solomon111: What is the navy doing about it?
And when did Nigeria became a french colony?

Where is the nigerian navy?
BUSY ESCORTING THE MILITANT FRIENDS AND ASSOCIATE OF THE PRESIDENCY ,WITH THEIR CONSIGNMENT OF STOLEN CRUDE TO THE HIGH SEAS

1) Illegal fishing.

2) Smuggling of contraband goods (including toxic waste).

3) Crude oil theft.

4) Piracy.

5) Gun running.

http://www.ngrguardiannews.com/index.php/world-news/127666-the-multilateral-collaboration-to-save-the-gulf-of-guinea

It's a shame being a Nigerian at this time of our history......smh

Truckpusher: It's a shame being a Nigerian at this time of our history......smh

Then get out.

Truckpusher: It's a shame being a Nigerian at this time of our history......smh

someone pls call 911, mr. English has been shot

Make our navy go challenge dem, shebi dem dey show off our outdated ships hahahahahaha, jst dat french ship can defeat our entire armed forces lmao

solomon111: I think the FG gave the french authorization to ensure proper policing of the sea.
Though this is very unpalatable.
I wonder why the FG cannot fully equip the navy with what it need to effectively police the gulf of guinea.

If the french boat have an "authorization" vhy he doesn’t answer to calls asking for identification?
Why the frigate wants to be able to patrol without having to report to anyone?

Ive read this story like 9 times and I fail to see where exactly it states that the French are doing this without permission or illegally

PortHarcourtBoy: Nigeria Navy: 1..2..Romeo Alpha Charlie...This is NNS Akaso with battleship, NNS Okemini sailing towards you at 14 Nautical Miles per minute...identify yasef before we launch our ogunigwe, sorry torpedo...Over!

French Navy: Charlie Piper Romeo...This is MV Bonssour Hollande...Sorry for sailing on ur waters without permission...we are actually here to load stolen crude, sorry crude oil from Total's Amenam Kpono Platform but decided to stroll around the Soku international waters before loading...

Nigeria Navy: Roger that Chairmo...Anything for the boys?? Even if na 20 litres we go manage am...at all at all na him bad pass...

RARE ADMIRAL D. DEMU: I kofee and coming in shaf shaf in ci uwarsu.

Horus:

If the french boat have an "authorization" vhy he doesn’t answer to calls asking for identification?

True.
It dosen't add up.
Those guys should be expunged immediately.

ednut1: Make our navy go challenge dem, shebi dem dey show off our outdated ships hahahahahaha, jst dat french ship can defeat our entire armed forces lmao

moronn.

solomon111: What is the navy doing about it?
And when did Nigeria became a french colony?

What about jesus-on-earth's Husby and MEND commanders/generals?

Good People, Great Nation

naptu2: 1) Illegal fishing.

2) Smuggling of contraband goods (including toxic waste).

3) Crude oil theft.

4) Piracy.

5) Gun running.

http://www.ngrguardiannews.com/index.php/world-news/127666-the-multilateral-collaboration-to-save-the-gulf-of-guinea

I thought this was an ECOWAS-CENTRAL AFRICA exercise.
Why are the french involved?

one9jeria: [size=25pt]legalization of marijuana. cnn report.[/size] [size=22pt]suicide bomber blows 29 at funeral[/size] [size=20pt]Nelson Mandela breathing normally[/size] [size=18pt]military arrests doctor, lawyer over link with boko haram[/size][size=25pt]boko haram still have up to 6,000 fighters[/size] [size=28pt]man jumps into fire to save children[/size] all found in on and only blog [size=15pt]www.bettergists..com[/size]

Go purge your brain lad......its free!

solomon111: I thought this was an ECOWAS-CENTRAL AFRICA exercise.
Why are the french involved?

The report states that they are seeking assistance from the US, UK and France. What's indicated there is financial assistance, but who knows, they might have privately requested for more than just financial assistance.

They help tankers to steal Nigerian oil. I think this french boat work in coordination with tankers for oil theft, they have electronic equipments on board that can give the tankers the position of Nigerian patrol boats on the sea to avoid interception. Stealing crude oil from Nigeria is Big business

Don Demu:
RARE ADMIRAL D. DEMU: I kofee and coming in shaf shaf in ci uwarsu.

Shege boy!!!

I think they are stealing our oil

emk4lif: I believe FG is aware through the Office of the NSA, west african naval chiefs agreed on a joint patrol of their waters along with the french to combat piracy in the gulf of guinea

What is the basis of this belief .
Can you share the source of this agreement

I hope the anti-spam bot doesn't strike.

