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Nationwide Blackout Looms As DSS Allegedly Aids Seizure Of TCN’s Facility
THISDAY newspaper has reported that national electricity supplies may witness another round of disruptions from the transmission end of the loop if reported takeover of the fibre…
Nigeria Loses $6bn Yearly To Sea Piracy
The Secretary Government of the Federation (SGF), Mr Boss Mustapha, has disclosed that the federal government is losing $6 billion annually to violent crimes in Nigerian territorial…
CABOTAGE: NIMASA Halts Waivers, Insists On Strict Compliance By IOCs
The Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA), will no longer encourage the application of any form of waivers under the Cabotage Act, particularly for oil firms…
NPA To Sanction Shipping Firm Over Arbitrary Port Charges
The Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA), has threatened to sanction CMA CGM, a major shipping line, over alleged unilateral imposition of $400 on shipments to two ports of Lagos,…
Shipowners Seek More Compliant Recycling
Worried that the current recycling capacity included on the EU list is not enough to meet the demands of the EU Ship Recycling Regulation, the European Community Shipowners’…
Cadets’ Protest Over Sea Time Experience: NIMASA Must Take The Blame For Ineptitude, Stakeholders Say
In refusing to do the needful by heeding to professional advice and taking advantage of opportunities offered to engage the cadets on vessels, stakeholders in the shipping…
Port Concession Review: Shippers Council Exclusion To Deny Nigeria Technical Input
By Ngozi Onyeakusi The Nigerian Shippers Council, NSC, has said lamented denial from par imaging in the planned review of the port concession exercise The group noted that…
Apapa Gridlock: Taskforce To Start Impounding Errant Trucks Monday
The Presidential Task Force on Lagos ports access road traffic debacle, Wednesday came out with another strategy to tackle the gridlock that has defied many solutions, threatening…
NPA, China port Seal Pack on port management
Hadiza Bala-Usman The Nigerian Ports Authority and the Guangzhou Ports Authority of China have signed a two-year Memorandum of Understanding to establish a port relationship that…
NPA To Plug Loopholes In Ports Concession Agreement
The drive to plug the loopholes observed in the 12-year old ports concessioning agreement it entered into with concessionaires in 2006, has made the Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA)…