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Crew of seized ship allowed contact with families, says shipowner

  The crew of the Galaxy Leader commercial ship seized by Yemen’s Iran-backed Houthis last month have been allowed “modest contact” with their families while various countries push for their…

UKMTO receives reports of drone incident in Southern Red Sea

  The UK Maritime Trade Operations (UKMTO) has received reports of an incident involving a suspected drone over the Red Sea west of the Yemeni port of Hodeidah on Wednesday…

Why FG has not paid ex-NNSL workers — Jamoh

  The Director General, Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA), Dr. Bashir Jamoh has said the refusal of the Maritime Workers Union of Nigeria (MWUN) to accept the settlement…

MV GREAT LAGOS: Adeyanju applauds Grimaldi, PTML

  The President of the Maritime Workers Union of Nigeria (MWUN), Comrade Adewale Adeyanju has commended the Grimaldi Group and its subsidiary PTML terminal for naming one of the largest…

Gambia returns nine stowaways who boarded ship at Tin-Can port

  The Gambia, on Tuesday, returned nine Nigerian stowaways who illegally boarded a ship out of the country at the Tin-Can Island Port, Lagos. The stowaways, who were returned to…

Customs FOU arrests 11 suspects, intercepts nine trailer loads of rice

Operatives of the Nigeria Customs Service, Federal Operations Unit (FOU) Zone ‘A’ Ikeja, Lagos, have seized nine trailer loads of foreign rice, 18,100 liters of petrol, others in the arrest…

APM Terminals, DP World launch ZEPA at COP28

  Two major container port and terminal operators DP World and APM Terminals announced the formation of the Zero Emission Port Alliance (ZEPA), a strategic coalition aiming to accelerate the…

Sanwo-Olu, Oyetola, others receive Grimaldi’s largest container-RORO ship, MV Great Lagos

  Lagos State Governor, Mr. Babajide Sanwo-Olu, represented by his Deputy, Dr. Obafemi Hamzat; the Minister of Marine and Blue Economy, Mr. Adegboyega Oyetola; Managing Director of Nigerian Ports Authority…

Nigeria records N3.5trn trade surplus 

  The National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) said Nigeria recorded N3.5 trillion trade surplus between January and September of 2023. NBS made this known in its foreign trade report for…

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Hadiza Bala Usman’s book of 99 errors

  I finally found the time last week to read Hadiza Bala Usman’s polemic titled “STEPPING ON TOES: My Odyssey at the Nigerian Ports Authority”. It is a small book…

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Merging NIMASA with Customs, FIRS dangerous

  By Dr. Ade Dosunmu  My attention has been drawn to speculation purported to have emanated from the Presidential Policy Advisory group erroneously classifying the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety…