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After gulping billions, ITF thumbs down NIMASA’s NSDP scheme
Maureen Aguta
Despite over one and half decades of the National Seafarers Development Programme (NSDP) which has gulped several billions of naira in foreign training seafarers, the International Transport Workers…
MOWCA SG, Adalikwu secures new Sierra Leone Transport/Aviation Minister’s support
Maureen Aguta
The Secretary General of the Maritime Organisation of West and Central Africa (MOWCA) , Dr Paul Adalikwu has received additional support from the government of Sierra Leone in the organidation's drive to…
Why relocation of NIMASA headquarters should be reviewed
BY Enyeribe Anyanwu
Until March 2023, the headquarters of the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA) was No. 4 Burma Road Apapa, Lagos. That is where the headquarters of the apex Nigeria maritime…
Ex-NIMASA DG, Akpobolokemi goes home a saint as court discharges, acquits him of N8.5bn fraud…
Maureen Aguta
At last, the former Director General of the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA), Dr. Patrick Ziakede Akpobolokemi has become a free man as a Federal High Court sitting in Ikoyi,…
President Tinubu inaugurates committee on implementation of national single window project
Maureen Aguta
In a determined move to burst the red tape evident in administrative bottlenecks and allied bureaucracies that have constituted impediments to maximizing the comparative advantages that Nigeria’s maritime…
Iran’s Revolutionary Guard seizes Container Ship in Strait of Hormuz
Commandos from Iran’s paramilitary Revolutionary Guard rappelled from a helicopter onto an Israeli-affiliated container ship near the Strait of Hormuz and seized the vessel Saturday in the latest attack between the two countries.…
Q1: IMB fret over return of Somalia piracy, urges caution in Gulf of Guinea
Maureen Aguta
The ICC International Maritime Bureau (IMB) has raised concern on the continued acts of maritime piracy off the coast of Somalia from January to March 2024.
According to IMB, a total of 33 incidents of…
IMO Secretary General congratulates NIMASA DG, Mobereola
Maureen Aguta
The Secretary General of the International Maritime Organisation (IMO) Arsenio Dominguez has congratulated the Director General of the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency, NIMASA, Dr.…
Nigeria, Spain to deepen cooperation on maritime security
Maureen Aguta
The Spanish Ambassador to Nigeria, His Excellency, Ambassador Juan Ignacio Sell has declared that the Spanish Government is desirous to deepen cooperation with Nigeria through further collaboration with…
Bello-Koko approves 12 new postings at NPA
Maureen Aguta
In a minor shake up, the Managing Director of Nigerian Ports Authority, Mohammed Bello-Koko has approved the posting of 12 management staff of the authority.
The redeployment is contained in a memoir…