Tag: Maritime
Maritime: Deputy governor tasks Navy on ship building
The Bayelsa State Deputy Gov., Rear Adm. John Jonah (rtd.) on Sunday tasked the Nigerian Navy on ship building, saying…
NIMASA to address maritime security challenges
Dr Dakuku Peterside, the Director General (DG) of Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA), said on Tuesday that the…
Shippers’ Council pledges to foster global maritime best practices
The Nigerian Shippers’ Council (NSC) will be partnering the Presidential Enabling Business Environment Council (PEBEC) to promote a conducive business…
Navy commitment to protect nation’s maritime domain
The Nigerian Navy (NN) said it would continue to protect the nation’s maritime domain against crude oil theft and any…
Nigeria, Korea to strengthen maritime partnership – Peterside
The Director General of the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA), Dr. Dakuku Peterside has said there is need…
Oil Theft: Okowa challenges Navy to check loss of revenue
Okafor Ofiebor/ Port Harcourt Following the economic woes facing Nigeria and the attendant financial crisis due to the dwindling revenue…
Naval Chief unveils new strategy to tackle maritime crime
The Chief of Naval Staff (CNS), Vice Admiral Ibok-Ete Ibas, in one of his first major policy and administrative decision,…
75 Percent Insurance Certificates Fake —NIA
Director-General, Nigerian Insurers Association, Sunday Thomas, has lamented that about 75 per cent of insurance certificates obtained by importers in…
Piracy: Nigeria Leads In Gulf Of Guinea
Pirate attacks dropped to the lowest, since 2008, this year as the presence of naval forces helped deter Somalis from…
Nigerian Navy Holds Seminar On Peace Keeping
Due to the enormity of the emerging Peace Support Operation, PSO, challenges in the sub-region and other parts of the…
IMO, Abuja MoU Host Maritime Administrators
The International Maritime Organisation (IMO) in conjunction with Memorandum of Understanding on Port State Control (PSC) for West and Central…
‘Ports Reforms On Course’
Contrary to insinuations that the committee set up by the government to reform the ports has gone to sleep, the…
Inadequate Funding Hinders Maritime Growth
Inadequate understanding of the workings of the maritime industry by Nigerian banks in formulating policies has been identified as the…
Piracy Bill Presented To Stakeholders
The Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA) has presented a Draft Bill on Piracy and Other Unlawful Acts at…
Shippers Council Wants To Be Port Regulator
Capt. Adamu Biu, Executive Secretary, Nigerian Shippers’ Council (NSC) has said that the council was the only agency with the…
FG Grants ISAN Shipping Company National Carrier Status
The Federal Government is set to grant the Indigenous Shipowners Association of Nigeria (ISAN) Shipping Company a national carrier status.…
NPA Seeks Cooperation With Nigerian Navy
The Managing Director, Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA), Omar Suleiman has called for a renewed synergy between the Authority and the…
Customs Collects N116bn In Two Months
The Nigeria Customs Service has realized about N116Bilion in the first two months of the year out of is N1trillion…
Maritime Cup Begins 27 March
The Nigeria Customs Service, Nigerian Navy (NN) and the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA), will be trading tackles…
‘Rogue Ship MT Madina Not Nigerian’
The Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA) has declared that the controversial vessel, MT Madina, is not a Nigerian ship…
Maritime Industry Loses Over N36b To Labour Strike
The Nigerian maritime industry may have lost up to N36 billion as a result of the nationwide strike called by…
Economist Predicts Post Strike Crisis At Ports
Mr. Kunle Folarin, a maritime economist, on Tuesday predicted that there would be crisis over demurrage at the ports after…
‘We Lost N210b To 2011 Polls’
The Nigerian maritime sector is one such area where operators, over time, assiduously avoid providing empirically-backed data concerning financial implications…
AMET Varsity To Run Maritime Courses In Nigeria
One of the world most prestigious private maritime universits, AMET University in India, will be running some of its courses…
Omatseye, Ex-NIMASA Boss Faces Trial Over N78m Fraud
The former Managing Director of Nigeria Maritime Administration and Safety Agency, NIMASA, Mr. Raymond Temisan Omatseye was this morning arraigned…