LAGOS APRIL 4TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Nigeria’s six legacy ports, Apapa; Tin Can Island; Calabar; Warri; Port Harcourt and Onne Ports are facing existential threat from the newly operational Lekki Deep Sea port, Business Hallmark can report. The six ports, findings revealed, have continued to lose experienced hands, as well as high value customers to the more modern…
LAGOS DECEMBER 21ST (NEWSRANGERS)-President of the Ship Owners Association of Nigeria, Mkgeorge Oyung, yesterday called for the relocation of the residents of Ajegunle, a suburb in Lagos, with a view to enhancing the value of Apapa Wharf. He stressed the need for the federal and Lagos state governments to recreate the Apapa Port by relocating…
LAGOS JANUARY 19TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA) has said it is shopping for multilateral agencies that would fund the reconstruction of the Tin Can Island and Apapa ports in Lagos. The Acting Managing Director of NPA, Muhammed Bello-Koko who stated this in Lagos, said the Minister of Transportation, Rotimi Amaechi had directed the agency…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 1ST (NEWSRANGERS)-Justice Abimbola Awogboro of the Federal High Court in Lagos granted an order of interim forfeiture of a vessel, MV Chayaneenre, allegedly used to smuggle 32.9 kilograms of Cocaine into the country, to the federal government. Justice Awogboro also granted leave to the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) to detain the…
LAGOS AUGUST 20TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Cargoes destined for Nigerian seaports are now being diverted to neighbouring countries of Ivory Coast, Ghana and Cameroon by importers due to the consistent server breakdown experienced at seaports, LEADERSHIP learnt. For the past few days, Apapa and Tin-Can Island ports complex have been experiencing persistent server breakdown, a situation that has…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 2ND (NEWSRANGERS)-China Civil Engineering Construction Corporation (CCECC) has announced that the Lagos-Ibadan Rail has been officially connected to the Apapa port complex. The construction company disclosed this in a tweet on Monday. “On the morning of Jan. 25, 2021, with the successful pouring of the last 25-meter monolithic track bed superstructure of Apapa…
LAGOS MARCH 5TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A research carried out by SBM Intelligence has shown that it is 10 times costlier to move goods from the port in Apapa, Lagos than it is to move them from the ports in Ghana and South Africa. The Apapa and Tincan Island ports, which is Nigeria’s busiest port terminal, has suffered…
LAGOS JANUARY 31ST (NEWSRANGERS)-Officials of Tema Port Authorities in Ghana have arrested 3 Nigerian stowaways who sneaked into the MV Unity vessel they thought was going to Spain at Apapa Port in Nigeria. The suspects who hoped to arrive Spain in search of greener pastures were identified as Isaac Daniel 32, Stephen Nuta 28 and Kelvin Popoola 26. They were found hiding…