NIMASA handover comments: Is it that Jamoh didn’t see what FG saw or cover up?
Barely one week after the official ouster of the Rivers State-born politician, Dr Dakuku Peterside at the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA) and the takeover of Kaduna State-born maritime technocrat, Dr Bashir Jamoh, it is important to take…
Has Amaechi lost grip at power corridor as Peterside exits NIMASA?
No doubt, the ferocious approach with which former Rivers State governor and current Minister of Transportation, Chief Rotimi Amaechi swooped the entire South East and South-South in 2015 presidential election campaign against his former party, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP),…
Can Senate’s fury foil Peterside’s second term at NIMASA or another factor?
Since yesterday, Wednesday, March 04, 2020, which is just six days to his end of first term, two conspiracy theories have emerged within the Nigerian maritime circle all pointing to the fact that the current Director General of Nigerian Maritime…
Finally N72b Vessel Financing Fund ready for access by shippers, but…
Ahead of planned commencement of the disbursement of the Cabotage Vessel Financing Fund (CVFF), the Federal Government has set up a committee to develop guidelines for the distribution of the fund. The Minister of Transportation, Rt. Hon. Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi,…
Nigerians getting tired of Amaechi and Lagos-Ibadan rail delivery date?
For almost four times the Minister of Transportation, Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi had given delivery date of the endless Lagos-Ibadan standard gauge rail line, the same four times, it has failed since 2018. The latest failure according to him is the…
NIMASA to honour maritime stakeholders, raise investors’ appetite to blue economy
The Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA) is set to again, honour maritime stakeholders’ at the annual dinner and awards night scheduled to take place in Lagos on Saturday, January 18, 2020. A statement issued to this effect said…
NIMASA accuses attacked vessel of operating for 10 days without making contact
The porosity and poor maritime security surveillance of the Nigerian territorial waters has once again, came to the fore following this week’s attack and kidnapping of crew men aboard a tanker vessel named, ‘Nave Constellation.’ However, in its first official…
Weeks after Abuja Declaration, kidnappers hit vessel off Cotonou waters
On October 10, 2019, international delegates at the Global Maritime Security Conference (GMSC) rose at the end of the three days engagement from Monday 7th to Wednesday 9th October, at the International Conference Centre in Abuja, with a firm declaration…
Nigeria Committed to Effective Ballast Water Management—NIMASA
The Director-General of the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA), Dr. Dakuku Peterside, has reiterated Nigeria’s commitment to the Ballast Water Management (BWM) Convention, 2004. Dakuku also said NIMASA remained determined to ensure cleaner oceans and a safe, secure…
How far can mere declaration go on Maritime Security in Gulf of Guinea?
All is set for today’s commencement of three-day 2019 Global Maritime Security Conference (GMSC) in Abuja. The conference, coming on the instance of the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA), is organised to address pertinent security issues in the…
