NIMASA’s Next Chapter: From Security Wins to Systemic Reform
By Lod Onyeji Four years without a single reported piracy incident. Re-election to the International Maritime Organization’s Category C council after a 14-year gap. The lifting of a 12-year U.S. Coast Guard Condition of Entry on Nigerian vessels. For the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency, the last few years have been a turnaround. Now, Director General Dr. Dayo Mobereola is telling his senior team: don’t celebrate too long. At a two-day Senior Management Strategy Session in Lagos this week on NIMASA’s Medium-Term Strategic Plan, 2025-2028, Mobereola challenged management to convert those hard-won gains into institutional performance. The message was direct: security restored, now build systems that last. The data behind the momentum and the numbers which give weight to the DG’s call are; Security, since 2022, the Gulf of Guinea recorded zero successful piracy attacks in Nigerian waters, according to the IMB Piracy Reporting Centre. That followed 62 inc...
