Dr. Dayo Mobereola

Nigeria’s President, Bola Tinubu has approved the appointment of Dr. Dayo Mobereola, a former Managing Director of Lagos Metropolitan Area Transport Authority LAMATA as the new Director General of the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency NIMASA. The appointment is for a renewable term of four years.

Mobereole, who was MD of LAMATA from 2003 to 2015, was also Lagos State Commissioner for Transport from 2015 to 2016.

His appointment follows the expiration of the four-year tenure of the former DG, Dr. Bashir Jamoh MFR on Sunday, March 10, 2024.

Dr. Jamoh had Monday, handed over the reins of power at the agency to the Executive Director, Finance and Administration, Honourable Chudi Ofodile, being the highest officer in line with Civil Service rules.

President Tinubu expects Mobereola to more effectively achieve the NIMASA’s mandate of 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.

This is in line with the policies and programmes of the Renewed Hope Agenda for the sector as ably guided by the Minister of Marine and Blue Economy, Adegboyega Oyetola.

Mobereola holds a Ph.D. and an MSc in Transport Economics from the University of Wales, United Kingdom.

He is a fellow of the Chartered Institute of Transport, England, and a fellow of the same institute in Nigeria.

As a private sector operator, Mobereola was Deputy Managing Director and Project Development Director at AFM Consulting Plc, London. He was also a Senior Economist at British Petroleum Shipping Ltd., London.