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   Akpabio, Nigeria Media, Niger Delta Leaders   BY EGUONO ODJEGBA   It is so sad that our media, from the corporate to the mainstream traditional media, industry, independent, local and social media, have been falling over one another in the attempt to launder whatever is left of the image of the policy and execution drivers of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC).   It is just in this effusive errand-like reportage aimed at correcting the ‘misinformation’ that the Commission expended N2.3billion in the construction of less than a kilometer Elebele wooden bridge, Bayelsa State that the Nigeria media err, and has inadvertently given itself away as accomplice in the blind rape of the region, in the unspeakable embezzlement and misapplication of funds that should go for the development of the Niger Delta.   These news mediums are guilty of blood money and unholy romance and posterity may not be kind to them unless they make sincere,...

  PSS: 'MAERSK Line   backs down, effective August 2020 end'-NSC by Eguono Odjegba   Global ocean liner giant, MAERSK Line has instructed its commercial department to stop applying the peak season surcharge, PSS,   from 1st September 2020, in line with the request of the Nigerian Shippers' Council, NSC.   A statement by Rakiya Zubairu Head of Public Relations of NSC informed that MAERSK Line decision is   "in response to protests by the Nigerian Shippers’ Council which recently convened a meeting of the Organized Private Sector to deliberate on the astronomical peak season surcharge imposed by shipping lines calling in Nigeria." It will be recalled that the Union of African Shippers’ Council, UASC, has backed Shippers’ Council calls for immediate suspension of the peak season surcharge, calling it a violation of previous UASC/European Community Shipowners Association, ECSA, agreement. The continental body in rejecting the PSS over a week...

  ACG Bashir Abubakar: Victim of State Oppression? BY EGUONO ODJEGBA   The Nigeria Customs Service (NCS), July 21, 2020 lost one of its best officers in a questionable and politically motivated retirement, driven by institutional intrigues, conspiracy and power play; in a convoluted and treacherous manner. An Assistant Comptroller General, Bashir Abubakar, immediate past Zonal Coordinator, North West, was technically hounded out of service, left apparently looking unruffled, as he thanked Nigerians, his accusers and judges for the opportunity to serve fatherland. Despite the controversial circumstances and harrowing manner he was eased out, he sent words of felicitation to friends, admirers and those he had just left behind in customs, as he tactically appealed for calm and understanding, and thanked the generality of Nigerians for the opportunity to serve fatherland. He has put in a total of thirty two and half years before the forces of sordid power play acting...

  The MAN Oron primitive funding system BY EGUONO ODJEGBA   Until last 2019, spanning two decades, one recurring catchphrase by the presidency, officials of the Federal Transport Ministry and the Nigerian Maritime Academy of Nigeria (MAN) Oron, is the agenda to return the academy back to global standard, reckoning and acceptability. That zeal borne out of lamentation, presuppose admittedly, that MAN has suffered a compass shift from its once renowned position in the global map of maritime education.   Whereas, the lamentation have remained consistent in the past fifteen years, one is not quite sure if they were borne out of sincere concerns with the matching will to fix the defaults or they were mere sloganism taken from the rusty files of administration to achieve predetermined political ends.   However, year after year, the politicians, and they are not unknown by Nigerians, not only neglect to deploy the required resources in the identified deficits and mi...