Tinubu Makes Swift Move, Appoints Mobereola As New NIMASA DG
Tinubu Makes Swift Move, Appoints Mobereola As New NIMASA DG
Dr Dayo Mobereola
By Frank Odinukaeze
Seventy Two hours after the expiration of the tenure of former DG of NIMASA,Dr Bashir Jamoh’,President, Bola Ahmed Tinubu has approved the appointment of Dr. Dayo Mobereola, a former Managing Director of Lagos Metropolitan Area Transport Authority LAMATA as the new Director General of the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency NIMASA. The appointment is for a renewable term of four years.
Mobereola, who was MD of LAMATA from 2003 to 2015, was also Lagos State Commissioner for Transport from 2015 to 2016.
His appointment follows the expiration of the four-year tenure of the former DG, Dr. Bashir Jamoh MFR on Sunday, March 10, 2024.
Dr. Jamoh had Monday, handed over the reins of power at the agency to the Executive Director, Finance and Administration, Honourable Chudi Ofodile, being the highest officer in line with Civil Service rules.
President Tinubu expects Mobereola to more effectively achieve the NIMASA’s mandate of providing world-leading standards of maritime safety administration, maritime labour regulation, marine pollution prevention and control, search and rescue, Cabotage enforcement, shipping development, and ship registration.
This is in line with the policies and programmes of the Renewed Hope Agenda for the sector as ably guided by the Minister of Marine and Blue Economy, Adegboyega Oyetola.
