By Emma Una – Calabar Nigerian Navy Ship, NNS, Victory has impounded bags of foreign parboiled rice illegally imported into the country through the Calabar Water Channel. Rear Admiral Vincent Okeke, the Commander NNS Victory who paraded six suspects and the bags of rice at the naval base warehouse said the street value of the […]

ABUJA- THE Chief of the Naval Staff,Vice Admiral Ibok-Ete Ekwe Ibas,has said the Nigerian Navy will acquire a total of 56 assorted platforms in 2020 to boost its maritime security obligations.

The Nigerian Navy School of Armament Technology has graduated 197 personnel trained as armourers and fire control officers. The Commandant of the School, Rear Admiral Tanko Pani, said on Friday in Kachia, Kaduna State, during the graduation of Fire Control and Quarter Armourers of batches 13,16 and 17. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) report […]

A British veteran forced from the navy because of his sexuality is being offered his medals back and an apology from the Ministry of Defence (MOD) over his treatment. Joe Ousalice, 68, says he was ‘made to feel disgusting’ for who he was after a court-martial found him guilty of ‘conduct prejudicial to good order […]

An aviation student from Saudi Arabia opened fire in a United States classroom at the Naval Air Station Pensacola on Friday morning, killing three people in an attack the Saudi government quickly condemned and that U.S. officials were investigating for possible links to terrorism. The assault, which ended when a sheriff’s deputy killed the attacker, […]

In the wake of the recent attack on a tanker vessel named, ‘Nave Constellation’, the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency, NIMASA, has said that the Agency is working in collaboration with the Nigerian Navy, NN, to ensure the release of the abducted seafarers as well as securing the lives of the remaining crew onboard.

By Emma Una Rear Admiral David Adeniran,  the  Flag Officer Commanding, FOC,  Eastern Naval Command has warned naval officers and ratings on the consequences of engaging in hate speech, cybercrime, drug abuse and rumour-mongering saying anyone who indulges in such would be made to face the law. Speaking in Calabar on Friday during the 2019 […]

By Joseph Erunke – Abuja The Chief of the Naval Staff, CNS, Vice Admiral Ibok-Ete Ibas, has directed naval commands to ensure that recently arrested vessels are processed and handed over to appropriate prosecuting agencies not later than December 15, 2019. Ibas, according to the Director of Information, Naval Headquarters, Commodore Suleman Dahun, gave the […]

By Emma Una Vandals who are stealing and illegally refining petroleum products in the creeks are bent on destroying the nation’s economy in spite of continued arrests of perpetrators and impounding of such products. Commodore Vincent Okeke, Commander Nigerian Navy Ship, NNS, Victory who stated this in Calabar while parading thirteen suspects arrested with five […]

Mr Samson Raphael, an Immigration officer, has lauded the Nigerian Navy for rescuing him and three of his colleagues from kidnappers in Rivers. Raphael, a Senior Immigration Inspector from the Rivers Marine Command, Nigerian Immigration Service (NIS) in Onne, Rivers, was abducted alongside three others by suspected militants on Tuesday. ALSO READ: I was swindled many […]

The Nigerian Navy operatives attached to the Forward Operating Base (FOB), on Thursday arrested five suspected pipeline vandals with 136 jerry cans laden with Premium Motor Spirit (PMS).

By Emma Una – Calabar The Nigerian Navy has warned petroleum products, thieves, smugglers and vandals to stay away from the country’s waterways as any of them caught carrying out illegal activity would be made to face the wrath of the law. Hading the warning at the weekend in Calabar, Commodore Vincent Okeke Commander NNS […]

By Emma Una Nigerian Navy Ship, Victory based in Calabar on Thursday paraded eight petroleum products vandals with eighty-one drums of petroleum products PMS laden in three wooden boats heading to Cameron. Commodore Vincent Okeke, Commander NNS Victory who paraded the seven vandals handed them over to Nigerian Security and Civil Defence Corps for further […]

 The Nigerian Navy, Forward Operating Base (FOB) Ibaka, Mbo Local Government Area in Akwa Ibom has nabbed four suspected smugglers in connection with the smuggling of 220 bags of 50kg rice.

By Egufe Yafugborhi Nigerian Navy has acquired 250 boats several, several Offshore Patrol Vessels and Seaward Defence Boats in sustained fortification of its fleet to tackle oil theft and other maritime crimes in the Niger Delta.   Chief of Defence Staff, Gen Gabriel Olonisakin, revealed this Saturday in Onne Rivers state as Review Officer at […]