Piracy is one of the world’s oldest profession. Piracy attacks have taken place in the Gulf of Guinea more than the Horn of Africa and as such, offshore oil platforms are reliant on the Nigerian Navy to respond to piracy attacks day and night 24/7. 
These offshore oil and gas platforms are clustered in Nigeria's Exclusive Economic Zones, which extend 200 nautical miles from our coastline. This is a vast geographical area over which the Nigerian Navy is stretched fairly thin.
To monitor such a vast area the Nigeria navy relies on some of the most sophisticated land, sea and airborne maritime surveillance platforms in the world.
Ordinarily the Nigerian government waits until a crisis takes place before developing security measures, but given the critical nature of these offshore and coastal facilities to Nigeria's economy, the government is making no compromise in equiping the Navy to basically
.. protect the entire Gulf of Guinea, including allowing some private security firms with their customized vessels, like this amoured patrol boats that have such a mess with me and you're going to get hurt look about them.
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