Nigerian Navy Special Boat Service, SBS, has been rated high, for successfully rescuing a French warship at the ongoing military exercise, “Obangame Express’’.
Rear Adm. James Oluwole gave the ratings on-board Nigeria Navy Ship, NNS, Okpabana in the military exercise currently ongoing in the Gulf of Guinea on today.
According to reports, Nigeria, alongside 29 other navies from Africa, Europe, South America and the U.S are participating in the special military exercise.
Oluwole, who led Nigeria’s troops to the exercise, said that SBS participated in search and rescue, search and seizure and anti-drug operations among others within the nation’s territorial waters.
He said that sea piracy; illegal bunkering among other illicit activities on the maritime environment had become a global problem that needed international collaboration and cooperation to address.
According to him, Nigerian warships are currently stationed alongside offshore rigs and merchant ships 24 hours daily throughout the year.
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