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(Photo by PIUS UTOMI EKPEI / AFP) The Nigerian Navy, on Monday, deployed 14 warships and two helicopters to tackle the rising cases of piracy in the Gulf of Guinea (GoG). Intelligence from the International Maritime Organisation (IMO) had indicated an increase in sea crime around the GoG. But the Chief of Naval Staff (CNS), Rear Admiral Awwal Zubairu Gambo, at a media briefing to flag off ‘Exercises Secured Waters,’ said the 14 ships and helicopters had been directed to ensure that the nati...

Piracy Surge Off West Africa Draws Maersk Call for Action By William Clowes | January 21, 2021 The world’s biggest shipping company demanded a more effective military response to surging pirate attacks and record kidnappings off the coast of West Africa. The number of attacks on vessels globally jumped 20% last year to 195, with 135 crew kidnapped, the International Maritime Bureau’s Piracy Reporting Centre said in a Jan. 13 report. The Gulf of Guinea acc...

The Gulf of Guinea encompasses a vast tract of the Atlantic Ocean that’s traversed by more than 20,000 vessels a year, making it difficult for under-resourced governments to police. Fringed by an almost 4,000-mile-long shoreline that stretches from Senegal to Angola, it serves as the main thoroughfare for crude oil exports and imports of refined fuel and other goods. Twenty-five African governments, including all those bordering on the gulf, signed the Yaoundé Code of Conduct in 2013 to...

The world's biggest shipping company demanded a more effective military response to surging pirate attacks and record kidnappings off the coast of West

The Gulf of Guinea accounted for 95% of hostages taken in 22 separate instances in 2020.

Piracy Surge Off West Africa Draws Maersk Call for Action Bloomberg 1/18/2021 William Clowes © Bloomberg The Moscow Maersk container ship on the dockside at the Port of Felixstowe Ltd. in Felixstowe, U.K., on Thursday, Nov. 19, 2020. The organization responsible for setting global environmental standards for shipping approved rules designed to curb the industrys carbon emissions, triggering criticism that its measures wont do enough to help tackle climate change. (Bloomberg...

Piracy Surge Off West Africa Draws Maersk Call for Action Bloomberg 1/18/2021 William Clowes © Bloomberg The Moscow Maersk container ship on the dockside at the Port of Felixstowe Ltd. in Felixstowe, U.K., on Thursday, Nov. 19, 2020. The organization responsible for setting global environmental standards for shipping approved rules designed to curb the industrys carbon emissions, triggering criticism that its measures wont do enough to help tackle climate change. (Bloomberg...

Vanguard News Navy builds transit accommodation for 230 Junior Ratings On Kindly Share This Story: L-R: Fleet Commander, West, Rear Admiral Vincent Okeke; Commander NNS WEY, Rear Admiral Uduak Ibanga; SGOH, FOC WEST, Rear Admiral Oladele Daji; Zonal Coordinator, Naval Officers Wives’ Association and wife of the FOC, Dr Mrs Feyisayo Daji, Rear Admiral Danjuma Moses and other senior officers of sister Service and Paramilitary. …Commissions other projects By Evelyn Usman The Nigerian Navy has...

By Chiemelie Ezeobi The Western Naval Command (WNC) recently decorated 21 newly promoted senior officers including five captains who were promoted to commodores, six commanders to captains and 10 lieutenant commanders to commanders. According to the Command Information Officer, Western Naval Command, Commander Thomas Otuji, shipping of stripes is an age-long naval tradition that is dedicated to the Royal Navy and has now been adopted in most navies of the world. In the early days of the navy, h...

Chiemelie Ezeobi and Mary Ovie write that to promote Nigeria’s bilateral relations and in furtherance to the safety of Gulf of Guinea waters, the Nigerian Navy recently held a joint exercise with its Italian counterpart On October 2020, the Italian Ambassador to Nigeria, Stefano Pontesilli, paid a courtesy visit to the Naval Headquarters in Abuja and one of the fallouts of that meeting with the Chief of the Naval Staff (CNS), Vice Admiral Ibok-Ete Ibas, was the strengthening of ties betwee...