Oil Rig Mishap: Not Yet Uhuru For Seplat, Three Crew Still Missing, Drilling Rig Operating Illegally
LAGOS AUGUST 21ST (URHOBOTODAY)-An indigenous oil giant, Seplat is yet to heave a sigh of relief from the disaster that struck its hired drilling rig which collapsed in Delta State, leaving one dead and three crew More...
Delta Born Man Returns N75m Overpaid By NIMASA
LAGOS MARCH 12TH (URHOBOTODAY)-The Managing Director of Messrs Caniz Ltd, Dr Austin Izagbo, has been honoured by the Daily Independent Newspapers for returning N75 million overpaid to his company. Dr Izagbo, a More...
Tompolo’s Boat Under EFCC Custody Sinks In Lagos Waters
LAGOS APRIL 5TH (URHOBOTODAY)-A boat seized by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) and owned by Niger-Delta warlord, Government Ekpemupolo, also known as Tompolo, has sank in Lagos waters. In a More...
Buhari Appoints Former Delta Speaker, Ochei As Executive Director, NIMASA
LAGOS MARCH 10TH (URHOBOTODAY)-President Muhammadu Buhari has approved the appointment of Rt Hon (Engr) Victor Ochei as the Executive Director of Maritime Labour and Cabotage Services in the Nigerian Maritime Administration More...
2019: Delta Ijaw APC Unites, Endorses Buhari’s Re-election
Buhari LAGOS AUGUST 22ND (NEWSRANGERS)-The seemingly slit disunity among the Ijaw leaders and chieftains of All Progressives Congress APC, in Delta State, have been resolved with a determination to ensure and promote More...
EX-NIMASA DG Builds Own Hotel With Diverted N331m In Asaba
Obi LAGOS FEBRUARY 27TH (URHOBOTODAY – Calistus Obi, former Acting Director-General of the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA) told a Lagos Federal High Court on Monday that part of the More...
Amaechi Gives Reason For Delay In Repairs Of Dilapidated Apapa Ports Access Road
Dilapitated Apapa Ports access road LAGOS MAY 26TH (URHOBOTODAY)-Nigeria Minister of Transportation, Rotimi Amaechi has given reason why there is delay in the repairs of dilapidated Apapa ports access roads. Speaking More...
NIMASA DG, Peterside Elected President Of Association of African Maritime Administration
Dakuku Peterside LAGOS APRIL 21ST(URHOBOTODAY) – The Director General of the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA) Dr. Dakuku Peterside has been elected the ”next” President of the Association More...
Boat Operators Fault NIMASA Ban of 200HP Boat Engines
Dr Dakuku Peterside, DG of NIMASA LAGOS FEBRUARY 24TH (URHOBOTODAY)-The Association of Boats and Water Transporters of Nigeria (ATBOWTON) on Wednesday decried the ban of the use of 200 horse power (HP) engines More...
NIMASA: N’Delta Group Slams Dakuku Peterside For Refusing To Fund Maritime University
Dr Dakuku Peterside LAGOS FEBRUARY 11TH (URHOBOTODAY)-Group under the aegis of Niger Delta Indigenous Movement for Radical Change (NDIMRC) has slammed the Director General of the Nigerian Maritime Administration More...
NIMASA Debunks Report of Opposition to Establishment of Maritime University
NIMASA DG DR Dakuku Peterside LAGOS FEBRUARY 10TH (URHOBOTODAY)-The Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA) has debunked speculations in a section of the media and a press statement from the More...
NIMASA Elevates, Redeploys Directors, Other Management Staff
LAGOS JANUARY 10TH (URHOBOTODAY)-The Director General of the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA) Dr. Dakuku Peterside has approved the redeployment of some senior Management staff of the More...
NIMASA To Partner NIMET On Meteorological Data to Ensure Safety
The Director General, Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA) Dr. Dakuku Peterside presenting a copy of the Voyage Magazine, a quarterly in-house journal of NIMASA to the Director General of More...
House of Reps Calls For Reduction of Fuel Pump Price to N70 Per Litre
LAGOS NOVEMBER 30TH (URHOBOTODAY)-The Petroleum Products Prices Regulatory Agency (PPPRA) has been advised by the House of Representatives on Tuesday to review the current price template for Premium Motor Spirit More...
NIMASA to Develop New Offices in Warri, Port Harcourt, Onne
Major General Jonathan India Garba (rtd) LAGOS NOVEMBER 16TH (URHOBOTODAY)-The Governing Board of the Nigeria Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA) has approved the development of new zonal offices More...
NIMASA Floating Dockyard’ll Open Opportunities For West Africa Maritime Industry-Yerima
Senator Sanni Yerima LAGOS NOVEMBER 14TH (URHOBOTODAY)-The Chairman of the Senate Committee on Marine Transport, Senator Ahmed Sani Yerima has said that the floating dockyard being built by the Nigeria Maritime More...
NIMASA Boss, Dakuku Peterside Absent in N6bn Libel Suit
NIMASA Boss, Dr Dakuku Peterside LAGOS OCTOBER 13TH (URHOBOTODAY)-Justice Adama Iyayi–Lamikanra of Rivers State High Court 1 yesterday adjourned the hearing in the suit filed by the former governor of Rivers State, More...
NIMASA Denies Report of Eviction
LAGOS OCTOBER 11TH (URHOBOTODAY)-The Management of the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA) has denied reports in some sections of the media alleging that the Agency is on the verge of being More...
Peterside Rounds off NIMASA Facilities Tour, Vow to Utilise Data for Adequate Maritime Regulation
From Right: Executive Director Operations, Engr. Rotimi Fashakin, Director General, Dr. Dakuku Peterside and Executive Director Maritime Labour and Cabotage Services, Mr. Ahmed Gambo all of the Nigerian Maritime More...
NIMASA Expresses Concern over Menace of Abandoned Floating Dock in Sapele
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 29TH (URHOBOTODAY)-The management of the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA) is billed to hold an emergency meeting over an abandoned floating dock on the Sapele River at More...
Amaechi Inaugurates NIMASA Board, Charges Members on Accountability
A photograph of the Hon Minister of Transportation with some National Assembly members and members of the Board of the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA) after the inauguration of the Board More...
Buhari Approves Composition of Governing Boards of NPA, NIMASA
Buhari LAGOS AUGUST 26TH (URHOBOTODAY)-President Muhammadu Buhari has approved the composition of the Governing Boards of the Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA) and the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency More...
NIMASA New Regime is Safety and Environmental Friendly- Peterside
L-R: Publisher, African Leadership magazine Mr. Ken Giama presenting a copy of the Magazine to the Director General, Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency, (NIMASA), Dr. Dakuku Peterside during a courtesy More...
NIMASA Reaffirmed Commitment to Implement Relevant Instrument of Int’l Maritime Organisation
From right?: Kolapo Abdulkadir, Legal Unit NIMASA, Bala Dikko, Nigeria’s Alternate Permanent Representative to the IMO, Bashir Jamoh, Admin Dept NIMASA, Lami Tumaka Head Corporate Communications NIMASA, William More...
Peterside Decries Rise in Piracy, Urges Stakeholders to Double Effort in Eradicating Piracy
NIMASA DG, Dr Dakuku Petersideuku LAGOS JULY 23RD (URHOBOTODAY)-Stakeholders in the Nigerian maritime industry especially the Nigerian Navy and the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA) have More...