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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...

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...