Nigerian Government and Industry Joint Working Group (NIWG) Statement on Maritime Security Collaboration
The Joint Working Group (JWG) comprising the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA), the Ministry of Transport, Nigerian Navy, Nigeria Ports Authority, Marine Police Interpol, the oil industry (represented by OCIMF) and shipping industry (represented by ICS, BIMCO, INTERCARGO,…
Petroleum Tankers Drivers’ halt products loading over rift with Navy
Indications emerged Tuesday that contrary to the claims of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) that there are enough petroleum products to go round in case the National Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers (NUPENG) goes on planned strike,…
Navy’s new traffic management plan relocates traffic to Mile 2, Badagry Expressway
…NPA bars port access for empty containers Though the new measures put in place by the Nigerian Navy to ease the perennial gridlock within all the entry routes to Apapa Ports complex, Lagos, seem to be working, it has succeeded…
Navy’s absence stalls Reps probe of $195m waterways security to Israeli firm
Absence of uninvited naval chiefs to the public hearing on the ceding of the Nigeria’s waterways security to an Israeli firm on Thursday, forced the House of Representatives Committee on Public petitions probing the planned $195m contract to adjourn seating….
Navy complements Customs efforts, intercepts 80 bags of smuggled rice
The Nigerian Navy has intercepted a boat carrying 80 bags of rice allegedly smuggled into the country from Benin Republic through waterways along the Badagry creeks. In a statement by the spokesperson of the Nigerian Navy Ship (NNS) BEECROFT, Elizabeth…
Confusion as Navy commissions parallel monitoring system to tame oil theft, piracy
Barely seven months after the Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA) commissioned the Command, Control, Communication & Intelligence System (CCCIS), a digital platform to drive surveillance along the over 86,000 skm of the nation’s territorial waters in Lagos, the Nigerian navy Monday…
