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The National Seafarers Development Programme (NSDP) launched by the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA) in 2009 with a view to bridging the projected employment gap in the seafaring profession is so far adjudged by its sponsors, promoters and beneficiaries as Nigeria’s most successful outing in her long and chequered history of Seafarer education. According to one report, over 2500 out of the projected 5000 Seafarers have so far been trainedat both degree levels and high professional standards in various countries like Romania, The Philippines, United Kingdom, United States of America, India, Egypt, and other countries, under the NSDP.The funding is a 60:40 ratio where the state governments are to provide 60 percent of the tuition fees and NIMASA is to provide the balance of 40 percent. Other financial obligations like air fares, monthly allowance and other sundry expenses are borne solely by NIMASA. And for this, NIMASA is reported to have budgeted the su

Lagos is the centre of excellence, the theory goes. For decades people have come to the bustling commercial and economic capital to live and work, moving out again when they retire. With this polarised nature of life in Lagos, time was a constraint. So Lagosians had but one option – a fast life on a lane bedevilled with avoidable traffic gridlocks alongside substandard and dilapidated urban transport infrastructure. In time, the rise of Abuja as the nation’s administrative capital, with its allure of superhighways and megacity concept, triggered off an unprecedented drift to the centre of unity as Abuja continues to beckon to anyone sick and tired of the Molues and bad roads of Lagos. But a startling paradigm shift brought the change that slowed the conveyor belt. Lagos started inching further up the motorisation ladder since 2007 as the visionary Governor, His Excellency Babatunde Raji Fashola, came into office and took on the issue of urban mass transit head on with his te