The federal government, yesterday, said the upcoming Nigerian maritime strategy was a policy tool that would further galvanise national maritime resources towards the actualisation of a virile blue economy underpinned by an effective maritime security architecture.
The Minister of Defence, Major General Bashir Magashi (rtd), who hinted at this, spoke at the opening of the Sea Power for Africa Symposium hosted virtually at the Naval Headquarters, Abuja.
In the same vein, Chief of Naval Staff, Vice Admiral Awwal Gambo, said the increasing potentials of the blue economy had no doubt expanded the duties, roles and responsibilities of navies and maritime law enforcement agencies operating in African waters.
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