LAGOS AUGUST 13TH (NEWSRNAGERS)- The Director-General of the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA), Dr Dayo Mobereola has revealed that the Agency have not decided to bring National Seafarers Development Program (NSDP) cadets studying at Centurion University in India to back home. Mobereola who made the disclosure at the Eko Hotels in Lagos on…
LAGOS MARCH 14TH (NEWSRANGERS)-President Bola Tinubu has approved the appointment of Dr. Dayo Mobereola to serve as the Director-General of the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA) for a renewable term of four years. The appointment follows the exit of Mr. Bashir Jamoh, whose tenure recently expired. Dr. Mobereola holds a Ph.D, and an…
LAGOS MARCH 11TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA) said it has opened a maritime museum, which it said is the first in Africa. The museum is located within the new NIMASA head office building in Victoria Island, Lagos. The agency, in a statement issued weekend, affirmed that “all is set for…
LAGOS DECEMBER 3RD (NEWSRANGERS)-The Financial Reporting Council of Nigeria (FRC), has fined the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA), N500 million over inaccuracy and irregularities in its audited financial statements for the year ended December 31, 2018. The Council also suspended the FRC registration number- FRC/2017/CIANG/00000016699 of the NIMASA Director General, Dr. Bashir Jamoh…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 19TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Members of the House of Representatives have frowned over the sale of 82 vehicles for the sum of N5.8 million over the past 12 years by the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA). .This was as the NIMASA Executive Director, Mr. Chudi Offodile announced the sale during the resumed investigative hearing…
LAGOS AUGUST 1ST (NEWSRANGERS)-The Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency, NIMASA working with officials of Total Energies EP Nigeria Limited rescued occupants of a distressed fishing vessel belonging to a national of the São Tomé Príncipe, which was adrift in the ocean for 11 days. According to a statement by Osagie Edward, NIMASA’s Assistant Director,…
LAGOS JULY 13TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The House of Representatives has resolved to constitute an ad hoc committee to investigate alleged fictitious contract awards, gross mismanagement of billions of naira and lopsided placement of directors by the Nigerian Maritime Administration And Safety Agency. The ad hoc committee was given three months to conclude the probe and report back…
LAGOS JULY 3RD (NEWSRANGERS)-The Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA) has raised the alarm over “a fraudulent employment scheme currently making the rounds online, and especially on various social media platforms”. In a statement it issued on Friday, the agency said fraudulent persons have also been known to contact innocent people through e-mail, social…