August 26, 2025
Headlines

NIMASA

FRC Suspends Jamoh, Offodile, Fines NIMASA N500m For Violating Financial Report Standard

News Rangers04 mins

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…

Read More

Alleged Illegal Auctioning:Reps  Fume Over Sale Of 82 Vehicles For N5.8m By NIMASA

News Rangers09 mins

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…

Read More

With 17 Multi-Million Dollars Vessels Acquires By NIMASA Laying Fallow, The Agency Earmarks $700m For Purchase Of Another 28 Vessels

News Rangers05 mins

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…

Read More

NIMASA, Total EP Nigeria Rescue Distressed São Tomé Fishing Vessel, Occupants

News Rangers03 mins

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,…

Read More

Reps Sets Up Committee To Probe Contract Fraud, Revenue Leakages In NIMASA

News Rangers03 mins

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…

Read More

NIMASA Raises Alarm Over Fraudulent Employment Scam

News Rangers02 mins

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…

Read More

Tinubu’s Advisory Council Proposes Customs, NIMASA, FIRS Merger

News Rangers08 mins

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…

Read More

NIMASA DG Bashir Jamoh Accused Of Nepotism, Employs Only Northerners In Key  Positions

News Rangers05 mins

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…

Read More