DG/CEO, NIMASA, Dr. Bashir Jamoh OFR

The Presidency through the Bureau of Public Service Reforms, BPSR, has declared the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency NIMASA as the best Federal Government Agency in terms of Digital Transformation.

Director General, BPSR who conveyed the Presidential award to the NIMASA management, also announced that the Director General/CEO NIMASA, Dr Bashir Jamoh OFR has been nominated to receive the distinguished GovTech Trailblazers award for providing exemplary leadership.

The BPSR also announced that the awards were as a result of a nationwide nomination and online voting process initiated by the Bureau, as well as a detailed analysis of performance of all government MDAs at the national level. The award presentation is scheduled to take place in Abuja, the nation’s federal capital next month.

Meanwhile, the NIMASA DG, expressed pleasure at the awards and assured of the agency’s commitment to full operational digitalisation.

“This award is a pleasant surprise. We weren’t expecting it. We were just doing our job. This award will spur us to accelerate our quest to fully digitalise all NIMASA operations.”

Public sector reform consists of deliberate changes to the structures and processes of public sector organisations with the objective of getting them to run better.