The Police command in Akwa Ibom has confirmed the Kidnapping of a naval rating and seven others in Ibaka Local Government Area of the state. The Police Public Relations Officer, ASP Timfon John, confirmed the abduction in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Tuesday...
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The Nigerian Navy has rescued eight female victims of human trafficking between Tuesday and Saturday. It has also rescued two drowning fishermen and apprehended eight male stowaways on the Nigerian water. This is contained in a statement by the Director of Information, Navy, Commodore Aiwuyor Adams-Aliu, on Tuesday...
The Nigerian Navy Ship (NNS) Delta has uncovered two illegal refining sites in Warri South Local Government Area of Delta. Navy Commander Patrick Ali, the Base Operations Officer (BOO), representing Commodore Abba Muhsin, Commander, NNS Delta, on Monday led naval personnel to the sites in the coastal communities...
The Commander, Nigeria Navy Ship (NNS) Victory, Commodore Rotimi Oderemi, has said that the entire Warri Channel, adjoining creeks and islands are now under 24 hours naval surveillance. Oderemi said this in Calabar when the leadership and members of the Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ), Cross River...
The Nigerian Navy Forward Operating Base (FOB) FORMOSO in Brass, Bayelsa, has destroyed 10 illegal refinery sites in Nembe Local Government Area of Bayelsa. The FOB also destroyed a speedboat and seized 100,000 litres of suspected stolen crude oil. The Commanding Officer, FOB FORMOSO, Capt. Ifeanyichukwu...
The Nigerian Navy Ship (NNS) BEECROFT has intercepted 72 bags of cannabis sativa in Elegushi area of Lekki, Lagos State. The Commander, NNS BEECROFT, Commodore Rafiu Oladejo ,in a statement signed on Tuesday by the base information officer, Lt. Hussaini Ibrahim, said the contrabands were intercepted on June...
The Nigerian Navy, NNS Jubilee in Ikot Abasi Local Government Area, Akwa Ibom, has arrested an unnamed vessel and nine persons over alleged threat to maritime safety in the state. The Commander, Commodore Martins Fakrogha, confirmed the arrest to newsmen at Helms Jetty in Ikot Abasi, Akwa Ibom...
The Forward Operating Base (FOB) of the Nigerian Navy, Badagry, Lagos State, on Thursday, handed over four sacks of cannabis sativa to the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA), in Badagry. Lt.-Cdr. Bitus Zoaka, the Base Operations Officer, FOB, representing the Commanding Officer FOB, Navy Captain Augustus Amakiri,...
Vice President Kashim Shettima has called for the maximisation of Africa’s blue economy projected to hit $405 billion by 2030. Shettima made the call during the 2024 International Maritime Conference, Reginal Maritime Exercise and Maritime Exhibition, among other activities held at Naval Dockyard, Victoria Island, Lagos, on...
Nigerian Navy is billed to take several ships, helicopters and other platforms into its inventory before the end of the year, Chief of Naval Staff (CNS), Vice Adm. Emmanuel Ogalla, has said. He made this known at the Interdenominational Church Service in commemoration of the 68th Anniversary Celebration,...
The Nigerian Navy, Forward Operating Base (FOB) FORMOSO, Baylesa, has arrested two motor vessels and 12 crew members over alleged violation of maritime laws. The Commanding Officer, Capt. Murtala Rogo, disclosed this on Saturday while handing over the vessels and suspects to the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety...
The Nigerian Navy has impounded three barges laden with suspected stolen crude oil and refined Automotive Gas Oil (AGO) ,arresting seven, at Tunu Community Creek, in Ekeremor Local Government Area of Bayelsa. The Commander, Nigerian Navy Ship (NNS) SOROH, Commodore Nanmar Lakan told the News Agency of Nigeria...
The Nigerian Navy, Forward Operating Base (FOB), Ibaka, says it has arrested two suspected oil thieves carrying 3,500 litres of petrol in a wooden boat en route Cameroon. The Commanding Officer, Capt. Uche Aneke, disclosed this while handing over the suspects and items to Nigerian Security and Civil...
Contrary to media reports that a vessel, MT Prestigious, v allegedly used for crude oil theft in the Niger Delta, which operatives of the Nigerian Navy recently took into custody, has not been released, PRNigeria has gathered. A group named the Niger Delta Renaissance Network had accused the...
Minister of State for Defence, Dr Bello Matawalle has said the Nigeria Navy recruited 1,486 personnel to boost the manpower needed for effective internal security operations in the Niger Delta. Matawalle said this during the Passing Out Parade (POP) of Nigerian Navy’s Batch 35 Trainees at the Nigeria...
By EZEKIEL OBI, Abuja – The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has begun investigation of 11 suspected oil thieves and one vessel, MT SAISNIL II, arrested by the Nigerian Navy. The EFCC spokesman, Mr Dele Oyewole, confirmed this on Saturday in a statement. Oyewole said that the suspects...
The Nigerian Navy has taken delivery of a state-of-technology Offshore Survey Vessel, OSV 115, designed and built by a French shipbuilding company, OCEA SA. It is a 35m-long vessel built for scientific hydro-graphic and oceanographic missions and equipped with progressive technology, including medium or shallow water multi-beam echo...
Nigerian Navy has decried the magnitude of economic loss due to acts of illegal oil bunkering and vandalism of oil pipelines along the riverine communities of Nigeria. The Commander, Nigerian Navy Ship (NNS) SOROH, Commodore Nanmar Lakan, cried out at Okolomade Community of Abua Odual Local Government Area...
By PAUL ADAJI, Abuja – The Nigerian Navy has expressed concern over the upsurge in cases of stowaways in Nigerian waters. Director of Information at the Naval headquarters, Commodore A. Adams-Aliu, who made this known in a statement, noted that between August 2023 and April 2024 alone, the Nigerian...
The Nigerian Navy Ship SOROH (NNS) says it has arrested two persons and seized one tank truck over alleged crude oil theft in Bayelsa. The Commander, Commodore Sunday Lakan, made the disclosure while parading the suspects at NNS SOROH base on Thursday. He said that a Mazda vehicle...