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To boost training: Limbe fisheries institute seals deal with Ghanaian varsity.

R-L: LINAFI Director, RMU VC shaking hands while brandishing signed partnership

The Limbe Nautical and Fisheries Institute known by its acronym as LINAFI, has sealed a strategic deal to boost the training of its students.
The institution based in Wovia Village, Limbe, Fako Division of the South West Region signed the deal with the Regional Maritime University, RMU, Accra, Ghana on Tuesday 10.

The deal, sealed through a Memorandum of Understanding, MoU, was signed at LINAFI’s campus.

The Director of LANAFI, Dr Etah Collins Ayuk, signed for his institution while the Acting Vice Chancellor of RMU, Dr Jethro Brooks, signed for the Ghanaian school.

According to the terms of the MoU, two places for scholarship at RMU have been reserved for female trainees of LINAFI.

Speaking during the signing ceremony, Dr Etah explained that the benefits of the partnership to LINAFI are enormous. He added that trainees will now have Standard Training Certification and watch keeping.

Dr Etah also indicated that the two institutions are also harmonizing their curriculum in special domains with the already outlined procedures on how Certificate of Competency will be facilitated.

RMU delegation, LINAFI officials, staff in group photo after sealed partnership

According to Dr Etah, these key aspects of the partnership have opened LINAFI to the world.

It should be recalled that during LINAFI’s last board meeting chaired by its Board chairperson who doubles as Minister of Livestock Fishery and Animal Industry, Dr Taiga, Dr Etah, had vowed to work to limit fisheries product importation.

In this light, LINAFI has extended its aquaculture facility in Limbe.

During that meeting, LINAFI board members had voted an annual budget of 563 million FCFA.

They had said the money will be used for training and further training, applied research, governance, and institutional support.

About RMU

Based in Ghanaian capital city, Accra, the Regional Maritime University, RMU, is an international tertiary institution which was established in 1983.

It attained full university status on October 25, 2007 and was launched by then Ghanaian President, John Agyekum Kufour.

The institution was jointly created by the governments of Ghana, Liberia, The Gambia, Sierra Loene and Cameroon.

The sub-regional tertiary institution exists to enhance the development of the maritime transport sector and the fishing industry in member states through the maritime education of students, training of marine personnel, research and consultancy and promotion of maritime co-operation.

The hallmarks of its operations are; meeting international standards, teamwork, discipline and professional integrity.

The school has as vision to be recognised within the next decades, as the tertiary institution of first choice in advanced maritime education and training, research and consultancy in Africa and beyond.

This article was first published in The Guardian Post issue N0:3228 of Friday September 13, 2024