The Maritime Academy of Nigeria (MAN) has denied claims in a section of the media (not Nigerian NewsDirect) that despite funding from the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA), many Master Mariners have quit the academy over poor welfare packages and a lack of electricity to their staff quarters. Addressing the media over the weekend on a series of sponsored allegations against the Academy, the Rector, Commodore Duja Effedua (rtd), revealed that the five percent allocation that statutorily comes from NIMASA to the Academy is based on what NIMASA makes from its clients in a given period of time.…
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Ekiti State Governor, Mr. Biodun Oyebanji has solicited the support and partnership with the United States of America in developing the critical economic sectors of the state to achieve his administration’s shared prosperity agenda. Specifically, Ekiti State, according to Governor Oyebanji is desirous of the American government’s support for its Ministry of Agriculture and Food Security on cocoa development as well as a collaboration between the state’s knowledge Zone and US technology hub, the Silicon Valley. Governor Oyebanji, who disclosed these in Ado-Ekiti on Tuesday during a meeting with a team from American Embassy led by the Charge d’Affaires, David…
One quick turn for successive governments in Nigeria to explain the worsening situation is to look back and quickly lay a claim to what was inherited from the previous administration(s). Recently, the deterioration of the Nigerian economy has placed hardship before Nigerians. One central subject around the compounding issues has been the fluctuations and instabilities of foreign exchange. The recent system of operation as introduced by the present Government led by President Bola Tinubu has not enjoyed the favour of good turns. Rather, the impacts have seen the Naira crumbling in value depreciation, exchanging more ridiculously to over N1,500/$ recently. …
Officers of the Nigerian Police Force (NPF) on Tuesday sealed the Jigawa state assembly, Nigerian NewsDirect can authoritatively report. This is as the seal is not unconnected with the plot to unseat the current Speaker of the House. Our investigations revealed that the process which started in Kano at one of the famous Hotel Rooms yesterday, while the Speaker was out of the country for an official assignment with Jigawa state Governor Namadi and also to perform the ummura pilgrimage at the holy land, Mecca . It was reliably gathered that the impeachment is a result of the Speaker being accused…
The Nigerian Army has said that it needs the collaboration of other stakeholders in the South-East to end the sit-at-home order in the zone. The Chief of Army Staff (COAS), Lt.-Gen. Taoreed Lagbaja, said this on Wednesday during an interactive session with newsmen at the 14 Brigade Headquarters, Ohafia. The proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) had since August 2021 declared a sit-at-home order every Monday in the zone. The order was allegedly part of its strategies to force the Federal Government to release its detained leader, Nnamdi Kanu. The group later dissociated itself from the order but the Simon…
The nine oil-producing states in Nigeria saw their domestic debt stock drop from a record high of N1.66 trillion recorded as of June 2023 to N1.58 trillion by the end of September 2023. This represents a decline of N107.6 billion in three months. This is according to an analysis on the debt profile as released by the Debt Management Office (DMO). This is as the nine states received a sum of N127.7 billion as a 13 percent oil derivatives fund from the federal government in the same period, a sharp decline from the N249.6 billion received in the previous quarter.…
The Federal Government announced on Wednesday that it has completed the 63-kilometre Port Harcourt-Aba railway project. The Port Harcourt-Aba project is part of the larger Port Harcourt-Maiduguri railroad project initiated by the administration of President Muhammadu Buhari. Managing Director of Nigeria Railway Corporation (NRC), Mr Fidet Okhiria, revealed this information while leading a delegation to inspect the project. He said train services would commence in a few months as soon as finishing touches are completed on the tracks. “The project from Port Harcourt to Maiduguri is not yet completed. They (contractors) are working in phases, and they have laid tracks up…
The Deputy Governor of Edo State, Philip Shaibu has expressed feelings of betrayal by his Governor, Godwin Obaseki following his endorsement of another candidate aside from the Deputy Governor. In an interview on Arise Television on Wednesday, Shaibu said, “I feel betrayed by the Governor. I feel very betrayed. When we go to church, there are certain biblical verses that are beginning to make sense to me. “There is this particular verse that has been going through my mind: ‘The heart of man is desperately wicked.’ When I see what the governor is doing, the verse now makes meaning to…
…Academia has role to play – Jamoh By Seun Ibiyemi The Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA) says academia has a major role to play in the development of the nation’s blue economy. The Director-General of NIMASA, Dr Bashir Jamoh, said this during a courtesy visit by the management team of the University of Lagos (UNILAG) led by its Vice Chancellor, Prof. Folasade Ogunsola. This is contained in a statement signed by NIMASA Assistant Director, Public Relations, Mr Osagie Edward, on Wednesday in Lagos. Jamoh said the Agency was committed to the development of the Institute of Maritime Studies…
Nobel Laureate Professor Wole Soyinka has warned that embattled former Minister Dr. Olu Agunloye may suffer the same fate of death as Late Chief Bola Ige. Dr. Olu Agunloye has been remanded in Kuje Prison by the court over the Mambilla scam case. Justice Onwuegbuzie ruled that the defendant be remanded in Kuje Correctional Centre and set Thursday, January 11, 2024 for hearing on the bail application. In a statement released on Wednesday titled ‘A pivotal witness and a custodial danger,’ it reads, “Dr. Olu Agunloye, we learn, was finally charged to court today. The case was adjourned, and the…