Dakuku Peterside in Belgium, Assures Int’l Community of Safety in Nigeria Waterways
Dr Dakuku Peterside, NIMASA DG LAGOS JULY 16TH (URHOBOTODAY)-The Director General of the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA) Dr. Dakuku Peterside has assured the international shipping community More...
Amaechi in London, Seeks Greater Collaboration with Int’l Maritime Organisation
From Left: The Director General of NIMASA, Dr. Dakuku Peterside, Minister of Transportation, Rt. Hon. Rotimi Chibuike Amaechi, IMO Secretary General Mr. Kitack Lim and Nigeria’s Alternate Permanent Representative More...
Freight Forwarders Commend Dakuku Peterside for Restructuring NIMASA
Members of NAGAFF in group picture with NIMASA DG, Dr Dakuku Peterside LAGOS JULY 6TH (URHOBOTODAY)-The National Association of Government Approved Freight Forwarders (NAGAFF) has commended the Management of the More...
NIMASA Denies Report on Floating of Scholarship
NIMASA DG Dr Dakuku Peterside LAGOS JULY 5TH (URHOBOTODAY)-The Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA) has dismissed as fraudulent an online platform purporting that the Agency has floated a More...
NIMASA DG Urges News Agency of Nigeria to Remain Committed to Professionalism
NIMASA DG Dakuku Peterside LAGOS JUNE 29TH (URHOBOTODAY)-The Director General of the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA), Dr. Dakuku Peterside has called on the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) More...
NIMASA DG, Dakuku Peterside Assures 100 NSDP Cadets of Sea Time
NIMASA DG, Dakuku Peterside LAGOS JUNE 18TH (URHOBOTODAY)-The Director General of the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA) Dr. Dakuku Peterside has assured cadets of the Nigerian Seafarers More...
Maritime Security: NIMASA DG, Dakuku Peterside Calls for Synergy among Government. Agencies
NIMASA DG, Dakuku Peterside LAGOS JUNE 9TH (URHOBOTODAY)-The Director General of the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA) Dr. Dakuku Peterside has again called for close synergy and intelligence More...
World Ocean Day: NIMASA DG, Dakuku Peterside Calls for Preservation of Marine Environment
NIMASA DG Dakuku Peterside LAGOS JUNE 8TH (URHOBOTODAY)-The Director General of the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA) Dr. Dakuku Peterside has called on Nigerians especially those living More...
N1.5bn Fraud: Court Slams Five Years Jail Term on Former NIMASA DG, Omatseye
Raymond Omatseye LAGOS MAY 21ST (URHOBOTODAY)- – Federal High Court sitting in Lagos has slammed five years jail term against a former Director-General (DG) of the Nigerian Maritime Administration Safety Agency More...
NIMASA DG, Dakuku Peterside to Unveil Growth Plan for Maritime
NIMASA Boss Dakuku Peterside LAGOS MAY 19TH (URHOBOTODAY)-The apex maritime regulator, the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA), has announced a three-year Maritime Business Growth Plan (MBGP) More...
Tompolo’s Case Postponed as Ex-Militant Avoids Arrest
By Conor Gaffey March 24th (urhobotoday0-A militant of the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND) poses with a heavy machine-gun in the Niger Delta, Nigeria, September 17, 2008. A former MEND More...
Ijaw Youths To Embark On A One-Million-Man March Against Buhari Policies
Udengs Eradiri LAGOS FEBRUARY 2ND (URHOBOTODAY)-On Tuesday, the umbrella body of the Niger Delta Youths, the Ijaw Youths Council (IYC) unveiled a plan to conduct a one million man protest march against the policies More...
Amaechi Threatens to Scrap NIMASA, Maritime University
Amaechi LAGOS JANUARY 20TH (URHOBOTODAY)-The Minister of Transportation, Rotimi Amaechi has threatened to scrap the Nigerian Maritime University project started by the immediate past administration of Goodluck Jonathan, More...
Wife of Ex-NIMASA DG, Patrick Akpobolokemi Sues EFCC N100m
Patrick Akpobolokemi. LAGOS JANUARY 11TH (URHOBOTODAY)-A Federal High Court in Lagos today adjourned until February 4 the fundamental human rights enforcement suit filed against the Economic and Financial Crimes More...
$300,000 Indictment of Buhari: PDP Insists of Neutral Body Investigation of Dasukigate
LAGOS DECEMBER 17TH (URHOBOTODAY) –The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) said the denial by President Muhammadu Buhari on the alleged benefit from funds relating to the arms deal scandal, and the consequent controversy More...
EFCC Arraigns Ex-NIMASA DG, Nine Others Over N1.153b Fraud
LAGOS DECEMBER 4TH (URHOBOTODAY)-Former Director General of the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency, Patrick Ziadeke Akpobolokemi, and seven other staff of the agency on a 30-count charge bordering More...
Amaechi Orders Probe of NIMASA Transfer of N18bn to Maritime Academy Uyo
Amaechi LAGOS NOVEMBER 30TH (URHOBOTODAY)-The Minister of Transport, Mr Rotimi Amaechi has ordered a probe into the financial activities of the Maritime Academy of Nigeria, MAN, Oron in Akwa Ibom State and the remission More...
NIMASA Probes Warri Ships Collision
LAGOS OCTOBER 30TH (URHOBOTODAY)-The Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA) says it has launched a probe into the accident involving two vessels in Delta state. Two ships – MT Elixir and More...
Navy Impounds Tompolo’s Ship as Powerful Forces Gang Up against Using it for Training Cadets
Tompolo and the impounded vessel LAGOS OCTOBER 30TH (URHOBOTODAY)-Controversy is at the moment brewing over the use of the Royal Norwegian military vessel bought by Global West Specialist Vessel Limited to train More...
100 Days: A Breakdown Of President Buhari’s Activities
Buhari LAGOS SEPTEMBER 8TH (URHOBOTODAY)-President Muhammadu Buhari has been in power for 100 days and it’s only apt to review and relive, what he’s done so far. While many opinion pieces and articles have been More...
EFCC Freezes Account Of Ex-N’Delta Militant Leader, Tompolo’s Companies
Tompolo LAGOS SEPTEMBER 6TH (URHOBOTODAY)-A report on The Nation newspapers reveals that the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) have frozen two companies reportedly owned by ex-Niger Delta militant More...
FG Hires KPMG, PWC to Conduct Forensic Audit of CBN, SEC, NIMASA, DPR
Buhari LAGOS AUGUST 14TH (URHOBOTODAY) – A forensic audit of all federal government revenue generating agencies is about to commence. The audit is on the order of the committee set up by the National Economic More...
How Ex-NIMASA Boss, Delta Deputy Gov, Tompolo Share N3bn Ijaw Community Fund
Former Director General of NIMASA, Patrick Akpobolokemi LAGOS AUGUST 1ST (URHOBOTODAY)-Revelation has emerged on how former Director General of NIMASA, Patrick Akpobolokemi, Ex-militant leader, Chief Government More...
Sacked NIMASA Boss, Akpobolokemi in EFCC Net over Alleged Multibillion Naira Fraud
Akpobolokemi LAGOS JULY 30TH (URHOBOTODAY)-The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has arrested the immediate past Director General of the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency [NIMASA], Patrick More...
Obi Takes Over from Akpobolokemi as NIMASA Acting DG
Nwabueze Obi LAGOS JULY 21ST (URHOBOTODAY)-Barrister Calistus Nwabueze Obi has taken over as the Acting Director General/Chief Executive Officer of the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA). More...