FG orders MTN, others to suspend planned USSD charges

FG orders MTN, others to suspend planned USSD charges

Nigerian government on Sunday ordered the immediate suspension of the proposed Unstructured Supplementary Service Data (USSD) charges on customers who uses them.

Chizi Nyeomasila Salutes Eze's Doggedness and Professionalism in Media Handling, Urges Him to Maintain the Tempo ...Says His Rewards Await Him.

Chizi Nyeomasila Salutes Eze's Doggedness and Professionalism in Media Handling, Urges Him to Maintain the Tempo ...Says His Rewards Await Him.

20th October, 2019

PRESS RELEASE:

Chizi Nyeomasila Salutes Eze's Doggedness and Professionalism in Media Handling, Urges Him to Maintain the Tempo ...Says His Rewards Await Him.

Seven dead in Obaseki’s convoy crash

Seven dead in Obaseki’s convoy crash

At least seven persons, including five adults and two children, were on Saturday morning killed in a ghastly auto accident involving the advance team of Governor Godwin Obaseki on Benin-Auchi Expressway.

BREAKING: Kogi Deputy Governor reacts to Impeachment, Reveals Next Line of Action [PHOTO]

BREAKING: Kogi Deputy Governor reacts to Impeachment, Reveals Next Line of Action [PHOTO]

The Deputy Governor of Kogi State, Mr. Simon Achuba has reacted to his impeachment by lawmakers in the statehouse of Assembly.

PRESIDENT BUHARI ORDERS FORENSIC AUDIT OF NDDC ACTIVITIES

PRESIDENT BUHARI ORDERS FORENSIC AUDIT OF NDDC ACTIVITIES

Worried by the persistent criticisms of the operations of the Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC, President Muhammadu Buhari has ordered a forensic audit of the operations of the organisation from 2001 to 2019.

Marine Environment: Nigeria Committed to Effective Ballast Water Management – Dr Dakuku

Marine Environment: Nigeria Committed to Effective Ballast Water Management – Dr Dakuku

· IMO Advocates Harmonised Enforcement 

 The Director-General of the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA), Dr. Dakuku Peterside, has reiterated Nigeria’s commitment to the Ballast Water Management (BWM) Convention, 2004. Dakuku also said NIMASA remained determined to ensure cleaner oceans and a safe, secure and environmentally sound maritime sector.

Nigeria’s debt hits N25.7trn, rises by N3.3trn in one year

Nigeria’s debt hits N25.7trn, rises by N3.3trn in one year

Femi Asu

The nation’s total public debt rose by N3.32trn in one year to N25.7trn as at the end of June 2019, the Debt Management Office said on Tuesday.

Police, aide differ on alleged attack on Oshiomhole’s Benin home

Police, aide differ on alleged attack on Oshiomhole’s Benin home

Sola Shittu, Benin

The Edo State Police Commissioner and an aide to the National Chairman of the ruling All Progressives Congress, Adams Oshiomhole, have given different versions about an alleged attack on the ex-governor’s country home in Benin.

NNPC discovers oil in Northern Nigeria

NNPC discovers oil in Northern Nigeria

The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), yesterday, announced the discovery of crude oil and gas in the Kolmani River II Well on the Upper Benue Trough, Gongola Basin.

Communique For The Global Maritime Security Conference 2019.

Communique For The Global Maritime Security Conference 2019. 

Below is the communique for the Global Maritime security Conference 2019 which held in Abuja Nigeria :

GMSC 2019 : Maritime Security Is a Key Component in The Fight Against Illicit Drug trade- UNODC

GMSC 2019 : Maritime Security Is a Key Component in The Fight Against Illicit Drug trade- UNODC

In the face of rising cases of shipments of cocain and other Illicit drugs, the United Nations Office for Drugs and Crime has called on coastal nations in the Gulf of Guinea to apply the Vienna Convention on Narcotic Substances , especially in Article 17 which empowers coastal countries to board vessels with  foreign flags if reasonable suspicion is established.

Joseph Giuseppe Sernia, the program officer at UNODC said the huge seizures of cocaine at Cape Verde, Guinea Bissau  points to the fact that majority of Illicit drugs are transported by sea, hence the need for countries to connect to implement legal frameworks against maritime crime.

