Half A Trillion Naira Cases We Are Supposed To Forget While Buhari Borrows Us To Death
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With over 3,000 shipwrecks littering Nigeria’s coastline, the Federal Executive Council (FEC) has approved the removal of shipwrecks from Badagry to Tincan Island waterways in order to ensure smooth navigation on Nigerian waters.
The Director-General, NIMASA, Bashir Jamoh, who disclosed this during a chat with the media in Lagos, said the removal of shipwrecks will soon commence Stakeholders and the Nigerian Navy had raised alarm over the impending dangers shipwrecks posed on the Nigerian waters.
He said: “Navigation on our waters is very dangerous now due to shipwrecks. Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA), National Inland Waterways Authority (NIWA) and Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA) have responsibilities of removing wrecks. We agreed with NPA and we have commissioned contractors to identify the wrecks and locations in order to have safe navigation. Today, (Friday), the FEC has approved the removal of wrecks from Badagry to Tincan, and the removal will c
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When Admiral Francis Akpan asked me to review his book â AN ADMIRALâs COMPASS – I did not feel suited for the task. But he persisted. Now, having read the book, I thank him for this honour. It is a peep into the fertile mind of a professional soldier; a leader, scholar, patriot, strategic and stimulating thinker. His thoughts surge like restless waves across a sea of topics, even as he sails a steady course to articulate the imperatives of Nigeriaâs maritime strategy and maritime security; and their concomitants.
Though it is not wise to judge a book by its cover, one can safely judge this book by its title. An Admiralâs Compass: Reflections on Leadership, Military Strategy and Maritime Security is informative and authoritative. It distils Admiral Akpanâs rich experience: at sea and ashore, at home and abroad, in and outside naval service, which he shared with generations of naval and military officers in lectures delivered over a period
By December, we recorded about 10 attacks – January (one), February (zero), March (one) and in April, I think we had one or so. In May, we recorded two. Before December, there used to be a time we recorded maybe almost one attack per day. If you take the average in 30 days, there may be about 30 ships attacked and maybe successfully.
Imagine now that in 30 days, you are expecting 30 attacks but you get one. We are getting things right. That’s what we are seeing now. From there, we now developed the Shield Gulf of Guinea. The Indian Ocean, where these things emanate or started from, they formed what they called “Shield” where the international community converged to fight the menace together and they succeeded and later to the Gulf of Aden, which is around Somalia. Somalia’s case has a peculiarity because Somalia was considered at that time as a failed state. For Nigeria, we have a government and it is getting somewhere because of so many reasons.
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