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Oct202025 by adminNo Comments

Gov Diri Tasks UN On Protection Of River Deltas

News Feature

Governor of Bayelsa State, Senator Douye Diri, has urged the United Nations to institutionalise the protection of the world’s deltas, including Nigeria’s Niger Delta, through a convention. The Bayelsa governor stated this against the backdrop of increasing threats from erosion, pollution, flooding as well as shrinking salt marshes and mangroves to the world’s 25 deltas. His spokesperson, Mr. Daniel Alabrah, in a statement, quoted Governor Diri as having spoken on Monday during the opening of a three-day “4th Mega Delta Meeting: International Conference on Dialogue Between Land and Sea” in Shanghai, China. Stakeholders had identified the threats as a global problem that required international cooperation to find solutions and prevent the extinction of the deltas and their capacity ...

Oct192025 by adminNo Comments

Heineken Lokpobiri and Nigeria’s bid for 2m barrels daily production. BY THOMAS PERETU.

News Feature

The emergence of Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu as the President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria in May 2023, signalled a new beginning in Nigeria's quest to optimize Petroleum production in the country. The subsequent appointment of Sen. Heineken Lokpobiri (PhD) the minister of state for Petroluem (Oil) was indeed, an icing on the cake and a blessing in disguise. Why? Because he is an exceedingly experienced public servant whose amazing resume and track record is the envy of many. He came to office adequately prepared for the onerous tasks ahead. He delved into the vortex with his sleeves rolled up, ready for the onslaught. Through deliberate and calculated effort, he changed the trajectory of the energy sector, revamping our collective hope for a brighter and greater future. The government...

Oct192025 by adminNo Comments

Africa’s Energy Bank: Hope, Hurdles and the Battle for the Continent’s Energy Future By Charles Tambou

News Feature

A quiet revolution is taking shape in Africa’s energy sector. For decades, African nations have depended heavily on Western banks and foreign investors to fund oil, gas, and power projects. But as those financiers turn away from fossil fuels, Africa is charting a new course by building its own bank, the Africa Energy Bank (AEB) and its headquarters is inAbuja, Nigeria. The Africa Energy Bank is the brainchild of the African Petroleum Producers’ Organisation (APPO) and Afreximbank, Africa’s trade finance powerhouse. Its mission is simple but ambitious, to raise about $5 billion to fund oil, gas, and power infrastructure across the continent. In other words, projects that foreign lenders are now reluctant to support. For many African countries, this bank could not have come at a better t...

Oct182025 by Asu BeksNo Comments

Breaking: Mobereola Rejuvenates NSDP …appoints Capt Omotosho to head Scheme. By Asu Beks.

Maritime, News Feature

Determined to avoid previous flaws and misteps of the flagship Nigerian Seafarers Development Programme, NSDP, Director General of the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency, Dr Dayo Mobereola, has carried out a major overhaul of the Scheme in line with global best practices. In recent years, the Scheme has come under intense scrutiny by stakeholders who had called for its evaluation in line with current realities to reflect our demands and aspirations as one of the fastest-growing Maritime nations in Africa. While some have called for its scrapping, others have insisted that it didn't make economic sense or logic to send students abroad for diploma programmes when back at home, we even have better institutions to run such programs. Shipping World Magazine can confirm exclus...

Oct182025 by Steve AzaikiNo Comments

The Technocrat’s Dilemma: Can Dakuku Peterside’s Rational Vision Transform Nigeria?

News Feature

sits at an interesting intersection of politics, public administration and management practice. Best known to many as the turnaround Director General of the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA) and a former federal lawmaker, Dr. Peterside in October 2025, amid Nigeria's 25th year of uninterrupted democracy marked by both triumphs and tremors, unveiled two seminal works: Leading in a Storm (published by Safari Books) and Beneath the Surface: Essays on Nigeria’s Chequered Journey (under Masobe Books' Makere imprint). Launched in high-profile events across Lagos, Abuja, London, and Chicago, these volumes distill decades of frontline experience into actionable wisdom, appraising leadership not as charisma but as calibrated competence.. Taken together they are less self-p...

Oct162025 by Asu BeksNo Comments

Dantsoho: The Youth Corper “First Son” of Oyetola who rose to become NPA MD . By Asu Beks.

