Business Hilights

Tracking Nigeria's Headline Business News Online

Nigerian Shippers’ Council (NSC)

Shippers’ Council boss, Bello gives update on IDPs, TTP schemes

The Executive Secretary/CEO of the Nigerian Shippers’ Council (NSC), Barr Hassan Bello has given clear updates on the level of progress so far recorded by the regulator in the areas of Inland Dry Ports (IDPs) and Truck Transit Port (TTP),…

Apart from Aba, S’East deserves 3 more dry ports to meet demands—Senator

Former Minister of Aviation and Senator representing Anambra South, Princess Stella Oduah, has called on the federal government to consider additional three Dry Port scheme for the South East considering the surging growth of merchandise in the region. Speaking in…

Shippers’ Council set to assist AMATO in securing new found space near Lagos ports

The leadership of the Nigerian Shippers’ Council (NSC) has assured the Association of Maritime Truck Owners (AMATO) of assistance in their current quest to secure a new massive space for the development of trucking bay near Tincan and Apapa ports….

Why Osinbajo renewed Hassan Bello’s appointment as ES at Shippers’ Council

More details have emerged on why Acting President Yemi Osinbajo did not replace, rather approved reappointment of Barr Hassan Bello as the Executive Secretary/CEO of Nigerian Shippers’ Council (NSC) for second four-year tenure. Stakeholders in the maritime sector who spoke…

Cargo Defence Fund’ll assist Nigerian shippers recover brokerage losses—NSC

Cargo Defence Fund (CDF), a strategic window of assistance created by the Nigerian Shippers Council (NSC), is being revived to offer technical support to shippers who have run into losses due to poor handling of damages and brokerage logistics. The…

30 years of railway negligence forced highways to continuous collapse—Amaechi

The Minister of Transportation, Mr. Rotimi Amaechi has linked the steady failure of federal highways to regular use of the infrastructure by heavy duty articulated vehicles which ordinarily would have moved by the rails. In his address in Abuja on…

Transport

Marine Police, NSC seal understanding in security monitoring, compliance at ports

The Nigerian Police Force, Marine Police Command (MPC) has assured the Nigerian Shippers’ Council (NSC) of support in carrying out some of its statutory obligations at the nation’s ports. The Assistant Inspector General of Police, AIG Pius Imue who made…

Transport

Bello gives antidote to 24-hour activities at Seaports, standard operating procedures

The Executive Secretary of Nigerian Shippers Council (NSC), Hassan Bello, has opened up on the best way to achieve what he described as Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) at the nation’s Seaports. In his submission at a town hall meeting on…

Transport

NPA, NSC in joint frantic efforts to halt truckers, agents’ strike as ports activities ground

The height of paralysis at the nation’s major seaports on Monday has forced the leadership of both the Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA) lead by Hadiza Bala Usman and the Executive Secretary of Nigerian Shippers’ Council (NSC), Hassan Bello to run…

First step to ease of doing business at ports should be fixing port access roads—BH Report

The sorry state of Lagos Ports access roads has taken a deadly dimension since the setting in of rainy season. The entire port access roads are in shambles, making all the claims and counter claims on efforts of growing ease…