• Gives Apapa port 30 days to commence 24 hour operations
Acting President, Yemi Osinbajo has directed that all government agencies operating in the ports must align their activities under a single platform. To give vent to this, he last week signed three executive orders “that will significantly change some of the ways government business and operations are conducted in the country forthwith”.
One of the highlights contained in the Executive Order is that all agencies currently physically present in Nigerian Ports shall within 60 days harmonise their operations into one single interface station domiciled in one location in the port and implemented by a single joint task force at all times, without prejudice to necessary backend procedures.
Also, the new single interface station at each Port shall capture track and record information on all goods arriving and departing from Nigeria and remit captured information to the head of the MDA and the head of the National Bureau of Statistics on a weekly basis.
The order explained that each port in Nigeria shall assign an existing export terminal to be dedicated to the exportation of agriculture produce within 30 days of the issuance of this Order.
The Acting President also directed that the Apapa Port shall resume 24-hour operations “within 30 days of the issuance of this order”.
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