Rivers State Governor, Siminalayi Fubara, has tasked the Nigerian Navy to effectively deploy the gunboats provided by his administration to secure oil installations and tackle sea piracy to ...

Gunmen attacked Nigerian navy personnel protecting a Royal ... four abducted and two navy gunboats seized. Attacks on industry facilities by militants or saboteurs seeking to steal crude oil ...

Operatives of the Nigerian Navy have uncovered an abandoned oil ... The military command reportedly deployed two gunboats of about 30 personnel, including two officers and 28 ratings, as well ...

PORT HARCOURT, Nigeria (Reuters) - Nigeria's oil-rich Rivers state will provide six gunboats to the navy for patrols as part of efforts to help combat oil theft, which has plagued the region, its ...

"We are donating in the next few days six gunboats to the Nigerian Navy, the closest agency to us in this war against oil theft, to check this scourge in the difficult terrain, and also deploy them ...