Mr Sernia said UNODC has in the last six years been assessing frameworks and recommending reforms.

He particularly commended the Nigerian Government for blazing the trail in domestication of relevant frameworks, especially the passage of the Suppression Act.
He said "harmonization is first a question of developing capacity to prosecute."

Also, Oliver Stoipe UNODC’s Country Director for Nigeria praised the Nigerian Government for the Suppression of Piracy Act which he said has for the first time gives a comprehensive framework on the issue of piracy and more broadly speaking of maritime crime.

"I think that we are on a good path. Of course the big issue is specific action on prosecution that has been lacking"

"The challenge of looking at the Gulf of Guinea as whole is that the legal framework is extremely fragmented"
"We have the regional frameworks, we have also the international framework. We have even the sub-regional at the level of ECOWAS but there is a gap between the countries having signed on to these different policies and actually being able to put them into domestic legislation or domestic policies. "

He said the UNODC is providing training for prosecutors and also law enforcement officers.
" We are doing our best to support Nigeria and the other countries. We should consider that the main work is done by the African countries themselves",he said.

addressed the press conference alongside the Programme Officer at the UNODC Office in Nigeria, Mr. Giuseppe Sernia

GMSC 2019 :Disruptions in maritime movements have impact on the cost of goods and services - UK Delegate

GMSC 2019 :Disruptions in maritime movements have impact on the cost of goods and services - UK Delegate

Richard Morris, a representative of the United Kingdom Maritime Domain Awareness Program (MDA) has reiterated the need to ensure a smooth and safe movement of goods and services around the global waterways.

We Have Put Modalities in place for the Participation Of More Nigerians In Shipping - Dr Dakuku Peterside

We Have Put Modalities in place for the Participation Of More Nigerians In Shipping - Dr Dakuku Peterside 

The Director General of the Nigerian Maritime And Safety Agency (NIMASA), Dr Dakuku Adol Peterside has said that beyond ensuring maritime safety, the agency looks forward to seeing more Nigerians

participate in the shopping industry.

GoG: With Global Effort, Our Waters Will Be Safe – Buhari

GoG: With Global Effort, Our Waters Will Be Safe – Buhari

·Amaechi: Collaboration, Most Valuable Solution to Insecurity in GoG

.Dakuku Advocates More Profound Global Response

WELCOME ADDRESS BY DR. DAKUKU A. PETERSIDE, DIRECTOR GENERAL NIGERIAN MARITIME ADMINISTRATION AND SAFETY AGENCY (NIMASA) AT THE OPENING CEREMONY OF THE GLOBAL MARITIME SECURITY CONFERENCE HELD AT THE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE CENTRE, ABUJA ON MONDAY 7TH OCTOBER, 2019

WELCOME ADDRESS BY DR. DAKUKU A. PETERSIDE, DIRECTOR GENERAL NIGERIAN MARITIME ADMINISTRATION AND SAFETY AGENCY (NIMASA) AT THE OPENING CEREMONY OF THE GLOBAL MARITIME SECURITY CONFERENCE HELD AT THE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE CENTRE, ABUJA ON MONDAY 7TH OCTOBER, 2019

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1. It is with a profound sense of gratitude that I welcome you all to this Global Maritime Security Conference organised by the Federal Republic of Nigeria. This Conference is unique and comes at a critical time in our collective quest for solutions to issues affecting our socio-economic development as nations.

NATIONAL MINIMUM WAGE: EL-RUFAI IS BLAZING TRAIL -- EZE...PARTY CHIEFTAIN URGES KADUNA GOV TO TUTOR OTHERS ...Hails Gov for unique educational, water scheme projects

NATIONAL MINIMUM WAGE: EL-RUFAI IS BLAZING TRAIL -- EZE...PARTY CHIEFTAIN URGES KADUNA GOV TO TUTOR OTHERS  ...Hails Gov for unique educational, water scheme projects

02 – 10– 19

PRESS RELEASE

The Governor of Kaduna State, Mallam Nasir El-Rufai, has been commended for being the first Nigerian State Governor to implement the N30, 000 Federal minimum wage scheme, described as a trail-blazer.