Nigeria Customs and its Mid-Term Scorecard in 2024 By Abdulsalam Mahmud Here in Nigeria, it is customary for many government organisations and institutions to wait till a year elapse before taking stock of their performance, activities and programmes - all-through the year. A few of them...

PRNigeria Bags Two NIPR Awards, Offers Female Corps Members Automatic Employment PRNigeria, a subsidiary of Image Merchants Promotion Limited (IMPR), has been honoured with the prestigious 'Diamond Award' by the Nigerian Institute of Public Relations (NIPR) in commemoration of its 60th Anniversary. The awards recognized...

Marine Ministry Targets $1 trillion Economy in Four Years The Executive Secretary, Chief Executive Officer, Nigerian Shippers Council (NSC), Pius Akuta has declared that the Federal Government, through the Ministry of Maritime and Blue Economy, has begun to develop a policy framework that would raise...

Shippers’ Council Says Illicit Financial Outflows Cost Nigeria, Others $50bn Annually The Nigerian Shippers’ Council has disclosed that Nigeria and other African nations are losing $50 billion a year to illegal financial outflows. The Executive Secretary/Chief Executive Officer of the NSC, Pius Akutah, stated this in...

NSC Saves N2.7bn from Demurrages in Two Years  The Nigerian Shipper’s Council has disclosed that it saved N2.7bn between 2020 to 2022. The council in its newsletter called ‘Complaint Newsletter’, a periodic publication of the agency, said the fund could have been lost to shipping companies,...

Reps Allege Sabotage, Grill Officials Over $120m Abandoned Ports’ Scanners         The House of Representatives’ Committee on Customs and Excise, on Monday, grilled top officials of the Federal Government over the abandonment of 22 cargo scanners that cost taxpayers $120m at the seaports, airports and land...