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First trans-shipment vessel arrives Lekki Port

July 1, 2023July 1, 2023 Aminu Imam

The management of the Lekki Deep Seaport has announced that Rimbaud has become the first transshipment vessel to berth at the port in Lagos. Making this known in a series of tweets yesterday, the port management said the ship, operated by CMA CGM, has a Length Overall of 270m, a breadth of 42.8m and 6,900 Taus capacity. It stated that the vessel sailed all the way from the Far-East. According to the tweet, the Nigerian Ports Authority, (NPA), provided marine services, adding that it was berthed at approximately 1 pm…

NPA: �Hadiza�s insubordination, abuse of office caused heavy revenue losses� – Former GM

April 18, 2023April 18, 2023 Aminu Imam

A former General Manager of the Nigerian Ports Authority, (NPA), Asu Beks, has dissected the recently published book, titled: �Stepping on Toes�, by the NPA�s former Managing Director, Hadiza Usman Bala, and submitted that former arrowhead committed immense blunders, especially in the area of insubordination and abuse of office which resulted in heavy losses to the Federal Government. While stressing that he had no intention of joining issues with the ex-Managing Director of the Authority, the former General Manager also emphasised the need to �call a spade a spade�, as…

“Comply with FG�s directive on Naira transactions�, Oil Marketers urges NIMASA, NPA

November 15, 2022November 15, 2022 Aminu Imam

The Oil Marketers Association of Nigeria has said the refusal of the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA) and the Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA) to obey Federal Government�s directive on Naira transactions for ports charges is contributing to the fall in value of naira and the rise in price of petrol. This is contained in an issued statement by the Vice Chairman II, Depots and Petroleum Products Marketers Association of Nigeria (DAPPMAN), Mahmood Tukur, at the weekend. Recall that the Federal Government, through its downstream regulator, and based on…

Conspiracy of Silence: Reps. summon NPA Boss, terminal operators over $753m, N1.61bn debts

August 15, 2022August 15, 2022 Aminu Imam

The House of Representatives Public Accounts Committee (PAC), has summoned the Managing Director of the Nigeria Ports Authority (NPA), and 18 terminal operators to appear before it and explain why the sum of $753million and 1.61 billion was not paid to the coffers of the Federal Government. The summon followed the Committee�s deliberation on audit queries raised against the parties by the office of the Auditor-General to the Federation (AuGF) over the indebtedness of about 18 terminal operators doing business in the nation�s ports to the FG. According to the…

Economic Crimes: CNPP, CSOs demand immediate resignation of NPA Boss, arrest of ex-Transportation Minister, Rotimi Amaechi

August 3, 2022August 3, 2022 Aminu Imam

The Conference of Nigeria Political Parties (CNPP) and the Coalition of National Civil Society Organisations (C-CSOs) have called for the immediate resignation of the current Managing Director of the Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA), Moh’d Bello-Koko, and the arrest of the former Minister of Transportation, Rotimi Amaechi, for defying the Federal Government on matters relating to the Treasury Single Account, (TSA), and operating two secret foreign accounts where payments are made and the funds are looted at will by the management and the supervising Minister while he was in office. Recall…

“I will right Amaechi�s wrongs in the maritime industry” – Transport Minister, Gbemi Saraki, vows

June 26, 2022June 26, 2022 Aminu Imam

After several years as Minister of State in the Federal Ministry of Transportation, Senator Gbemi Saraki has finally crept out from the hold of her estranged boss and former Minister, Rotimi Amaechi. Gbemi Saraki, who was consigned to a �spare tyre� role under Rotimi Amaechi, stormed Lagos this week with a full complement of the Staff of the Federal Ministry of Transportation, told newsmen that her mission in Lagos was to have a feel on first basis, the myriad of problems facing Nigeria�s Maritime Industry. According to her, �Having gone…

Audit Query: H/Reps C’ttee probes NPA over non-remittance of multi-million dollar revenue

May 23, 2022May 23, 2022 Aminu Imam

The House of Representatives Committee on Public Accounts has commenced an investigation into the multi-million dollar debt owed the Federal Government by terminal operators and the failure by the Nigeria Port Authority (NPA) to account for billions of naira accruing to the national treasury. The Committee Chairman, Rep. Wole Oke, asked the Management of the NPA to explain why such a huge amount of money owed to the Federal Government by terminal operators has not been recovered and paid into the federal treasury. The investigation is the sequel to 12…

Panel indicts ex-NPA Boss, Hadiza Bala-Usman

February 3, 2022February 3, 2022 Aminu Imam

�Issues her query Former Managing Director of the Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA), Hadiza Bala-Usman�s troubles have just been compounded as a panel of inquiry appointed, with the approval of President Muhammadu Buhari, to investigate her 5-year tenure at the government agency, has allegedly indicted her and subsequently issued her a query. Recall that embattled Bala-Usman was suspended from office last year following the recommendations of her supervising minister, Rotimi Amaechi, the Minister of Transportation. It had been reported that the real reason she was suspended from office was allegedly undermining…

Suspended NPA MD, Bala-Usman, meets President Buhari

January 23, 2022January 23, 2022 Aminu Imam

Despite being on suspension for the past eight months as ordered by President Muhammadu Buhari in May 2021, suspended Managing Director of the Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA), Hadiza Bala-Usman, on Friday informally met with the President. Although Bala-Usman might have met with President Buhari previously behind-closed-door and off the cameras, this Friday�s meeting was the first time the duo will be seen together in public since the suspension was pronounced. Recall that Bala-Usman was suspended in May 2021 by the Federal Government, as part of moves to ‘allow an independent…

Audit Query: NPA to refund N40.13bn, $921.64m, �289,931.82m to FG

January 15, 2022January 15, 2022 Aminu Imam

The Office of the Auditor-General of the Federation has indicted the Nigeria Ports Authority, (NPA), for failure to recover and remit N40.126 billion, $921.636 million and �289,931.82 to government treasury from various revenue sources in the 2019 financial fiscal year. This was contained in 13 audit queries for the NPA signed by the Auditor-General of the Federation, Adolphus Aghughu, and submitted to the National Assembly for further legislative action. The report disclosed that agreements signed between NPA and various terminal operators stated that: �A fixed annual payment of a sum…