A Royal Navy warship, HMS Trent,  arrived in Lagos  yesterday as part of its regional mission to aid allies and partners in driving down illegal activities including piracy and illicit trafficking.The visit will help deliver capacity training and support maritime security in the region.

HMS Trent departed Gibraltar carrying an expert boarding team of United Kingdom (UK) Royal Marines and a Puma surveillance drone. HMS Trent’s mission is to support West African allies helping countries to develop capability to fight illegal crimes at sea and ensure they can play an effective role in bringing stability to wider West Africa.

With around £6 billion of UK trade passing through the region, part of Trent’s tasking is to support stability across the Gulf of Guinea through training  to help partner navies take the fight to criminal actors, fostering ties and sharing knowledge, whilst conducting patrols to increase security.

HMS Trent’s Commanding Officer, Commander Tim Langford, said: “It is an honour for HMS TRENT to return to Nigeria, an important visit on the Ship’s three month deployment to West Africa. We are excited to work with our partner nations as we strive for a long term soltion to maritime insecurity across the region.”

“The Royal Navy has a long history of engagement within the region and an enduring partnership with the Armed Forces of Nigeria. My team are really looking forward to the opportunity to work with their Nigerian counterparts and build on the relationships established when we visited Lagos in 2021.”

Also commenting, UK Deputy High Commissioner in Lagos, Jonny Baxter said: “This deployment demonstrates how a truly Global Britain is stepping up on the world stage to tackle shared international security challenges.

“Nigeria is an important and valued defence partner for the UK in West Africa. Our two countries face many shared threats and we are keen to work with Nigeria to defeat these and to help improe maritime security in the Gulf of Guinea.”

The deployment contributes to a wider international effort by the Friends of the Gulf of Guinea (FOGG) which supports Gulf of Guinea nations to implement regional maritime security frameworks, bringing stability to a region that has seen international shipping disrupted, seafarers’ lives put in danger, and damage caused to local economies.

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https://www.thisdaylive.com/index.php/2023/09/11/uk-warship-arrives-in-nigeria-to-support-regional-maritime-security

For any obidient that will do anyhow in Lagos....

I forsee Hellu Pee sadists lachrymating over this development again. May this UK warship sail in their tears. 😉

Using the diplomatic means to help secure the local and subregional territorial waters, but using local militant Lord's to protect oil pipeline and installations.

Believe those reasons and you'll believe that Mungo Park discovered the end of River Niger.
We will know the real reason why they came very soon.

Nice one

Good development

Some individuals may perceive this as a positive advancement, while others view it as yet another example of Western exploitation, with Nigeria being utilized to oppose African nations that have taken a stand against modern African exploitation by the West.


Why do some Nigerians still think we need the west to survive? Most especially APC apologists.. they see US and UK malicious romance with Nigeria as an achievement.....

Ojú yín a fẹẹ bo....

I remember the last time the Chinese navy was here, some ignorant Nigerians were saying they came to collect their debt!

Why are these vrchins shining teeth

Is this called for celebration

Must Africa always be babysitted every time

These whites guys are just using Africa to their satisfaction to enrich and develop their countries and these stvpid vrchinos are here shining teeth and be insulting their fellow Nigerians over it

How many times have Nigerian warship gone to any of the white countries to assist them on anything

Celebrating modern slavery and mediocre

Niger Republic go soon hear the music

Soo!!they impose tinubu to continue stealing our resources

This kain thing go de pain Russia and north Korea

Fejoku:
Believe those reasons and you'll believe that Mungo Park discovered the end of River Niger.
We will know the real reason why they came very soon.

So kafir do tell us why?

Stealthy and sneaky way of continuous colonialism.He who pays the pippers dictates the tune.

Allies? Someone ought to sink that ship. The uk can go to hell

God help us..

We shall soon know reason

NkanuSon:
Soo!!they impose tinubu to continue stealing our resources

Hehehehe

0kôrô u go wail tire.

Tinubu is bigger than the whole of southeast

It's just to cover sphere of influence, and show this part of the world is their sphere. we don't want to be part of any NATO/Russia proxy war. Why don't our warships enter UK and patrol there same way. I don't trust these snakes.

TemplarLandry:
I forsee Hellu Pee sadist lachrymating over this development again. May this US warship sail in their tears. 😉

It's a UK warship not US.

Actually!

Fejoku:
Believe those reasons and you'll believe that Mungo Park discovered the end of River Niger.
We will know the real reason why they came very soon.

Interesting

Good news to patriotic Nigerians everyday while our IPOBidients suffer terrible disappointment day in day out



Glory be to God who making Nigeria great again.

Omo

The Brits are a dying military power

This same ship will bring arms to the terrorist just watch how attacks will increase in Nigeria now