The Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency NIMASA today signed a Memorandum of Understanding MoU with Sternula Denmark on full-scale Very High Frequency (VHF) Data Exchange System (VDES) space capabilities between the Agency and Sternula. The Director General of the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency, NIMASA Dr Bashir Jamoh, OFR, who signed on behalf of the Agency noted…
By Monica Uzenwoke In furtherance to its Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR), the Women’s International Shipping and Trading Association (WISTA) Nigeria has donated a fishing boat to the women of Osoroko community in Ibeju Lekki, Lagos. This is even as the association also signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the community in a bid to support…
The 2023 AMSAY Conference Planning Committee and the Management of Platforms Communications have once again expressed their special appreciations and commendations to some individuals and corporate bodies who in one way or the other supported the 2023 Annual Maritime Students And Youth Conference (AMSAY). This is even as the organisers have announced commencement of plans…
The Chairman of SIFAX Group, Dr. Taiwo Afolabi (CON), recently joined other maritime big wigs such as Gboyega Oyetola, Honorable Minister of Marine and Blue Economy; Mohammed Bello-Koko, MD, Nigerian Ports Authority and Adewale Adeyanju, PG, Maritime Workers Union of Nigeria to commission the newly-acquired patrol boats by the Nigerian Ports Authority. In a press…
The Chairman, SIFAX Group of Companies, Dr Taiwo Afolabi – CON has accepted to deliver convocation Lecture at the Ladoke Akintola University of Technology, (LAUTECH) Ogbomosho, Platform Reporters can authoritatively report. This follows a visit by the management of the University led by its Acting Vice Chancellor, Professor Rasak Olatunde Rom Kalilu who paid a…
… Projects Exceeding Revenue Goals The Comptroller-General of the Customs, CGC Bashir Adewale Adeniyi MFR, presented the Service’s 2024 budget on Monday to the Nigeria Senate Committee on Customs at the National Assembly. The CG, while defending the 2024 budget of 706.43 billion naira, focused attention on consolidating carried-over projects, increasing staff welfare by improving…
The Nigerian Ports Consultative Council (NPCC) at its Quarterly Meeting at Federal Palace Hotel, Victoria Island, Lagos on Thursday 25th January, 2024 unanimously elected Mr. Bolaji SUNMOLA as its Chairman to replace Otunba Kunle Folarin who passed on to glory on November 8, 2022, on a motion by Mr. A.O. Vincent of Maritime Researchers and…
The Comptroller General of the Nigeria Customs Service, Bashir Adewale Adewale MFR, has further deepened the collaboration between the Nigeria Customs Service and the Nigerian Ports Authority. The CGC visited the MD of NPA, Mohammed Bello-Koko, on Thursday, January 25, 2024, to explore areas of improving port efficiency to facilitate trade. According to the CGC,…
Dr. Taiwo Afolabi, Chairman, SIFAX Group and the newly-appointed Chancellor of the Gerar University of Medical Sciences, Imope-Ijebu, Ogun State, has commended the university for the quality of infrastructure at the institution’s campus. Afolabi, who was appointed the first Chancellor of the institution recently, expressed his delight that the university, which will welcome her…
By ISA SAIDU, Dutse. Former military Head of State, General Ibrahim Babangida ( rtd) has said his greatest achievements as Nigeria’s leader was to know more about the country and make friends across board, while adopting coercion and pleading as leadership styles. Babangida stated this in an exclusive interview with FUT Minna Search FM Radio, and…
