News Feature – Page 17 – Shipping World News Magazine

Jan182025 by Asu BeksNo Comments

A Case For Quality Leadership in the Ministry of Marine and Blue Economy: An Open Letter to Adegboyega Oyetola*

News Feature

Your Excellency, sir. I hope this letter meets you well, and in a perfect health. We give God the glory for your life and your measured accomplishments, especially as Governor of the State of Osun and as pioneer Minister of the Ministry of Marine and Blue Economy. This is my second letter since your assumption of duty. My first coincided with your first anniversary as Minister of Marine and Blue Economy. Your Excellency, there is no doubt that you came highly recommended given your pedigree as a former Governor and an accomplished captain of Nigeria's insurance industry. In my first letter to you last year, I enumerated a few of the challenges and opportunities which lay ahead as you navigate through these stormy waters. Your Excellency, sir, you are also lucky to find yourself in an i...

Jan162025 by Asu Beks1 Comment

South Korea Hands Over Mechanised Agric Equipment To Bayelsa *Diri Confers State Citizenship On Envoy

News Feature

The Republic of South Korea has handed over mechanised farming equipment worth over $500,000 to the Bayelsa State government. The items include four tractors, two rice transplanting machines, one rice seeding machine, 10,000 rice seed beds, and four 10-tonne per day rice mills. The equipment were handed over to the state government by the South Korean Ambassador to Nigeria, Rear Admiral Kim Pankyu (rtd), on Thursday, at the School-to-Land Farm complex in Yenagoa. Speaking at the handover and rice planting demonstration ceremony, Amb. Pankyu said the donation was part of a collaborative partnership between his country and Bayelsa State. He noted that Bayelsa was endowed with a suitable soil and favourable weather for rice cultivation and expressed the optimism that the equipment...

Jan112025 by Asu BeksNo Comments

Countdown to MIMA 2025 …

Maritime, News Feature

Engr Salat Braimah, Segun Oduntan, Frank Meke receive nomination letters. As the countdown to the Maritime Industry MERIT AWARDS 2025 begins, Awardees have been receiving their nomination letters The roll call of those who got their letters this week include Engr Salat Braimah, Lagos Area Manager of the National Inland Waterways Authority, NIWA, who was voted the MARITIME WOMAN OF THE YEAR. Others included Prince Segun Oduntan, Vice President of the Association of Nigerian Licensed Customs AGENTS, who was nominated as MOST OUTSTANDING CUSTOMS BROKER, while Mr Frank Meke, a Newspaper Columnist and Radio host was voted the TOURISM JOURNALIST of the Year.

Jan112025 by Asu BeksNo Comments

Bashir Adewale Adeniyi: Unveiling the Global Ambassador of Renewed Hope Agenda

News Feature

In life, there are those who are born leaders. There are also those who have leadership positions handed over to them. And yet, those who got groomed for leadership roles. Customs Comptroller General, Bashir Adewale Adeniyi, does not fall into the first category, neither is he in the class of those who had leadership position thrown at him. Those who have monitored his meteoric and outstanding career progression in the Nigeria Customs Service would agree with me that Wale Adeniyi, as he is fondly called by his friends, did not just get to the peak of the service by any stroke of luck. He worked for it. He merited it. As a young officer, he was a toast of his bosses, due essentially to his ability to deliver, and promptly too. Other than being a fast learner, his humane and humble dispos...

Jan102025 by Asu BeksNo Comments

Bashir Adewale Adeniyi: Unveiling the Global Ambassador of Renewed Hope Agenda

News Feature

In life, there are those who are born leaders. There are also those who have leadership positions handed over to them. And yet, those who got groomed for leadership roles. Customs Comptroller General, Bashir Adewale Adeniyi, does not fall into the first category, neither is he in the class of those who had leadership position thrown at him. Those who have monitored his meteoric and outstanding career progression in the Nigeria Customs Service would agree with me that Wale Adeniyi, as he is fondly called by his friends, did not just get to the peak of the service by any stroke of luck. He worked for it. He merited it. As a young officer, he was a toast of his bosses, due essentially to his ability to deliver, and promptly too. Other than being a fast learner, his humane and humble dispos...

