{"id":69146,"date":"2025-06-26T15:16:50","date_gmt":"2025-06-26T15:16:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=69146"},"modified":"2025-06-26T15:16:50","modified_gmt":"2025-06-26T15:16:50","slug":"mowca-rallies-support-for-nigerias-imo-council-bid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/06\/26\/mowca-rallies-support-for-nigerias-imo-council-bid\/","title":{"rendered":"MOWCA Rallies Support for Nigeria\u2019s IMO Council Bid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Onilede Titi Faith<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The Maritime Organisation of West and Central Africa (MOWCA), is lobbying 25 member states to back Nigeria\u2019s bid for a Category C seat on the International Maritime Organisation (IMO), Council.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking at the Regional Ferry Safety Conference in Lagos, MOWCA Secretary-General Dr. Paul Adalikwu said the campaign aims to secure a \u201cbulk vote\u201d ahead of the 34th IMO Assembly in November\u2013December 2025.<\/p>\n<p>Nigeria last held the seat in 2011 and has lost four consecutive bids since.<\/p>\n<p>Adalikwu stressed that Nigeria\u2019s return to the council would reflect its commitment to equity and climate-resilient maritime development.<\/p>\n<p>The push also comes amid rising concerns over ferry safety in the region, with over 8,000 deaths recorded in the past decade, particularly in Nigeria, Senegal, and the DRC.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Onilede Titi Faith &nbsp; The Maritime Organisation of West and Central Africa (MOWCA), is lobbying 25 member states to back Nigeria\u2019s bid for a Category C seat on the International Maritime Organisation (IMO), Council. Speaking at the Regional Ferry Safety Conference in Lagos, MOWCA Secretary-General Dr. Paul Adalikwu said the campaign aims to secure [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":69147,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69146","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69146","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69146"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69146\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69148,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69146\/revisions\/69148"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/69147"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}