Maritime Academy Cadets Win Awards At Global Event

Cadets of the Maritime Academy of Nigeria (MAN), Oron, won awards astatine Lagos’s just-concluded World Maritime Day (WMD) celebration.

The lawsuit showcased the Academy’s dominance among maritime institutions successful Nigeria.

Speaking connected behalf of the winners, Uzoma Favour Elochukwu, a final-year cadet of Maritime Transport and Business Management, said the designation was some idiosyncratic and a testament to the Academy’s prime training.

“I consciousness profoundly honoured to person this award. It is simply a idiosyncratic accomplishment and a reflection of the prime grooming and guidance I person received from the Academy,” Elochukwu said.

He explained that his essay, aligned with the WMD 2025 taxable “Our Ocean, Our Obligation, Our Opportunity,” addressed pressing maritime challenges, including piracy, marine pollution, larboard congestion, and amerciable fishing, portion offering applicable solutions that enactment NIMASA’s imaginativeness for safe, secure, and sustainable shipping.

“This designation inspires maine to support processing myself and stay unfastened to maritime assemblage opportunities, adjacent aft graduation. As I implicit my program, I americium committed to contributing to Nigeria’s bluish system done innovation, businesslike larboard management, and sustainable practices,” helium added.

Cadets who clinched prizes astatine the contention see Adegbuyi Emmanuel Adebayo and Utibe-Obong Uwem.

The acting rector of MAN, Dr. Kevin Okonna, who accompanied the cadets to the event, expressed pridefulness successful their achievements.

“We are precise happy, proud, and excited by this development. Our cadets person shown capacity, brilliance, and preparedness to navigate the aboriginal of maritime operations,” helium said.

Dr. Okonna reaffirmed the Academy’s openness to partnerships and collaborations that volition fortify Nigeria’s maritime workforce successful enactment with International Maritime Organisation (IMO) standards.

Delegation from the Academy to the WMD 2025 were the Chairman of MAN Governing Council, Engr Kehinde Olayinka Akinola, the Acting Registrar, Mr. P. M. Netson, the Director, Research& Strategic Development, Dr. John Adeyanju, manager of Human Resources, Mr. Yusuf Ishola, caput of Quality Control, Dr. Lawal Akeem, caput of legal, Barr. Enobong Ekpo, PA to the Rector, Hope Inyang, Head of Public Affairs, Domo Umoekpe arsenic good arsenic instructors and Master Mariners of the Academy.