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The appointment of Dantsoho, a maritime practitioner with several years of experience in the sector, brought to an end the two-year reign of the immediate past MD of NPA, Muhammad Bello-Koko, who was appointed by former president Muhammadu Buhari in February 2022.

Dantsoho’s journey into the nation’s maritime industry dates back to 1992, when he did his one-year National Youths Service Corps at the NPA. He has over 25 years of experience in maritime technology, international transport, and port management. He holds a PhD in Maritime Technology from Liverpool John Moores University, UK (2015), an MSc in International Transport from Cardiff University, UK (1999), and a BSc (Hons) from the University of Maiduguri, Nigeria (1992).

A lot is being expected from the new NPA boss, as many look up to him to further transform the industry. Experts expect him to deliver a quality administration and meet the demands of industry stakeholders to supersede what his predecessor did.

Take it or leave it, Bello-Koko’s 29 months of administration in the NPA brought many reforms and transformations in the agency, especially, in the area of revenue generation, facility acquisition, and tackling the perennial traffic congestion which has paralysed activities in the ports area for years.

In the area of revenue generation, the NPA under Bello-Koko, despite headwinds that characterised the year 2023, raked in unprecedented revenues and remittances to the Consolidated Revenue Fund of the Federation, with revenues steadily growing from N361bn in 2022 to N501bn as of December 2023, and remittances increasing from N93.4bn in 2022 to N206bn by year-end 2023, and to N255bn in first half of 2024.

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