Maritime security: Navy boasts of operational capability to combat crimes

on December 23, 2020

By Evelyn Usman

The Nigerian Navy has boasted of its operational capability and combat readiness of its fleet to address maritime illegalities within the nation’s territorial water and its Gulf of Guinea’s corridor.

This assertion was made at the end of the 2020 Chief of the Naval Staff annual sea Inspection codenamed Exercise Still Water, by the Naval Chief, Vice Admiral Ibok-Ete Ibass, at the Western Naval Command, Apapa, Lagos.

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Source: vanguardngr.com

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