The Secretary General of the International Maritime Organization (IMO), Mr. Kitack Lim Tuesday commissioned the ultra-modern headquarters of the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA). The new NIMASA headquarters is located at Victoria Island, Lagos. Speaking during the commissioning of the building, Lim expressed confidence in the leadership of Nigeria’s transport sector, extolling the dynamic role of the Minister Read More
The Nigeria Maritime Administration and Safety Administration Agency (NIMASA) said no attack has been carried out by pirates on the nation’s territorial waters since March this year. Director General of NIMASA, Mr Bashir Jamoh, said this Thursday at the weekly ministerial briefing organised by the Presidential Communications Team. “From the first quarter of this year to date, we have not Read More
The Minister of Transportation, Engr. Mu’azu Jaji Sambo has commended the Management of the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA) for its capacity development initiative in the Nigerian maritime sector. He further applauded the Agency for remaining focused in the delivery of its mandate, noting that the Agency has a better image than what it was ten years ago. Read More
Minister of Transportation Mu’ azu Jaji Sambo says Nigeria is committed to achieving greener shipping in line with the campaign by the International Maritime Organization, IMO, to attain sustainable development in the maritime industry. Sambo said the country would not be left behind in the global move towards greener shipping just as he urged stakeholders in the maritime sector to Read More
The Director General of the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency NIMASA, Bashir Jamoh, is set to be honoured by His Excellency, President Muhammadu Buhari with the conferment of the Officer of the Order of the Federal Republic (OFR). This was disclosed in a conveyance letter to Dr. Jamoh from the Office of the Honourable Minister, Ministry of Special Duties Read More
The Honorable Minister of Transportation, Mr. Mu’azuJaji Sambo has charged the Management of the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency, NIMASA, to ensure prompt deployment of the Modular Floating Dockyard the Agency acquired sometimes ago. The Agency’s Director General, Dr. Bashir Jamoh, who disclosed this while speaking with the media in Lagos,said that the Honorable Minister described the deployment of Read More
The Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA) and the Nigerian Immigration Service (NIS) have agreed to deepen existing inter-agency collaboration with the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on Seafarers’ Travel document amongst others. According to a statement on Friday by the Assistant Director, Public Relations, NIMASA, Osagie Edward, the agreement was reached when the Comptroller General of Read More
The Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA) today launched the electronic registration platform for maritime labour and issuance of Biometric Identity Cards to Dockworkers. The Agency’s Director General Dr Bashir Jamoh described the e-platform as a major step towards attaining full automation of all its processes adding that it was conceived out of the need to establish an independent, Read More
The Director-General of the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA) Dr. Bashir Jamoh has stated that a revised working condition for Nigerian Seafarers is a major component of the proposed review of the NIMASA Act and the Merchant Shipping Act currently before the National Assembly for consideration. Dr. Jamoh spoke at the inauguration of the Tripartite National Joint Industrial Read More
The Director-General, Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA), Dr. Bashir Jamoh has charged the Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE) to join in the protection of Nigeria’s oil assets using their expertise. Jamoh stated that the SPE have a greater role to play in ensuring that economic saboteurs and pipeline vandals do not have a field day plundering the country’s Read More
The Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency, NIMASA, is currently reviewing the cost of direct sponsorship of Nigerian cadets undergoing foreign training under the Nigerian Seafarers Development Programme (NSDP). The Director General of NIMASA Dr Bashir Jamoh noted that the review of ongoing sponsorship cost has become necessary due to the global inflationary trends which is very pronounced in the Read More
Justice Monica Dongban-Mensem, President of The Courts of Appeal has commended Dr. Bashir Jamoh, Director General of Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA) for his exemplary leadership role in advancing the cause of adjudication and mediation in admiralty matters. Speaking at the recently held Nigeria Shippers Council (NSC) seminar for judges in Abuja, Justice Dongban-Mensem said Dr Jamoh is Read More
The Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency, NIMASA has commenced preparatory works to deploy high-resolution magnetometer to validate the on going wreck removal exercise of all identified wrecks listed for removal along the Badagry Creek in Lagos. The Agency’s Director General Dr Bashir Jamoh who disclosed this during a review session of the ongoing wreck removal exercise by the Agency Read More
