Nigerian Navy commissions multiple vessels on same day

Photo: Nigerian Navy

The Nigerian Navy commissioned multiple newbuild vessels into service on Thursday, December 9.

In a ceremony with Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari as guest of honour, the navy commissioned five small patrol craft, the 60-metre French-built hydrographic vessel NNS Lana, and NNS Oji, the third 31-metre seaward defence boat (SDB) to be built locally by Nigerian Navy engineers.

Construction of the SDB took place at the navy-operated Naval Dockyard in Lagos. Work is underway on the fourth and fifth SDBs, whose keels were laid during the same ceremony on Thursday.


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