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Obasanjo to chair NIMAREX 2013

By on March 6, 2013

Former president, Olusegun Obasanjo has assured Nigerians of developing the shipping sector in the country.

Obasanjo, whose government acquired 19 ships for the now rested Nigerian National Shipping Line (NNSL) as the then Military Head of State (1976-1979), said this when the chairman of Nigeria Maritime Expo (NIMAREX), 2013 Planning Committee, Margaret Onyema-Orakwusi, led some members of the committee on a courtesy visit to the former president at his Hilltop mansion, in Abeokuta, Ogun State capital.

He stressed on the best way to develop the shipping sector, while also confirming that he would be chairing the opening ceremony of Africa’s largest maritime event, NIMAREX, slated for March 12, 2013.

The NIMAREX 2013 Planning Committee chairman, who disclosed that all arrangements have been made to ensure a hitch-free event, had also declared that the expo is a non-profit venture, instituted to stimulate rapid development of the nation’s ailing maritime industry and “open up the industry to the rest of the world, with a view to attracting foreign direct investments”.

She said, “NIMAREX is an annual event hosted jointly by the Federal Ministry of Transport, together with its various parastatals and stakeholders in the maritime industry to showcase the nation’s enormous maritime endowments to the rest of the world,”

She revealed that the theme of this year’s expo is entitled: “Nigerian Maritime: Invest Now”.