The Federal Government has celebrated five months of zero attack by pirates and sea robbers on the nation’s waterways.
Delivering a keynote address during the 2022 World Hydrography Day celebration in Lagos, the Honourable Minister of State for Transportation, Senator Gbemisola Saraki, said that the nation is in a celebration mood because she has been able to combat piracy and crimes at sea within the Gulf of Guinea (GoG) and her territorial waters.
According to him, the feat is duly recognised by the International Maritime Bureau (IMB), and so he congratulated the Federal Government, the Federal Ministry of Transportation, the Nigerian Navy and the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA).
In his Goodwill Message, the Director-General of NIMASA, Dr Bashir Jamoh, explained that the importance of hydrography to the maritime industry cannot be overemphasized and that platforms like these can raise public awareness about hydrography’s global benefits to navigational safety, ocean conservation and environmental preservation.
