NPA wins Champions Newspaper award

The Nigerian Ports Authority was honoured over the weekend with the ‘Excellent Company of the Yr Award 2025’ at an awards ceremony organised by Champions Newspapers in Lagos.

The Managing Director of NPA, Dr Abubakar Dantsoho, who was represented by the company’s Normal Supervisor of Company Affairs, Ikechukwu Onyemekara, described the award as recognition of his vigorous management in implementing good initiatives that align with the NPA’s imaginative and prescient to change into the maritime logistics hub for sustainable port companies in Africa.

The company introduced this in a press release on Sunday obtained by The PidomNigeria.

In line with the assertion, Dantsoho highlighted the invaluable assist of the Minister of Marine and Blue Economic system, Adegboyega Oyetola, which he mentioned has been instrumental in reaching these outstanding successes.

He burdened that among the achievements recorded by the company embrace “sustained port efficiencies contributing to Nigeria’s year-on-year commerce surplus of N7.5tn and N6.7tn within the second quarter and third quarter of 2025 (per Nationwide Bureau of Statistics and Nigerian Financial Summit Group stories), pushed primarily by exports by way of NPA platforms.

“Profitable execution of President Bola Tinubu’s coverage for crude and petroleum product gross sales in naira, saving billions in international trade, enhancing vitality safety, bettering commerce stability, and creating jobs; completion of Nigeria’s membership within the Worldwide Port Neighborhood Techniques Affiliation, paving the way in which for the Nationwide Single Window challenge; and technical steering enabling a major rise in transhipment cargo at Lekki Deep Seaport, serving landlocked neighbours and recovering cargo misplaced to competing ports,” Dantsoho acknowledged.

He added that these successes place the NPA to ship main 2025 tasks, together with the “$1bn reconstruction of Tincan Island Port Advanced, rehabilitation of key ports, new deep seaport developments, and eco-friendly operations. ”.

The NPA burdened that the Champions Newspaper conferred the award in appreciation of the NPA’s pivotal function as a number one commerce facilitation platform driving nationwide financial prosperity via Nigeria’s maritime endowments.