Seafarers

3 Months In Office: Jamoh Set To Prosecute 27 Newly Arrested Pirates

Barely 3 months at the helms of affairs at the Nigeria’s apex maritime regulatory agency, the Director-General of Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA), Dr. Bashir Jamoh, seems to be marching words with action in his resolve to rid Nigeria’s waterways of criminalities and reassure the global community that it is getting on top …

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MSAN Petitions NIMASA Over Unpaid Members’ Salaries By Stallionaire Oil & Gas Ltd

A seafarers group, the Merchant Seafarers Association of Nigeria (MSAN) has sent a strong -worded petition letter to the Leadership of the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA) against Stallionaire Oil & Gas Ltd, owners of MT ADEBOMI 1 for failing to pay their members who worked aboard MT ADEBOMI1 vessel. In a letter …

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Global Trade At Risk As ITF Orders Seafarers To Leave Ships Amid Covid-19 Failures

The Global trade is currently at the risk of total collapse if urgent measures are not taken by world leaders. This is because the The International Transport Workers’ Federation (ITF) and its affiliated seafarers’ unions says that as from Tuesday it will now assist hundreds of thousands of seafarers to exercise their right to stop …

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Covid -19: NIMASA Categorises Dockworkers, Seafarers As Essential Workers

•  As Agency Unveils Guidelines for Terminals, Jetties. In line with the newly endorsed protocols by the International Maritime Organisation (IMO] designed to lift barriers to crew changes, amid the coronavirus pandemic, the Management of the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA] has designated Seafarers and Dockworkers as essential workers who should be exempted …

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COVID -19: Platforms Communications Postpones 5th AMSAY Conference

The forth-coming Annual Maritime Students and Youth Conference also known as ‘A Day With Nigeria Maritime Students’ earlier scheduled to hold on Wed, May 27, 2020 has been postponed until further notice. In a public notice sent to maritime stakeholders and the general public on Thursday which was signed by Mr Sylvanus Obasi, the CEO …

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MWUN President Debunks Reports Of Seafarers Stabbing Themselves Onboard

*** Calls For Calm AS NIMASA Handles Delay In Crew Change  The President of Maritime Workers Union of Nigeria (MWUN), Comrade Adewale Adeyanju has debunked some media reports alleging that some seafarers who are member of the union were stabbing one another onbaord a vessel over delay in crew change. Even as he has equally …

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