
AMIDST public outcry of lack of power supply and collapsed public infrastructure in the country, the Federal government Wednesday at a meeting with manufacturers and stakeholders in the production sector asked if they can supply the market with made in Nigeria goods. The federal government also launched and flagged off the campaign aimed at promoting the patronage of locally produced goods and services, just as it reiterated the need for Nigerians to embrace made in Nigeria goods if the economy must be boosted..
African Sun welcomes Obama to Ghana
Pan-African hospitality group, African Sun Limited, is proud to announce that Barack Obama, the President of the United States of America, chose to stay at its Holiday Inn, Accra Airport property during his first African state visit to Ghana..
VISION 20-20-20: Committee lauds NTDC
In an innovative bid to smoothly relaunch the Sheraton brand new positioning and evolved core values to Sheraton Abuja associates, General Manager of the Hotel, Mr.Morten Ebbesen hosted over 500 associates to a grand lunch at the Ladi Kwali conference Centre.
Court dismisses suit against NTDC, others
The Abuja High Court has dismissed an application brought by one Yusuf Isa Orughu asking the court for an order to enforce and secure the enforcement of his fundamental rights. Justice Ugochukwu Anthony Ogakwu dismissed the application because the applicant failed to prove that his fundamental rights had been breached, contravened or infringed upon. Mr. […]
Abuja Sheraton hosts associates, embraces core values
In an innovative bid to smoothly re launch the Sheraton brand new positioning and evolved core values to Sheraton Abuja associates, General Manager of the Hotel, Mr.Morten Ebbesen hosted over 500 associates to a grand lunch at the Ladi Kwali conference Centre.
Lagos partners developer on 5,000 workers housing
In its quest to make affordable housing available to its teeming workforce, the Lagos State government is set to collaborate with a private real estate developer to deliver 5,000 housing units for middle income workers in the state.
PMI,Shelter Afrique plan N3.6bn Bayelsa estate
A primary mortgage institution (PMI),Trans Atlantic Mortgages Limited, has secured an agreement with Shelter Afrique to construct a N3.6 billion housing estate in Yenegoa, the Bayelsa State capital.
Lack of tug boats frustrate eastern ports’concessionaires’ efforts
Effort of terminal operators to revive the already moribund Eastern ports with heavy financial investments are being frustrated by the Mallam Abdulsalam Mohammed led management of the Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA) which has refused to allocate tug boats to the ports in the region.
STOA laments poor port access road
By Godfrey Bivbere Seaport Terminal Operators Association of Nigeria (STOA) has lamented the poor port access road, noting that it is contributing to increase freighting goods from the nation’s ports in Lagos, even as it kicked against the introduction of the wharf landing fees (Wharf landing fee is a new levy introduced by the Lagos […]
