PortNews honours NCAA, NPA, Flour Mills at 30th Anniversary

PortNews, Nigeria’s pioneer and longest running maritime and aviation covering newspaper, will be 30 years old on Thursday the 6th of November 2025. The anniversary event will hold at Rockview Hotel,Apapa, Lagos.

As part of events to mark the milestone, anniversary awards will be presented to the Nigerian Ports Authority( NPA) and Flour Mills of Nigeria( FMN) for their nation building efforts for several decades.

NPA’s endeavours in shipping and property investments in Nigeria and overseas predate Nigeria’s independence in 1960. In fact, Nigeria was weaned and nurtured to nationhood on the wealth creamed from wharf trading activities in the Niger Delta, Calabar and Lagos seaside by colonial companies like Royal Niger Companies, Elder Dempster, Portuguese traders and indigenous traders, farmers and fishermen. This has evolved over time into what is now known as the respected Nigerian Ports Authority.

To date, NPA is not only one of the most reliable top revenue generating organizations for the Nigerian government but a large employer of labour. For this historic feat, NPA will be honoured with the Port Legend Award.

Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority has performed brilliantly to ensure that Nigeria’s airspace is very safe and there have been no planes falling from the skies anymore in recent years. Awards will be given to her for these laudable efforts.

Flour Mills of Nigeria holds an ubiquitous presence in Nigeria and West Africa. Its biggest brand, Golden Penny Flour, is inevitable in the menu of every Nigerian household for close to seventy years. They have also played pioneering and foremost roles in shipping development in Nigeria, thus giving skills and jobs to generations of Nigerians over time. Flour Mills of Nigeria deserves Nigeria’s gratitude. They will be honoured with the Port Legend Award.

Other notable Nigerians including Captain Emmanuel lhenacho, Otunba Oyewole Fashawe, Dr Taiwo Afolabi, Olori Vicky Haastrup, Prince Shittu Olayiwola, Dennis Okafor, and Dr Boniface Aniebonam will be honoured for their incomparable contributions to the growth of the industry over decades.

Interestingly, the highlight of the anniversary ceremony is the presentation of anniversary lectures, one which is entitled : Nigeria’s Shipping Carriage Gaps, CVFF and the fading Manpower. Captain Ladi Olubowale, President of African Ship Owners Association (ASA) will deliver the lecture.

He will be dropping new initiatives on how the accumulated hundreds of millions of dollars of CVFF, idling in NIMASA’s fault, can be exploited to relaunch Nigeria back to the committee of respected maritime nations.

PortNews 30TH anniversary ceremony promises to be a don’t- miss- it event.