Troops of Operation Delta Sanity have deactivated 41 illegal refining sites and impounded stolen crude oil and other products worth N8.6 billion in three weeks. The Director of Naval Information, Rear Adm. Adedotun Ayo-Vaughan, made this known in a statement on Wednesday in Abuja. Ayo-Vaughan said various Nigerian Navy platforms were deployed for the operation
Amid the incessant cases of sea piracy and kidnapping at the coastal communities in Oron, Akwa Ibom State, the President General of Oro Development Union,
The Nigerian Navy, Forward Operation Base, Ibaka, in Akwa Ibom has arrested two suspects and seized their wooden boat filled with 5,100 litres of petrol.
In his remarks, captain of the intercepted vessel, Pere-Ebiye Abraham, claimed its ownership and said he went into illegal bunkering because of hardship. | Pulse Nigeria