The Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA) has unveiled fashionable safety belongings, together with superior surveillance expertise, drones, armoured automobiles and specialised tactical tools to strengthen maritime safety and surveillance below the Integrated National safety and Waterways Protection Infrastructure in any other case often called the Deep Blue Project.
The belongings, which had been unveiled on the 2026 Africa International Defence Exhibition (AFRIDEX) embrace mild utility automobiles engineered for bush and land-based operations, vertical take-off and touchdown (VTOL) unmanned aerial car, newly delivered armoured automobiles, and an array of specialised tactical tools for the deep blue undertaking.
The Minister of Defence, General Christopher Gwabin Musa (rtd) was one of many dignitaries who visited the NIMASA Deep Blue Stand and in addition took time to witness the tactical simulation of piracy assault in Nigeria waters by the Deep Blue Project.
The Director-General, NIMASA Dr Dayo Mobereola, famous that these newly acquired belongings are to strengthen the sustainability of the Deep Blue undertaking and be certain that the navy personnel deployed below the undertaking have sufficient tools to maintain the battle towards piracy in Nigerian waters.
Mobereola who was represented by the Head of the Deep Blue Unit, Aisha Yakubu Idris, famous that Nigeria wouldn’t relaxation on its oars in sustaining zero tolerance for unlawful actions in its waters.
On his half, Tal Spektor, CEO HLS International, who’re the technical companions of the Deep Blue Project, confused the necessity for common upgrades of belongings to deal with evolving maritime threats. He added that maritime safety should prolong past the ocean, noting that unlawful offshore actions usually have hyperlinks to land-based operations
