LAGOS FEBRUARY 11TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The House of Representatives Committee on Ports and Harbours has commended the Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA) for its unprecedented revenue generation and remittance into the Consolidated Revenue Fund (CRF). The committee also praised the authority for its efforts in infrastructure and equipment renewal at the nation’s seaports despite challenges beyond its control….
LAGOS JANUARY 26TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA) and the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) have pledge to work together to deepen trade facilitation and drive exports as part of measures to support the federal governments economic diversification effort. They made the pledge yesterday when the Comptroller General of the NCS, Bashir Adewale Adeniyi led members…
LAGOS JULY 26TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA) has raised the alarm on increasing extortion along the access roads of the Lagos and Tin Can Island Port Complexes. This is coming on the heels of the clearance operations the Authority undertook on 16th to 18th July to rid the Port corridor of shanties and illegal…
LAGOS JULY 21ST (NEWSRANGERS)-The Terminal ‘C’ managed by Port and Cargo Limited at the Tin-Can Island of the Nigerian Ports Authority, NPA, is currently burning with cargoes worth millions of Naira destroyed. Although, details on the cause of the fire mishap are still sketchy, Vanguard gathered that emergency responders had been mobilised to the scene…
LAGOS JULY 20TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Soaring exchange rate has made some importers and agents to abandon some of their cargoes at the seaports. It was learnt that some vehicles had been abandoned immediately government introduced new exchange rate. Because of high import duty, findings from the Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA)’s Shipping Position indicated that only three vessels…
LAGOS JUNE 12TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Former Deputy National Publicity Secretary of the All Progressives Congress, Comrade Timi Frank, on Sunday, called on the Department of State Services (DSS) to arrest and prosecute all heads of Ministries, Departments and Agencies (MDAs of the Federal Government under ex-President Muhammadu Buhari, known to have abused their offices through corrupt tendencies….
LAGOS MAY 11TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Chairman of the Dangote Group, Aliko Dangote, has flayed the Nigeria Customs Service, Nigerian Ports Authority and the Nigerian Shippers’ Council for the congestion of the nation’s ports. Dangote slammed maritime sector stakeholders in his remarks at the third ‘Race to US$200bn In FX Repatriation’ Non-Oil Export Summit of the Central…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 16TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A group, Convention on Business Integrity (CBi), has said that its collaborative efforts with Federal Government agencies has resulted in a drastic reduction in the cost of birthing ships in Nigerian ports from $150,000 to $20,000. This was disclosed by a delegation of CBi led by Mr. Olusoji Apampa which paid a…