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The National Assembly Library Trust Fund reported the decision on 21 October, following a motion by Aniekwe Peter Udogalanya.","The committee is to examine staffing, crewing and inland-logistics requirements under the cabotage and oil-and-gas local-content laws, as well as tax obligations, and report within four weeks. Concerns raised about market power, pricing and compliance are grounds for the inquiry, not findings of proven violations."],"key_points":[],"sections":[]},"text":"A new ad hoc committee will examine compliance with cabotage, local-content and tax rules; the House presented concerns as allegations for investigation.\n\nNigeria’s House of Representatives resolved to establish an ad hoc committee to investigate international shipping operators’ structures and compliance in the country. The National Assembly Library Trust Fund reported the decision on 21 October, following a motion by Aniekwe Peter Udogalanya.\n\nThe committee is to examine staffing, crewing and inland-logistics requirements under the cabotage and oil-and-gas local-content laws, as well as tax obligations, and report within four weeks. Concerns raised about market power, pricing and compliance are grounds for the inquiry, not findings of proven violations.\n\nDate clarification: 21 October is the source report’s publication day. As the precise resolution day is not independently established, it is identified as the source-review period. The event period is shown as October 2026, the actual source-review month, rather than an unverified exact day.","corrections":[{"at":"2026-10-22T21:08:31+03:00","language":"en","text":"Date clarification: 21 October is the source report’s publication day. As the precise resolution day is not independently established, it is identified as the source-review period. The event period is shown as October 2026, the actual source-review month, rather than an unverified exact day."}],"editorial_illustration":{"kind":"symbolic-editorial-illustration","documentary":false,"scope":"article","asset_id":"regional-trade","url":"https://haberpaper.com/assets/illustrations/regional-trade-1536.webp","width":1536,"height":1024,"alt":"Symbolic foreign trade illustration with a port crane, unmarked containers and a cargo ship.","language":"en"},"section_illustration":{"kind":"symbolic-editorial-illustration","documentary":false,"scope":"section","asset_id":"business","url":"https://haberpaper.com/assets/illustrations/business-1536.webp","width":1536,"height":1024,"alt":"Symbolic industrial workshop with machinery, a warehouse and a crane.","language":"en"}}}