Over 500 freight forwarders under the aegis of the Association of Nigerian Licensed Custom Agents (ANCLA) and the National Association of Government Approved Freight Forwarders (NAGAFF) last Tuesday defiled the heavy rain as they protest the increase of clearing fee allegedly imposed on them by the Nigerian Aviation Handling Company plc, Nahco at the Murtala Muhammed Airport Lagos.

Managing Director of Greenview Development Nigeria Limited, Alhaji Issa Baba Burka, has called for a joint effort by the stakeholders in the maritime industry and the government to create a holding bay as a permanent solution to the problem of perennial traffic congestion in Apapa.

Nigerian government and African nations have been urged to invest in international agricultural research by supporting the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA) to tap into the opportunities offered by the vast arable lands in the continent.

Nigeria’s road to ubiquitous broadband regime is getting shorter. This is as the country has experienced additional broadband capacity from the level injected by MainOne , Glo1 and SAT3 submarine cables with the announcement that MTN -facilitated West African Cable System, WACS, has started carrying traffic.

Incessant network failure has grounded e-payment transactions through PoS terminals in merchant outlets thus impeding the success of the cashless policy in Lagos. For example, in the newly opened Ikeja City Mall, investigation shows that though there are PoS terminals in the merchant outlets, they are rarely used to accept payment from customers due to network failure.