Horus: They help tankers to steal Nigerian oil. I think this french boat work in coordination with tankers for oil theft, they have electronic equipments on board that can give the tankers the position of Nigerian patrol boats on the sea to avoid interception. Stealing crude oil from Nigeria is Big business

true.
How i wish someone like me was president.
I wouldn't mind spending $4billion from the excess crude account on a couple of submarines stealth warships and destroyers.
That french frigate would have been sunk by now.
The FG needs to seriously equipp the navy to effectively police the huge gulf of guinea.

The full article.

[size=14pt]Frigate in Gulf of Guinea Acting as 'Fourth French Base in Africa'[/size]

Material in the World News Connection is generally copyrighted by the source cited. Permission for use must be obtained from the copyright holder. Inquiries regarding use may be directed to NTIS, US Dept. of Commerce.

In the dark night, dozens of wells spit out orange flames. It is the only visible light on the black-ink sea in this part of the Gulf of Guinea, south of Nigeria, which is one of the largest offshore oilfields in the world.  Darkness also reigns supreme onboard Latouche-Treville.  The French frigate is patrolling in silence.  For this night of June, the battleship has set itself a 200 square kilometers area of operations off Port Harcourt [city in Nigeria].  The area is bristling with traps: abandoned drilling sites, secondary and main platforms connected by oil pipelines as a cobweb stretching over thousands of kilometers.  The wells of the French oil group Total look like large coins on the national Navy's maps.

Latouche-Treville has "some informal contacts" with the French companies in the area, but the ship wants to sail without reporting: it remains deaf to the calls of foreigners who ask her to identify herself.  "Every man for himself is the rule here," the officer of the deck said.  The oil platforms violate international waters laws, by establishing around themselves a security perimeter protected by private companies of 20 Km, instead of the authorized 500 meters.  "Guards are very nervous, there is great insecurity," the officer added.

In these hot waters, where the wealth of Africa travels through, ghosts wander: armored speedboats of private armies circulate with their lights off; pirate vessels with destroyed identification systems; illegal fishermen, traffickers in gas, weapons, drugs, and human beings.  Off West Africa, the International Maritime Bureau (IMB) has counted 966 boats targeted in 2012, and 70 attacks have taken place since the beginning of 2013 in the Gulf.

The latest attack that affected the French was on 13 June.  Oil tanker MT Adour was attacked off Togo, before being taken into Nigerian waters. The assailants, some 10 men armed with machine guns, were unable to siphon dry the tanks, which were empty.  So, they turned to the engine fuel, but they also took the captain hostage, who was immediately released on ground, and his second in command, who was released on Tuesday 18 [June] in Nigeria, while the Latouche-Treville escorted the tanker.

The Gulf of Guinea is one of the priorities for the French defense, which has deployed there a surveillance mission called "Corymbe."  For the first time, since the beginning of April a top level frigate is stationed there. Corymbe was launched in 1990 and was conceived in order to occasionally support ground operations.  But since 1996, the Navy has been constantly patrolling this area, where there is growing insecurity, with the support of an Atlantique 2 aircraft based in Dakar.

Though the matter is not presented thus, this ship constitutes the fourth French base in Africa, along with the ones in Dakar, Libreville, and Djibouti.  France has major interests in the area.  There are 1,500 businesses and 90,000 expats in the Sub-Saharan West, the majority in the cities on the Gulf of Guinea, said Mathieu Le Hunsec, author of a book on the national navy in Africa.  From here comes one quarter of the national oil supply.  The ports of the region are also points of support for intervening in the Sahel.  From Cotonou [Benin capital] departs the uranium extracted by Areva [French nuclear energy company] in Niger. The logistics for the army in the Central African Republic go through Douala. The army supports its operations in Mali from Dakar.

Intelligence, military cooperation with neighboring countries: the mission covers a very large seafront, from Senegal to Congo.  "It is a matter of keeping things at a level of violence that is more or less under control, not letting a situation in the region degenerate without us being aware of it," said Captain Xavier de Vericourt.  The Corymbe ship will be the first one able to evacuate expats in the event of a crisis.

The Latouche-Treville carries the equipment of a commando group that could be released at sea and then return to it.  The electoral deadlines in the region are a barometer for the army staff.  Currently, Nigeria's and Cameroon's weaknesses are being closely watched. 

