Nigeria accounts for less than 2.3% of global seafarers

By Godwin Oritse Nigeria accounts for less than 2.3 percent of the global seafaring workforce, with only about 6,000 sailors registered out of the 1.9 million seafarers listed worldwide.Capt. Rasheed Onakoya of the Nigerian Association of Master Mariners (NAMM), disclosed this in a presentation at the quarterly lecture of the association, adding that only deliberate government intervention and policies can reverse the trend.Onakoya noted that there are currently more seafarers than sh