Founder of the National Association of Government Approved Freight forwarders (NAGAFF), Dr. Boniface Aniebonam has urged freight forwarders to go back to school so as to be part of the evolving changes in the country, especially in the freight forwarding sector.
Speaking at a press briefing in Lagos last week, Dr. Aniebonam stressed that the freight forwarders in Nigeria need to educate themselves further so as to raise their heads high among professionals in the country.
Founder of the National Association of Government Approved Freight forwarders (NAGAFF), Dr. Boniface Aniebonam has urged freight forwarders to go back to school so as to be part of the evolving changes in the country, especially in the freight forwarding sector.
Speaking at a press briefing in Lagos last week, Dr. Aniebonam stressed that the freight forwarders in Nigeria need to educate themselves further so as to raise their heads high among professionals in the country.
According to him, “the emergence of NAGAFF has brought a new dimension in the business of freight forwarding in Nigeria, and you will agree with me that those who started NAGAFF with us all know that NAGAFF is a movement and that movement has gone into professional and standards of business as far as freight forwarding is concerned”.
Aniebonam said that people in the freight forwarding business needs to delete the nomenclature of ‘clearing and forwarding’ from their complimentary cards even as he mentioned that being a clearing and forwarding agent is not a profession.
“I have told you people to delete in your complementary cards, clearing and forwarding whatever name, clearing and forwarding agent is not a profession, if your corporate body is licensed by Nigeria customs Service, that does not give you the platform of being professional, because the license is issued by NCS, it is out of corporate entity and a corporate body cannot be a professional because a corporate body has no sense, they cannot think , they cannot write, they cannot perceive odor, it is an inanimate creature”
“I want to enjoin all of you to understand that the journey is just starting to build the pursuing body, pursuing standard in our business and for you to be part of the on-going reforms, you need to get yourselves more prepared and to be able to face the challenges of the evolving international trade which is dynamic”
He said that NAGAFF already making arrangement to bring lecturers who will give short courses to freight forwarders during the weekends.
“And that is to say that you must go back to school, over your weekends you can pick a diploma course in any of these institutions, the council for the regulation of freight forwarding is also creating opportunities for certificate courses, it becomes very important that except you get yourself brushed up, you will not be part of the evolving changes”, he added.
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