FG To Honour NIMASA DG With OFR Award 

The Federal Government will honour the Director-General of the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency NIMASA, Dr. Bashir Jamoh, with the Officer of the Order of the Federal Republic (OFR).
According to the letter of conferment from the Office of the Minister of Special Duties and Inter-Governmental Affairs, George Akume, Dr. Jamoh will receive the award from President Muhammadu Buhari at the investiture ceremony scheduled for the International Conference Center (ICC), Abuja on Monday, October 10, 2022.
It would be recalled that Jamoh had served the Nigerian maritime sector as an administrator for over 30 years before President Buhari appointed him as the Director-General of NIMASA in March 2020.
Since then, he has overseen the successful deployment of the Integrated Security and Waterways Protection Infrastructure otherwise known as the Deep Blue Project, which has played a significant role in achieving a reduction of piracy in the Gulf of Guinea (GoG) to its barest minimum since 1994 and culminating in Nigeria being removed from the infamous piracy red list by the International Maritime Bureau (IMB). A hallmark of his tenure at the helm of NIMASA has been his institutionalisation of collaboration among stakeholders within and outside the country targeted at achieving significant milestones in the sector.

One notable example of this is his initiation of the Gulf of Guinea Maritime Collaboration Forum/ Shared Awareness and De-confliction (GOG-MCF/SHADE), which has demonstrated the positive outcomes of information sharing among regional and non-regional military forces in achieving a secure maritime space.