Group Inaugurates Maritime Hall Of Fame

The Maritime Industry Advocacy Initiative (MAIN) has incorporated the Nigerian Maritime Industry Hall of Fame as a special recognition platform for outstanding stakeholders in the Nigerian maritime industry.

The non-governmental organisation (NGO) said in a statement that the idea of incorporating the Hall of Fame was informed by the discovery that as vital and strategic as the maritime sector is to the Nigerian economy, there is no life-time platform to immortalise outstanding players and also put their achievement on records for posterity.

Giving an insight into the motivation for the new platform, MAIN’s Executive Director, Mr Sesan Onileimo, explained that what the industry currently has are flurry of awards that are not designed to have a lasting effect.

“What we see every year are awards upon awards, but the Nigerian Maritime Industry Hall of Fame is not an award, it is a life-time achievement scroll that was subjected to a rigorous incorporation process by the Corporate Affairs Commission (CAC) before it was approved,” he stated.

According to Onileimo, who also doubles as the chief executive officer of the Hall of Fame, “it is totally different from the conventional awards in that it is designed for topmost achievers whose records would be subjected to a very thorough and critical appraisal by a panel that the NGO will constitute.”

“The Board of the NGO will also sit over the recommendations of the stakeholders’ panel before the one person will be finally announced, it is only one person every year that will be inducted into the Hall of Fame,” he explained further.

“The maiden edition of the Nigerian Maritime Industry Hall of Fame will hold at a date to be announced soon.  The induction comes with a lecture that will be delivered by the inductee.”