LAGOS JUNE 5TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Some senior staff of the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA) have accused the Director General of the agency, Bashir Jamoh of nepotism. Some of the staff who accused of nepotism alleged that since his assumption of office in March 2020, Jamoh has consistently appointed only northerners to head most of…
LAGOS APRIL 10TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Nigerian Marítime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA) has disclosed that its N50 billion modular floating dock would generate a whopping N 1billion monthly into the federation account. Speaking at the Institute of Maritime Studies (IMS), University of Lagos, the director general, NIMASA, Dr Bashir Jamoh, said, the Floating Drydock would also…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 18TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Director General (DG) of Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA), Dr Bashir Jamoh has commended Nigerian Navy for always being proactive and of arrest of a vessel MT Sea Eunice for flouting International Maritime Organisation (IMO) regulation. He assured that NIMASA is committed to inter-agency collaboration with the Nigerian Navy….
LAGOS FEBRUARY 18TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Director General (DG) of Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA), Dr Bashir Jamoh has reiterated that it has become imperative for African countries particularly in the Gulf of Guinea to assist one another to ensure proper harnessing of the regional maritime potential. Dr Jamoh, who was represented by the Agency’s…
LAGOS DECEMBER 12TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Honourable Minister Of Transportation, Mu’azu Jaji Sambo has commended the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA) for what he described as human capital development. Sambo made the commendation during the flag off ceremony of the second batch of the third phase of the Nigerian Seafarers’ Development Programme (NSDP) which…
LAGOS JUNE 9TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Maritime journalists under the aegis of Maritime Journalists Association of Nigeria (MAJAN) has commended the current efforts of the Director General of Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA), Dr Bashir Jamoh milestone achievement for the development of strategy to confront the hydra-headed problem of maritime insecurity, with the deployment of the…
LAGOS AUGUST 13TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A court in Nigeria has fined three men $52,000 (£40,000) each for hijacking a ship in March and securing a ransom of $200,000 for the release of its crew. These are the first convictions in the West African state since a new anti-piracy law came into force last year. Nigeria has been…
LAGOS JULY 15TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Federal High Court sitting in Lagos has sentenced a former Executive Director of the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA), Captain Ezekiel Bala Agaba, to seven years in prison for laundering the sum of N1.5 billion. Justice Ibrahim Buba handed down the sentence on Wednesday, after convicting the former NIMASA…