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Aug222019 by Asu BeksNo Comments

NIMASA DEMONSTRATES COMMITMENT TO SEAFARERS WELFARE

· Facilities Signing of Landmark Collective Bargaining Agreement In furtherance of its effort to ensure improved working conditions for seafarers in the country, the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA) has midwifed the signing of the Nigerian Seafarers Conditions of Service Collective Bargaining Agreement (CBA). The agreement signed at the Agency's headquarters in Lagos was with the endorsement of the National Joint Industrial Council (NJIC)CollectiveBargaining Agreement on minimum standards on conditions of service for Nigerian seafarers in both coastal and offshore sectors. Speaking at the signing ceremony, the Director-General of NIMASA, Dr. Dakuku Peterside, expressed his belief that proper implementation of t...

Aug192019 by Asu BeksNo Comments

Nigerian Maritime University VC, Prof Etebu joins Bayelsa Governorship Race?

Breaking News, Maritime, News Feature, Politics

BREAKING NEWS : Barring any last minute change in plan, the Vice Chancellor of the Nigeria's Premier Maritime University, Okerenkoko, Delta State, Prof Maureen Ongoebi Etebu, may today pick up the nomination form for the forthcoming governorship election in Bayelsa State. She would be contesting under the platform of the All Progressive Congress, APC. It could not be confirmed as at press time if she had resigned from her position as Vice Chancellor of the Nigerian Maritime University. Prof Etebu had both served under Late Governor DSP and Chief Chief Timipre Sylva as Commissioner. Further details in our subsequent editions. By Asu Beks

Aug192019 by Asu BeksNo Comments

COMPT. KAYODE OLUSEMIRE : MARITIME LIVING LEGEND OF THE WEEK.

Breaking News, Maritime, Profile

The story of Nigeria Customs Service anti-smuggling operations cannot be conclusively told without the mention of Comptroller Kayode Olusemire. Those whose business it is to know believe that Olusemire is one the dreaded anti-smuggling elements, who takes on smugglers in hurricane like approach, often with a blind fury. Regarded as an old horse, Olusemire has served in the service nationwide and in various departments and capacities. Even though it would appear that he has cut his teeth more enforcement, Olusemire is an oracle in revenue and tariff reading, a strategist and uncommon administrator, who has a record of uncanny excellence in utilizing scarce human and material resources to achieving significant results. He is the incumbent Controller, Federal Operations ...

Aug182019 by Asu BeksNo Comments

ALIYU GALADIMA SAIDU IS MARITIME INDUSTRY LIVING LEGEND OF THE WEEK

Breaking News, Maritime, Profile

Perhaps, if Comptroller Aliyu Galadima Saidu had ended up a career educator, he would have made no less impact in the educational sector than he has already in tax management and revenue collection industry. Without exaggeration, it can also be said that his destiny appear intertwined with impacting knowledge, a fact that has continually attracted him to the training grounds, building and moulding manpower, training, directing, instructing, evaluating, and carrying out project researches and development analysis. It is not surprising therefore, that the Customs Area Controller of Onne, the one and only essential Comptroller Galadima Saidu is about one of the most widely in today’s Nigeria Customs Service. Even though he is not a P.hd holder, his scholarship has a swagger that ultimatel...

Aug162019 by Asu BeksNo Comments

Nigerian Ports Incapable To Accommodate Big Ships —Hull Blyth Boss

Breaking News, Maritime, Port News

Christian Holm, Managing Director of Hull Blyth Nigeria Limited on Thursday ,stated that Nigeria seaports lack capacity to handle bigger vessels as a result of infrastructure decay. Holm dropped the hint during his submission at an Ad-Hoc Committee of House of Representatives inquiring into under utilisation of Eastern ports that modern ports infrastructure can attract cargoes there. Mr. Blyth said ports in the country are far from being modernised and incapable of accommodating bigger vessels and process cargoes in good time. According to him,poorly developed ports will attract smaller vessels and increase cost of shipping. While harping on the issues surrounding security in the country the Hull Blyth boss added that maritime policing has been compromised on Nigeria’s Terr...

