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The Spanish Navy Ship (SNS), MV VIGIA, on Wednesday paid a courtesy visit to the Western Naval Command of the Nigerian Navy in Lagos. | Pulse Nigeria

In what was a multi-faceted deployment of assets of the Eastern and Central Naval Commands of the Nigerian Navy, both at sea and in the backwaters, Chiemelie Ezeobi reports that the recently held Exercise Beni Kekere was aimed at demonstrating their operational capability in securing the nation’s maritime domain, as well as the Gulf of Guinea waters For the Eastern Naval Command (ENC) and Central Naval Command (CNC), Exercise Beni Kekere was an opportunity to deploy ships, helicopters and men for a joint sea and shore exercise targeted at demonstrating their operational capability in secur...

Chiemelie Ezeobi reports that the Nigerian Navy Special Boat Services recently collaborated with the United States Army Special Forces in a five-week joint combined exchange training geared towards a broad range of land-based skills and tactics targeted at preparing and equipping them with all the skills for today’s dynamic battle space Navy Seals are trained to be able to operate in all environments, sea, and air and land, even though they are part of the naval force. For the Nigerian Navy (NN), its navy seals are special forces known as the Special Boat Services (SBS), and they are traine...

A study by Declassified, covering 203 articles written by Deborah Haynes, Alistair Bunkall and Dominic Waghorn, has found that Sky routinely amplifies the views of the UK government in its military and foreign policies and provides almost no serious attempts to independently scrutinise or criticise them. The research, which has analysed all articles by the three correspondents that could be found from November 2019 to November 2020, found that the primary focus of Sky’s critical reporting has overwhelmingly been countries presented by British officials as enemies of the UK – Russia, Chin...

By Chiemelie Ezeobi Disaster was averted at the Tarkwa Bay area of Lagos after naval operatives attached to the newly established Forward Operations Base (FOB) rescued all 12 passengers of a capsized commercial boat. The outboard-engine boat had capsized when a heavy wave by another transiting boat filled its flanks. Fortunately, operatives of the Nigerian Navy Ship BEECROFT attached to the FOB as well as personnel of the navy’s Special Boat Services (SBS), who were on routine patrol, chanced on them and rescued the passengers. Confirming the rescue, the Information Officer, Western Naval C...