Jan32025 by Asu BeksNo Comments

Marine and Blue Economy: Time for Fubura, Oborevwori, Sanwo-Olu, others to join the train By Asu Beks

Maritime, News Feature

Nigeria's establishment of a full fledged Ministry of Marine and Blue Economy in 2023 demonstrated President Bola Ahmed Tinubu's commitment to diversifying Nigeria's economy and capitalizing on the global surge in deep sea exploration. The Blue Economy is a term that refers to the sustainable use of the ocean resources to create jobs, improve lives and promote economic growth. This also includes the preservation of ocean ecosystems and health. With a coastline stretching over 850 kilometers, one of the largest in the West and Central African sub region, Nigeria 's coastline cuts across Akwa Ibom, Delta, Ondo, Bayelsa, Cross River, Ondo, Ogun and Lagos states. With the prospect of creating over 31 million jobs globally, a projected annual economy of between $3 trillion and $6 trillio...

Dec302024 by Asu BeksNo Comments

TRIBUTE TO LATE DIG MOSES AMBAKINA JITOBOH By Prof Moni Gold

News Feature

The Ijaw Diaspora grieves the profound loss of one of its most illustrious sons, Deputy Inspector General (DIG) Moses Ambakina Jitoboh, whose life epitomized integrity, excellence, and an unwavering dedication to justice. Born on June 1, 1970, and enlisted into the Nigeria Police Force on June 10, 1994, as a cadet assistant superintendent of police, his passing signifies not merely the end of a distinguished career but the extinguishing of a bright light in the fight against systemic inequities. DIG Moses Ambakina Jitoboh’s remarkable journey was marked by professionalism and merit, yet his boundless potential was thwarted by the persistent shadows of ethnic discrimination and political favoritism. Twice, he was unjustly denied the opportunity to ascend to the esteemed position of Inspe...

Dec282024 by Asu BeksNo Comments

FUBARA, DIRI MEET IN PH…resolve dispute over SOKU oil well

News Feature

Governor of Bayelsa State, Senator Douye Diri, has expressed delight over the peaceful resolution of the Soku oil well dispute between Rivers and Bayelsa states. Speaking in Porthacourt on Saturday during a Yuletide visit to his Rivers counterpart, Sir Siminalayi Fubara, Governor Diri said he was delighted that under Fubara, both states have agreed to return to status quo, thus ending the dispute and withdrawing the case from court. The Bayelsa governor said the peaceful relations between both states was necessary for their development and called for its continuity. Diri also lauded Fubara for his handling of the demolished property of the Bayelsa government in Pott Harcourt, which is still in court while both states are close to reaching an amicable settlement. He stressed the...

Dec212024 by Asu BeksNo Comments

GOV DOUYE DIRI GOES TO FARM … takes possession of 4 rice mills from South Korea

News Feature

Bayelsa State Government has announced its renewed plan to invest massively in agriculture in this second term of the Prosperity Administration. At the flag-off of the 2024-2025 dry season farming at the rice farm in Otuasega, Ogbia Local Government Area attended by the Deputy Governor, Sen. Lawrence Ewhrudjakpo and other top government functionaries, Governor Douye Diri, encouraged the people of the state including himself and all political appointees to own their own farms, particularly in clusters. Gov. Diri who said the government would focus on areas where the state has comparative advantage including rice, plantain, banana, cassava, oil palm, assured that his administration would train more young people in different aspects of agriculture. Commissioner for Agriculture and Na...

Dec202024 by Asu BeksNo Comments

BRASS: Old Fishing, Slavery Gateway as Bayelsa’s New Industrial Hub

News Feature, Press Release

Founded in 1895, Brass used to be, traditionally, a fishing settlement. But early in the 19th century, it became a strategic route not only for slave trade but for palm produce and was aptly dubbed the "Venice of Niger Delta" by some authors. In today's Nigeria, Brass is unarguably to Bayelsa what Lekki is to Lagos. Brass is an emerging investment and industrial hub. While the Lekki free trade zone and the Dangote Free Zone Enterprise both located in Lekki, Lagos parade a world class refinery and a Deep Sea Port with potentials for huge domestic and foreign investments, Brass Oil and Gas Free City Zone, when fully operational, is blessed with a Liquified Natural Gas plant, a proposed refinery and a port terminal that is blessed with several jetties, with proximity to the Atlantic Ocean....