June 2024 – Page 2 – Shipping World News Magazine

Jun162024 by Asu BeksNo Comments

NNADI CELEBRATES CGC WALE ADENIYI WITH LANDMARK SEIZURES AT TIN CAN

News Feature

Bashir Adewale Adeniyi, Comptroller General of Nigeria Customs Service, was all smiles as he lavished encomiums on officers and Men of the Tin Can Command who rejected mouth- watering offers to make an iconic drug seizure to celebrate his first 365 days in office as helmsman of the Nigeria Customs Service. Adewale Adeniyi was named Comptroller General of the Nigeria Customs Service by President Bola Ahmed Tinubu on June 19, 2023 , thus bringing to an end the Hameed Ali administration of ineptitude which will go down in history as the darkest days of Service. For the Tin Can command under the headship of Comptroller Dera Nnadi, Mni, this was more of a birthday present to Wale Adeniyi, the CGC than just men and officers carrying out their statutory duties as enforcement officers and revenue ...

Jun92024 by Asu BeksNo Comments

TRIBUTE TO AN ODE OF ARCHITECT A Tribute by Lady Olamide Odusanya

News Feature

Late Ferdinand Agu was appointed as an undertaker of the then NMA. Due to his professional and personal conviction, he designed, constructed and operated a forward looking Agency. Late Architect Agu was loved by all for his brilliance, oratory power, humaneness, love of arts and culture. We loved him for some many reasons. He became the benchmark for good leaders in the Agency. He touched the lives of all and sundry in the Agency, and left the Agency far better than he met it. On a personal note, late Agu challenged me to be better at my job, and was an inspiration to all staff to be a better and patriotic Nigerians. May God Almighty grant the family he has left behind, succour, courage and grace to forge ahead and grant him eternal repose, amen.

Jun92024 by Asu BeksNo Comments

FERDINAND AGU – AN EXCEPTIONAL MARITIME ADMINISTRATOR A Tribute by Dr Emeka Akabogu

Maritime, News Feature

Architect Ferdinand Agu was a man of high intellect. I greatly admired him because he combined his prodigious intellect with delicious articulation and impressive gravitas. Beyond these, he had a hands-on approach to his job and set about tasks with commitment and detail. I distinctly remember his first interaction with the maritime industry after his appointment at a stakeholder interactive session in 2001. He was quiet all through the event, listening intently and taking notes. When eventually he took the podium, it was evident the country’s maritime administration had not beheld such a class act. He flawlessly captured the essence of all interventions, seducing the words to deliver hope in great doses of audial pleasure. My first full engagement with him was shortly after in Enugu...

Jun92024 by Asu BeksNo Comments

NIMASA DG Mobereola Mourns Late Ferdinand Agu

Maritime, News Feature

The Director General of the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA), Dr. Dayo Mobereola, has described the death of Architect Ferdinand Agu, former Director General of the defunct National Maritime Authority (NMA), as a rude shock. Reacting to Agu's sudden passing this weekend, the NIMASA DG expressed that it is a significant loss to Nigeria, the maritime community, and NIMASA in particular. “I am deeply saddened to hear of the passing of Arc. Ferdinand Agu, a former Director General of NMA. He left an indelible impression on me within the short time we shared during my first stakeholder engagement just last month. I had hoped to engage him more often, to tap into his wealth of experience for the collective interest of every Nigerian. Alas, death has denied us thi...

Jun92024 by Asu BeksNo Comments

A TRIBUTE TO FERDINAND AGU .By Prof Pat Utomi.

Maritime, News Feature

The news is heavy and weighs down the heart. But e give thanks to a creator deserving of our gratitude. My friend Ferdinand Agu crossed over with no notice, no time for a wrap-up, let alone say goodbye. Ferdinand was a class act. Gifted with a clear head and profound in erudition. Those who came out to see the architect as technician found themselves before a poet and philosopher king. As DG of NMA (NIMASA), he turned to a few of us for the template for change. As a neighbor on Ilabere, he walked across in lamentation when shocking things like the line up of candidates for Governor in Imo appeared in 2010. He was not from Imo, but his essence sorrowed for the people of that state. What a loss. May the Angels of God the most high escort him into paradise. Prof Pat Utomi...

Jun92024 by Asu BeksNo Comments

Arc Ferdinald Agu and his testimonials . By Dakuku Peterside PhD.

