According to Bello-Koko, the Citibank facility is the cheapest for the Ports Authority because it comes with affordable interest rates
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The Managing Director of the NPA, Mohammed Bello-Koko, revealed this to the lawmakers on Thursday
Others involved are Nigeria Railway Corporation, River Basin Development Authority and Nigeria Customs Service.
Managing Director, Mohammed Bello-Koko, spoke at the Maritime Reporters Association of Nigeria Breakfast Meeting.
Bala-Usman made this disclosure in her memoir: “Stepping on Toes. My Odyssey at the NPA,” which is now on sale.
She said this in her newly-released memoir, entitled: “Stepping on Toes: My Odyssey at the Nigerian Ports Authority.”
Following the wide publicity given to the allegations, associates of the Managing Director have rallied to his defence
Both Calabar and Onne Ports are now ISO-certified and have been recording tremendous increase in traffic.
This is contained in a statement issued to newsmen in Kano on Thursday by the Command’s Public Relations Officer, DSP Haruna Abdullahi.
On Thursday, presidential spokesperson, Malam Garba Shehu, announced Bala-Usman’s suspension, saying President Muhammadu Buhari had approved that she stepped aside pending conclusion of investigation into allegations against her and that Mohammed Koko would act in her stead.
This, it said, would end the daily gridlocks associated with the area.
The surcharge, according to them, is adding to the high cost of doing business in Nigerian ports, coupled with the challenges of infrastructure deficiency and cumbersome shipping process
At the event, which took place at the Dockyard Apapa, Managing Director of the NPA, Hadiza Bala-Usman, noted that the equipment would boost the capacity of the ports to receive and berth larger container vessels in accordance with consultations with stakeholders over the past couple of years.
A statement signed by Adams Jatto, General Manager, Corporate and Strategic Communications, in Lagos on Thursday indicated that the Managing Director, NPA, Hadiza Bala-Usman, performed the inauguration on Wednesday.
The workers in their numbers took to the docks of Port Harcourt to thank key stakeholders for their timely intervention in the crisis between the BUA Ports and Terminals and the Nigeria Port Authority, which rendered business activities at the terminal B void.
This is as the Nigeria Port Authority is set to immediately withdraw the notice of termination of concession it had earlier issued BUA in 2019, the company said in a statement on Wednesday.
The CRF is an account owned and managed by the Federal Government.
According to credible sources, the Senator died in the early hours of Tuesday during a brief illness
Speaking in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria in Lagos on Monday, the president said the measure would reduce the nuisance caused by empty containers that flooded the Lagos Ports.
Nkeiruka Nwala, Deputy Superintendent of Customs and Public Relations Officer of the command, said the vegetable oil was directed by the Presidency to be released as palliatives due to the COVID-19 pandemic