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...NAVAL SPOKESPERSON, CDRE AYO-VAUGHAN, NOW A "TWO-STAR GENERAL" Commodore Adedotun Ayo-Vaughan (now a Rear Admiral) The Navy board has approved the promotion of 30 Commodores to Rear Admirals (a Two-Star General) in the Nigerian Navy, just as 28 Captains have been elevated to Commodores (One-star General) The announcement was contained in a statement signed by the Director of Information (DINFO), Commodore Adedotun Ayo-Vaughan (now a Rear Admiral) in Abuja on Thursday, December 21, 2023. According to the Director of Information, those promoted to the rank of Rear Admiral include; Commodores...

The Chief of the Naval Staff (CNS), Vice Admiral Emmanuel Ikechukwu Ogalla presenting the award certificate for Outstanding Command and Leadership to the Commander, Nigerian Navy Ship Beecroft, Apapa, Commodore Kolawole Olumide Oguntuga yesterday. Congratulations...

A renewed and reinvigorated efforts of the Nigerian Navy to ensure that the maritime sector doesn't serve as a conduit pipe for smuggling illicit drugs and perpetration of illegalities, a foreigner has been nabbed by Operation Water Guard personnel in Lagos.  Operating under the Nigerian Navy Ship BEECROFT’s Patrol Team, under the strategic leadership of the Commander Nigerian Navy Ship BEECROFT and Maritime Component Commander, Operation AWATSE, Commodore Kolawole Olumide Oguntuga, successfully intercepted a huge wooden boat, laden with over 120 bags of narcotics suspected to be Cannabis Sativa. The...

The Commander Nigerian Navy Ship BEECROFT and Maritime Component Commander of Operation AWATSE, Commodore Kolawole Olumide Oguntuga has disclosed the interception of a large wooden boat laden with over 150 bags of foreign parboiled rice around Lagos Anchorage. The interception which took place in the early hours of 25th November 2023 was made possible with the help of The Maritime Domain Awareness Facility the Falcon eye Alignment, and the Base Quick Response Team under ongoing Operation WATER GUARD. Following established protocols, the bags of rice were transported to the Nigerian...

...ANOTHER FIBRE BOAT LADEN AGO AT LIVERPOOL The Quick Response Team of the Nigerian Navy Ship Beecroft has successfully Intercepted 127 bags of substances suspected to be cannabis sativa at Eleko Beach, Lekki, and Badagry and a large blue fibre boat containing Automotive Gas Oil (AGO), stored in hundreds of drums and jerricans in the vicinity of Liverpool on Friday 17, November  2023. No arrest was made in both operations as the criminals, upon sighting the team, abandoned the narcotics, boat and fled. Disclosing the arrest on Saturday, the Commander,...

In its intensified efforts at protecting critical national infrastructure, the NNS BEECROFT patrol team, in collaboration with the Maritime Component of Operation AWATSE, have discovered two punctured points along the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPCL) pipeline. The points served as a conduit pipe by saboteurs where they connect hoses and pumping machines to siphon huge quantities of Premium Motor Spirit (PMS), conveyed along the pipeline, thereby posing a significant threat to the nation's products availability as well as the economic well-being of Nigerians.  This was disclosed by the Base...

Dearsan Shipyard has launched the first of two 76-metre-long offshore patrol vessels (OPVs) for the Nigerian Navy in Turkey. The event was held on the 26th of October at the Dearsan Shipyard in Tuzla. In attendance was the Chief of the Naval Staff, Vice Admiral Emmanuel Ikechukwu Ogalla, Dearsan CEO Murat Gordi, Vice President of the Turkish Defence Industry Agency, Gokhan Ucar, and Istanbul Shipyard Commander, Rear Admiral Recep Erdinc Yetkin. The keel of the first patrol vessel (P203) was laid on 16 September 2022 after the contract for the...

In another sting operation borne out of exceptional vigilance, the Nigerian Navy Ship BEECROFT patrol team intercepted 11 stowaways onboard GUANGZHOU HIGHWAY PANAMA, which was en route to Ghana.   According to the Base Information Officer (BINFO), Lt Happiness Collins said in a statement on Thursday that they were apprehended while on routine patrol on Tuesday, October 17, 2023, at about 7 p.m. at obscured spaces of the stern gate onboard the ship. It was learnt that the Western Regional Control Center (WRCC) was immediately informed and prompted the vessel to...

Forward Operations Base (FOB) of the Nigerian Navy has arrested four oil thieves suspected to be staff of a security company saddled with the responsibility of protecting pipeline, for attempted oil theft on the waterways near Itolu Community, Lekki-Lagos. It was learnt that men of the force had responded to a distress call, in the early hours of 29th August 2023, when the local youths reported gunshots in the vicinity of the community.  The arrested suspects were identified as Asonja Godday, 28, Obajimi Oluwaseyifunmi, 38, Awoowo Aribo, 35, and Oluwadaisi...