Nigerian President, Bola Tinubu, has approved the appointment of Dr. Dayo Mobereola to serve as the Director-General of the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA) for a renewable term of four years.
According to Tinubu’s Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Ajuri Ngelale, the appointment was made known on Tuesday confirming the President’s appointment of Dr. Mobereola into office as the new Director-General of NIMSA following the exit of Mr Bashir Jamoh, whose tenure recently expired.
Dr. Mobereola holds a Ph.D, and an M.Sc in Transport Economics from the University of Wales, United Kingdom. He is a fellow of the Chartered Institute of Transport, England, and a fellow of the same institute in Nigeria.
Mr Mobereola was the Managing Director of Lagos Metropolitan Area Transport Authority (LAMATA) from 2003 to 2015 and was also the Commissioner for Transportation in Lagos State from 2015 to 2016.
In the private sector, Mobereola was the Deputy Managing Director and Project Development Director at AFM Consulting Plc, London. He was also Senior Economist at British Petroleum Shipping Limited, London.
Tinubu further expects the new Director-General to bring his vast experience to bear in his new role and to achieve the mandate of NIMASA during his four years in office.
Those mandates include, 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.
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Also with these policies and programmes, it will all be in accordance with the Renewed Hope Agenda for the sector which was duly guided by the Honourable Minister of Marine and Blue Economy, H.E. Adegboyega Oyetola.
