President Bola Tinubu appoints Dr. Dayo Mobereola as the Director-General of the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency for a renewable term of four years.

Mobereola replaces Mr. Bashir Jamoh, whose tenure expired recently.

The appointment  letter signed by the president was announced by the Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Ajuri Ngelale, titled ‘President Tinubu appoints new NIMASA Director-General.’

Mobereola holds a Ph.D., and an M.Sc in Transport Economics from the University of Wales, United Kingdom London.

He is a member of the Chartered Institute of Transport (CIT), in England, and also a member of the same institute in Nigeria.

He is the Managing Director of Lagos Metropolitan Area Transport Authority from 2003 to 2015 and was also the Commissioner for Transportation in Lagos State from 2015 to 2016.

In the private sector, he was Deputy Managing Director and Project Development Director at AFM Consulting Plc, London.

Mobereola was also Senior Economist at British Petroleum Shipping Limited, London.

The President expects the new Director-General to “bring his vast experience to bear in his new role and to achieve the mandate of NIMASA in providing world-leading standards of maritime safety administration, maritime labour regulation, marine pollution prevention and control, and search and rescue,” read the statement.

Tinubu also expects Mobereola to improve “cabotage enforcement, shipping development and ship registration, in accordance with the policies and programmes of his Renewed Hope Agenda for the sector as guided by the Minister of Marine and Blue Economy, Adegboyega Oyetola.”