As the nation intensifies efforts to adequately explore\u00a0 and\u00a0 judiciously harness\u00a0 her maritime potentials for maximum economic benefits, an indigenous Public Affairs Analyst Martins F.O.Ikhilae has canvassed an aggressively sustained financial back-up for the nation\u2019s premier citadel of maritime education \u2013the Maritime Academy of Nigeria\u00a0 Oron, in Akwa Ibom state.<\/p>\n
Ikhilae who made the call in Port Harcourt after a tour of the institution\u2019s facilities recently, lauded the\u00a0 initiative of the academy\u2019s founding fathers which he said must not be allowed to wither due to inadequate funding, stressing that the institution was a blessing to the nation\u00a0 and Africa in general .<\/p>\n
He expressed confidence in the academy\u2019s management team in view of its dynamic infrastructural development drive necessitated by the determination to aid its transmutation into a world class maritime university. He explained that the volume of implemented projects and their sophisticated status were clear indications of the academy\u2019s current management commitment to lead the institution towards the part of greatness.<\/p>\n
He also lauded the path initiative of the academy\u2019s founding fathers for considering it necessary to put in place a maritime workforce\u00a0 training institution of the nature and magnitude for the Federation.<\/p>\n
According to\u00a0 him,\u00a0 the college occupies a very unique position and therefore deserves to be seen as such through\u00a0 adequate and sustained government financial attention\u00a0 as well as\u00a0 massive collaborative private sector participation.<\/p>\n
\u201c The Federal Government should continuously ensure the availability of dependable financial support\u00a0 to enable the institution regularly contend with both operational, infrastructural and administrative challenges, private sector involvement cannot be ignored\u00a0 since\u00a0 the maritime industry consist of both Government and private operators\u201d, he said.<\/p>\n
Ikhilae, an author of three Maritime books contended that the maritime sector of the economy possesses the capacity to provide mass employment opportunities for the nation\u2019s teaming indigenous unemployed youths but requires specialized skills and trainings to make them absolutely suitable for the industry stressing that the role of the Maritime Academy of Nigeria was very vital and out rightly pivotal in this regard.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
As the nation intensifies efforts to adequately explore\u00a0 and\u00a0 judiciously harness\u00a0 her maritime potentials for maximum economic benefits, an indigenous Public Affairs Analyst Martins F.O.Ikhilae has canvassed an aggressively sustained financial back-up for the nation\u2019s premier citadel of maritime education \u2013the Maritime Academy of Nigeria\u00a0 Oron, in Akwa Ibom state. Ikhilae who made the call […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[60],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40345","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-maritime"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetidenewsonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40345","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetidenewsonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetidenewsonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetidenewsonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetidenewsonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40345"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetidenewsonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40345\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetidenewsonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetidenewsonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetidenewsonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}