Maritime

Shippers’ Council, ICPC unite to combat corruption in Nigeria

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By Dooyum Naadzenga The Nigerian Shippers’ Council (NSC) has pledged to strengthen its collaboration with the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC). This joint effort was announced during a recent meeting at the NSC headquarters in Lagos, marking a renewed

Maritime

Shippers’ Council steps in to prevent truck owners’ strike

DailyTimesNGR DailyTimesNGR 26 February 2025 0

BY TEMTOPE ADEBAYO The Nigerian Shippers’ Council has moved to stave off the planned strike by the coalition of truck owners and maritime workers meant to protest the alleged extortion by the agents of the Lagos government on Lagos roads. The planned action, which was slated to commence soon, would have resulted to disruption of […]

Transport

Shippers Council launches online portal for registration

DailyTimesNGR DailyTimesNGR 15 February 2024 0

By Temitope Adebayo The Nigerian Shippers’ Council (NSC) has launched its Online Portal for the Registration of Regulated Port Service Providers and Users. The Director of the South-South zone of NSC, Mr Glory Onojedo, who was represented by Mrs Patricia Osuma, Director of Public Relations of the Council, at Onne, Rivers state, revealed that the […]

News

X-Raying Akuta’s New Direction In Shippers Council

DailyTimesNGR DailyTimesNGR 3 January 2024 0

By Dan Abutu The Nigerian maritime industry, a behemoth pulsating with the lifeblood of global trade, has long felt the tremors of change. Yet, amid the churn and churn of shifting currents, a figure emerges, steady and resolute, charting a course towards a brighter horizon. He is barrister Pius Ukeyima Akuta, the Executive Secretary of […]

Maritime

Shippers’ council assured of legislative backing for effective regulation

DailyTimesNGR DailyTimesNGR 20 December 2023 0

By Temitope Adebayo The Chairman of the House of Representative Committee on Shipping Services, Abdussamad Dasuki, has promised that the National Assembly (NASS) would fast-track the Nigerian Shippers’ Council (NSC) amendment bill next year to give the council the legal framework as the maritime industry economic regulator. Dasuki, who stated this at a two-day

Maritime

Shippers Council’s PSTT commended for restoring sanity on access roads

Ihesiulo Grace 20 July 2023 0

By Temitope Adebayo The Port Standing Task Team (PSTT) domiciled under the Nigerian Shippers Council has been commended by the Chairman of Apapa Local Government, Hon Idowu Adejumoke Sebanjo for restoring sanity on the access roads leading in and out of the port city. The Chairman gave this recommendation when the Executive Secretary of the […]

Business

Simplify call-up system for containers, shippers urge NPA

Ihesiulo Grace 15 March 2019

Temitope Adebayo The President, Shippers Association Lagos State (SALS), Mr Jonathan Nicol, has urged the Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA) to simplify the call-up system of returning overtime containers into the ports. Nicol made the appeal while speaking with the Newsmen in Lagos recently. He alleged that some transporters in Lagos paid between N20,000 and N30,000 […]

Opinion

Calumny against Nigerian Shippers Council

Ihesiulo Grace 20 April 2015 0

The barrage of media attacks being unleashed on Nigerian Shippers’ Council by faceless writers masquerading as terminal operators calls to question why they do not want to embrace change. We are worried because people who have been entrenched with corrupt tendencies are never amenable to change. To them change means an attempt to undermine their business […]