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International Maritime Bureau(IMB) has just issued its Piracy Report for Jan—June 2022

58 actual & attempted Piracy & Armed-Robbery-Against-Ships incidents WORLDWIDE in H1 2022
—NONE in Nigeria’s coastal waters

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31 reported H1 2018
21 in 2019
14 in 2020
4 in 2021
ZERO in 2022
Independence Day Speech by President Buhari on October 1, 2021:
statehouse.gov.ng/news/independe…
“The Falcon Eye System is a state-of-the-art surveillance system that incorporates various sensors located along the nation’s enormous coastline,such as radars, long-range electro-optic systems,automatic identification system receivers, weather stations…” yemiosinbajo.ng/commissioning-…
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.@NigeriaGov’s #DeepBlue project launching formally this month:

16 armoured vehicles for coastal patrol

2 Special Mission Aircraft for surveillance

3 Special Mission Helicopters for search&rescue

4 Unmanned Aerial Vehicles

2 Special Mission Vessels

17 Fast Interceptor Boats ImageImageImageImage
Also included in the #DeepBlue security project:

A 24/7 Command, Control, Communication, Computer, and Intelligence Centre (c4i) in Lagos, for intelligence gathering and data collection.

And ~600 specially-trained personnel — the Maritime Security Unit.
#DeepBlue will also secure the Secure Anchorage Areas (SAAs), which used to be under a controversial private security arrangement that cost users thousands of dollars per day in fees — and which President @MBuhari canceled earlier this year. google.com/amp/s/channel1…
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Minister of Transportation @ChibuikeAmaechi has just been a guest of @seunokin on Channels. Lots of interesting things said about rail and ports. Let me share the ones I can remember

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The $1.9bn Kano-Katsina-Maradi Line which will be flagged off this week (groundbreaking) by PMB is one of Nigeria’s strategic attempts to position itself to take advantage of Niger’s landlocked status. The line will connect from Kano to the Apapa Port in Lagos.
According to him, the financing being negotiated will come mostly from Europe.

Also, he says Maradi, the terminus of the line, is only 20km from the Nigerian border. Plan is for Maradi to have an Inland Port Complex that will process goods coming from or going to Apapa Port.
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