Misc

Call him the adopted first son of Adegboyega Oyetola, Nigeria's Minister of Marine and Blue Economy, and you won't be wrong. When after his graduation from the University of Maiduguri with a degree in Public Administration in 1992, Abubakar Dantsoho got posted to the Nigerian Ports Authority to answer his one year call to national service, little did he realise that his bread was being buttered by God. Dantsoho career trajectory in Nigerian Ports Authority dates back to 1992 where he started as NYSC trainee and subsequently as a marketing officer . As some one who took his career seriously, he moved progressively from one unit to the other and in the process, equipping himself with the rudiments of Port Administration. He had held sway as Port Manager, Onne Port ,and at a point, a perso...

Oct162025 by Steve AzaikiNo Comments

BOMBSHELL! FMR DG NIMASA to FG: Scrap CVFF , Refund Contributions . BY ASU BEKS.

Misc

Amid growing concerns by stakeholders over the seeming uncertainty over government's real intentions in disbursement of the Cabotage Vessel Financing Fund,CVFF, which has suffered several setbacks, a former Director General of the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency, NIMASA, has asked the Central Bank of Nigeria to refund all such monies to the contributors. The former NIMASA helmsman who spoke exclusively to Shipping World, on condition of anonymity, said " the time has come to call a spade by its name. This government , like previous administrations before it, doesn't seem to have the political will to disburse the fund. You can't be collecting someone's money for over 22 years and refuse to disburse the money ". The CVFF, under the Cabotage Act was signed into law by f...

Oct152025 by Asu BeksNo Comments

Gov Diri Aborts PDP’S 26 Reign in Bayelsa, Dumps Party with 23 Lawmakers.

Misc, News Feature, Politics

After months of speculation and rumoured defection from the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Governor of Bayelsa State, Senator Douye Diri, on Wednesday, officially announced his resignation from the party over what he described as “obvious reasons.” Governor Diri made the announcement during an expanded State Executive Council meeting in Government House, Yenagoa, which had in attendance Speaker of the House of Assembly, Abraham Ingobere, his deputy, Michael Ogbere, the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) minority leader, Edward Brigidi and seven other lawmakers. A statement by the governor’s Chief Press Secretary, Mr. Daniel Alabrah, quoted him as saying that he took the decision after extensive consultation with leaders of the state. He expressed gratitude to his supporters, w...

Oct142025 by Asu BeksNo Comments

Bayelsa Signs Solar Panel Production Deal

News Feature

Bayelsa State recorded another milestone on Tuesday following the signing of a renewal energy agreement for solar panels manufacturing plant in the state. The tripartite deal between the Federal Government’s Rural Electrification Agency (REA), the Bayelsa government and J Marine Logistics Limited, a subsidiary of the Dubai-based Jampur Group that supplied the state’s 60mw gas turbines, was signed in Abuja during the 2025 Nigeria Renewable Energy Innovation Forum (NREIF) at the Transcorp Hilton Hotel. Governor Douye Diri signed on behalf of the state while the chairman of Jampur Group, Mr. Mohammed Shafiq, signed for the company in the presence of Vice President Kashim Shettima, who chaired the event, the Minister of Power, Adebayo Adelabu, and the REA Managing Director, Abba Aliyu. ...

Oct132025 by Asu BeksNo Comments

Lokpobiri resolves dispute between host community and Oil Museum Contractor

News Feature

Minister of State for Petroleum Resources (Oil), Sen. Heineken Lokpobiri, has appealled to the good people of Otuabagi community in Ogbia LGA, to allow work to resume on the Oloibiri Oil Museum and Research Center project site. The Minister, who appealled to the Community when the President of IYC Worldwide, Sir Jonathan Lokpobiri Snr, the Chairman of Otuabagi Chiefs Council and others met him in Yenagoa on Sunday, to seek his attention on the ongoing disput, urged them to prioritize progress over grievances, noting that Oloibiri's prolonged neglect makes this opportunity too valuable to miss. While emphasizing that Oloibiri area, which oil was first struck in commercial quantity, has faced prolonged neglect and urged the community to seize the current opportunity, rather than lettin...