The Director-General of the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA) Dr Bashir Jamoh Wednesday declared that the agency is committed to the domestication of her capacity development programme in order to save the nation scarce foreign exchange needed in training young Nigerians abroad. Dr Jamoh stated this today when he received the Management of Greg Ogbeifun Institute of Maritime Read More
Director General of Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA) Dr Bashir Jamoh, has described the vanguard Newspapers Public Sector Maritime Icon Award as a call to more hard work. Jamoh stressed that whatever was being done in NIMASA under his leadership to attract the accolades and honour will be improved upon to make all Nigerians and Vanguard Newspaper proud Read More
The Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA) in conjunction with the Nigerian Navy and the Inter-Regional Coordination Centre Yaoundé have concluded arrangements to host the fifth plenary of the Gulf of Guinea Maritime Collaboration Forum for the Shared Awareness and Deconfliction (GOG-MCF/SHADE). A statement by Assistant Director, Public Relations, NIMASA Osagie Edward, notes that the conference which will bring Read More
The Director General of the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency, NIMASA, Dr. Bashir Jamoh has restated the Agency’s commitment to development of the Nigerian Maritime University,(NMU) Okerenkoko Delta State. He stated this when a delegation from the University paid a visit to NIMASA Management in Lagos and noted that despite handing over the university to the National University Commission,(NUC) Read More
The House of Representatives Committee on Navy investigating the controversial $195 million deep blue project has queried the Nigerian Maritime Administration Agency (NIMASA) over the purchase of arms. The deep blue project is a three-year maritime security contract awarded by the federal government to a foreign private company named HLS International Limited. The Chairman, House of Representatives Committee on Navy, Read More
Speaker of the House of Representatives, Honorable Femi Gbajabiamila Tuesday announced that the 9thAssembly embarked on the Amendment of the NIMASA Act 2007 and the Cabotage Act 2003 due to the need to improve the regulatory instruments in the Nigerian maritime sector to meet the need of current realities. Honorable Gbajabiamila stated this while declaring open the two day public Read More
The Nigerian Maritime Administration and SafetyAgency, NIMASA and the Nigerian Meteorological Agency, NiMet, have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) setting out areas of collaboration in weather forecasting and climate research. Director General NIMASA, Dr Bashir Jamoh and his counterpart from NiMet, Prof Mansur Bako Matazu signed on behalf of both Agencies of government. The MoU is designed as a Read More
Director General Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency(NIMASA) Dr. Bashir Jamoh has said the agency is committed to continuously collaborate with all stakeholders to ensure Nigeria attains the status of not only the hub of maritime activities in the West and Central Africa region but also a major maritime player globally. Jamoh who reiterated this in Lagos during an interactive Read More
The Director General of the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA) Dr. Bashir Jamoh has commended the Nigerian Navy for its continued support to the Agency over the years. The DG who said this when he met with the Admiral Superintendent of the Naval Dockyard Limited, Rear Admiral Kohath Levi on a working visit, particularly appreciate d the Nigerian Read More
The Director General of the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency, NIMASA, Dr. Bashir Jamoh has announced an increase of 43.6% in the condition survey for Flag Registration by the agency in 2021 as against the performance in 2020. NIMASA also recorded an improved Port State Control (PSC) implementation in year 2021 with 24.2% higher than the PSC inspections of Read More
Between January and December 2021, the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA) contributed N37.6 billion into the federation account, compared with N31.8 billion within same period in 2020. Briefing Journalists weekend in Lagos, Director General, NIMASA, Dr Bashir Jamoh, explained that the Agency’s Marine Accident Investigation Unit also investigated 12 accidents compared with 18 in 2020. Jamoh who spoke Read More
The Director General, Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA), Dr. Bashir Jamoh, has lamented that resources worth billions of Naira lie untapped, wasting under Nigeria’s 10.5km inland waterways. Jamoh said all the resources found in the seas also occur in the rivers, noting that commercial quantity of gold and copper abound in the rivers. He said the rivers could Read More
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