Section 9: Other functions and powers of the Authority

Other functions and powers of the Authority shall be to-
(a) undertake capital and maintenance dredging;
(b) undertake hydrological and hydrographic surveys;
(c) design ferry routes;
(d) survey, remove, and receive derelicts, wrecks and other obstructions from inland waterways;
(e) operate ferry services within the inland waterways system;
(f) undertake installation and maintenance of lights, buoys and all navigational aids along water channels and banks;
(g) issue and control licences for inland navigation, piers, jetties, dockyards;
(h) examine and survey inland watercrafts and shipyard operators;
(i) grant permit and licences for sand dredging, pipeline construction, dredging of slots and crossing of waterways by utility lines, water intake, rock blasting and removal;
(j) grant licences to private inland waterway operators;
(k) approve designs and construction of inland river crafts;
(l) approve and control all-
(i) jetties, dockyards, piers within the inland waterways;
(ii) advertising within the right-of-way of the waterways;
(m) reclaim land within the right-of-way;
(n) undertake the construction, administration and maintenance of inland river-ports and jetties;
(o) provide hydraulic structures for river and dams, bed and bank stabilisation, barrages, groynes;
(p) collect river tolls;
(q) undertake the production, publication and broadcasting of navigational publications, bulletins and notices, hydrological year books, river charts and river maps;
(r) carry out consultancy and contractual services;
(s) represent the Government of Nigeria at national and international commissions that deal with navigation and inland water transportation;
(t) subject to the provisions of the Environmental Impact Assessment Act, carry out environmental impact assessment of navigation and other dredging activities within the inland water and its right-of-ways;
(u) undertake erection and maintenance of gauges, kilometre boards, horizontal and vertical control marks;
(v) advise government on all border matters that relate to the inland waters;
(w) undertake acquisition, leasing and hiring of properties;
(x) run cruise boats;
(y) carry out boat repairs, boat construction and dockyard services; and
(z) clear water hyacinth and other aquatic weeds.