 The Nigerian Navy is continuing joint drills with foreign navies this morning. The Spanish ship MV Vijaya is already at the Lagos Naval Jetty for the exercise, aimed at enhancing maritime security in the Gulf of Guinea. This follows an early exercise between the navies of Nigeria, Ghana and the United States that was conducted on the US Navy's USS Hershel Woody Williams. Joining us from the Western Navy Command, many of the exercise is our reporter, Destiny Mono. Thank you for joining us, Destiny. How are you? All right, so tell us more about the purpose of the joint drill. Okay, it's happening because Nigeria happens to be in a coastal region alongside some other West African countries and that is linked to the Gulf of Guinea. This morning, the Spanish ship is supposed to be here, it's already here as it is reported, but we're not doing the conference right now because the ship is a little bit troubled, the propellers are down and you know the captain cannot leave his troubled ship. So that's what is happening at the moment. So the drill hasn't started yet and everyone is on ground? Yes, the drill is going to start and the reason for the drill is, you know, for relations, I mean for the Spanish to partner with the Nigerian coastal region and so that's for cases of pirates disturbing the waterways, they'll be able to train them on how to see these pirates. So a ship will be put out there in the sea by the Spanish partners to train the Nigerian Navy on how to handle these pirates. They will give them signs and show them different drills on how to go about this exercise. Okay, so is there a hope that it will still be carried out today? You stated that the drill hasn't started yet because of a propeller problem. Is there a hope that it will still happen today and are there plans for future joint exercises? Yes, like you earlier reported, the US just left because of the same mission. They finished theirs yesterday and the Spanish is supposed to resume today but for the propeller issue, but we're still here waiting and anticipating that it will still go on as planned. Okay, and will there be other joint exercises in the future? Of course, of course, and that's the whole idea. Okay, all right. That's it, thank you very much. We'll reconnect with you as the day goes on.