Maritime businesses hail ladies driving sector development

Maritime businesses, together with the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Security Company and the Nigerian Ports Authority, have applauded the contributions of girls to the event of the Nigerian maritime trade.

In a goodwill message to mark the 2026 Worldwide Ladies’s Day with the theme ‘Give to Acquire’, the Director-Normal of NIMASA, Dr Dayo Mobereola, celebrated the energy, experience, and invaluable contributions of girls to the sector, emphasising that the trade has gained progress, innovation, and sustainable development by means of their efforts.

“I rejoice your energy, experience, and invaluable contributions to our maritime trade. The theme #GiveToGain displays your every day impression. By way of your professionalism, management, and resilience throughout seagoing, regulatory, technical, and administrative roles, you give excellence, and our sector positive aspects progress, innovation, and sustainable development,” Mobereola said.

He additional recommended the dedication of girls within the trade and reaffirmed his dedication to “a maritime trade the place each girl is empowered to steer and thrive”.

In the meantime, in a press release over the weekend, the Managing Director of the NPA, Dr Abubakar Dantsoho, famous that he intentionally prioritised gender equality in key appointments, beginning together with his aides and technical assistants. “Ladies maintain 60 per cent of those roles, with males making up the remaining 40 per cent,” he mentioned, including that this intentional step underscores the NPA’s dedication to advancing ladies’s participation and success throughout the maritime trade.

In response to him, the NPA proudly celebrates the resilience, dedication, and invaluable contributions of girls within the maritime sector, together with firefighting, safety, piloting, engineering, hydrography, administration, and maritime-support providers similar to aids to navigation.

“These outstanding ladies are excelling even in roles that historically demand masculine sorts of energy. We salute the outstanding ladies of NPA and past who proceed to drive progress, break limitations, and form a extra equitable future for the sector’, he added.

Worldwide Ladies’s Day is a worldwide observance that seeks to attract consideration to challenges confronted by ladies and the necessity to guarantee gender fairness. This 12 months’s theme, ‘Give to Acquire’, focuses on investing in ladies by means of assets, schooling, and mentorship to create a stronger, extra equitable society, highlighting the truth that empowering ladies brings collective advantages: economies, communities, and workplaces all develop when ladies thrive.