The four days of mutual training with her Nigerian counterpart, the NNS LANA, will be divided between activities at dockside and at sea. The NNS LANA was delivered last year to the Nigerian Navy by the French company OCEA. This first day of the visit was used by the Commander, accompanied by the Defence Attaché in Nigeria, to pay an…
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Exercise Obangame Express 2022 Set to Begin
Obangame Express (OE22), the largest multinational maritime exercise in Western Africa, will kick off its 11th year with 32 participating nations at an opening ceremony in Dakar, Senegal, Mar. 11, 2022. Sponsored by U.S. Africa Command (AFRICOM), OE22 is designed to improve regional cooperation, maritime domain awareness (MDA), information-sharing practices, and tactical interdiction expertise to enhance the collective capabilities of…
Read MoreNew Order for an OCEA Survey Vessel for Nigeria
After the delivery in 8 years of 18 ships to the Nigerian Navy, including the NNS LANA, a 60-meter hydrographic research vessel type OSV 190 SC-WB, two 35-meter patrol boats type FPB 110 MKII and two interceptors of 17 m type C-FALCON in 2020, OCEA won an international tender for the supply of a 35-meter hydrographic research vessel type OCEA…
Read MoreCommandant Bouan on West Africa Patrol
June 24, 2021 (Google Translation) – On 17 June, Commander Bouan arrived in southern Nigeria. He thus began a new stage of his mission in the Gulf of Guinea: the fight against piracy. In this area where piracy is on the increase, the presence of a navy vessel makes it possible to reassure commercial vessels and to deter bad intentions.…
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