Wednesday, 4 October 2017

Federal Government seeks support to develop Blue Economy





   
   To harness Nigeria’s maritime potential, the Director General of the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency, NIMASA, Dr. Dakuku Peterside, has called for stakeholders’ active participation to grow the country’s blue economy.

   He made this known at the harmonised NIMASA Stakeholders Interactive Forum in Lagos, saying amount of littoral states in Nigeria and the length of the nation made the development of Nigeria’s blue economy a necessity for the country’s benefit.

   He said the agency was on a mission of changing the landscape of the nation’s maritime domain by putting a policy framework in place to allow maritime business to thrive. He, however, charged industry stakeholders to collaborate and cooperate with the agency as it strived to create an enabling environment to operate:

   Chairman of the agency, Major General Jonathan India Garba (retd), said the board would continue to support the current management by giving necessary approvals that would reform the Nigerian maritime sector for economic benefit.

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