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The Unreasonable Delay Of Maritime Academy of Nigeria, Oron Admission List

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Letter from a Concern Admission Seeker:-

It’s quite exasperating to say the least at the rate in which admission seekers are being disregarded in our Educational system, Much to my dismay.

Despite the fact that the intending cadets go through several rigorous physical fitness exercises and  examination like Jamb, Maritime Screening Examination and purchase expensive admission forms and pay hugely for Medical Fitness test all in an attempt to secure admission in the Academy.

Most of us travel from town to town in an attempt to meet the deadline of the examinations we still get treated as trash, simply because we want to be educated, much to my chagrin.

I am an intending cadet of MAN ORON and I reside in Lagos State. However, I’m in a great dismay and anxiety as I type this because I and my fellow intending cadets are anxious as hell and we are tired of sitting at home doing nothing when we were supposed to be in school getting ready for the academic session.

We implore MAN ORON to please release our admission list and let us be aware of our fate. The examination was conducted on the 5th of  September and it’s past a month now and we haven’t heard anything from neither the school admin nor the admission officer, whereas, conventional  institutions like Unilag, Lasu, Uniben, OAU, and even Unibadan that wrote theirs less than two weeks ago had released their Admission List and students are getting ready for academic session; “why is ours different?”

I plead with Dr. Joshua Okpo to please release our list, So we can know our fate because for sure not everyone will get admitted…so the Unfortunate ones can easily think of what to do next.

Please Dr. Joshua Okpo, This is only a plea to you sir, We beg of you sir.

We Implore MAN ORON to hear the Cry of this Admission Seeker.

The Unreasonable Delay Of Maritime Academy of Nigeria, Oron Admission List

Letter from a Concern Admission Seeker:- It’s quite exasperating to say the least at the rate in which admission seekers are being di...

Federal Ministry Of Transport Broke - Cancels World Maritime Day Celebration

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These are not the best of times for the Federal Ministry of Transport (FMOT) and its various parastatals as
the Ministry is struggling to meet its financial obligations.
The cash-strapped FMOT, after postponing this year’s World Maritime Day celebration three times in two
weeks, was eventually forced to cancel the celebration all together.
The United Nations (UN), via the International Maritime Organization (IMO), created World Maritime Day to
celebrate the international maritime industry’s contribution towards the world’s economy, especially in
shipping. The event’s date varies by year and country but it is always on the last week of September.
The theme for this year’s World Maritime Day was “Maritime education and training”.<br />
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The Federal Ministry of Transport, which usually coordinates the World Maritime Day celebration in Nigeria,
had earlier scheduled the event to hold on 24 September but when it could not raise enough funds, it was
forced to shift it to 6 October and then to 16 October (Friday last week). But by Tuesday, the Ministry
was still unable to raise funds for the event, scheduled to hold at the Federal Palace Hotel, Lagos and was
forced to cancel it.
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The Director, Public Relations, Federal Ministry of Transport, Mrs. Yetunde Sonaike, in an SMS sent
to SHIPS & PORTS DAILY said, “The World Maritime Day celebration has been postponed for now.”
However, unofficial sources said the event may no longer hold this year.
It is the first time that Nigeria would miss out of the World Maritime Day Celebration.<br />
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A staff at the Ministry said the implementation of the Treasury Single Account (TSA), which commenced on
September 15, is responsible for the lack of funds in the Ministry and its agencies.
“The Ministry usually raises fund for such event from the parastatals including Nigerian Ports Authority
(NPA), Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA), Nigerian Shippers’ Council (NSC)
and National Inland Waterways Authority (NIWA) but the TSA implementation has mopped up all our funds
hence the inability to raise money this time,” a staff at NIMASA told SHIPS & PORTS DAILY.
The situation is so bad at the maritime agencies such that the September salaries of NPA staff were not
paid until last week.
“This has never happened before since I joined NPA.<br />
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 Our salary has never been delayed before. This is the
first time ever,” an NPA staff told SHIPS & PORTS DAILY.
The workers who spoke with our correspondent did so under the condition of anonymity as they were not
authorised by their organisations to do so.
SHIPS & PORTS DAILY reported in its edition of October 5, 2015 that the TSA implementation has practically
grounded the activities of the various maritime agencies with some top management staff and stakeholders
calling for their exemption from its implementation.<br />
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Federal Ministry Of Transport Broke - Cancels World Maritime Day Celebration

