EXCLUSIVE: Buhari picks Bashir Jamoh to replace Peterside as NIMASA DG
President Muhammadu Buhari has approved the appointment of Bashir Jamoh as the director-general of the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA), TheCable can report.
Jamoh will replace Dakuku Peterside who was appointed in 2016 to head the maritime agency.
Peterside’s tenure as NIMASA DG ends on March 10, 2020.
The newly appointed DG is currently the executive director for admin and finance at NIMASA.
Jamoh, who hails from Kaduna, is also the current president of the Chartered Institute of Transport Administration of Nigeria (CIoTA).
The 56-year-old holds a PhD from the University of Port Harcourt, specialising in logistics and transport management.
He also holds a master’s degree in management from Korea Maritime and Ocean University, a post-graduate diploma in management sciences from Bayero University, Kano and a diploma in accounting from Ahmadu Bello University Zaria.
TheCable also understands that he has 32 years of professional experience in the transportation and maritime sector.
He is also the author of the book, Harnessing Nigeria’s Maritime Assets: Past, Present and Future.
Jamoh joined NIMASA in 2003 as an assistant chief commercial officer, eastern and central zones.
He served with the Kaduna state government before transferring his services to the then National Maritime Authority (NMA) in 1994.
When Nebuchadnezzar invades conquer any country he takes all posts for his people and all the conquered people’s assets as the spoils of war. Nigeria is not any different in Buhari’s eyes and his administration
When you deliberately fail to recognize that public service is not like working in the palm tree farm where you employ workers not based on qualifications, then you will continue to post biased comments like this while professional people like Jamoh are busy climbing to the top rungs of their profession. Learn, think, and progress.
As much as I share the view that there is need for some regional balance. The question i also like to ask is when we had OBJ and Jonathan from the South, how well did we fair? If you ask me we are even better of projects like Lagos-Ibadan, 2nd Niger Bridge, Railway projects etc are to be considered.
The first time we have professional appointed as DG I pray he make a difference