See Functions Of Nigerian Inland Waterways Authority Below…

• Provide regulation for inland water navigation.
• Ensure development of infrastructural facilities for a national inland waterways connectivity with economic centers using the River Ports and nodal points for inter-nodal exchanges.
• Ensure the development of indigenous technical and managerial skills to meet the challenges of modern inland waterways transportation;There are several other functions and powers of the authority properly enunciated and documented in laws establishing NIWA (NIWA ACT CAP N47 LFN 2004).
• Undertake capital and maintenance dredging.
• Undertake hydrological and hydrographic surveys.
• Design ferry routes.
• Survey, remove, and receive derelicts, wrecks and other obstructions from in land waterways;
• Operate ferry services within the inland waterways system.
• Undertake installation and maintenance of lights, buoys and all navigational aids along water channels and banks.
• Issue and control licenses for inland navigation, piers, jellies, dockyards.
• Examine and survey inland water crafts and shipyard operators.
• Grant permit and licenses for sand dredging, pipeline construction, dredging of slots and crossing of waterways by utility lines, water intake, rock blasting and removal.
• Grant licenses to private inland waterway operators.
• Approve designs and construction of inland river crafts.