NiMASA News: Dakuku Peterside, the Director-General, Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA) has said that the agency’s Nigerian Seafarers Development Programme (NSDP) is an interventionist programme designed for human capacity development.
Peterside said this in a message to a Stakeholders’ Interactive session in Lagos on Thursday.
The director-general was represented by Lami Tumaka, a Director in charge of Special Duties.
He said that the Seafarers training was meant to assist indigent Nigerian youths in terms of job opportunity and to contribute to the development of the nation’s maritime sector.
Peterside said that the 130 newly-graduated officers from Egypt had made it a total of 2,000 officers so far trained abroad by the agency.
“It is in the spirit of the Federal Government’s Youth Empowerment programme to create jobs for the teeming jobless youth.
“They would be gradually absorbed into the system with more multinational investors’ collaboration with the agency to make the graduates resourceful to the nation.
“Most of them are university graduates without jobs; so what the agency has done is to provide the needed platform for them to be gainfully engaged,’’ he said.
According to the director-general, it will be difficult for industry players to employ persons without the requisite skills.
He advised industry players to assist the government in making the programme a worthwhile venture by absorbing the cadets.
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