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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...

Aug132024 by Asu BeksNo Comments

MOBEREOLA DASHES HOPE ON EARLY DISBURSEMENT OF CABOTAGE FUND…says floating dock would not be deployed to Okerenkoko.

Maritime, News Feature

Director General of the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency, NIMASA, Dr Dayo Mobereola, on Monday dashed the hopes of Nigerian Ship Owners who had wished for an early disbursement of the controversial Cabotage Vessel Financing Fund, when he hinted of a possible review of the entire process. Mobereola who spoke at an interactive Session with Nigeria's mainstream Maritime Media said Government was very conscious of the mistakes made during the moribund Ship Acquisition and Building Fund and was therefore not prepared repeat the same mistakes. The regime of Dr Bashir Jamoh was in the process of making disbursement of the CVFF and had even appointed five Primary Lending Institutions, PLIs before he ran out his tenure . The bone of contention during discussions between Jamoh a...

Jul232024 by Asu BeksNo Comments

Name NIMASA Maritime Resource Development Center after LATE FERDINAND AGU…Ramallan.

Maritime, News Feature

Pioneer Chairman of the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency, NIMASA, Dr Tijanni Ramallan, has advocated that the NIMASA Maritime Resource Development Center in Kiririki, Lagos be named after Late Ferdinand Agu. Dr Ramallan who paid a glowing tribute to the former NMA helmsman in an Exclusive Interview with Shipping World, said Late Ferdinand Agu was an OUTSTANDING personality whose administrative acumen was in class of its. Agu died on June 7 in Abuja after a brief illness and would in Enugu on August 2, 2024. He explained that Resource Center was comptualzed by the late NIMASA boss and deserved to be immortalized for his role in turning the Agency around, and thereby saving it from being scrapped

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

Matawalle, Defence Minister mulls integration of NIMASA C41, Navy’s Falcon eye

Maritime, News Feature

Minister of State, Defence Hon. Bello Matawalle has declared Federal Government’s commitment to integrating the operations of the Command Control Computer Communication Information System of the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency, NIMASA and the surveillance facility of the Nigerian Navy known as the Falcon eye system for the security of the Nigerian Maritime space to engender economic prosperity. Matawalle who stated this shortly after a working visit to the NIMASA C4i center in Kirikiri this weekend to inspect the operational model of the facility said that Nigeria will benefit much more if all Agencies of Government can synergize seamlessly and improve information sharing amongst one another for the benefit of Nigeria. He called for enhance synergy between...

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...

Jan242024 by Asu BeksNo Comments

APC Chieftain Calls for Relocation of NNPCL, NIMASA, NPA to Niger Delta

News Feature

Yekini Nabena, a chieftain of the APC and former Deputy National Publicity Secretary, has advocated for the relocation of the NNPCL, NIMASA, NPA to the Niger Delta region. Additionally, he proposed relocating the Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development, steel development, trade, and investment to Benue, Kogi, and Kano States, where abundant raw materials and natural resources are present. Nabena’s call comes amid controversy surrounding the purported move to relocate part of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) and the Federal Airport Authority of Nigeria (FAAN) to Lagos State for increased efficiency. The APC chieftain said: “If efficiency of these agencies is the main reason for plan to relocate them to Lagos State, we from the Niger Delta are also asking that the NNP...

May112023 by Asu BeksNo Comments

FIGHT AGAINST PIRACY IN GULF OF GUINEA: CJN PLEDGES TO PARTNER WITH NIMASA

Law, Press Release

The Chief Justice of Nigeria and Chairman, Board of Governors of the National Judicial Institute, Hon. JusticeOlukayode Ariwoola, GCON has stated that the judiciary has a role to play in all legal forms of fight against piracy, noting that a secured maritime domain was vital to economic development and advancement. The CJN stated this while declaring the 3rd edition of the Nigerian Admiralty Law Colloquium for Justices of the Supreme Court and Court of Appeal and Judges of the Federal High Court, Open in Lagos. The CJN who was represented at the event by Hon. Justice Musa Dattjo Muhammad, CFR, averred that he was pleased with the 2023 edition of the Nigerian Admiralty Law Colloquium, because it was tailored towards effective and efficient adjudication of cases as well as curbing the menac...