Nigeria reports four years without recorded territorial-water piracy

Nigeria has recorded zero reported piracy incidents in its territorial waters for four consecutive years, Chief of Naval Staff Vice Admiral Idi Abbas said, according to Punch Nigeria. The statement concerns incidents reported in Nigeria’s territorial waters. It does not specify the dates covered by the four-year period, the number of incidents recorded before it or the operational measures credited with the reported result.

Abbas’s claim was presented by Punch Nigeria as an assessment of the country’s maritime security record. The available source material does not include independent figures or a response from other maritime agencies. It also does not clarify whether the statement refers only to officially reported piracy incidents or includes other forms of maritime crime.