About six months after Shipping Position Daily scooped that, the Council for the Regulation of Freight Forwarding in Nigeria (CRFFN) is planning to relocate its head office from Abuja to Lagos, it has been confirmed that the new office complex is ready for commissioning.
As a matter of fact, the commissioning is due any moment from now, as the Council is also putting together a training programme for its personnel who would relocate and man the new head office.
About six months after Shipping Position Daily scooped that, the Council for the Regulation of Freight Forwarding in Nigeria (CRFFN) is planning to relocate its head office from Abuja to Lagos, it has been confirmed that the new office complex is ready for commissioning.
As a matter of fact, the commissioning is due any moment from now, as the Council is also putting together a training programme for its personnel who would relocate and man the new head office.
Shipping Position Daily confirmed that the new office which is located in Apapa will be commissioned by the Minister of Transport; Senator Idris Umar.
Registrar of the Council, Sir Mike Jukwe had told Shipping Position Daily exclusively recently that the management of the Council has identified that most of its stakeholders are situated in Lagos and that it was moving closer to them.
Jukwe said that the office of the Council in Abuja is a temporary arrangement and that; he and the entire team will relocate to Apapa.
"I can tell you that within the next two months, we will have a very befitting head office of the council in Lagos, and by that time, I will move with the entire team at the headquarters to Apapa, the place we are now is a temporary measure" he told our correspondent recently.
The CRFFN boss also revealed that the body had carried out an oversight function on all the five registered freight forwarding associations and this has been forwarded to the Minister of Transport, Senator Idris Umar for his approval before action is taken.
"We have carried out oversight function on all the five associations, we know their strength, we know their weaknesses, but it is subject to approval of the ministry, after this, we will make it public, he confirmed.
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