By Godfrey Bivbere
FOLLOWING illegal passage of trucks into Tin-can Island port, the concessionaire of the Tin-can Truck Transit Park, TTP, has temporarily shutdown operations due to lack of patronage.
Vanguard Maritime Report gathered that the truckers who were patronising the park before now are staying away as they are no longer being called up to get access into the port as was originally planned.
A source close to the Tin-can Island port management said that trucks are now being passed illegally into the port bypassing the TTP, a situation which has also worsened the traffic nightmare of the Apapa port environment.
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Published 24 December 2020
CONTRARY to the seeming optimism expressed by the Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, Godwin Emefiele, there is nothing on the ground to show that the country would “discontinue heavy dependence on crude oil to guarantee public revenue and foreign exchange” anytime soon. Nigeria relies on oil to generate over 65 per cent of its revenue and about 90 per cent of its foreign exchange. Tellingly, the actions of the political leadership do not indicate such a single-minded proclivity towards ending the age-long debilitating dependence on oil. Having been satiated by the taste of petrodollars for too long, the oft-mouthed proposition to diversify the economy has not yielded positive change.
The Frontlines By Joseph Ushigiale
Who are the sole beneficiaries of the current revenue drive being enforced by the Presidential Task Force on Ports Decongestion and Easing Apapa Gridlock?
The question has become pertinent because whoever is vested with the responsibility of supervising the task force, if he is not the sole beneficiary, ought to know by now that the task force has since outlived its usefulness and it is now operating beyond its brief extorting various sums ranging from N50,000 to N200,000 to grant access to port users. To maximum its profiteering, it has also resorted to illegally mounting all manner of obstacles and roadblocks which constitute the revenue collection points all over Apapa to make life utterly unbearable for port users and residents of Apapa.
Presidential Task Force And Middlemen Crisis In Apapa By Kehinde Adegboyega
The presidential task force team comprises of Nigeria Police, Lagos State Traffic Management Authority (LASTMA), and Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC), the combined team has been working to ensure the objectives of the establishment of PTT achieved.
by Kehinde Adegboyega
Dec 17, 2020
On May 22nd 2019, President Muhammadu Buhari set up a Presidential Task Force Team on Apapa gridlock, with the Vice President Professor Yemi Osinbajo as the chairman and Comrade Kayode Opeifa to serve as the vice chairman.
The objective of its establishment is to return normalcy to Apapa because of the incessant gridlock that is crippling the area, enforce discipline, introduce a workable manual call up system pending the introduction of electronic call-up system by NPA, Dvelip and Deoy a working traffic management system, coordinate and control trucks and tanker drivers who are designated to access the seaport to stay off
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