Month: December 2019

Omoyele Sowore Nominated For U.S Prisoner Of Conscience Honour

The Convener of #RevolutionNow protest, Mr. Omoyele Sowore, has been nominated and may be given the ‘Prisoner of Conscience honour award’ by the Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission of the United States House of Representatives. The publisher of SaharaReporters, who was released by the Department of the State Service, DSS, by the order of the …

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Platform Reporters Unveil Profile Of FOMI 2019 Finalists, Salute Their Uniqueness

The Face of Maritime International (FOMI) 2019 has come and gone, but the memories of the 3 months contest still resonates in the social media platforms as photos and videos of the event keep surfacing every now and then in the social media spaces. “Today, Platform Reporters, organisers of the pageant celebrate these 8 unique …

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Shippers’ Council 2019 Stakeholders Appreciation Night: The Good, The Bad And The Ugly (Part 2).

In part 1 of this special report entitled, “How Late Commencement, Boredom, Starvation Marred Shippers Council’s 2019 Appreciation Night”, we gave you minutes by minutes reportage of what went down at the occasion, how it all began and ended in mixed feelings and disappointment for some people. In this part 2, using analytical journalistic style …

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POOR IMAGE MANAGEMENT: 2 Weeks After, NSC PR Yet to Publicise Stories, Photos of Stakeholders Appreciation Night

Believe it or not the Public Relations Department of NIMASA led by Isichei Osamgbi, and that of NPA led by Engr Adams Jatto are far ahead of their contemporaries in other agencies under the Ministry of Transportation when it comes to efficient image management and information dissemination of activities happening at their respective agencies. But …

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BREAKING NEWS: FOMI Miss Leadership Gains Admission At FCFMT To Study Nautical Sciences

Miss Nigerian Railway Corporation who came fifth and emerged FOMI Miss Leadership in the just concluded Face Of Maritime International (FOMI) 2019, Ikeru Happiness has just been offered admission on merit at the foremost Maritime Academy in Nigeria, the Federal College of Fisheries and Marine Technology (FCFMT) to study Nautical Sciences. In a press statement …

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NPA Set To Commence Payment Of Severance Package To Disengaged Dockworkers

The Maritime Workers Union of Nigeria (MWUN) has announced that baring last minutes hitches the Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA) would by next Monday commence payment of severance packages to Tally Clerks and On-board ship Gangway Security men who were disengaged from service in year 2015. In a statement made available to PLATFORM REPORTERS on Monday, …

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Apapa Customs Generates N413bn To Surpass 2019 Revenue Target Of N372bn

The Nigeria Customs Service (NCS), Apapa Area 1 Command has generated N413.7 billion as revenue from January 1 to December 19, 2019, thereby surpassing its annual revenue target of N372 billion, the Customs Area Controller, Comptroller Mohammed Abba-Kura has revealed. In a press briefing held by the Command on Friday in Lagos, Abba-Kura stated that …

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Nigeria Takes Delivery Of Special Mission Vessel

*** As NIMASA Graduates New Intelligence Officers Under Deep Blue Project In another major step towards the full realisation of an integrated surveillance and security architecture to broadly tackle insecurity in Nigeria’s waterways, up to the Gulf of Guinea, the country has taken delivery of the first special mission vessel under the Deep Blue Project. …

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Maritime Stakeholders Task FG On Long Time Infrastructural Projects

The Federal Government has-been charged to develop a long term Port infrastructural projects that will accommodate future expansion and growth under a well- structured socio- economic policies. This was part of the communique issued at the end of a day seminar on the Sustainability of the Lagos Ports access roads Decongestion, lasting solutions, organized by …

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Active Women Involvement Key To Growth Of Maritime Industry – Peterside

*** As Ogbeifun Eulogizes WISTA For Encouraging Women Investment in Fishing Director-General of the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA), Dr. Dakuku Peterside, says active women participation is fundamental to the growth of the maritime industry. Dakuku stated this at a Business Luncheon and 25th Anniversary of the Women’s International Shipping and Trading Association …

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