Maritime, News Feature

When I arrived at NIMASA in March 2016 and started preaching the gospel of reforms and reputational restoration, the director - level cadre of the agency threw only one challenge at me:equal or surpass the record of a certain Arc. Ferdinald Agu,who had earlier served as DG/ CEO of the predecessor organisation to NIMASA, NMA. That challenge set the stage for and the tone of my future engagements in the agency. First, who is this man who has become a source of leadership reference in NIMASA? It was evident to all that we have only ever had very few of these agency leaders as role models and sources of inspiration for leadership. Fewer have been superlative and exceptional .Therefore, it became imperative to extract the core elements of Arc Agu's outstanding and qualitative performance pri...

Jun82024 by Asu BeksNo Comments

Ramalan, Pioneer NIMASA Chairman Mourns former NIMASA DG, Ferdinand Agu

Maritime, News Feature

Dr Ahmed Tijjani Ramalan , Pioneer Board Chairman the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency NIMASA said he received with a rude shock the sad news of the sudden tragic passing of Arch Ferdinand Agu, a former Director General of the Nigerian Maritime Authority (now NIMASA). A statement on Saturday by Ramalan said Ferdy, as he was fondly called, by friends and Colleagues lamented that Nigerian Maritime Administration under a New Leadership could not tap or harness the enormous resource reservoir in Ferdinand Agu before he passed on. "Ferdinand Agu was a patriot, a Pan-Nigeria and a leading light in the affairs of men and women in the Nigeria"s Maritime World ", he said The late Ferdinand Agu passed almost 30 Days after attending a stakeholders engagement to the usher in...

Jun62024 by Asu BeksNo Comments

Matawalle, Defence Minister mulls integration of NIMASA C41, Navy’s Falcon eye

Maritime, News Feature

Minister of State, Defence Hon. Bello Matawalle has declared Federal Government’s commitment to integrating the operations of the Command Control Computer Communication Information System of the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency, NIMASA and the surveillance facility of the Nigerian Navy known as the Falcon eye system for the security of the Nigerian Maritime space to engender economic prosperity. Matawalle who stated this shortly after a working visit to the NIMASA C4i center in Kirikiri this weekend to inspect the operational model of the facility said that Nigeria will benefit much more if all Agencies of Government can synergize seamlessly and improve information sharing amongst one another for the benefit of Nigeria. He called for enhance synergy between...

Jun62024 by Asu BeksNo Comments

CHIEF OF NAVAL STAFF, OGALLA VISITS NIMASA ·..as Mobereola pledges improved MoU with the Nigerian Navy- NIMASA DG

Maritime, News Feature

The Chief of the Naval Staff, Vice Admiral Emmanuel Ogalla today paid a working visit to Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency, NIMASA in continuation of efforts to deepen the cooperation between the Nigerian Navy and the Agency to achieve sustainable security in the Nigerian maritime domain. Speaking during the visit, Vice Admiral Ogalla acknowledged efforts of the Agency in implementing both national and international regulatory instruments to improve safety and security in the maritime domain, adding that the Nigerian Navy under his leadership is committed to supporting NIMASA to succeed. “I want to appreciate NIMASA for the collaboration with the Nigerian Navy which is to achieve a common goal of better securing the Nigerian maritime domain, thus promoting an enabling en...

Jun42024 by Asu BeksNo Comments

PORTS ECONOMIC REGULATOR BILL: NIMASA,NPA , NIG SHIPPERS COUNCIL MEET TO HARMONIZE POSITIONS….Adeyanju, Akabogu, Hassan Bello, say bill long overdue.

Maritime, Misc, News Feature

Indications were rife weekend that Management of the Nigerian Ports Authority, NPA, the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency, NIMASA and the Nigerian Shippers Council may have met to harmonize a common position on the proposed Nigerian Shipping and Ports Economic Regulator Agency bill currently before the House of Representatives. Usually dependable sources at the Ministry of Marine and Blue Economy who confided in Shipping World said those who attended the meeting last weekend in Abuja included Dr Dayo Mobereola, Barr Pius Akutah and an Executive Director at the NPA who represented Mohammed Bello Koko. Although the outcome of deliberations were not made public, this magazine learned that the meeting was meant to address the perceived inter agency rivalry among parastatals in...