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Compt Onyeka Outlines Measures To Curb Multiple Alerts At Tin-can Port Command

Comptroller Frank Onyeka, the Customs Area Controller of Tin-Can Island Port Command, has introduced key reforms to address the issue of multiple alerts, streamline operations, and enhance trade facilitation.  This was introduced during a critical stakeholders’ meeting held at the command’s conference hall on Tuesday.  The engagement brought together government agencies, terminal operators, freight forwarders,…

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CRFFN Registrar Advocates NSW Proficiency Certification For Freight Forwarders, Logistics Experts

… Says the system will reduce monotony of Demand Note, Logistics Cost 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…

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MARAN Congratulates Okaga On New Appointment As Technical Adviser To FMMBE Minister

The Maritime Reporters Association of Nigeria (MARAN) has hailed the appointment of Dr. Charles Okaga as Technical Adviser to the Minister of Marine and Blue Economy, Adegboyega Oyetola. The President of MARAN, Mr. Godfrey Bivbere while congratulating Okaga, described the appointment as a square peg in square hole. Harping on Okaga’s pedegree, he said his…

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World Customs Organisation Recognizes SIFAX Group’s Excellent Services   

The World Customs Organisation (WCO) has commended SIFAX Group for its strategic importance and the excellent service that has become the hallmark of the business conglomerate. This recognition was given during the presentation of a “Certificate of Merit” to the company by WCO during this year’s International Customs Day celebration in Abuja, Nigeria, with the…

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Dantsoho Describes Single Window As Most Strategic Port Development Initiative Since 2003

— Believes Implementation Will Ensure Nigeria’s Admittance To IMO Category ‘C’   Managing Director of the Nigeria Port Authority (NPA),  Dr. Abubakar Dantsoho has described the National Single Window as one of the most strategic port development initiatives since the port reform of 2003, saying that its implementation will promote Nigeria’s standing in the Committee of…

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Customs CG Highlights Strategies For Successful Single Window Operations In Nigeria

After over a decade of failed attempts to implement international trade, Single Window in Nigeria, the Comptroller-General of the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS), Bashir Adewale Adeniyi has identified hydra-headed factors that have undermined every effort on the project and suggested ways to make it work. According to the World Customs Organisation (WCO), a Single Window…

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Compt Onyeka Set To Deploy B’Odogwu Technology To Tincan Command

The integration of advanced technologies such as Blockchain, E – Customs platform and the artificial intelligence have all worked to enhance the speed of cargo clearance and have reinforced the Service’s commitment towards meeting global best practices in the pilot phase of B’Odogwu initiative at the PTML Command. This was the submission of the Customs…

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Customs Boss Canvasses Inter-Agency Collaboration To Optimise Anti-Smuggling Operations

The Comptroller-General of the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS), Adewale Adeniyi, has called for increased collaboration among security agencies to effectively address smuggling and its detrimental effects on Nigeria’s economy. Delivering a lecture to participants of Course 33 at the National Defence College (NDC) in Abuja on Thursday, the Customs boss stressed the importance of synergy…

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