₦airaland Forum

No wonder the ports there are not viable...tomorrow they will blame Hausa/Fulani and Yoruba leaders for their misfortune. What a shame!

In 21st century Black man, who did this to you

This is good

Seguntimmy:
Money talking, but what is the essence of showing these up and down abeg?

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Because he is a celebrity, and courting attention is part of the biz

From indorama in ph to rice mill in kebbi. Nigeria is progressing.

Talking sometimes do not solve the problem. Let your actions do the talking.

dodelight:
I wonder what happened to Tinubu and his men. How did they become dumb to speak against these northern ingrates- cat (cow) got their tongues?

WW3

This has got to be a fun filled semi final

Much love from a Barca fan.

Ahmed0336:
Spiritual yoke nko? Ffk just shut his mouth and let his ass talked.

Don't mind ffk. A southerner had been the minister of finance since the return of democracy. From Ngozi to Kemi, what do ffk have to say about that. Currently a southerner is a super minister in this admininstion, Firs is headed by a southerner and many more... Femi should just shut the hell up.

Taking advantage of its proximity to Lagos. I still believe the state need to do a whole lot if it want to catch up with Lagos.

Kudos to you Ambo

In all honesty, I support what the northerners are doing. You don't need a fortune teller to know how united they are . but can same be said about the south? Our leaders will even collect the money and share it amongst themselves.

I think say him dey form Arnold before...learn to respect the wish of the people, the senators were elected by the Nigerian populace. I am sure Ali will not win if he contest self.

Get to work Mr Governor...no time to waste

Preaching peace shows you are not weak, it only shows you are matured. However, do not dare yorubas in there backyard again. Enough said.

Igbos don teach Afonja job

In all honesty, this custom boss is working. But the killing of rice smugglers is an all time low for him. He needs to call his boys to order.

Mathemagician1:
Count the great Igbos out of any support for Osinbade. We DO NOT support Osinbade or any other Yoruba political candidate. Kindly desist from involving us in your politics.

The Yoruba man is not a friend of the Igbos, we have not forgotten how the Yorubas supported every ill treatment meted on us through their actions and utterances.

Just in case the North decides to wield the big stick against their Yoruba partners, the great Igbo nation shall maintain their stance as a neutral observer of the political royal-rumble between the SW versus their allies in the North.

. You will wait till eternity...

This man is exactly what this country needs now. calming frayed nerves, working to rebuild as well as providing qualitative leadership. Kudos sir...

Murtala Muhammed International Airport

NCAA defends presence of multiple officials

Despite the Federal Government’s campaign for economic diversification and export promotion, there is growing exporters’ apathy due, among others, to logistic difficulties at exit points.

While the availability of supply is not in doubt, the bureaucratic bottlenecks at the airports and alleged extortions by a legion of government officials have more or less made the export corridors almost a no-go area for local exporters.

In the alternative, The Guardian’s investigation reveals, farmers have taken to smuggling to neighbouring countries, including Benin Republic, Togo, Cameroun and Ghana, where freighting is cheaper and unhindered by officials.

But the Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA), that is responsible for coordinating affairs at the airports justified the heavy presence of government agencies at the exit points, describing it as “statutory.”
At the cargo terminal of the Murtala Muhammed International Airport (MMIA), Lagos, for instance, there are representatives of almost all the security agencies in the country, who supervise the import and export of commodities. Among them are the Department of Quarantine Services, the Nigerian Immigration Services, the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA), Customs, Police, Department of State Services (SSS), Anti-Bomb squad, Air Force, Skyways Aviation Handling Company (SAHCOL)/National Aviation Handling Company (NAHCO) and Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN).

A yam farmer in Nasarrawa State, who identified himself as Abdullahi Sanni, said the “road blocks” at the airport and attendant extortions by some officials had over the years remained the bane of the country’s export drive.

Abdullahi said: “Go and find out. A Nigerian yam that manages to get to Canada or United States, because they love our yam so much, ends up being between 60c and $1 more expensive than others coming from places like Ghana. And more often, they turn out to be the same type of yam but in different labels.”

An exporter, who spoke on condition of anonymity, told The Guardian that all the officials must be “settled from table to table” before the produce can be loaded onto an aircraft.

According to him, “We usually start with the Quarantine. They will insist on fumigation and you must pay about N12,000 per pellet. Besides, you still have to bribe and continue bribing from one table to another You must bribe your way through all the agencies if you don’t want to miss your flight.”

President of the National Association of Government Approved Freight Forwarders (NAGAFF), Dr. Segun Musa confirmed the allegation, adding that “under the right procedure, those agencies are not supposed to be there at all, and we have been crying for ages, but government would not listen.”

Besides logistics, there is also the problem of certification of Nigerian farmers to make their produce acceptable overseas.

A U.S.-based Nigerian export promoter, Patricia Obichukwu, noted that Nigeria has over 15,000 registered yam farmers, but none is internationally certified because of non-adherence to the rigid process required by the international market.

Aside from the dearth of infrastructure, there is also the issue of five per cent Value Added Tax (VAT) on freight cost. This is an additional barrier which makes the export of Nigeria’s farm produce more expensive than Ghana’s, or Cameroun’s.

For instance, the Kotoka International Airport, Accra, Ghana is now a logistic hub in the Economic Community of West Africa (ECOWAS) because of its ease of export processing. It hosts only one government agency at the export shed to check the export of unauthorised goods out of Ghana, but there are absolutely no duties on authorised goods.

The Accra airport alone exports an average of 25,000 MT yearly, which include 95 per cent of fruits and vegetables, and five per cent for general cargo and mining extract. In contrast, the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, MMIA, Lagos, being the busiest in Nigeria, is doing 16,000 MT yearly, Kano 1,000 MT, Port Harcourt 900 MT, and Abuja 400 MT.

Air France KLM Cargo Country Manager Nigeria, Gabriel Lalande, reported that yams exported from Ghana, actually originated from Nigeria, due to the cumbersome export process and high duty cost.

In defence of the multiple agencies, the NCAA explained that for every aerodrome, there are agencies that are required.
The spokesman for the authority, Sam Adurogboye, said that for an international airport, “it is a must to have those multiple agencies because of cargo, personal, drugs, security issues among others that are involved.”

According to him, what is usually done is to hold airport security meeting and the Joint Intelligence Board (JIB), led by the NCAA to address concerns as they are raised.

Source http://t.guardian.ng/news/how-government-agencies-frustrate-food-export-at-nations-airports/

Oga give us a better source jare.

And they say Aregbe is not working.

Why is Dangote building his refinery in lagos instead of kano?

What has this got to do with politics?

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