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…
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 MAY 23RD (NEWSRANGERS)-Minister of Transportation, Mu’azu Jaji Sambo has commended Director General/CEO of Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency. NIMASA, Dr. Bashir Yusuf Jamoh, the Board of the Agency, members of the Executive Management, Top Management and Staff of the Agencyfor the completion of five state-of-the-art Enforcement Platforms that will ensure strict compliance…
LAGOS MAY 13TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Chief Justice of Nigeria and Chairman, Board of Governors of the National Judicial Institute, Hon. Justice Olukayode Ariwoola, GCON has stated that the judiciary has a role to play in all legal forms of fight against piracy, noting that a secured maritime domain was vital to economic development and advancement. The…
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 MARCH 16TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Justice Tijani Ringim of the Federal High Court sitting in Ikoyi, Lagos, on Tuesday, March 14, 2023, admitted in evidence several documents tendered by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, against a former acting Director-General of the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency, NIMASA, Haruna Baba Jauro, and two others. Jauro…
