The Nigerian Navy says it is building commercial war ships for export within the African countries.
The Chief of Naval Staff (CNS), Vice Adm. Dele Ezeoba, said this on Tuesday when he inspected the second indigenous patrol ship under construction at the Naval Dockyard, Victoria Island, Lagos.
Ezeoba expressed confident that the Nigerian Navy was skilled enough to build patrol ships between 10 and 38 metres in size for export.
“The Nigerian Navy will no longer buy a ship of between 10 and 12 metres in size, because we have the capacity and capability to build them in our dockyard,’’ he said.
According to him, the ship under construction is in the same class with first indigenous 31 metres patrol ship, NSS Andoni, but was redesigned and upgraded to 38 metres.
Ezeoba said that the ship building business would not only attract economic value but create job for hundreds of thousands of Nigerians in the maritime sector and beyond.
He assured that the second indigenous ship would be delivered to Nigerian Navy by the dockyard for its inauguration into the fleets latest by June 2014.
At the NSS Beecroft, the Naval Chief also inaugurated four new patrol shaldag mante boats to enhance operational capability of the base in addition to the six of their class which were inaugurated in December 2012.
Earlier, while addressing officers and rating at the Naval Training Command, Apapa, Ezeoba announced plan to build a new Navy barrack in Abuja in order to address the accommodation problem in the service.
He said that the Naval Headquarters was looking at the possibility of channelling the lodging allowances of officers and ratings, which amounted to N3.6 billion annually, into building more houses within a year.(NAN) Click to signup for FREE news updates, latest information and hottest gists everyday
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this is good to hear, good one from the navy, i believe others in the defence, and other parastatals will follow
ReplyDeleteBravo! Laudable stride. Please keep it up and one day Nigeria will at the promised land.
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If what I see in this PICTURE is the so call WAR SHIP, then NN have a very long way to go.
ReplyDeleteA country that imports MATCHES stick, RULER & even TOOTH picks, now says she is PRODUCING WAR(TOY) SHIP. 9JA MAGIC.
That is a laudable good news from the Nigerian Navy. That's one of the best news that came out from naija lately. This deserve commendation and emulation from all sectors and the citizenry. KUDOS to the navy and naija in general.
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ReplyDeleteI don't believe this news. This news is just to put the nigeria navy in good light. U can bet me that the nigeria navy is not that organised to accomplish that task, all na lies and to give the masses good impressing about the navy. ALL NA WASH !
ReplyDeleteI don't believe this news. This news is just to put the nigeria navy in good light. U can bet me that the nigeria navy is not that organised to accomplish that task, all na lies and to give the masses good impressing about the navy. ALL NA WASH !
ReplyDeleteI don't believe this news. This news is just to put the nigeria navy in good light. U can bet me that the nigeria navy is not that organised to accomplish that task, all na lies and to give the masses good impressing about the navy. ALL NA WASH !
ReplyDeleteI don't believe this news. This news is just to put the nigeria navy in good light. U can bet me that the nigeria navy is not that organised to accomplish that task, all na lies and to give the masses good impressing about the navy. ALL NA WASH !
ReplyDeleteI don't believe this news. This news is just to put the nigeria navy in good light. U can bet me that the nigeria navy is not that organised to accomplish that task, all na lies and to give the masses good impressing about the navy. ALL NA WASH !
ReplyDeleteNonsense!! Arrant Nonsense!!!, when did Nigeria start manufacturing warships?? Mtssseewwww!! Export!!
ReplyDeleteNA TO BUILD WARSHIP BE OUR PROBLEM NOW INSTEAD OF USING OUR OFFICERS TO DESIGN ROADS ,BRIDGES AND OTHER AMENITIES THAT OTHER NIGERIANS CAN ENJOY.THE NAVY THAT CANNOT FABRICATE MOTOR SPARE PARTS WANT TO MANUFACTURE WARSHIP.WHICH KIND NONSENSE BE THIS
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