Secured Anchorage: Concerned stakeholders fault NPA’s fresh bid to resuscitate settled matters

The recent Marine Notice issued by the management of the Nigerian Port Authority (NPA) to ship masters, ship owners, and other operators whose vessels currently enjoy some level of security at the designated anchorage, seems to be a signal to a fresh battle over the controversy around the Secured Anchorage Area, SAA.

The latest move comes despite the intervention by the National Assembly on an issue, which had almost torn apart frontline operators at the Lagos Anchorage District, Ocean Marine Solution Limited, OMSL, and the management of NPA under the leadership of Hadiza Bala Usman, the Managing Director.

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Source: guardian.ng

Nigeria charges 10 pirates for attacking Chinese vessel

The Nigerian government on Monday arraigned 10 suspected pirates in a federal high court in Lagos, the nation’s economic hub for allegedly hijacking a Chinese fishing vessel.

The vessel, FV Hai Lu Feng II, is said to belong to the Haina Fishing Company. The government charged the suspects with three counts on piracy.

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Source: africa.cgtn.com

PH, Japan Coast Guard units conduct anti-piracy exercise

By Betheena Kae Unite

The Philippine Coast Guard (PCG) and its Japanese counterparts recently conducted a simulation exercise between Jolo Island and Tawi-Tawi to enhance the country’s response against piracy attacks and armed robbery on ships.

PCG, Japan Coast Guard (JCG) and Regional Cooperation Agreement on Combating Piracy and Armed Robbery against Ships in Asia-Information Sharing Center (ReCAAP-ISC) conducted the communications and surveillance exercise simulating a vessel under piracy attack last Saturday.

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Source: mb.com.ph

Court Jails Captain, Vessel In Lagos

Justice L.N. Oweibo of Federal High Court, Ikoyi, Lagos, on Thursday, July 9, 2020 convicted and sentenced Captain Peter Okomi to three years imprisonment. Also convicted and sentenced was his company, Moyitok Nigeria Ltd and a vessel, M.V. Agbeke, for illegal dealing in petroleum products.

The convicts were prosecuted by the Lagos Zonal Office of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on three-count charges to which they pleaded guilty, following their arrest by officers of the Nigerian Navy and subsequent hand over to the EFCC for investigation and prosecution.

One of the charges read: “M.V. Agbeke, Moyitok Nigeria Limited, and Peter Okomi, on the 21st day of January, 2020, in Lagos, within the jurisdiction of this honourable court, without appropriate license, dealt in 100 metric tonnes of Automative Gas Oil (AGO) and thereby committed an offence contrary to Section 3 (6) of the Miscellaneous Offence Act, Cap. M17, Laws of the Federation of Nigeria and punishable under Section 1 (17) of the same Act.”

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Source: prnigeria.com

Yemen Fishermen Ensnared in Diplomatic Spat

Mohammed Sayers

Disagreements over Red Sea islands and fishing rights once thought to have been settled with Eritrea flare anew

Nadeem Al-Rabas, 26, embarked on March 17 with a group of fellow Yemeni fishermen to work the country’s territorial waters, only to be arrested by the Eritrean coast guard. It was his second arrest at the hands of Eritrean authorities.

Rabas, who tells The Media Line he knows nothing other than fishing, says his mother suffered a heart attack when he was first arrested, in August 2017, by Eritrean military forces for what they said was a violation of Eritrean fishing laws.

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Source: themedialine.org

‘Arresting vessels at secured anchorage inimical to national security’

By Abdullateef Aliyu and Eugene Agha

The Nigerian Ports Authority has been asked to tread with caution in its engagement with the Ocean Marine Solution Limited (OMSL), the company supporting the Nigerian Navy to provide security at the Secure Anchorage Area (SAA) of the Lagos delineation of the nation’s waters.

He was reacting to the warning reportedly issued by the NPA to vessels against anchoring at the Secured Anchorage Area. The national chairman of New Nigeria Collective, Adeola Adewunmi, gave the caution in a statement on Thursday.

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Source: dailytrust.com.ng

Philippine police checking reports of Abu Sayyaf leader’s death

Philippine police are investigating whether one of the senior leaders of extremist group Abu Sayyaf has been killed.

Hatib Hajan Sawadjaan, who heads a faction of the group affiliated with Daesh, may have died from gunshot injuries suffered during clashes with government troops on the island province of Sulu, according to Filipino media.

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Source: arabnews.com

Italian Marines ‘entitled To Immunity’ In India Shooting: Tribunal

Sumaira FH

The Hague, (APP – UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News – 2nd Jul, 2020 ) :Two Italian marines accused of killing two Indian fishermen in 2012 were entitled to immunity from prosecution, a tribunal ruled Thursday in a case that poisoned ties between the two countries.

The Permanent Court of Arbitration (PCA) in The Hague said it had decided by three votes to two “that the Marines are entitled to immunity in relation to the acts that they committed during the incident”.

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Source: urdupoint.com

Offshore Nigeria FPSO under attack from pirates

A group of unknown armed men have reportedly attacked the FPSO Sendje Berge, operating at the Okwori field offshore Nigeria.

LONDON – A group of unknown armed men have reportedly attacked the FPSO Sendje Berge, operating at the Okwori field offshore Nigeria.

According to maritime intelligence service Dryad Global, up to 11 personnel may have been kidnapped from the vessel.

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Source: offshore-mag.com

Pirates blow up Addax facility, abducts 10 workers

By Godwin Oritse

Pirates, yesterday, attacked Addax off-shore facility, operators of the OML 126, abducted 10 of its workers to an unknown location.

Confirming the development, Mr Emmanual Maiguwa, General Secretary, Maritime Security Providers Association of Nigeria, MASPAN, said he could not say much on the matter because details were still sketchy.

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Source: vanguardngr.com