House Of Reps Committee Summons NIMASA Director-General To Appear Or Face Arrest
The House of Representatives Committee on Public Petitions has summoned the Director-General of the Nigerian Maritime Safety and Administration Agency (NIMASA), Dr. Dayo Mobereola, to appear before the Committee.
The committee issued the summons in a statement on Saturday, warning the Director-General to appear on July 17, 2024, or face arrest.
The Committee, chaired by Michael Irom Etaba has been investigating a petition submitted by Abade-Toru Manga Community Development Initiative on December 4, 2023.
According to the statement, the petition alleges that NIMASA failed to establish educational and skills acquisition projects in the coastal communities as part of its Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR).
"The group in their petition maintained that NIMASA had expressed commitment in line with the recommendations at the Global Maritime Security Conference 2019 to introduce educational, entrepreneurship training, and skills acquisition programmes in the areas of fishing, clearing and forwarding, and legal bunkering, for people in the coastal communities.
"Rather than living up to this commitment, Dr. Bashir Jamoh, who then held sway at NIMASA as the Director-General, decided to build a Maritime Skill Acquisition Centre and Twin Lecture Theatre in Kaduna State, where he hails from.
"The Committee has summoned Dr. Dayo Mobereola to appear in person, to explain why NIMASA failed to replicate the skills acquisition centers in the five States where it operates (Akwa Ibom, Cross River, Bayelsa, Delta, and Rivers). If he fails to appear, the Committee will direct the Inspector-General of Police, Kayode Egbetokun, to arrest and bring him before the Committee.
Source: Sahara Reporters
Corps Members To Benefit From New Minimum Wage Negotiations – NYSC DG
The Director-General of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC), Brigadier General Y.D Ahmed, on Saturday in Sagamu, announced that serving corps members across the country would benefit from the ongoing negotiation for a new minimum wage when the dust settles.
The DG, who was on a nationwide tour of orientation camps had a stop over at the Ogun State NYSC orientation camp within the premises of the Gateway International Stadium and assured that corps members would not be left out of the ongoing salary negotiations.
Brigadier-General Ahmed commended the 2,762 corps Batch ‘B’ Stream I corps members undergoing three weeks orientation course and charged them to be guided by the regimented nature and gains of the camp
He said the regimentation of the orientation camp was deliberate to instil discipline, the spirit of collectivism, committment and nation building in the young male and female graduates.
The DG warned corps members to desist from posting unauthorised pictures of orientation camp activities in social media, saying three corps members already tried and found guilty have been decamped.
He cautioned corps members against embarking on unauthorised and unapproved journeys, saying the interest of the Scheme is to return everyone mobilised for the national service to return safe and sound to their respective homes and parents.
Source: Independent