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World Shipowners Association Adopts Orji kalu As President

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World Shipowners’ Association (WSA) has appointed Nigeria- born Forbes billionaire and President of Slok Group, Orji Uzor Kalu as interim president of the body.<br />
Kalu, an eminent businessman and former governor of Abia State will occupy the position pending the election of substantive officials at the proposed Marine Conference scheduled for Greece in Q3 2017<br />
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</script> </center>The maritime industry globally is set to meet its full potential following the unveiling of an umbrella body for all national, regional and international associations of ship owners called World Shipowners’ Association (WSA).<br />
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The association which was established in furtherance to the adoption of the agreement of the international maritime round table (IMRT) held in Washington DC, USA, on Monday, October 2, 2015, had in attendance mainly owners of<br />
container ships, bulk carriers, tankers, fishing vessels, barges, specialized ships and ferries from 29 countries, including the United States of America, Canada, United Arab Emirates, Singapore, Malaysia, Hong Kong, Russia, Nigeria, Denmark, Norway and others.<br />
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 </center>In a press release signed by WSA’s interim Director of Strategy and Communications, Isaac Marshall, he acknowledged the efforts of stakeholders in advocating regional and international co-operation among national and regional bodies towards the growth and development of marine business globally, noting that the association will primarily serve as the universal representative of the<br />
shipping industry worldwide.<br />
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</script> </center>The statement reads in part: “Today, we are excited to announce the birth of the much-awaited international co-operation among players in the maritime industry. WSA is now a reality with a resolve to sustain the interests of ship owners in order to serve the global economy in an atmosphere of healthy business competition to the advantage of consumers and stakeholders.<br />
“The new body was conceptualised and established by mainly owners of Offshore Supply Vessels and big players in the marine business as a partner to<br />
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 </center>maritime bodies including the International Maritime Organisation in order to build a sustainable marine platform for the advancement of the global economy.“WSA is committed to strategic collaboration with partnersacross the globe in order to meet the expectations of industry stakeholders by actively engaging existing and potential individual and corporate members, trade bodies and regulators.
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 </center>“At the maritime round table, an interim team headed by Nigeria-born Forbes billionaire and President of Slok Group, Orji Kalu, was unanimously appointed.” Marshall said the team would be coordinating the activities of the global shipping body from Abuja, Nigeria. The team‘s mandate is to effectively drive membership and engagement of existing maritime associations across the world towards the inauguration of national and regional secretariats across the globe and advocacy visits to the United Nations agencies,African Export-Import Bank, Export-Import Bank of the United States, among others. The interim team is also expected to set up steering committees for various purposes in order to run an all-inclusive and sustainable business platform.<br />
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 </center>“Membership of the association will attract limitless benefits including business networking, pressure group for the advancement of shipping cause, common mentality, market intelligence, access to industry publications globally, access to policy and decision makers, human capital development, group negotiations on transactions, among others”.<br />
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Other members of the team are Romanian Forbes billionaire, Gabriel Popoviciu (Treasurer), Isaac Marshall (Director, Strategy and Communications), Mr.Thomas Cheng (Head of Government and Regulatory Affairs), Al-Fayed Hassan (Head<br />
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World Shipowners Association Adopts Orji kalu As President

World Shipowners’ Association (WSA) has appointed Nigeria- born Forbes billionaire and President of Slok Group, Orji Uzor Kalu as int...