President Muhammadu Buhari is delighted that some key threats within Nigeria’s maritime environment, such as crude oil theft, piracy, sea robbery, as well as illegal unregulated and unreported fishing has being effectively tackled.

He said over 220 vessels involved in maritime criminality within Nigeria’s Exclusive Economic Zone, up to the Republic of Togo, between August 2018 and March 2023, have being prosecuted.

President Buhari also said over 87 oil tankers involved in various crude oil and product theft had been arrested.

He made this known at the inauguration of the new Office of the National Security Adviser, and National Counterterrorism Centre, in Abuja,