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Alh. Bamanga Tukur  is chairman, Daddo Maritime Service Ltd, a member of his Daddo Group of companies. His development work in the maritime industry dates back to 1981, when he took up the challenge of pioneering the provision of indigenous ship…

Dr. Taiwo O. Afolabi is managing director/CEO, Sifax Group, which began operations as Sifax Nigeria Limited in 1988. Before setting up, he had worked in a shipping company where he headed operations. The maritime logistician has since then taken the…

Mr. Aderemi Makanjuola is chairman, Caverton offshore Support Group Plc, which provides marine and aviation logistics in the oil and gas industry through subsidiaries from nine locations. Caverton Marine Limited is the subsidiary that provides marine logistics in the Nigerian…

Chief Emeka Ofor is chairman, Inland Container Terminal Nig. Ltd [ICNL], a maritime services organization he established in 1980. The company was his response to the necessity for local participation and rapid development of the Nigerian maritime business. It was…

Alh. Aliko Dangote is chairman, Greenview Development Services Ltd [GDNL], a special purpose vehicle that Dangote Industries Limited incorporated in 2001 to take advantage of the business opportunities that government’s port reform programme availed private sector operators in 2005. Under…

Prince Adesuyi Haastrup is chairman, ENL Consortium Limited, a company founded in 2002 primarily to bring together expertise in utility management. His purpose was to expand the activities of the consortium to key into the ports privatisation initiatives of the…

Alh. Atiku Abubakar is co-founder, Intels Nigeria, an oil services company he established with Gabriel Volpi, an Italian business man in the early 1980s. They commenced operations as Nigeria Container Services (NICOTES), an oil and gas logistics company operating from…

Chief Oladipo Jadesimi is chairman, Lagos Deep Offshore Logistic Base (LADOL], a company that set out in 2000 with a vision of creating the first purpose-built, state-of-the-art logistics and engineering base west of Niger Delta. The project was conceived and…

General Theophilus Y. Danjuma (Rtd) chairman, Five Star Logistics Ltd and NAL-Comet Shipping, entered the Nigerian maritime industry after leaving the military service in 1979.  In that year, Nigeria formed a new trade agreement with Brazil, which opened up trade routes…

Nigerian Maritime: The Top 10 Indigenous leaders Nigeria’s maritime industry is an example of a domestic economic sector that is largely run by foreigners. Indigenous operators have been at the periphery of this plum economic sector for quite long, picking…