Piracy, which extends toward the Cote d'Ivoire, is becoming more violent.  Its nature is changing, and is shifting from pure economic depredation to hostage-taking.  Proof of this was the attack that targeted Arethuse, a French offshore service boat of the Bourbon company, in the night between 4-5 June. "The pirates were looking for expats," said the captain of the Latouche-Treville.  Two 20-meter speedboats, a dozen armed men "in uniform," who were very organized.  The expats had the time to lock themselves up inside a strong room.  Some Nigerian sailors who did not have the time of barricading themselves were eventually left free.  After leaving empty-handed, the assailants attacked on route two other boats, the C-Viking and the Miss-Kayla. The frigate found the two pirate boats 5 km away, adrift together, with all their lights off.  Their names were carefully recorded.

A "voluntary naval control" has been introduced in the Gulf of Guinea, managed by the Navy from Brest: the ship of the Corymbe operation contacts all the ships flying a French flag, or the ships "of interest" that make their presence known.  The militarization of the area seems inevitable.  "If the sea is not controlled, if no presence is assured, one will see people sneaking in," the captain of the Latouche-Treville noted.

Since 2006, the US defense has been developing an aide project for local navies within the framework of the Africa Partnership Station program.  The United States gives patrol boats to all the countries in the region.  France caries out similar [as published] training operations, in particular in Equatorial Guinea, where it has opened a naval school.  With the help of other partners -- Israel, China, Russia ?? the countries of the Gulf of Guinea are trying to set up their own national navy .

The awareness of such a need is a recent matter.  In February 2009, the Equatorial Guinea presidential palace in Malabo, the capital on Bioko Island, which is off Cameroon, was attacked from the sea. Attacks motivated by financial gain have targeted in the same manner banks in Douala (Cameroon) and supermarkets in Port-Gentil (Gabon). Pirates, mafia groups and rebel political groups are intertwined.

In March 2010, a Total site was attacked for the first time by the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta.  "Militias appear and disappear, but they are always operating," said Captain Joel Manga, who boarded the Latouche-Treville on 9 June with officers from Cameroon for an exercitation onboard.  "Mainly, we have a problem with illegal fishery in territorial waters," he noted, "but we also concentrate our efforts north, in order to prevent the threats coming from Nigeria, including Boko Haram, from spreading."

A regional military station command has been set up in Douala, where the captain of the Boulingui vessel, a Gabonese officer, hailed the first "positive results" off Cameroun.  "The sea is no longer empty, but we only have three ships, and we need to cast our nets wider.  Maritime cooperation will be on the agenda of the summit of Central and Western Africa's heads of state in Yaounde, on 24 and 25 June.

Senegal, Liberia, Cape Verde, Guinea-Conakry, Cote d'Ivoire, Ghana. . . The Latouche-Treville has made some 15 stops in four months of mission.  They serve as a test. If the program is fulfilled, if the sailors work well together, it means that the country is holding firm.

http://assistamerica.countrywatch.com/bcountry.aspx?vcountry=55&topic=CBWIR&uid=6371633

solomon111: true.
How i wish someone like me was president.
I wouldn't mind spending $4billion from the excess crude account on a couple of submarines stealth warships and destroyers.
That french frigate would have been sunk by now.
The FG needs to seriously equipp the navy to effectively police the huge gulf of guinea.

I watched a very interesting presentation from a flag officer. I can't remember the exact figures and details, but he showed that the revenue that Nigeria loses from oil theft in one year is enough to fund the acquisition of all the vessels that the Navy wants.

He suggested that the oil companies should finance the acquisition of these corvettes, frigates and destroyers and that two vessels should be attached to each oil platform.

All oil poachers are acting on info. ..

Afterall, the oil springs infinitely, flows endlessly and is inexhaustible, according to them.

y'all don't run jack, your leaders are still subject to their colonial masters, your supposed independence is an illusion

Na oyel we dey talk about here, its not like dettol advert, if you don't take care of your resources someone else will. Abeg e make I go cook my beans finish

spongeback:
Why is this one saying====> what is this one saying

ebe like say u dey smoke garri

solomon111: moronn.

slowpoke

and u all think or say we are an independent nation,just look at what all those old fools who call themselves leaders have turn us into

solomon111: What is the navy doing about it?
And when did Nigeria became a french colony?

Tompolo is in charge of maritime security

Truckpusher: It's a shame being a Nigerian at this time of our history......smh

come few yrs you go regret this thing wey you type so.