Nigeria need to develop a national maritime strategy if our dear country is not to be left behind in this new dispensation of enhanced maritime domain awareness (MDA) and the obvious benefits accruable therein by sharing mechanisms with the navies/maritime regulatory agencies of Togo, Djibouti, Sao Tome and Principe, Cameroon, Ghana, Gabon, Benin and Equatorial Guinea who are linked one way or the other through the Gulf of Guinea corridor. Towards this end, and given the lack of resources in countries of the continent, as many sectors continue to jostle for the few that is available, Nigeria and Africa must look both inwards and also outwards for funding and support to ensure successful implementation of these policies, since building and strengthening maritime partnerships have become even more critical especially in this era of ‘African Seas and Oceans’.
Source: Vanguard
