Speaking during the first matriculation ceremony of the pioneer cadets of the institution, Ighomena, a former Commissioner in Delta State, revealed that Oghara was picked because of its strategic location as a town bounded by three rivers.
“The inhabitants of Oghara are predominantly traders, farmers and fishermen. Believed to be the deepest inland waterway in Africa, the Ethiope river, which originated from the trunk of a giant silk-cotton tree at Umuaja in Ukwani LGA of Delta State, transverse various communities as stream, becoming wider and deeper as it courses to Sapele through Abraka.
Ighomena continued: “Regrettably, in spite of the presence of these maritime companies on the bank of the river, with high traffic of vessels, a good proportion of the youths of the area and other Niger Delta communities, do not possess the needed skills required of them to get employed by those companies and also onboard their vessels.
According to him, ANIMT, which was first thought in 2016, was approved by the Federal Ministry of Education in September 2021, after accreditation by the National Board for Technical Education in same year, with a mandate to commence the 2021/2022 academic session without delay, in Maritime Transportation and Business studies, Nautical Science and Computer Science.