Nigerian Navy
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Following the arrest of 75 stowaways in 10 months, the Navy (NN) have expressed concerns over the menace in Nigerian waters.
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The Nigerian Navy has expressed worries over the spate of stowaways in the country's waters. "The Nigerian Navy is concerned by the upsurge in cases of stowaways in Nigerian waters," it said in a statement. "For clarity, the Convention on Facilities of International Maritime Traffic (FAL Convention) defines a stowaway as someone who is secreted…
3 days ago
In continuation of their onslaught on illegal fishing on Nigeria territory waters, the Nigerian Navy Forward Operating Base (FOB) FORMOSO, have handed over a Motor Fishing Trawler (MFT) OLOKUN XIV and 12 of its crew members to the Federal Department of Fisheries (FDF) in Bayelsa.
11 Apr
A civilian staff of the Ministry of Defence, Ifeanyi Onumaegbu, attached to the Laboratory Department of the Nigerian Navy Reference Hospital (NNRH) Ojo, was found dead in his office after a fight with his colleagues. Onumaegbu's death was confirmed in a statement by Commodore A. Adams-Aliu for Chief of the Naval Staff. Nigerian Navy expressed…
30 Mar
The robust relationship between the Nigerian Navy and its Pakistani counterpart has resulted in Nigeria's Chief of Naval Staff, Vice Admiral E.I Ogala, delivering lectures on the "challenges and opportunities for the Nigerian Navy
5 Mar
The Nigerian Navy has sealed a tank farm in Calabar suspected to be storing illegally-refined diesel.
4 Mar
The Nigerian Navy Forward Operating Base in Brass, Bayelsa, has destroyed three illegal refinery sites, a wooden boat and a total of 160,000 litres of suspected stolen crude oil.
4 Mar
The Renewed Hope Ambassadors of Nigeria (RHAN) has applauded the Nigerian Navy's aggressive onslaught on crude oil theft and other maritime crimes in the Niger Delta region. The group said the Navy's operations have drastically reduced the negative trend, notably in the destruction of illegal refining sites and the arrest of sea pirates. According to a…
4 Mar
The Nigerian Navy through its newly launched Operation Delta Sanity has made a major milestone with the arrest of a syndicate of 13 crew members on board a Ghanaian owned and registered vessel known as Motor Tanker (MT) Sweet Miri on February 25.
25 Feb
The Nigerian Navy, Forward Operation Base, Ibaka, in Akwa Ibom has arrested two suspects and impounded their wooden boat laden with 5,100 litres of petrol.
24 Feb
The Minister of State for Defence, Bello Muhammad Matawalle, has applauded the recent interception of 15,540 litres of petrol stored along Badagry Creek in Lagos by the Nigerian Navy. Matawalle also commended the Navy for defending the nation's territorial waters. The minister was speaking shortly after gracing the Nigerian Navy Regimental Dinner Night, at the…
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