Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency

Jan312025 by Asu BeksNo Comments

BREAKING: ABANDONED NSDP CADETS IN GREECE SEND SOS TO ASU BEKS TO SAVE THEM FROM DEPORTATION.

News Feature

No fewer than 150 cadets sent to Greece under the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency, NIMASA, flagship NSDP program risk deportation if by month ending February, 2025, NIMASA fails to meet her statutory financial obligations. In an emotion laden Save our Souls letter sent to the Editor Shipping World tagged " Urgent Appeal for Awareness,Nigerian NIMASA Cadets in Greece Facing Unpaid Stipends and Crisis", dated January 29, 2025, the students alleged that they have been abondonded by their sponsors, NIMASA, which despite repeated appeals, by the prioprietors of the Metropolitan College, Greece, has fallen on deaf ears. They have therefore appealed to the Publisher of Shipping World, Elder Asu Beks, to prevail on Dr Dayo Mobereola, the Director General of NIMASA, to do the nee...

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 ...

Dec272024 by Asu BeksNo Comments

Unprofessionalism as the Bane of Nigeria’s Marine and Blue Economy. By Asu Beks.

Maritime

"Pofessionalism and Continuity as the Panacea for Sustainable Development and Growth in Nigeria's Marine and Blue Economy, " is the topic the Editorial Board of Maritime Media Ltd, Publishers of Shipping World Magazine, has chosen as its theme for its annual lecture next year. This topic is in response to concerns and recent calls for the full professionalism in the new Ministry of Marine and Blue Economy. Goggle describes profession as " a paid occupation, especially one that involves prolonged training and formal qualification. It also describes a professional as " relating to belonging to a profession; engaged in a specified activity as one's main paid occupation rather than as a past time". If there is any sector in our recent political history that has suffered a high influx of " ...

Sep42024 by Asu BeksNo Comments

NIMASA CRUMBLING UNDER MOBEREOLA’S WATCH?…Stranded Cadets Storm NIMASA HQ Over Non Payment of School Fees…As Mobereola responds to Oyetola’s query. By Asu Beks

Misc

Things have completely fallen apart in Dayo Mobereola's NIMASA who has spent only about six months into his 4 year tenure and it is obvious that the Center cannot hold. Barely 24 hours after Dayo Mobereola, Director General of the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency , NIMASA and his Executive Director, Maritime Labour and Cabotage Services, Mr Jibril Abba, replied to a query issued the duo by the Minister of Marine and Blue Economy, Chief Adegboyega Oyetola over allegations of impropriety leveled against them by a Vendor in India, overseeing NSDP program at Centurion University, over 100 cadets mostly from Greece who have been stranded in Nigeria on Tuesday stormed the Agency. The students, were protesting against the non challant manner NIMASA had handled their welfare an...

Aug212024 by Asu BeksNo Comments

BRIBE SCANDAL ROCKS NIMASA….Executive Director Fingered * 296 Cadets risk deportation. * NIMASA may face court action in UK, Nigerian .

Maritime, News Feature

These are certainly not the best of times for the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency , NIMASA and its Executive Director, Maritime Labour and Cabotage Services, Mr Jibril ABBA, considering the damning allegations made against him by an NSDP Vendor, , Messrs SPRINGDALE ACADEMY OF MARITIME EDUCATION & TRAINING TRUST(SAMET), India. Should NIMASA fail to act promptly, indications are rife that two legal actions ; one in UK and another in Nigeria for breach of contract might be filed against the Agency in a matter of days. Already , letters from two law chambers in UK and Nigeria have served a notice of a possible legal action for a breach of contract. In one of such letters of "Compaint and Demand" from Kunle Adegoke & co, a Lagos based firm of Legal Practioners , dated...

