LAGOS FEBRUARY 17TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Mozart was 200 miles off Nigeria’s coast when the pirates made their assault, their speed boat cutting through the Gulf of Guinea’s waters to outpace the container ship. Armed men scrambled onboard as the Turkish crew locked down in the ship’s “citadel” secure area. For six hours, pirates used the ship’s…
LAGOS JULY 15TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Federal High Court sitting in Lagos has sentenced a former Executive Director of the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA), Captain Ezekiel Bala Agaba, to seven years in prison for laundering the sum of N1.5 billion. Justice Ibrahim Buba handed down the sentence on Wednesday, after convicting the former NIMASA…
LAGOS MARCH 6TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Fresh facts have emerged on why Dakuku Peterside was not favoured to sit for another four years as Director General of the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA). Besides the inability of Peterside to develop indigenous shipping tonnage, his failure to curb piracy in the nation’s territorial waters and a frosty…
LAGOS MARCH 5TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Transport Minister, Hon. Rotimi Amaechi, Thursday morning said he was not aware of the appointment of Dr. Bashir Jamoh to replace Dr. Dakuku Peterside as the Director General of Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA). Jamoh is the Executive Director, Finance and Administration in NIMASA. Online news reported that President…
LAGOS MARCH 5TH (NEWSRANGERS)-President Muhammadu Buhari has approved the appointment of Bashir Jamoh as the director-general of the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA), TheCable can report. Jamoh will replace Dakuku Peterside who was appointed in 2016 to head the maritime agency. Peterside’s tenure as NIMASA DG ends on March 10, 2020. The newly…
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…
