LAGOS SEPTEMBER 27TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The momentum has continued to rise for the sixth annual conference of the Guild of Corporate Online Publishers (GOCOP) as more corporate partners have lent their support for the event scheduled for Thursday, October 6 at Sheraton Hotel, Ikeja-Lagos. The chairman, 2022 Conference Committee, Mr. Ken Ugbechie revealed on Monday that…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 27TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Honorable Minister of Transportation Mu’ azu Jaji Sambo says Nigeria is committed to achieving greener shipping in line with the campaign by the International Maritime Organization, IMO, to attain sustainable development in the maritime industry. This is just as Nigeria joins the IMO to commemorate the 2022 World Maritime Day. Sambo…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 6TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Nigerian Ship-owners may soon heave a sigh of relief as the Federal Government may have unveiled a new road map that may see them actualizing their dreams of becoming ship owners under the Cabotage Vessel Financing Fund, CVFF, sooner than later. Speaking on a Live program on Inspiration 92.3Fm Lagos, Shipping on…
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…
