LAGOS AUGUST 25TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Director General of the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA) has stated that a revised working condition for Nigerian Seafarers is a major component of the proposed review of the NIMASA Act and the Merchant Shipping Act currently before the National Assembly for consideration. He stated this today during the…
LAGOS AUGUST 8TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Four years after the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency’s (NIMASA) acquired N50 billion modular floating dock, the asset has continued to decay at the Nigerian Naval Dockyard, Wilmot Point, Victoria Island, due to management’s willful neglect. Since arriving Nigeria in 2018, the floating dock has remained idle and abandoned with the…
LAGOS JULY 18TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Senate has issue a warrant of arrest on the Director-General of Nigerian Maritime and Safety Agency (NIMASA), Bashir Jamoh following an alleged $5 million fraud rocking the agency. This came as the senate through its committee on Public Account, launched a probe on how officials of NIMASA, allegedly paid $5 million…
LAGOS APRIL 6TH (NEWSRANGERS)-On Sunday 3rd April 2022, a video emerged on social media where a patrol vessel with the inscription NIMASA-Barugu on it and belonging to Messers Global West Specialist Vessels Limited sank in Lagos. The Boat was one of the Vessels owned by GWSVL and deployed for patrol during the implementation of a…
LAGOS MARCH 7TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Stakeholders were unanimous in support for the Merchant Shipping Act, Repeal and Enactment Bill 2021 during the public hearing yesterday, Wednesday 6th March, 2023 at the National Assembly complex Abuja. The Chairman House Committee on the Nigerian Navy Honorable Yusuf Gagdi has commended the Management of the Nigerian Maritime Administration and…
By Oghenekevwe Laba LAGOS MARCH 7TH (NEWSRANGERS)-In his valedictory speech, the immediate past Director General Of Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA) Dr. Dakuku Peterside, while handling over to the incumbent DG of NIMASA, Dr Bashir Jamoh said having ended his tenure, he could not wish for a better person to take over from…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 23RD (NEWSRANGERS)-The leadership of Maritime Workers Union of Nigeria (MWUN) has threatened to shut down all the nation’s seaports by March, 2022 MWUN has also issued a 14-day strike notice to the Federal Government over the alleged refusal of International Oil Companies (IOCs) to allow Stevedoring Companies and dockworkers access to their platforms…
LAGOS JANUARY 29TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Director General of Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA), Dr Bashir Jamoh has reiterated that his Agency has achieved 43.6 percent increase of vessels survey in 2021 when compared to what was recorded in 2020. Bashir Jamoh who made the revelation during a press conference on Friday at the NIMASA…