Nigerian Navy has intensified its crackdown on oil theft, dismantling six illegal refining sites in the Obodo Omadino community of Warri South Local Government Area, Delta State. This was disclosed in a statement issued on Sunday in Warri by Navy Captain Ikenna Okoloagu, Commanding Officer of Forward Operating Base...
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Nigerian Navy’s Special Forces have deactivated at least 71 illegal refinery sites and confiscated over 411,000 litres of stolen crude oil across the Niger Delta in July 2025. This was disclosed in a monthly operational update issued on Friday by the Director of Naval Information, Commodore Ayiwuyor Adams-Aliu The...
Nigerian Navy Ship (NNS) BEECROFT transferred 45 bags of suspected Indian Hemp, weighing 1,575 kilograms, to the Nigerian Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) on Thursday at Apapa, Lagos. Commodore Paul Nimmyel, represented by the base’s Executive Officer, Capt. Idongesit Udoessien, said the seizure occurred near Ilesha Beach as part...
Nigerian Navy has arrested no fewer than 215 suspected oil thieves and 26 vessels in 2024. It also said that 468 Illegal Refinery Sites were deactivated within the period under the auspices of Operation Delta Sanity. The Chief of Policy and Plans (Navy), Rear Adm. Ibrahim Dewu, made this...
The Forward Operating Base (FOB) Escravos of the Nigerian Navy has deactivated six illegal refining sites at Obodo Omadina Community, Warri South Local Government Area of Delta. Navy Capt Ikenna Okoloagu, the Commanding Officer, FOB Escravos, disclosed this to newsmen on Monday in Warri. Okoloagu said that the illegal...
The Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC), in collaboration with the Nigerian Army and Navy, has uncovered an illegal artisanal refinery and illegal petrol station in Anambra . The illicit facility was discovered at Y-Junction, Nkwelle Ezunaka, in Oyi Local Government Area of Anambra. NSCDC State Commandant, Mr...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – Borno State Governor, Babagana Umara Zulum, held a crucial closed-door meeting with Nigeria’s top military leadership in Abuja on Thursday. The meeting, which was held separately behind closed doors with the Chief of Army Staff, Lieutenant General Olufemi Olatubosun Oluyede, the Chief of Naval...
Anambra State Police Command and the Joint Security Task Force (JTF), have dislodged a criminal Camp at Ogbunka in Orumba South Local Government Area of Anambra. The command’s Public Relations Officer, SP Tochukwu Ikenga, confirmed this in a statement on Saturday in Onitsha. Ikenga said the Police-led Joint Security...
Special Adviser on Domestic Affairs to the Managing Director of Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC), Mr Akari Loveday, has been rescued from his abductors by the Nigerian Army troops. Loveday was rescued on Sunday by troops of the Nigerian Army, in collaboration with the Nigerian Navy, the Department of...
Ten elite Nigerian Navy warships have been deployed to take part in a special sea exercise aimed at tackling oil theft and other maritime crimes in the nation’s territorial waters. The Flag Officer Commanding Eastern Naval Command, disclosed this to journalists during the flag-off of Exercise ‘Sea Guard 2024’...
The Chief of Naval Staff (CNS), Vice Admiral Emmanuel Ogalla says there has been no record of piracy on Nigerian territorial waters in the last two years. Ogalla made the disclosure on Wednesday in Calabar while addressing participants of Naval Warfare Course 8, on his vision and mission...
The Commander, Nigerian Navy Ship (NNS) Jubilee, Commodore Martins Fakrogha, has warned sea pirates and other criminals to steer clear of its territorial waters in Ikot Abasi, Akwa Ibom. Fakrogha, who gave the warning in an interview with newsmen in Ikot Abasi on Monday, said that that the...
By EMMANUEL KUJE, Abuja – The Nigerian Navy (NN) has said its teams operating under Operation Delta Sanity, have nabbed a Ghanian Vessel, with 13 crew members for alleged crude oil theft. The Naval spokesman, Rear Adm. Adedotun Ayo-Vaughan, who disclosed this in a statement on Monday, said the...
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. The operation, a fallout of the recently launched Nigerian Navy Operation DELTA SANITY, is aimed at combating illegal oil...
The Flag Officer Commanding (FOC) Western Naval Command, Rear Adm. Mohammed Hassan, on Saturday, confirmed the arrest of 13 suspected crude oil thieves on board Motor Tanker (MT) Sweet Miri off the coast of Nigerian waters. Hassan told newsmen aboard the vessel that the motor tanker was...
By EZEKIEL OBI, Abuja – Nigeria Navy on Wednesday said its troops of Operation Delta Sanity have deactivated 41 illegal refining sites and impounded stolen crude oil and other products worth N8.6 billion in three weeks. The Director of Naval Information, Rear Adm. Adedotun Ayo-Vaughan, made this known in...
The House of Representatives Special Committee on Crude Oil Theft and Losses has appealed to the Nigerian Navy to assist it with relevant information to unravel those behind the perennial stealing of the country’s crude oil. Rep. Alhassan Ado Doguwa, the Chairman of the Committee, said in a...
)The Nigerian Navy School of Armament Technology (NNSAT), Kachia Local Government Area, Kaduna State said it had intercepted three trailers loaded with vandalised railway tracks . The NNSAT Commandant, Commodore Henry Aruomaren, made this known at a news briefing in Kachia on Wednesday. The News Agency of Nigeria...
By EMMANUEL KUJE, Abuja – The Nigerian Navy (NN) says the troops of Operation Delta Sanity have intercepted 4,036.7 barrels of crude oil and 270,600 litres of illegally refined AGO, valued N1.05 billion from oil thieves in one week. Naval spokesman, Rear Adm. Adedotun Ayo-Vaughan, made this known in...
A former Commandant of the Navy War College, Rear Admiral Murtala Bashir (rtd.), has said the Nigerian Navy’s onslaught against oil thieves saved the nation 91,725.26 barrels of crude in 2023. Bashir made the disclosure in a paper he presented at the inauguration of the Naval Warfare Course...