PRESIDENT Bola Tinubu has approved the appointment of Dr. Dayo Mobereola as the Director General of the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA) for a renewable term of four years.

This follows the recent expiration of the tenure of the former director general, Mr. Bashir Jamoh.

Mobereola was the managing director of Lagos Metropolitan Area Transport Authority (LAMATA) from 2003 to 2015 and later the state Commissioner for Transportation between 2015 and 2016.

   Before then, he was deputy managing director and Project Development director at AFM Consulting Plc, London and Senior Economist at British Petroleum Shipping Limited, London.

   The President charged Mobereola 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, search and rescue, cabotage enforcement, shipping development and ship registration under the policies and programmes of the Renewed Hope Agenda for the sector being superintended by the Minister of Marine and Blue Economy, Mr. Adegboyega Oyetola.