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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 acro...

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 I...

Aug42019 by Asu BeksNo Comments

BASHIR JAMOH: MARITIME LIVING LEGEND OF THE WEEK

Breaking News, Maritime, Profile

Dr. Bashir Jamoh is no doubt many things to many people. An evolving persona dramatis, Jamoh has in the past couple of years appealed to authorities, corporate and institutional personalities, veterans, thinkers, policy and decision makers, chieftains of industries, fellow technocrats, profile engineers to name but a few. Naturally, many have conceded many different titles to him, despite that many see him first and foremost as one of the finest and youthful manager of men and resources, others see him as an emerging transportant with an unusual patriotic national appeal, seemingly eager to begin the process of purposeful and corrective national renaissance, especially in the maritime and transport sector where he presently holds forth. And in actual fact, Jamoh h...

Jul292019 by Asu BeksNo Comments

Dakuku Peterside breathes fresh air into NIMASA

Breaking News, Maritime, News Feature

By Asu Beks A little over three years ago when Dr. Dakuku Adol Peterside was appointed Director General of Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency, NIMASA, there was a sharp division of what his coming portends.While some believed that he would make a difference, significant and far reaching, there were also those who expressed some level of reservation and indeed pessimism, based on the consideration that not been an industry person would clearly limit his ability to achieve the desirable growth index. Three years down the line, so much has taken place that, without equivocation, can be summed up as the striking gains under Peterside’s stewardship in every parameter, which even his worst critics cannot deny. Overall, he has been able to secure the levers of th...

Jul292019 by Asu BeksNo Comments

MARITIME LIVING LEGEND OF THE WEEK: Admiral Festus Porbeni (Rtd) mni, cfr

Breaking News, Maritime, News Feature, Profile

Perhaps, it’s about time we fit in the word AWESOME as his middle name. Rear Admiral Festus Porbeni is by all historical account one of the foremost retired Nigerian Military General, who has not shown any trace of tiredness and is still solidly active in nation building part of which is the mentoring of youths and creating opportunities for their dreams and career. A professional navigator and diver, boardroom player, ambassador and human capital builder, Rear Admiral Porbeni was born May 28, 1946 at Abari, Delta State. After his primary and secondary education which ended at two most prestigious colleges of that time, Hussy College Warri and Government College Ughelli, between 196-64 and 1965-66, respectively, the young Porbeni enlisted in the Nigerian Military in 1967. He tra...

Jul252019 by Asu BeksNo Comments

Gbajabiamila: Nigeria Looks to Marine Resources for Economic Recovery

Breaking News, Maritime, News Feature, Press Release

· As NIMASA hosts African Day of Seas and Oceans · Forwards 6 international instruments on blue economy for ratification Nigeria’s rich maritime resources represent a vital economic safeguard and vehicle for the successful implementation of the President Muhammadu Buhari government’s Economic Recovery and Growth Plan (ERGP), which must be sustainably tapped, Speaker of the House of Representatives, Rt. Hon. Femi Gbajabiamila, has stated. Gbajabiamila said this on Thursday in Lagos at a ceremony hosted by the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA) to mark this year’s African Day of Seas and Oceans, with the theme, “Harnessing Nigeria’s Marine Biodiversity for Accelerated...

Dec302017 by Asu BeksNo Comments

Total Spectrum Maritime Strategy Will Tackle Crime – Dakuku

Breaking News, Law, Maritime

In line with the recent approval by the Federal Executive Council (FEC), the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency, NIMASA is set to acquire strategic maritime safety and security assets, which are also in line with the total spectrum of maritime security strategy. The Director General of NIMASA, Dr. Dakuku Peterside who made this known in Lagos recently, also announced the establishment of a command and control center as part of the strategic initiative. “The four components of the initiative are situational awareness, response capability, law enforcement and local partnerships, and regional cooperation which are the fulcrum upon which tackling maritime crime will be built on”. Dr. Dakuku noted that the implementation of NIMASA’s total spectrum maritime strategy in coll...

Dec142017 by Our EditorNo Comments

The Agony of Seafarers

Opinion

by Egodor Cementina The Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA) was established with the major responsibility of developing indigenous capacity for shippers, training, certification and welfare of seafarers. Specifically, the agency was created, among others, to provide regulations that are related to Nigerian Shipping, Maritime Labour, Safety and Security in our waters. NIMASA, as the apex maritime agency, has failed in almost all of its duties from the administration of the activities to the clearance and security of the seafarers. Stakeholder's have had cause to lampoon the Apex Maritime Regulatory Agency over its handling of issues concerning seafarers. Recently the Nigerian Merchant Navy and Water Transport Senior Officers accused the agency of tardine...

Dec142017 by Asu BeksNo Comments

I Will Turn Around The Fortunes of MAN Oron In 365 Days – Rector

Breaking News, Education, Maritime

Newly appointed Rector of the Maritime Academy of Nigeria, Commodore Emma Daju Effedua retd has promised to return the institution to its glorious past as one the most admired and respected maritime academy in the west and central African sub region. Commodore Effedua who made the pledge Wednesday in Oron when he hosted members of the House Committee of Maritime Administration and Education said, "I am here to change the narrative where cadets of the Academy are regarded as half baked and unemployable" He added that, " When this Academy was established 40 years ago it was the the pride of the African continent. It was established at the same time countries like South Africa, Ghana and Egypt also came up with their maritime academies but 40 years down the line, we are hundreds of ...

Nov302017 by Our EditorNo Comments

NIMASA DG Bags Award Of Credence

Breaking News, Law

…As Youth Parliament pass vote of confidence on him The Director General of the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA) Dr. Dakuku Peterside has bagged the award of credence just as the Nigerian Youth Parliament passed a vote of confidence on him. This award was conferred on the DG during a special advocacy visit and presentation of certificate of credence by the members of the Parliament, led by the Majority Leader, Hon. Umar Etudaye at the Head office of the Agency in Lagos, recently. Speaking at the event, the Leader noted that in the quest of the Parliament to identify with distinguished and reputable personalities, organizations, institutions and public office holders, inaugurated her merit honorarium category as “Icon of Youth Development and Nation Building” a...