 And following efforts in safeguarding the Mandarin maritime space, the Mandarin Navy have concluded the 2023 addition of the Chief of Naval Staff's annual Sea Inspection Exercise, codenamed Exercise N'chekwa Oshimere. The training exercise, which lasted for a total of three days, was carried out largely in the Gulf of Guinea and was designed to get officers and men of the Navy ready to combat all maritime threats within Manjaro's territorial waters. Details on this report. About the Nigerian Navy's Shebikada, the Minister of State for Defence fires the pyrotechnics and performs the ceremonial flag waving, signaling the start of exercise in Chekwa Oshimere, the Chief of Naval Staff's annual Sea Inspection. Three days of consistent military exercises in the Atlantic Ocean designed to equip personnel of the Nigerian Navy with the necessary skills to combat threats to Nigeria's maritime environment, the commanding officer of the NNS Kada explains the objectives and takeaways of the exercise. Now the exercise covers so many aspects of security challenges that we face in Nigerian maritime domain as well as the Gulf of Guinea, such as issues of piracy, illegal, unregulated fishing. The aim of this exercise is to walk up the fleet and improve our operational capability in handling these challenges. So far so good we have been able to handle them effectively as well reported in the international forum. We started our major scenarios centered around anti-piracy activities and we had a merchant vessel simulate a rogue vessel or vessel of interest engaged in anti-piracy activities of which we dispatched some of our ships like Nigerian Navy ship ABAA and Nigerian Navy ship OG to intercept this rogue vessel and conduct visit, boarding, seizure and search. Representative of the chief of the novel staff, Vier Admiral Muhammad, in an interview with Newsmen, highlights the importance of the exercise in securing the Gulf of Guinea. He also reveals that during the exercise some actual arrests were made. We have this has enabled the Navy to enhance maritime security and within the period we interrogated several ships, one of which was found wanting. She has been arrested and escorted to Harbour and the exercise too has afforded us the Navy to walk up the ships and further the training of the personnel on board the ships for better performance of our constitutional mandate of securing Nigeria's maritime domain. Correspondent reports that in total 13 ships and two helicopters took part in the exercise and some of the drills include shooting practice, man overboard and fast roping of Navy personnel aboard a vessel from a chopper.