SIFAX Group Chairman Joins In Commissioning Newly-Acquired NPA Patrol Boat

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…

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Oyetola Pledges Judicious Use Of ITF Grant For Establishment Of Seafarers Recreation Centre

By Sylvanus OBASI, Lagos The International Transport Workers’ Federation UK has approved a grant to Nigeria through the Maritime Workers Union of Nigeria, MWUN, to build a Seafarers Recreation Centre in partnership with the Nigeria Maritime Administration and Safety Agency, NIMASA. The Head ITF Seafarers Trust Fund, Katie Higginbottom, who announced this during a meeting with…

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Shippers Council Unveils Online Portal For RPSPU Registration

By Sylvanus OBASI, Lagos The Nigerian Shippers’ Council, has launched it’s Online Portal for the Registration of Regulated Port Service Providers and Users. Platform Reporters gathered that the Director, South-South Zone of Nigerian Shippers’ Council, Mr. Glory Onojedo disclosed this during a stakeholders sensitization programme held recently in Onne, Rivers state. He noted that the…

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Akinsoji’s Death: A Further Depletion Of Nigerian Mariners, A Call To End Lip Service To Mentorship, Maritime Succession Plan

By: Sylvanus OBASI, Lagos In the year 2016 during the early reign of Right Hon Rotimi Amaechi as the Transport Minister, he organised a maritime submit where all the who is who in the Nigerian Maritime sector attended.  Amongst all myraids of issues raised and discussed at the occasion, the need for Mentorship and Succession…

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Area 2 Command, Surpasses January Target With 5 Days Left, Celebrates World Customs Day In High Spirit

By Sylvanus OBASI, Lagos. The Nigeria Customs Service, Area II Command, Onne Port, Rivers State joins Customs formations all over the World to celebrate International Customs Day in high spirit. This is even as the command has surpassed its January revenue target with 5 more working days to spare. Speaking in Onne while addressing stakeholders…

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MARASSON Felicitates As NPCC Elects Sunmola New Chairman, Reviews 2023 Maritime Activities

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…

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CGC Deepens Collaboration With NPA To Improve Ports Efficiency In Facilitating Trade

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,…

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2023 In Retrospect: Examining Platforms Communication’s Impactful Programmes In Maritime Sector

By Sylvanus OBASI, Lagos. The year 2023 may have come and gone but the programs and activities of Platforms Communications still reverberate the entire sector with its impacts. Lets take a cursory summary look of these programes and how they impacted the Nigerian maritime sector in 2023. 1. Immediately after the 2023 Presidential and Gubernatorial…

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