{"id":346423,"date":"2025-08-11T01:02:30","date_gmt":"2025-08-11T00:02:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetidenewsonline.com\/?p=346423"},"modified":"2025-08-10T19:11:16","modified_gmt":"2025-08-10T18:11:16","slug":"freight-forwarders-raise-alarm-over-govt-reforms-sabotage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetidenewsonline.com\/2025\/08\/freight-forwarders-raise-alarm-over-govt-reforms-sabotage\/","title":{"rendered":"Freight Forwarders Raise Alarm Over Govt Reforms Sabotage\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"auto\">The National Association of Government Approved Freight Forwarders (NAGAFF) has called for the deregistration of four associations with a request for the withdrawal of their Corporate Affairs Commission (CAC) certificates for national interest.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">This follows what is perceived as an agenda to sabotage government reforms in the Marine and Blue Economy sectors,<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">NAGAFF said it had carefully observed recent actions by the Association of Nigerian Licensed Customs Agents,\u00a0 (ANLCA), Association of Registered Freight Forwarders of Nigeria (AREFF),\u00a0 National Association of Air Freight Forwarders and Consolidators (NAFFAC), and\u00a0 National Council of Managing Directors of Licensed Customs Agents,\u00a0 (NCMDLCA) since the appointment of the current Registrar of the Council for the Regulation of Freight Forwarding in Nigeria, CRFFN, Mr. Kingsley Igwe.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">These groups have publicly aligned with a court judgment obtained by Mr. Lucky Amiwero of NCMDLCA in Suit No. FHC\/L\/CS\/765\/2018, claiming that CRFFN lacks the authority to regulate customs agents and collect Practitioner Operating Fee (POF), even when the CRFFN has appealed and filed a stay of execution, rendering the ruling unenforceable.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Speaking at a media briefing in Lagos, National President, NAGAFF, Chief Tochukwu Ezisi, said those who no longer believe in CRFFN\u2019s mandate should exit the stage, adding that the government should investigate the economic and regulatory sabotage being carried out under the guise of activism.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">He said: \u201cThese groups have often failed in their statutory financial obligations to CRFFN. ANLCA and NCMDLCA must align their identities with the new Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) Act 2023.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">\u201cWe recommend that CRFFN consider the deregistration of these four associations and request the withdrawal of their CAC certificates in national interest.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">\u201cDespite these distractions, NAGAFF remains proud of the performance of the current Registrar. Under one year, he has shown exceptional leadership, including: expanding CRFFN\u2019s funding beyond POF to improve financial sustainability; commenced the training of one thousand freight forwarders in 2025, a capacity-building initiative which has seen a successful training of 300 freight forwarders already; and driving digital modernization and stakeholder collaboration to strengthen CRFFN\u2019s regulatory role.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">\u201cWe hereby pass a vote of absolute confidence on the leadership of the CRFFN Registrar\/CEO under the supervision of the Minister of Marine and Blue Economy, Adegboyega Oyetola.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The National Association of Government Approved Freight Forwarders (NAGAFF) has called for the deregistration of four associations with a request for the withdrawal of their Corporate Affairs Commission (CAC) certificates for national interest. This follows what is perceived as an agenda to sabotage government reforms in the Marine and Blue Economy sectors, NAGAFF said it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":346448,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-346423","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetidenewsonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346423","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetidenewsonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetidenewsonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetidenewsonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetidenewsonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=346423"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetidenewsonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346423\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":346464,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetidenewsonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346423\/revisions\/346464"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetidenewsonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/346448"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetidenewsonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=346423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetidenewsonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=346423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetidenewsonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=346423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}