LAGOS DECEMBER 27TH (NEWSRANGERS)-President of Maritime Professionals Forum (MARPRO) a seafarers advocacy group, Capt Segun Akanbi has called on the Minister of Marine and Blue Economy, Adegboyega Oyetola to scrap the National Seafarers Development Programme (NSDP) and focus energy on giving credibility to certificates being issued by Nigerian academies, especially the Maritime Academy of Nigeria…
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 25TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The leadership of the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA) has come under fire as 17 vessels and helicopters it acquired in 2019 to fight insecurity on Nigerian waters have not yet been deployed, SaharaReporters has learnt. Sources told SaharaReporters that apart from the fact that the kind of vessels imported…
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…
LAGOS JUNE 16TH (NEWSRANGERS)-President Bola Ahmed Tinubu Policy Advisory Council has recommended the declaration of a state of emergency on revenue generation in the country. The council also proposed the merger of the Federal Inland Revenue Service, Nigerian Customs Service, and the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency into the Nigerian Revenue Service in order…
