NPA Boss Undertakes Unscheduled Visit To Lagos Seaports

On Jul 23, 2024

From Right: Managing Director Nigerian Ports Authority NPA Dr Abubakar Dantsoho, (M) Port Manager ,Lagos Ports Complex LPC Dr.Charles Okaga during the MDs visit to LPC

The newly appointed Managing Director of Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA), Dr. Abubakar Dantsoho, has identified the speedy rehabilitation of dilapidated port infrastructure across the nation’s seaports as his topmost priority.

Dantsoho, who was speaking during an unscheduled visit to Tin Can Island Port (TCIP) and Lagos Ports Complex LPC , also vowed to collaborate with port stakeholders in a bid to deliver efficient services at the nation’s seaports.

According to the NPA helmsman, adequate port infrastructure and robust collaboration with stakeholders will enable the nation’s seaports attain improved revenue generation through efficiency and productivity.

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Speaking to the press during the visit Dantsoho reiterated that President Bola Ahmed Tinubu mandated the Authority to deliver efficient port services and improved industry outcomes, adding that his management team is poised to do that as quickly as possible.

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“With the kind of backing we have from the Honourable Minister of Marine & Blue Economy, His Excellency Adegboyega Oyetola CON, I want to assure stakeholders that the much-talked about reconstruction of Tin Can Ports Complex will move from rhetoric to action,” he remarked.

Dantsoho equally observed that port competitiveness is dependent on sound infrastructure and assured that the NPA will deliver on that necessity as soon as possible to better service Nigeria’s domestic cargo needs and those of landlocked neighbouring nations.

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From Right: Managing Director Nigerian Ports Authority NPA Dr Abubakar Dantsoho, Port Manager Tin Can Island Port Complex TCIPC Sylvester Egede and Traffic Manager Tin Can Island Port Complex NPA, Comrade Akin Leoso during the MDs visit to the port on Tuesday in Lagos

Abubakar Dantsoho, who was recently appointed as Managing Director of NPA assumes the role with over 25 years hands-on operational experience at the Authority.