As you approach the Lagos Free Zone (LFZ) from Eleko, off the Lekki-Epe Expressway, there are swaths of stressed green vegetation with pockets of withering grasses and palm trees. This reveals the awful truth that the environment is caving into ...
Read More »Nigeria Joins IMO On Greener Shipping For Sustainable Development
Minister of Transportation Mu’ azu Jaji Sambo has said that Nigeria is committed to achieving greener shipping in line with the campaign by the International Maritime Organisation (IMO) to attain sustainable development in the maritime industry. He stated this is ...
Read More »Seeing Red with the Blue Economy
One of the biggest errors anybody can make is to see the ocean as limitless. Without a doubt, nothing on Earth is limitless. We live on a limited, blue planet, a tiny ball floating in the sea of galaxies loaded ...
Read More »HOMEF, Experts Carpet FG Over Approval Of Genetically Modified Wheat In Nigeria
Civil society groups representing millions of Nigerians have decried the permit the Federal Government recently granted to Trigall Genetics S.A. for the importation of genetically modified (GM) wheat (HB4 Wheat) into the country. Executive Director, Home of Mother Earth Foundation ...
Read More »Again, AUPCTRE, PSI, CAPPA, Others Reject National Water Bill, Privatisation In Lagos
Organised labour under the auspices of the Amalgamated Union of Public Corporations Civil Service Technical and Recreational Services Employees (AUPCTRE) and its civil society counterparts, Public Service International (PSI) and the Corporate Accountability and Public Participation Africa (CAPPA) have again ...
Read More »FG To Honour NIMASA DG With OFR Award
The Federal Government will honour the Director-General of the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency NIMASA, Dr. Bashir Jamoh, with the Officer of the Order of the Federal Republic (OFR). According to the letter of conferment from the Office of the ...
Read More »SIFAX Chairman, Taiwo Afolabi Loses Twin Brother, Kehinde
The entire management and staff of SIFAX Group were thrown into mourning when news of the death of the twin brother of its Chairman, Dr. Taiwo Afolabi, who was popularly called Kehinde was announced on Saturday, September 17, 2022, in ...
Read More »Statement of Solidarity Mission to AFIEGO and Partner CSOs in Uganda
Members of Oilwatch Africa paid a courtesy visit to Africa Institute for Energy Governance (AFIEGO) and other Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) working to protect the environment and communities’ land and human rights within the oil and gas regions from 6 ...
Read More »MAJAN Commissions Secretariat, Names Aniebonam Nigeria’s Freight Forwarder-General
The Maritime Journalists Association of Nigeria (MAJAN), has officially commissioned its Secretariat on No 19, Calcutta Crescent, Apapa Lagos and recognised the Founder of the National Association of Government Approved Freight Forwarders (NAGAFF), Dr. Boniface Okechukwu Aniebonam, as the Freight ...
Read More »NIMASA, NIS Deepen Collaboration On Maritime Security
· As NIS Boss Commends Automation Of Dockworkers Registration The Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA) and the Nigerian Immigration Service (NIS) have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to deepen existing interagency collaboration on seafarers’ travel documents and other areas ...
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