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• Freight Forwarders blame stoppage of container stripping, barge operations • 44 ships expected in Lagos in December No fewer than 43 vessels laden with various goods are currently stuck in Lagos waters as congestion stalls operations at Nigeria’s busiest ports, the TinCan Island Port and Apapa Port in Lagos. The nation’s import and export dealing is, also, in shambles, as prevailing congestion at ports caused a spike in shipping costs for Nigeran-bound goods by about 600 per cent. The...

•Maritime workers begin strike, close eastern ports Eromosele Abiodun in Lagos and Onyebuchi Ezigbo in Abuja Truckers have within one week raised the cost to move a container from the Tin Can Island Port, Lagos, to any other part of the city by 50 per cent, from N1.2 million to N1.8 million, THISDAY checks revealed at the weekend. THISDAY had exclusively reported last week that haulage cost from Tin Can to any other part of Lagos had risen by more than 1,000 per cent from about N100,000 to ab...

Extortion: NPA, NSC Appear Helpless As Haulage Cost At Tin Can Port Hits N1.8m By The Nigeria Voice Listen to article Truckers have jerked up their costs by 50% from N1.2million to N1.8million within one week to move a container from the Tin Can Island Port, Lagos to any other part of the city, as extortion by security officials on the port access road continues unabated. Barely a year ago, cost of trucking from the Tin Can Port was about N300,000. The haulage cost from Tin Can Port is now th...

Continue to elect politicians that will tell us what we think we want to hear? or are we going to elect true leadership and states men and people that can fulfill the role of commander in chief. >> thats an interesting point you raise. another piece of information that has come out from second gates. the exchange between hillary rodham clinton and barack obama that he witnessed and he writes about it saying, hillary clinton told the president, he claims to have been witness to this. her oppositi...

Continue to elect politicians that will tell us what we think we want to hear? or are we going to elect true leadership and states men and people that can fulfill the role of commander in chief. >> thats an interesting point you raise. another piece of information that has come out from second gates. the exchange between hillary rodham clinton and barack obama that he witnessed and he writes about it saying, hillary clinton told the president, he claims to have been witness to this. her oppositi...

I have seen a lot as you know in my day. this was pretty pretty graphic stuff. im going to show it tomorrow night and i urge discretion on the viewers. i dont mind. i think that mature people can make their own judgment. and as i said i think that sooner or later we will see the bodies of the bullet riddled bodies. >> bill: im going to defer to secretary of defense gates who told the president this would troops behind you and all troops in muslim countries in more danger. i say if he believes th...

I have seen a lot as you know in my day. this was pretty pretty graphic stuff. im going to show it tomorrow night and i urge discretion on the viewers. i dont mind. i think that mature people can make their own judgment. and as i said i think that sooner or later we will see the bodies of the bullet riddled bodies. >> bill: im going to defer to secretary of defense gates who told the president this would troops behind you and all troops in muslim countries in more danger. i say if he believes th...

I have seen a lot as you know in my day. this was pretty pretty graphic stuff. im going to show it tomorrow night and i urge discretion on the viewers. i dont mind. i think that mature people can make their own judgment. and as i said i think that sooner or later we will see the bodies of the bullet riddled bodies. >> bill: im going to defer to secretary of defense gates who told the president this would troops behind you and all troops in muslim countries in more danger. i say if he believes th...

President is saying our fundamental interests are there. and why were doing what were doing? >> well, i would love to be able to explain the fundamental interest thats there. unfortunately, as second gates said last week, this isnt in our fundamental interest. its an interest that we have, but its not in our vital international security interest and quite a few of them say there for we shouldnt be in there. you have to be willing to pull out the guns as well. >> will do we go, mike, from here, a...