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The Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency, (NIMASA) says that Nigeria’s waters are now safer for navigation, as it continues to step up efforts aimed at ridding the country of criminality at sea.
The director general of the Maritime Safety Agency, Bashir Jamoh made the disclosure during an interaction with media correspondents in Lagos.
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The Director-General of the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA), Bashir Jamoh, has revealed that Nigeria’s failure to effect any arrest of pirates terrorising her waterways between 2016 and 2019 battered her image in the international community. This is even as he revealed that so far, 27 pirates have been arrested since he took over as DG NIMASA.
Addressing maritime journalists in his office in Lagos at the weekend, Dr Bashir Jamoh, explained that the agency swung into action following two letters received from the Presidency and the office of the Secretary to the Federal Government.
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Source: tribuneonlineng.com
Stresses need for establishment of Floating Stations in coastal communities
By Jeremiah Urowayino
An oil and gas surveillance group in Warri South – West Local Government Area, Delta State, Ugborodo Patriotic Observers, UPO, has warned those behind the blackmail of Ocean Marine Solutions Limited, OMS, over the company’s handling of Escravos Warri and Trans Forcados Pipelines, to stop forthwith, saying it is counterproductive for the existing peace being enjoyed in the industry.
The Ugborodo Patriotic Observers in a statement released weekend after an emergency meeting held at Ode – Ugborodo, Warri South – West Local Government Area, scored Ocean Marine Solutions Limited high in the protection of crude oil pipelines and other critical facilities.
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Aiming to rid Nigeria’s waterways of criminalities and reassure the global community that it is getting on top of the security issues in its maritime domain, the country will this week commence the prosecution of suspected pirates under the Suppression of Piracy and Other Maritime Offences Act.
The Director-General of the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency, Dr. Bashir Jamoh, disclosed this during interactions with journalists in Lagos.
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Source: theeagleonline.com.ng
According to a statement released by the United States Embassy in Cameroon, on January 21, 2020, the Cameroonian Navy plans to purchase in 2020 two 110-foot (34m) Island-class American patrol boats to greater extend its ability to patrol Cameroon’s economic exclusion zone.
Starting in January 2020, the United States began its one-year secretariat of the G7++ Friends of Gulf of Guinea Group, with Gabon serving as co-secretariat. This group coordinates the support of international partners for the maritime security standards agreed upon by West and Central African heads of state at a summit in Yaoundé in 2013.
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Source: navyrecognition.com
There have been scores of attacks in Mexican waters, taxing the country’s overstretched security forces.
MEXICO CITY — The pirates appeared out of the darkness, leaping aboard the Italian-flagged supply ship off the coast of Mexico. Weapons drawn, the eight attackers worked swiftly, taking crew members hostage while they ransacked the vessel and snatched personal belongings and equipment.
Shots were fired, according to the United States Office of Naval Intelligence, and a security video showed a pirate gesticulating wildly with a pistol before the robbers sped away with their loot.
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Source: nytimes.com
By Don Silas
The Nigerian Navy Ship Delta has discovered a newly-constructed illegal refining site around Bennett Island in Warri South LGA of Delta State.
Military spokesman, Major General John Enenche, who disclosed this in a statement on Monday, said the incident happened on June 10.
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Source: dailypost.ng
The Cameroon army said Saturday evening that its rapid intervention battalion and navy have shot dead six armed pirates off the southern Cameroonian town of Idabato.
The pirates were aboard a flying boat Friday night in the Gulf of Guinea located in the northeasternmost part of the tropical Atlantic Ocean when Cameroonian forces on patrol opened fire at them.
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Source: africa.cgtn.com
The International Maritime Organisation (IMO) has commended Nigeria’s effort to stem piracy in its waters and the Gulf of Guinea, commending the country for sending a “strong and valuable message” to the global community. IMO also commended the new Director-General of the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA, Dr. Bashir Jamoh, for his brave and dynamic approach to maritime security, in a letter addressed to him by the Secretary-General, Kitack Lim, amid recent arrests and first-time prosecution of suspected pirates under the country’s new antipiracy law.
The Suppression of Piracy and Other Maritime Offences (SPOMO) Act was signed into law in June last year by President Muhammadu Buhari. The law made Nigeria the first in West and Central Africa to have a distinct antipiracy legislation.
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Source: shipsandports.com.ng
By Sulaimon Salau
The Federal Government has promised to employ all machinery to eliminate the act of piracy in the Gulf of Guinea.
The Director-General, the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA), Bashir Jamoh, warned that individuals or organizations thinking of perpetuating any form of illegalities in the Gulf of Guinea should be ready to face the full wrath of the law with the antipiracy law in place.
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Source: guardian.ng
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