LAGOS APRIL 29TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Personnel of the Nigerian Navy Ship (NNS) Pathfinder, on Monday, rescued over 250 persons including children following a boat mishap, involving a cargo boat, MV Precious Emmanuel, along Buguma waterways in Asari-Toru local government area of Rivers State. The commercial boat, MV Precious Emmanuel, was conveying goods worth millions of Naira from…
LAGOS APRIL 17TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Nigeria Navy, NN has assured that it will continued to employ her surveillance infrastructure to monitor shipping activities within the Nation’s maritime environment and will continue to exploit intelligence to track activities of criminals in order to maintain sanctity of the Nigerian Maritime Environment (NME). The Navy in a statement signed…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 18TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Director General (DG) of Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA), Dr Bashir Jamoh has commended Nigerian Navy for always being proactive and of arrest of a vessel MT Sea Eunice for flouting International Maritime Organisation (IMO) regulation. He assured that NIMASA is committed to inter-agency collaboration with the Nigerian Navy….
LAGOS MAY 24TH (NEWSRANGERS)-As part of her maiden voyage to Nigeria, newest Naval war Ship (NNS) ‘KADA’ made a historic stop-over at Port Gentil, Gabon on Saturday, May 21, 2022. It was gathered that this is her last Port Call before her arrival to Lagos. At Gentil, NNS KADA was received by the Deputy…
LAGOS MAY 21ST (NEWSRANGERS)-As part of scheduled port calls on her homeward voyage, Nigeria Navy Ship (NNS) KADA on Sunday, May 15, 2022 paid a port call to Luanda Port, Angola. This comes 13 days after the ship had paid a similar visit to the Port of Cape Town, South Africa. On arrival at…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 13TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Chief of the Naval Staff, Vice Admiral Awwal Zubairu Gambo has called on the House of Representatives Committee on the Nigerian Navy (NN) to continue to support the quest to reposition the Service for a more effective discharge of its constitutional responsibilities. Vice Admiral Gambo made this plea while defending the 2022…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 29TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Nigerian Navy on Tuesday disowned allegations made in parliament by one of its senior officers that soldiers from neighbouring Chad were selling their weapons for $20 or $30, contributing to unrest in northern Nigeria. The navy described the widely reported allegations, made by Commodore Jamila Abubakar Sadiq Malafa on Monday at…
LAGOS AUGUST 20TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Operatives of the Nigerian Navy Ship (NNS) Beecroft have arrested four young Nigerians desperate to flee the country illegally to Europe. The suspects were found inside the propeller compartment of a vessel, MT River Shiner by naval operatives on harbour patrol who observed suspicious movements of a wooden boat around the stern…