archiveCommodore Kolawole Olumide Oguntuga

By Okosun Dennis Nigerian Navy Ship Beecroft over the weekend, in a style resplendent of Father Christmas, hosted officers, and friends to a grand reception tagged: "Christmas Dinner." The host, Commander NNS Beecroft, Commodore Kolawole Olumide Oguntuga welcomed all the guests warmly as every guest wore a 'Merry Christmas' hat during the dinner held at the Western Naval Command, Officers' Mess, Apapa. The Special Guest of Honour was Rear Admiral JN Mamman. In his welcome remarks, the President of the Mess Committee (PMC), Captain C Akokota, while welcoming the guests...

...12 OTHERS TOO Nigerian Navy Ship Beecroft patrol team has, once again, during an operation, thwarted 14 stowaways from illegally embarking on a deadly voyage out of the country. Among those arrested in a MOTOR TANKER UOG CONSTANTINE at Lagos Roadstead on Friday, 15 December 2023, were two stowaways said to have been arrested about a month ago and handed over to the appropriate authority. According to the navy, such an act reemphasized the persistence of such illicit activities but vowed to ensure that the maritime corridor was kept safe...

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...

In a swift reaction to intelligence reports on suspicious activities of illicit narcotic dealers, the Quick Response Team of the ongoing Operation WATER GUARD was deployed, leading to the confiscation of bags suspected to be cannabis sativa concealed in a room in an uncompleted building.  According to the Commander Nigerian Navy ship BEECROFT and Maritime Component Commander, Commodore Kolawole Olumide Oguntuga, explained to journalists while briefing them at the Base that in the early hours of Tuesday, 28th November 2023, about 58 bags of Cannabis Sativa were found in 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,...