Maritime Development in Nigeria

6 Apr 11, 02:02 PM, Africa/Lagos

Nigeria’s maritime domain is a critical source of food security, the conduit for 90 percent of continental trade, and vital to its future growth. However, Africa is the only major region lacking a maritime strategy. Readily available guidelines and legal frameworks should be integrated into Africa’s Common Defense and Security Policy to facilitate an African-led collective security strategy for the maritime domain.

Organizations have a life cycle; they are born, they grow, mature and, unless they are rejuvenated, they decline. As they move along these developmental stages, many changes take place in the internal and external environment of the organization. Organizations therefore face different problems as they grow and age. These changes may render the organization’s established processes of self maintenance ineffective and this may lead to the demise of the organization.

In view of the above discourse, I strongly believe that if we can strive to maximize our maritime potentials as a nation; Joblessness and other economic/socioeconomi c woes will be significantly reduced.

We can only achieve these through human resources empowerment and good/objective management of the training institutions & other maritime parastatals.