LAGOS FEBRUARY 4TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The House of Representatives Public Account committee on Monday ordered the Director-General of the Nigeria Maritime Administration and Safety Agency, NIMASA boss, Hon. Dakuku Peterside to appear before members within 48hours over the inability of the agency to submit its audit accounts in the last four years. The members of the Committee…
LAGOS DECEMBER 4TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Senate joint committee on Navy, Maritime and Finance has threatened to issue a warrant of arrest on the DG NIMASA Dakuku Peterside. During plenary on Wednesday, the Committee said the reason it might issue an arrest warrant is due to the alleged failure of Mr. Peterside to appear before the panel….
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 11TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) has commended the Federal Government of Nigeria for accepting to host the upcoming Global Maritime Security Conference, saying the talks will go a long way in addressing security concerns in the maritime domain of the entire Gulf of Guinea. Secretary-General of OPEC Mohammed Sanusi Barkindo…
LAGOS OCTOBER 1ST (NEWSRANGERS)-Worried by the Cabotage Vessels Finance Fund (CVFF), which position and disbursement are not clear to members of the public, Ship owners in the country have called on the Federal Government to urgently put measures in place to unravel the mystery behind the $300 million (N108 billion) CVFF said to have disappeared…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 24TH (NEWSRANGERS)-This morning, some graduate cadets of the Nigerian Seafarers Development Programme (NSDP) besieged the headquarters of Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA) in Apapa Lagos protesting 3 years of abandonment and lack of sea time by NIMASA since after graduation. The cadets insist they would sleep at NIMASA entrance gate for…
LAGOS JULY 26TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The House of Representatives, Wednesday, resolved to probe allegations of fictitious contract awards and mismanagement of billions of naira by the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA). It also said the investigation was to ensure that the masses were not cheated out of the commonwealth of the nation. Speaker Yakubu Dogara…
LAGOS JUNE 1ST *NEWSRANGERS)-The Court of Appeal, Lagos Division, has discharged and acquitted a former Director General of the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency, Patrick Akpobolokemi, who was charged with an alleged fraud of N2.6bn. In a lead judgment on Friday by Justice Yargatta Nimpar, a three-man appellate court panel upheld the no-case submission…
LAGOS JANUARY 17TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Shipowners and other stakeholders in the maritime sector are on the verge of getting the desired change in trade terms from Free On Board (FOB) to Cost Insurance and Freight (CIF) which would enable them to begin to lift Nigeria crude and ultimately boost indigenous capacity. The development was a fall out…