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Nigerian Navy. The Nigerian Navy ( NN) is the naval force of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. It is a branch of the Nigerian Armed Forces. With 75 warships (including the two frigates Thunder and Aradu ), it is categorised as the fifth strongest navy in Africa (after South Africa, Egypt, Algeria and Morocco).
Jamila Abubakar Sadiq Malafa (born 1965) is an international maritime lawyer and the first female Commodore in the history of the Nigerian Navy. She joined the Nigerian Navy in 1988 and was commissioned as a midshipman in 1990. [1] In December 2017 she became the first Northern woman in the history of Nigerian Navy to reach the rank of Commodore.
The quasi-military Nigerian Marine Department was established in 1914 and cooperated with the Royal Navy in capturing Cameroon in the First World War . The Nigerian Navy came into official existence in 1956, staffed by 200 people from the Marine Department, with the tasks of mine-sweeping, ports examination and naval control services.
Admiral Murtala Nyako, emphasized that although it is a civilian secondary school, Nigerian Navy Secondary School Abeokuta should be regarded as the equivalent of a military school and operated accordingly. Founding. On November 20, 1990, the Nigerian Navy appointed Lieutenant Commander S.E.A. Olamilokun as the first commandant of the school.
The Nigerian Navy (NN) is the sea branch of the Nigerian Armed Forces. The Nigerian Navy command structure today, consists of the Naval Headquarters in Abuja as well as three other operational commands with headquarters in Lagos, Calabar and Bayelsa. The training command headquarters are located in Lagos, the commercial capital of Nigeria, but ...
The Chief of the Naval Staff ( CNS) is the military head and highest ranking military officer of the Nigerian Navy. [1] The Chief of the Naval Staff is usually the highest ranking and most senior admiral to serve in the Nigerian Armed Forces unless the Chief of Defence Staff is a naval officer. The position is often occupied by the most senior ...
www .afcsc .mil .ng. The Armed Forces Command and Staff College, Jaji is a training facility for the Nigerian Armed Forces, including the army, air force and navy. It is near the village of Jaji, Nigeria, about 35 km (22 mi) northeast of Kaduna in the Igabi Local Government Area (LGA) of Kaduna State, Nigeria. It is currently headed by Air Vice ...
The Special Boat Service ( SBS) is the special forces unit of the Nigerian Navy and the maritime special forces unit of the Nigerian Armed Forces. It is modelled after the Royal Navy's Special Boat Service and the United States Navy SEALS. [1] It is considered to be one of the more elite naval special forces units in Africa. [2]