Amaechi Lampoons NIMASA, Demands Financial, Staff Audit

R-L Managing Director ,Nigerian Ports Authority ,Habib Abdullahi leading the Hon. Minister of Transportation Rt. Hon. Chibuike Rotimi Amechi to inspect facilities at the NPA during the ministers' maiden working visit to Lagos.

•Demands to know how NIMASA spends N100b annual budget

The Minister of Transport, Mr. Rotimi Amaechi has expressed strong dissatisfaction at the Nigerian‎ Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA) over the infrastructural decay at the agency's Search and Rescue Coordinating Centre located at Kirikiri, Lagos.
A visibly angry Amaechi equally ordered the Acting Director General of NIMASA‎, Mr. Haruna Baba Jauro to furnish his office with up-to -date financial records and all contracts signed and executed by NIMASA since 2007.

Anxiety As NPA Sets To Sack 5000 Dockworkers This Week

 • Stevedoring Contractors In Last Minute Lobby To Reverse Decision
• Tally Clerks, Onboard Security Yet To Receive Payment

There appears to be no going back on the decision by the Nigerian Ports Authourity (NPA) to stop further payments to about 5000 stevedores who are currently engaged in five of the nation’s seaports.
The ports are: Lagos port, Tin Can Island port, Onne port, Rivers port and Calabar port. The affected stevedores are all members of the Maritime Workers Union of Nigeria (MWUN).
Shipping Position Daily confirmed last week that, stevedoring companies have stepped up their lobby

EFCC Invites Tompolo Over N13b NIMASA Land Scam

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission yesterday invited former Niger Delta warlord, Government Ekpemupolo, popularly known as Tompolo, over a N13 billion land scam involving the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency.

MAN Oron Rector; Joshua Okpo, ANLCA Chieftain; Chuks Kanikwu Dead

Tragedy struck twice in the Nigerian maritime industry on Tuesday as two prominent stakeholders died.
The first to be acknowledged was that of Rector of Maritime Academy ‎of Nigeria (MAN) in Oron, Akwa Ibom State; Mr Joshua Okpo.
He reportedly died in his hotel room in Abuja while preparing for a scheduled appointment.
While the news of Okpo’s demise filtered-in late on Tuesday, that of a frontline clearing agent and member of Association of Nigerian Licensed Customs Agents (ANLCA); Mr. Chuks Kanikwu was broken early yesterday.

Nigerian Pirates Release Five Polish C

Five crew members kidnapped from a Polish-owned cargo last month off the coast of Nigeria are heading home, according to Polish Prime Minister Beata Szydlo.
The captain and four crew members of the Cyprus-flagged MV Szafir were kidnapped by pirates at about 11 p.m. on November 26th. According to the IMB Piracy Reporting Centre, pirates in two

MAN Oron Rector; Joshua Okpo Is Dead

Joseph Okpo

The embattled Rector of the Maritime Academy ‎of Nigeria (MAN) in Oron Akwa Ibom State is dead. Okpo died in Abuja on Monday in his hotel room in Abuja.
Before his death on Tuesday around 2pm, the late MAN Oron Rector was reported to be under investigation by the Minister for alleged high scale fraud he committed at the academy.

NPA Advocates Diversion Of Petroleum Vessels Out Of Lagos

Managing Director ‎of NPA, Mallam Habib Abdullahi

The Nigerian Ports Authority has called on the Federal Government to consider ensuring that petroleum cargoes coming into Lagos State are diverted to other ports across the country because the State is already congested.
Managing Director ‎of NPA, Mallam Habib Abdullahi made this call in Lagos on Monday while addressing members of Senate Committee on Marine Transport led by its Chairman, Senator Sanni Yerima during a stakeholders meeting in Lagos.