archiveOperation Water Guard

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...

Multiple Illegal depots have been uncovered by men of the Nigerian Navy under Operation WATER GUARD which have successfully dismantled them where thousands of Jerricans both empty and filled with Premium Motor Spirit (PMS) were stockpiled. Disclosing the discovery in Lagos on Thursday, the Flag Officer Commanding (FOC), Western Naval Command, Apapa, Rear Admiral Mustapha Bala Hassan said that in the afternoon of 15th November, 2023,  the detection of the illegal depots were uncovered. He further revealed that they were located in the Iyaafin and Itsalu Communities within the Badagry...

In a desperate move to combat illegal activities in the maritime domain and bring the activities of criminal gangs to their knees, a Subset of Operation WATER GUARD on Friday dealt a significant blow on maritime criminals as they halted their bid to cart away siphoned 500 jerrycans, each containing 50 litres of suspected Premium Motor Spirit (PMS) in the Badagry area of Lagos state. According to a statement from the NNS Beecroft, Apapa on Friday night, noted that the Nigerian Navy, under the leadership of Vice Admiral EI Ogalla,...