The Nigeria Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA) on Friday said the country was set to implement safety code on dangerous goods to enhance safety in the nation’s marine environment. Mr. Rotimi Fashakin, NIMASA’s Director of Operations, said this during a technical session for port users on the Implementation of International Maritime Dangerous Goods (IMDG) Code organized by NIMASA in Lagos. He said that the indiscriminate dumping of dangerous goods in the marine environment had been a growing concern and a threat to human health and the environment. He said that the IMDG code was a convention under the auspices of the International Maritime Organisation (IMO) to which Nigeria is a signatory. He said that there was the need to pay special attention to the negative effects that dumping of dangerous goods in the environments could cause the residents.

Source: The Guardian October 12, 2018 15:22 UTC