{"id":1729,"date":"2019-12-01T22:46:08","date_gmt":"2019-12-01T21:46:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shippingworld-ng.com\/?p=1729"},"modified":"2019-12-01T22:46:10","modified_gmt":"2019-12-01T21:46:10","slug":"in-marked-improvement-nigeria-comes-extremely-close-to-imo-new-status","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shippingworld-ng.com\/index.php\/2019\/12\/01\/in-marked-improvement-nigeria-comes-extremely-close-to-imo-new-status\/","title":{"rendered":"In Marked Improvement, Nigeria Comes Extremely Close to IMO New Status"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

\u2022 West Africa Loses Seat<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2022 We Will be back Stronger Says Saraki<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nigeria\ncame within a whisker of returning to Category C of the International Maritime\nOrganisation (IMO) Friday in London after losing the IMO Council election by\njust one vote. Though, the country missed its bid for membership of the\nGoverning Council, IMO\u2019s highest decision making organ, Nigeria\u2019s performance\nwas a remarkable improvement from 2017, when it lost by 12 votes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However,\nWest Africa lost its only seat in the Council, as Egypt, Morocco, South Africa,\nand Kenya retained their seats in the 20-member Category C of the IMO.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nigeria\u2019s\ndelegation to the 31st Session of the IMO had put up a spirited campaign for\nelection into the Governing Council, whose membership the country lost in 2011.\nThe country polled 110 votes to come 21st, one short of the 111 polled by\nKenya, which came 20th, the cut off point for Category C membership of the\nCouncil.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nigeria\nwill have another chance for a shot at the Council in 2021, during the next\nbiennial Session of the IMO Assembly. Being in the Council brings opportunities\nand openings for nations to be involved in various decisions that will impact\non the maritime sector globally and the country in particular.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The\nMinister of State for Transportation, Dr Gbemisola Saraki, who led the\ncountry\u2019s delegation, said the campaign for the 2021 bid had begun. Saraki said\nit was a matter of paramount national interest that \u201cNigeria gets a seat on the\nmaritime table\u201d.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

She said\nthe country would, as a first task, appraise the factors behind its narrow\nloss. \u201cWe are going to go back to the countries that voted to ask them what\nthey did not think we have done well or why they did not vote for us,\u201d Saraki\nstated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But she\ninsisted Nigeria had done remarkably well in reforming its maritime sector to\nmeet the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). She pointed to\nthe milestones in maritime safety and security, gender equality, and\nenvironmental responsibility.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Saraki\nwas delighted by the determined effort of the Nigerian delegation to campaign\nfor the Category C seat.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Nigerian\ndelegation also included Director-General of the Nigerian Maritime\nAdministration and Safety Agency (NIMASA), Dr. Dakuku Peterside; whose Agency\nwas the lead anchor. Others were Managing Director, Nigerian Ports Authority\n(NPA), Hadiza Bala Usman; <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Chairman\nSenate Committee on Maritime transport , Senator Danjuma Goje, Chairman, House\nof Representatives Committee on Maritime Safety, Education and Administration,\nLynda Ikpeazu; Permanent Secretary, Federal Ministry of Transportation, Sabiu\nZakari; Rector of the Maritime Academy of Nigeria (MAN), Oron, Duja Effedua and\nBarr. Hassan Bello, Executive Secretary Nigerian Shippers Council (NSC).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Nigeria came within a whisker of returning to Category C of the International Maritime Organisation (IMO) Friday in London after losing the IMO Council election by just one vote. Though, the country missed its bid for membership of the Governing Council, IMO\u2019s highest decision making organ, Nigeria\u2019s performance was a remarkable improvement from 2017, when it lost by 12 votes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1730,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,127,145],"tags":[147],"class_list":["post-1729","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-breaking-news","category-maritime","category-press-release","tag-imo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shippingworld-ng.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1729","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shippingworld-ng.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shippingworld-ng.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shippingworld-ng.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shippingworld-ng.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1729"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/shippingworld-ng.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1729\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1731,"href":"https:\/\/shippingworld-ng.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1729\/revisions\/1731"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shippingworld-ng.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1730"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shippingworld-ng.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shippingworld-ng.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shippingworld-ng.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}