The new Managing
Director of the Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA), Ms. Hadiza Bala Usman,
monday formerly assumed office promising to overhaul and make NPA a
model government agency.
President Muhammadu
Buhari had in a bid to revive the NPA last week appointed Usman as the
new NPA managing director, making her the first female chief executive
of a top tier federal government agency and of the NPA.
She took over from
Alhaji Habib Abdullahi, who was reinstated by Buhari in August 2015 as
the managing director of NPA, after he was sacked by former President
Goodluck Jonathan in April 2015.
Speaking at the
handover ceremony to the new management team at the agency's Head Office
in Marina, Lagos, she said the country expects much from the NPA.
According to her,
"Our ports are a critical artery of the economy, and it is our duty to
ensure that the operators deliver port services at the standards that
our businesses deserve in the 21st century in supporting President
Buhari's administration agenda of economic diversity. We will strive for
enhanced operating efficiencies to facilitate improved revenue
generation and inflows into the national treasury.
"We will listen to
our customers, importers, exporters and other agencies working in the
Ports to improve on our service delivery to the nation, anything less
than world-class services is simply not acceptable, as attaining such
heights is a mission to which I am certain we can all subscribe."
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