FG donates 3500 life-jackets to Ogun waterways operators

L-R: Elsie Egwuatu, head of marine services, NIWA Lagos; Ganiyu Balogun, National President, ATBOWATON; Mercy Ilori, Director, Maritime Services, Ministry of Marine and Blue Economy; Gbenga Dario, Ogun State commissioner for transportation; Ayodele Wasiu, chairman, Ogun State house committee on transport; and Aderonke Tokunbo-Petersthe. Permanent Secretary, Ogun State Commissioner of Transportation, during the handover of 3500 life-jackets by the Federal Government to Ogun State on Tuesday.

The federal government has donated 3500 life jackets to the Ogun state government for waterways operators in the state to enhance the safety of waterways across the nation. Adegboyega Oyetola, Minister of Marine and Blue Economy, who handed over the life-jackets, assured Nigerian inland waterways

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Juliet Onyema

Juliet Onyema is a transport journalist who reports on Nigeria’s transport and automobile industry. She covers emerging Electric Vehicles (EVs), ranging from adoption to usage, automobile firms and transport policies which affect them, and also recurring trends affecting commuters’ mobility interstate and intrastate.