Aug112019 by Asu BeksNo Comments

SALLAH: DAKUKU URGES NIGERIANS TO EMBRACE LOVE AND PEACE

Breaking News, Maritime, Press Release

· Assures of Better Days Ahead The Director General of the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA), Dr. Dakuku Peterside has urged Nigerians to embrace love and ensure peaceful coexistence among one another as they celebrate Sallah. The NIMASA DG who said that sallah celebration is not only a time for merriment, but a time for sober reflections on happenings in the country, expressed optimism that Nigeria will overcome the challenges facing it in no distant time. “I wish to assure Nigerians that the President Muhammadu Buhari led Federal Government is very determined to take Nigeria to the next level, and this can only be achieved with the patience and cooperation of Nigerians”, he said. Speaking further, Dr. Dakuku...

Aug102019 by Asu BeksNo Comments

An Open Letter to the Incoming Minister of Transportation.

Breaking News, Maritime, Opinion

By Elder Asu Beks (President Maritime Media Ltd) Dear Sir, Congratulations on your nomination by President Muhammadu Buhari as a Minister and the subsequent ratification by the Senate of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. There is no doubt that your choice as the Minister of Transportation at this critical time of our nationhood is an attestation to the confidence Mr President reposes in you to reposition this sector. As a critical stakeholder in the maritime subsector and given the myriad of problems facing the Maritime Industry, I expect you to hit the ground running as soon as you take your Oath of Office. Your predecessor left no one in doubt about his preparedness to rewrite the history of the Transport sector. He engaged all critical stakeholders to acquaint himself w...

Aug82019 by Asu BeksNo Comments

ALIYU SAIDU: I am a Customs Officer by Accident, My First love Remains the Army.

Breaking News, Maritime, Port News

Comptroller Aliyu Galadima Saidu, who oversees the Onne Command of the Nigeria Customs Service has zero tolerance for indiscipline. While growing up he had this undying passion to join the army." I love and admire the military because of the level of discipline and the way the command structure works",he says . He said his passion for the army was fueled by his grandfather who was nicknamed " 8 Generals" and was Defence Minister in charge of the Army in the first republic.He said his grand father Galadinma, drated the likes of IBB and Late Gen Mamman Vatsa and 6 others all of whom became Generals in the Army. But young Aliyu was to chicken out of the Nigeria Defence Academy on account of the rigorous training at the elite military Academy in Zaria . ...

Aug72019 by Asu BeksNo Comments

NIGERIA IS TARGETING A WORLD CLASS SHIP REGISTRY – DAKUKU

Breaking News, Maritime, Port News, Press Release

· Receives report of review committee Director-General of the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA), Dr. Dakuku Peterside, has received the report of the committee on the review of the Nigerian Ship Registry, with a declaration that the Agency’s target is to have a world-class ship registry. Dakuku said the goal was for Nigeria to have a ship registry that will meet international certification standards and compete favourably with the best in the global maritime community. Dakuku spoke yesterday in Lagos, while receiving the report of the committee tasked with reviewing the activities and operations of the Nigerian Ship Registration Office. “NIMASA is working at giving Nigerians a Ship Registry that is respected acros...

Aug42019 by Asu BeksNo Comments

FG Orders IOC’s To Clear Debt Owed Stevedoring Firms

Breaking News, Maritime, Port News

By Tola Adenubi The Federal Government has ordered the International Oil Companies (IOC) to clear all outstanding debt being owed stevedoring firms in the nation’s maritime sector. Disclosing this to the Tribune Online exclusively on Sunday, President of the National Association of Stevedoring Companies (NASC), Bolaji Sunmola who attended the meeting held in Abuja last Wednesday explained that the IOC’s have been given a timeline to comply with the laws of the land. NASC President said, “you know that the Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA) is mandated by law to appoint stevedoring firms at the nation’s seaports. “The stevedoring firms being owed by the IOC’s were duly appointed by the NPA, and so refusal to pay the stevedoring firms monies belonging to the maritime workers by the IO...