NIMASA Archives — Page 13 of 20

May 6, 2021 No Responses

NIMASA Collaborates With Navy On Training, Accreditation

FOC, Naval Training Command, Rear Admiral Kamarudeen Lawal (Left) and DG, NIMASA, Dr Bashir Jamoh The Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA) said it would assist the Nigerian Navy with accreditation of professional courses at its training institutes. The Director General of...

April 27, 2021 No Responses

Nigeria, ICC Yaoundé Pioneer Initiative To Counter Piracy

Nigeria and the Inter Regional Coordination Centre (ICC) Yaoundé have formed a forum to galvanise regional and international efforts to ensure security in the Gulf of Guinea (GOG). The Gulf of Guinea Maritime Collaboration Forum (GOG-MCF/SHADE) was floated af...

April 27, 2021 No Responses

NIMASA Explains Investment In Three Helicopters, Four Air Vehicles, Deploys 250 Cadets

The Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA) is to launch new Deep Blue Project (DBP) “in the coming weeks” as part of measures to boost maritime security, safety and shipping development. ...

April 23, 2021 No Responses

NIMASA, Shippers’ Council Unfold Agenda To Curb Corruption At Seaports

The Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA) and the Nigerian Shippers’ Council (NSC) have agreed to implement joint measures to minimise delay and corrupt practices at the country’s ports. This emerged in Lagos during a working visit to...

April 19, 2021 No Responses

SPOMO Act Improving Nigeria’s Image, Says NIMASA DG

The Suppression of Piracy and Other Maritime Offences (SPOMO) Act, signed into law by President Muhammadu Buhari in June 2019, is producing a better appreciation of Nigeria’s determination to end piracy and sea robbery in Nigeria and the Gulf of...

April 15, 2021 No Responses

NIMASA Implores Refinery Operators, Suppliers On Ship Pollution

The Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA) is determined to ensure availability of marine fuels that comply with the regulation by the International Maritime Organisation (IMO) limiting the sulphur in the fuel oil used on board ships ...

March 25, 2021 No Responses

NIMASA, NPA Assure On Modular Floating Dock Deployment

Nigerian Maritime Administration Safety Agency (NIMASA) modular floating dock is in the process of being deployed,Director-General, Dr Bashir Jamoh has said, Jamoh disclosed this during a visit to Managing Director,Nigerian Ports Authority (NP...

March 24, 2021 No Responses

NIMASA DG AT NPA

L-R: The Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA) Executive Director, Engineering& Technical Services, Prof. Idris Abubakar, Managing Director, Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA), Hadiza Bala Usman, the Director General, Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agenc...

March 19, 2021 No Responses

NPA, LASWA, NIMASA, NIWA Inspect Barge Operations

The Lagos State Waterways Authority (LASWA), Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA), Nigeria Maritime Administration Safety Agency NIMASA and National Inland Waterways Authority NIWA on Thursday, embarked on joint inspection and enforceme...

March 17, 2021 No Responses

Group Tasks FG On NIMASA Drydock

President, Association of Marine Engineers and Surveyors (AMES), Mr Adeyinka Okunade, has urged the Federal Government, through the Minister of Transportation, to urgently direct NIMASA to put its drydock facility into operation. Speaking at ...

March 6, 2021 No Responses

NIMASA Partners Delta On Blue Economy

Governor . Dr Ifeanyi Okowa of Delta has pledged to partner the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA) to build a virile blue economy in the country. Okowa made the pledge in a statement signed by Mr Philip Kyanet,...

March 1, 2021 No Responses

Navy, NIMASA Intensify Security Efforts

The Nigerian Navy and Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA) are intensifying efforts to protect, interdict, and deter threats around vessels anchored in the Secure Anchorage Area (SAA), off the coast of Lagos, the Director- General of NIM...

February 8, 2021 No Responses

COVID-19 Vaccination: STOAN Seeks Priority For Seafarers, Dockworkers

The Seaport Terminal Operators Association of Nigeria (STOAN) has called on the Federal Government to give seafarers and dockworkers priority in accessing the vaccination against COVID-19 pandemic. The spokesman of the association, Dr Bolaji Akinola, in ...

January 25, 2021 No Responses

Maritime Crimes: NIMASA, Amnesty Office Seal Partnership

The Director-General of NIMASA, Dr Bashir Jamoh, made this known in a statement in Lagos on Sunday. Jamoh, during a working visit to the interim Sole Administrator of PAP, Col. Milland Dixon Dikio (rtd.), underscored the importance of collaboration among...