More Nigerians would be having opportunities to play significant role in the maritime sector, with the Nigeria Maritime University, Okerenkoko, Delta State, providing quality trainings to buoy the skill of Nigerian youths in shipping. The Vice Chancellor of the Nigeria Maritime University, Prof. (Mrs.) Maureen Ongoebi Etebu, who disclosed this during a tour of the institution’s teaching facilities and infrastructure at the take-off campus, said it would also save the nation foreign exchange. “When you train cadets here in Nigeria, you give them the exposure they can get abroad. Right now, we are collaborating with Caribbean Maritime University, and we are also making arrangement with the World Maritime University in Sweden. She noted that such development would equally save the nation foreign exchange spent on the wages of skilled expatriate workers.

Source: The Guardian February 06, 2019 03:11 UTC