Joromi1:
NIMASA should cut down their excessive bills and levies imposed on stakeholders. This is why local seafarers are suffering in Nigeria. Shipowners are complainoYou work offshore 3 months and earn less than the average danfo driver, then you wait another 5 months or more before they recall you back to vessel, because the shipowner is finding it hard to pay all their useless bills:

Special Cabotage
Cabotage Waiver
Sea Protection Levy
Bunker Oil Pollution bill
Wreck Removal bill
Condition Survey
Registration licence
Tonnage and measurement certification
ISPS
2% Surcharge (that's for every job the vessel does)
Minimum Safe Manning and more. Most of these bills are in millions and you still have to bribe your way through.

How can one ship pay all these bills and you still expect the owners to pay their office staff well and then seafarers?

Oh, I forgot to mention that NIMASA has the most useless set of workers in all the government parastatals in Nigeria.

You said it all. The Nigerian government has a way of killing the vibrant sectors of it's economy. NPA and NIMASA: The workers there are corrupt than the police. What they remit to government is a fraction of what they chow.

Really