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Customs, NESREA Strengthen Collaboration on Environmental Protection

The Comptroller-General of Customs (CGC) Adewale Adeniyi has reaffirmed the Nigeria Customs Service’s (NCS) commitment to enhancing collaboration with the National Environmental Standards and Regulations Enforcement Agency (NESREA) to ensure environmental safety, trade efficiency and regulatory compliance. Speaking during a courtesy visit by NESREA’s management team to the Customs Headquarters in Abuja, Adeniyi described inter-agency […]

Cargo Tracking Note is a Fraud, It’ll Kill the Economy, Segun Musa Cries Out

A foremost freight forwarder and Chairman/CEO, of Widescope Logistics Group, Dr. Segun Musa, has stated emphatically that the International Cargo Tracking Note (ICTN) is a fraud. Speaking during an interaction with the leadership of the Maritime Reporters Association of Nigeria (MARAN) who visited him at the headquarters of his company at Ogba, Ikeja, Lagos, he […]

Okaga’s Appointment as Technical Adviser to Minister of Marine and Blue Economy Excites MARAN

The appointment of Dr. Charles Okaga as Technical Adviser to the Minister of Marine and Blue Economy, Engr. Adegboyega Oyetola, has been described by the Maritime Reporters Association of Nigeria (MARAN) as the beginning of good things for the maritime sector. The President of MARAN, Mr. Godfrey Bivbere, while congratulating Okaga, described the appointment as […]

CRFFN Boss Champions National Single Window Proficiency Certification for Freight Forwarders

The Registrar/CEO, Council for the Regulation of Freight Forwarding in Nigeria (CRFFN), Mr. Kingsley Igwe, has recommended a National Single Window Proficiency Certification for freight forwarders in Nigeria. Harping on the need to latch onto the benefits of the National Single Window for efficient trade facilitation, Igwe, who was a panelist at the recent National […]

Maritime Professionals Laud Okaga’s Appointment As Minister’s Technical Adviser

The appointment of Dr. Charles Okaga, General Manager, Operations, Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA) as the Technical Adviser to the Marine and Blue Economy Minister Adegboyega Oyetola has been lauded by the Association of West African Exporters and Maritime Professionals (AWAEMaP). In a statement made available to newsmen, the association noted that it was delighted and […]

National Single Window Will Boost Nigeria’s Admittance to IMO Category ‘C’, Deepens Competitiveness, says NPA MD

Managing Director of the Nigeria Port Authority (NPA), Dr. Abubakar Dantsoho has said that the implementation of a national single window (NSW) will promote Nigeria’s standing in the Committee of Maritime Nations and provide the reputational capital necessary for actualizing the case for the admittance of Nigeria into the Category ‘C’ of the International Maritime […]