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Share Twelve occupants of a passenger boat that capsized in the Tarkwa Bay area of Lagos were on Sunday rescued by men of the Nigerian Navy. The information officer of the Western Naval Command of the Nigerian Navy Thomas Otuji confirmed the rescue in a press statement he signed and made available to journalists on Monday. The Navy spokesperson said “men of Nigerian Navy Ship BEECROFT attached to the newly established Forward Operations Base TARKWA BAY and Nigerian Navy Boat Service (SBS) personnel averted what could have been a Black Sunday for passengers of an Outboard Engines Boat along ...

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...

All wars are different. All wars are the same. The equipment changes to be sure. The Roman Legionnaire was armed with a gladius and pilum, the Revolutionary War patriot carried his musket, the World War II grunt had an M1 rifle or BAR, while today’s soldier may be issued a M240 machine gun. One thing is the same, however, the brunt of the battle is borne by the infantry, the Queen of Battle. That soldier may have been a professional, such as the later Roman Legion. He may have been a draftee, such as the medieval fyrd or the bulk of the American Army during the Vietnam war era, or he may...