The Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA) has flagged off the construction of 1.6 kilometres access road at the Lagos Port Complex, Apapa, which is expected to be completed in October 2013. The completed road project would serve Lagos Port Complex, a port that handles the largest volume of Nigerian billed cargo of over 50 percent. The 1.6-kilometre road project at the estimated sum of N3 billion, will run from the Bull Nose facility of the Apapa Port through to the main entrance gate, stated the managing director of NPA: Omer Suleiman. The project consultant, Ebenezer Osoba, managing director Ebcon Engineering and Construction Company Limited, disclosed that the project is targeted at opening up the main entrance to the port of Lagos, adding that it would be a dual-carriage road of three lanes on each side, including lay-by, to enable free flow of traffic in the case of breakdown. Explaining the project, he noted that the total weight of the road would be about 30 metres wide, with provision for lighting and drainage system, in order to ensure 24-hours in and out cargo movement within the port.
The NPA boss attributed the delay in the construction to lack of understanding of the infrastructure needs of the port by government officials as and bureaucratic bottlenecks in the civil service. The other access roads are mostly either undergoing construction or completed. They include Tin-Can access road under construction, Lighter terminal 1 and 2, and service lane in Port Harcourt port, including Lilypond at Ijora, which are completed.
“NPA has rehabilitated the rail network within Apapa port, and we are currently waiting for the national rail network to commence to enable port users to move goods directly from the port to the hinterland. This is because without the national rail network, there is little or nothing we can do with what we have on ground. And based on the fact that there is need to expand the logistics network in the port, we have completed the rail project and now commenced the road,” Suleiman explained. In building the rail network, he said, NPA is collaborating with the Nigerian Railway Corporation (NRC) to implement the rail project inside the authority’s area of jurisdiction, which is within the port.
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Lagos Port Complex to Get N3bn ual Carriage Access Road
April 13th, 2012 
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June 11th, 2011 andy FIFA Is Investigating Match-Fixing In Match B/W Nigeria And Argentina
Cheap flights To Lagos News: FIFA said previously that Argentina’s 4 – 1 defeat to Nigeria in friendly match is being investigated for possible match fixing. FIFA can prove that this match between Nigeria and Argentina was one that they had a lively interest in, as well as forms part of a wider ongoing FIFA investigation. Referee Ibrahim Chaibou of Niger awarded two controversial penalties in the match, Victor Obinna scoring for Nigeria in the 27th minute as well as Mauro Boselli scoring for Argentina deep into stoppage time with the last kick of the match. Manipulation of matches by betting rings has become a major concern for world soccer’s governing body FIFA as well as its European counterpart UEFA and both supervise thousands of matches for unusual gambling designs. Last month, FIFA set up collaboration with Interpol and announced it would donate 20 million Euros over the next 10 years to fight the problem. FIFA is at present investigating two international friendly matches played in Turkey in which seven penalties were awarded, one of them taken twice. The six match officials caught up have been suspended pending the outcome. FIFA has already tightened the rules around the arrangement of international friendly matches. Both FIFA and UEFA say that match fixers tend to target lower profile matches, frequently in the early qualifying rounds of European competition, lower division of national leagues to keep away from getting attention.
Nigerian Telecom Industry Planning For Cheaper Smartphones For Users
June 10th, 2011 andy Nigerian Telecom Industry Planning For Cheaper Smartphones For Users
Cheap flights To Lagos News: Telecommunication Companies working in Nigeria are campaigning for cheap smartphones for its users to make sure that the people at grass root level can have approach to the growing telecommunication industry of the country. This would deepen the mobile telecommunications in Nigeria as well as boost the overall services. On the recent inauguration of the TNS Mobile Life study in Lagos, Mr. Aggrey Maposa who is the CEO of TNS in West Africa advised phone manufacturers operating in the nation to consider lowering their prices of smartphones to avoid being driven out of the market by the low cost Chinese brands. Mobile phone is a multi-use gadget for emerging market consumers and Maposa believes that low cost smartphones would be a game changer for Nigerian mobile users. The Mobile Life study have over 34, 000 respondents in 43 countries. There had been a change in the style Nigerians make use of their cell phones with special interest in mobile content as well as its functions. In accordance to Maposa, the study indicates that Nigerian mobile consumers are cost-conscious as well as will hold cheap smartphones required for dynamic modifications in the Internet landscape. Any mobile phone manufacturer that would keep hold of its Nigerian customers as well as maintain its market share must be prepared to present lower costs. The Chinese phones are cheaper and offer free applications as well as 3 SIM cards sometimes. The price conscious consumers will go for Chinese phones, if the prices of other brands are not lowered in Nigeria.
