Garba Shehu, late on Thursday, announced the approval of the recommendation of the Ministry of Transportation under
Rotimi Amaechi, for an administrative panel of inquiry on the NPA management, as well as the suspension the Managing Director. Similarly, Shehu also announced the appointment of
Mohammed Koko as acting Managing Director of the NPA, pending the completion of the investigation by the panel, to be headed by a Director. The panel is to be headed by the Director, Maritime Services of the Ministry, while the Deputy Director, Legal of the ministry will serve as Secretary. Capt. Tony Onoharigho, President, Nigerian Institute of Shipping (NIS), in his reaction, said that there was nothing wrong with someone being suspended so far as the person committed an offence.
Maritime Stakeholders Support FG’s Action On Bala-Usman’s Suspension Posted by Tolulope OguguaFeatured, Latest News, News Across Nigeria Friday, May 7th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Some maritime stakeholders in Lagos has backed the Federal Government’s suspension of the Managing Director of the Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA), saying it had the right to hire and fire anyone in its establishment.
The stakeholders were reacting to the suspension of the Managing Director of Nigerian Port Authority (NPA), Ms Hadiza Bala-Usman on May 6, by President Muhammadu Buhari, to pave the way for an administrative inquiry of the NPA management.
The President’s spokesman, Malam Garba Shehu, late on Thursday, announced the approval of the recommendation of the Ministry of Transportation under Rotimi Amaechi, for an administrative panel of inquiry on the NPA management, as well as the suspension the Managing Director.
By Godwin Oritse
THE traffic gridlock currently being experienced along the Mile-2 end of the Oshodi-Apapa expressway leading to the port access road is due to the inability of truck drivers to adhere to the electronic call-up time table prepared for trucks to go the pre-gates before entering the ports.
Vanguard Maritime Report gathered that a time table for five categories of vehicles to enter the ports had been drawn up and sent to all relevant stakeholders with a view to getting their cooperation and ease the traffic situation in and around Apapa.
Sources close to Transit Truck Park Limited also said that the categories of vehicles that the time table is applicable are trucks carrying export cargoes, flatbeds, truck carrying empty containers, reefer trucks (refrigerated container bearing trucks) and general cargo trucks.
By Chiazo Ogbolu
Lagos, April 28, 2021 The Association of Maritime Truck Owners (AMATO) has appealed to the Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA) to make its âcall-up systemâ for trucks to be totally automated and impactful.
Mr Remi Ogungbemi, Chairman of AMATO made the appeal in an interview with newsmen on Wednesday in Lagos.
Ogungbemi observed that improper coordination and indiscriminate release of trucks from Pre-gates to either transit park or directly into the ports and other loading points were causing the rowdiness on the road.
Naija247news reports that indiscriminate parking of trailers has resurfaced around Costain, Ijora and Orile-Iganmu axis leading to the Apapa ports in the last few days.
Apapa gridlock: NPA, AMATO clash over impounded trucks
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By Godwin Oritse
TRUCK owners, under the aegis of the Association of Maritime Truck Owners AMATO, and the Nigerian Ports Authority, NPA, are currently on a collision course over some impounded trucks that attempted to circumvent the Electronic Call-Up system.
The leadership of AMATO has called on the NPA to urgently release all trucks impounded by the Lagos State Special Traffic and Enforcement Team.
The group said the impounded trucks had valid call-up tickets, a claim the NPA has debunked.
In a statement issued at the end of the stakeholders meeting, yesterday, held at the AMATO headquarters in Apapa, the truck owners alleged that there were irregularities and corruption in the NPA’s call-up system, noting that fake call-up tickets are currently in circulation.