December 1, 2025

MARITIME

Galaxy Backbone visits NCS, explores strategic partnership with NCBN

Galaxy Backbone Visits NCS, Explores Strategic Partnership with NCBN

By Babatunde Aremu

As part of ongoing efforts to strengthen institutional partnerships and support government agencies with reliable digital infrastructure, Galaxy Backbone Limited on Thursday, 2 May 2025, paid a courtesy visit to the Nigeria Customs Broadcasting Network Service (NCBN) at the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) Headquarters in Abuja.… More...

CG Adeniyi promises more structural customs presence at snake island integrated free zone

CGC Adeniyi Pledges More Structural Customs Presence at Snake Island Integrated Free Zone

By Babatunde Aremu

The Comptroller General of Customs, Adewale Adeniyi, has pledged to establish a new Customs Area Command at the Snake Island Integrated Free Zone (SIIFZ), following an official visit to the facility on Wednesday 30 April 2025.… More...

CGC Adeniyi Pledges More Structural Customs Presence at Snake Island Integrated Free Zone

By Babatunde Aremu

The Comptroller General of Customs, Adewale Adeniyi, has pledged to establish a new Customs Area Command at the Snake Island Integrated Free Zone (SIIFZ), following an official visit to the facility on Wednesday 30 April 2025.… More...

Nigeria customs deploys Electronic currency Declaration form( e-CDF) at Abuja Airport

CUSTOMS DEPLOYS ELECTRONIC CURRENCY DECLARATION FORM (e-CDF) AT ABUJA AIRPORT

By Babatunde Aremu

The Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) has announced the successful pilot deployment of the Electronic Currency Declaration Form (e-CDF) at Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja, as part of its ongoing digital transformation and modernisation initiatives aimed at strengthening border controls and enhancing transparency in financial disclosures.… More...

CSR: Customs CG , Adeniyi unveils school, Healthcare centre in Sagbokoji, Amuwo odofin, Lagos

Customs CG, Adeniyi Unveils School, Healthcare Centre in Sagbokoji Under ‘Customs Cares’ Initiative

By Babatunde Aremu

The Comptroller General of Customs (CGC), Adewale Adeniyi, on Wednesday, 30 April 2025, commissioned a newly renovated Local Authority Primary School and a Primary Healthcare Centre in the Sagbokoji community, Amuwo-Odofin Local Government Area of Lagos State, as part of its Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) initiatives.… More...

Customs Makes 11 seizures with DPV worth ₦921 billion in Q1

Customs Makes 11 seizures with DPV of N921bn in Q1

The Comptroller General of Nigeria Customs Services, NCS CGC Adewale Adeniyi, said that importers are diversifying their contraband portfolios combining pharmaceuticals, food items and control technology in systematic shipments.
Meanwhile, Apapa Command of the NCS made a total of 11 seizures comprising five units of 40-foot containers, two units of 20-foot containers and four additional seizures of loosely concealed contraband items, with a duty paid values DPV of N921 billion between January and April 2025.… More...

Olanrewaju, Farinto urge maritime stakeholders to maximise opportunities of Nigeria – China currency swap agreement

Olanrewaju, Farinto urge maritime stakeholders to maximise opportunities of Nigeria – China currency swap agreement

By Babatunde Aremu

Determined to relieve external funding pressures and ensure trade facilitation between Nigeria and China, both countries engaged in a series of negotiations for a bilateral currency swap framework.… More...

Nigeria endorses amendments to 8 2006 MLC codes as Mobereola promises to prioritise seafarers welfare

MARITIME LABOUR: NIGERIA ENDORSES AMENDMENTS TO EIGHT (8) 2006 MLC CODES

– Seafarers’ welfare is our priority- Mobereola.

By Babatunde Aremu

Nigeria has endorsed the amendments to eight (8) Codes of the Maritime Labour Convention (MLC) 2006. The amendments include the codes related to the protection of seafarers against discrimination, identification of seafarers as key workers, enhanced access to shore based welfare for seafarers, and the code on shipboard violence, harassment and bullying, accommodation and recreational facilities onboard.… More...

CVFF- House of Reps committee backs Marine and Blue Economy Ministry “We will Disburse this year “–Mobereola

CVFF- House of Reps committee Backs Marine and Blue Economy Ministry.

· WE WILL DISBURSE THIS YEAR- Mobereola

By Babatunde Aremu

The House of Representatives, through its Committee on Maritime Safety, Education and Administration, has pledged full support for the directive issued by the Honourable Minister of Marine and Blue Economy, Adegboyega Oyetola, CON, for the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA) to expedite the disbursement of the Cabotage Vessel Financing Fund (CVFF).… More...