Day: October 22, 2018

More Than A Score Shipping Companies Exit Nigerian Shores

Uche Mbah

By Uche Mbah Maersk Supply Service is  a part of Danish shipping and offshore energy conglomerate Maersk Group. In recent times, this supply arm  is making moves to reduce their Offshore Supply Ship Vessel (OSV) fleet by 20 within two years as well as its crew pool by 400 offshore points. This is symptomatic of the crisis that has befell the business world due to the repressive policies and unfavorable business environment that has become the hallmark of the present Administrations. Already, dockworkers are being laid off, reeling under $7…

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HSF: Ali Laughs Last, As Mohammed Honors Riks’ and Two Other Patrol teams

Steve Ubana

By Stephen Ubanna Hameed Ali, a retired Colonel and Comptroller General, Nigeria Customs Service, NCS, is a happy man. Ali’s source of happiness, according to a senior Customs officer, who spoke to the Magazine, was  the impressive  performance of the Headquarters  Strike Force in its anti-smuggling operations in the country. There was the initial pressure on the Comptroller from both official and unofficial quarters that there was  no basis for the Strike Force, because of the existence of the Federal Operations Unit, FOU, in the south west, south east, north…

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