Aug162024 by Asu BeksNo Comments

The ‘Orphan’ Called Nigerian Ship Owner By Asu Beks

Maritime, News Feature

If the famed founder of the Synagogue Church of all Nations, Pastor T. B. Joshua, were alive, I would have mobilized the rank and file of Nigerian indigenous ship owners to his Church for a seven-day dry fasting to break this 18 years jinx that has made the disbursement of the Cabotage Vessel Financing Fund (CVFF) a mission impossible. Or maybe I should consider Rev. Fr. Mbaka or the maverick pastor Indaboski for this divine intervention which seems to be the only option left. If there is any indigenous group that has never benefited from any direct government bail out in the last two decades, it is the Nigeria ship owner. From the Obasanjo administration to late Yar'Adua, Jonathan and Buhari, various sectors of Nigeria's economy, including aviation, agriculture, energy, oil and gas...

Jun242024 by Asu BeksNo Comments

Dayo Mobereola set to host World Seafarer Day in Lagos

Maritime, News Feature

Nigeria is set to join other nations across the global community in celebrating the Day of the Seafarer 2024, Tuesday in Lagos The Minister of Marine and Blue Economy, Adegboyega Oyetola, his counterpart in the Minister of State, Labour and productivity Nkeiruka Onyejeocha will be leading other dignitaries including the Director General of the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency, NIMASA, Dr Dayo Mobereola and the head ITF seafarer’s Trust Fund Katie Higginbottom to the commemoration. Speaking ahead of the event, Director General of NIMASA, Dr Dayo Mobereola urged Nigerians to participate in this year’s celebrations adding that the use of #SafetyTipsAtSea on all social media platforms will ensure adequate exposure to Nigeria’s celebration of the Seafarers day in line ...

Jun62024 by Asu BeksNo Comments

CHIEF OF NAVAL STAFF, OGALLA VISITS NIMASA ·..as Mobereola pledges improved MoU with the Nigerian Navy- NIMASA DG

Maritime, News Feature

The Chief of the Naval Staff, Vice Admiral Emmanuel Ogalla today paid a working visit to Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency, NIMASA in continuation of efforts to deepen the cooperation between the Nigerian Navy and the Agency to achieve sustainable security in the Nigerian maritime domain. Speaking during the visit, Vice Admiral Ogalla acknowledged efforts of the Agency in implementing both national and international regulatory instruments to improve safety and security in the maritime domain, adding that the Nigerian Navy under his leadership is committed to supporting NIMASA to succeed. “I want to appreciate NIMASA for the collaboration with the Nigerian Navy which is to achieve a common goal of better securing the Nigerian maritime domain, thus promoting an enabling en...

Feb112024 by Asu BeksNo Comments

MARITIME SECURITY: USCG TO WORK WITH NIMASA ON REMOVAL OF COE

Maritime, News Feature

The United States Coast Guard USCG, has offered Nigeria a three-year plan to work with the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency, NIMASA for the removal of the Condition of Entry (CoE), placed on American-bound vessels from Nigeria. Cdr. Juliet Hudson at the USCG headquarters in Washington DC disclosed this during a peer review visit by a delegation from NIMASA. Hudson announced a bi-annual assessment of compliance level with ISPS implementation at Nigerian Ports working with NIMASA. In her words, “We will work with NIMASA to review the compliance level of Ports in Nigeria with the provisions of the ISPS Code. This will be done twice a year to enable us update the Port Advisory Security Portal in the White House after which a decision will be taken to completely lift...

Dec62022 by Asu BeksNo Comments

Another Feather on His Cap as Jamoh is Honored for outstanding Contribution to Taxation

Maritime, News Feature

The Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency, NIMASA, has received commendation for its corporate citizenship performance by the Chartered Institute of Taxation of Nigeria, CITN, having received the 'Corporate Organization Award' just as the Agency's Director General, Dr. Bashir Jamoh OFR, was recognized with the 2022 'Outstanding Service to Taxation Profession' award by CITN at a dinner in Lagos. NIMASA was recognized for its exemplary record of tax-compliance and corporate social initiatives including its nationwide distribution of relief materials to internally displaced persons as well as donations of Small and Medium Enterprise (SME) equipment meant to uplift the economically challenged in various states of the federation. The Agency's DG, Dr. Jamoh OFR on the other ha...