President, Bola 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.

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.

Mobereole was MD of LAMATA from 2003 to 2015, and Lagos State Commissioner for Transport from 2015 to 2016.

He holds a Ph.D. and an MSc 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.

As a private sector operator, Mobereola was Deputy Managing Director and Project Development Director at AFM Consulting Plc, London. He was also a Senior Economist at British Petroleum Shipping Ltd., London

His appointment is for a renewable term of four years.

The expectation is that Mobereola focus more effectively on achieving 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 Renewed Hope Agenda of the President Bola Tinubu’s administration for the sector as ably led by the Minister of Marine and Blue Economy, Adegboyega Oyetola.