Seme is a major crossing point for immigrants entering or leaving Nigeria legally and illegally. Seme Border has been described as the busiest border in West Africa because of its strategic location between two major commercial cities extending to Cotonou, ...
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KLT customs surpasses half-year target, collects N5.9 billion
The Kirikiri Lighter Terminal (KLT) Command of the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) has collected N5.992b revenue between January and June 2019, thereby surpassing its half-year target. The figure represents 59.2 per cent of its target for the year and 20.3 ...
Read More »Presidential Directives on Ease of Doing Business in the ports TINCAN Customs Half Year Generates N179.2b
In line with the Presidential mandate, with the resolve by the Command to achieve speedy clearance of cargo from the Ports and also reduce the cost of doing business, The Nigeria customs Tincan Island port command generated a total of ...
Read More »Apapa Customs Generates N203.3b Revenue in Six Months
The Nigerian Customs Apapa ,Area 1 command has collected N203,264,054,682.69 as revenue between the months of January through June 2019. Briefing journalists at the command in Apapa on Tuesday, the Customs Area Controller, Compt Abba Kura said the command also ...
Read More »NIMASA Call On Shipowners to Pay Up 2% Cabotage Fun
The Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA) has appealed to all operators of oil rigs and vessels in the maritime sector to pay up their Cabotage fees, even as its Director-General, Dakuku Peterside reaffirmed the Agency’s commitment to the ...
Read More »NPA assures stakeholders of industrial harmony and peace as MWUN suspends strike.
Stakeholders and other providers and users of port services in the country have been assured by the management of the Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA) that it would leave no stone unturned in ensuring industrial peace and harmony. This assurance was ...
Read More »CGC Strike Force, Zone ‘A’ battles against smuggling through water-ways
The Nigeria Customs Service CGC Strike Force, Zone ‘A’ has taken a new dimension considering the recent onslaught against economic saboteurs within the zone. It has become the battle against smuggling and it’s vices by the Deputy Comptroller of Customs ...
Read More »Nigerian Port Authority (NPA) intervenes As Maritime workers strike grounds 12, 000 containers,
As the strike action embarked upon by the Maritime Workers Union of Nigeria (MWUN) lingers, about 12,000 containers are currently trapped in the nation’s ports. During a visit to the Lagos ports, the workers blocked the entrance to busiest seaport ...
Read More »DG NIMASA attributes feat to reforms, agency tops regional chart on Port, Flag Control.
The Abuja Memorandum of Understanding MoU on Port State Control for West and Central Africa Region, otherwise known as Abuja MoU. The Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA) currently tops the chart on Port and Flag State Control regulations ...
Read More »Nigeria braces up for more women seafarers as stakeholders seek new policies to drive participation in maritime
The Federal Government has assured of producing more female seafarers with a view to exploring their potential in shipping for national development. It stressed the need for collaboration between the private and public sectors to review existing policies that would ...
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