 The Chief of Naval Staff, Al-Waz Beirut Gambo gave a lecture at the 10th edition of Secure's West Africa 2022 International Exhibition on Protecting Critical National Infrastructure and Tackling Maritime Crimes Protecting Nigeria's Sports. He gave a lecture in Lagos where he spoke on the Gulf of Guinea being among the most strategic sea lanes of communication to global economy due to its enormous potentials in hydrocarbon, fisheries and other resources for exploration and the exploitation of the global maritime. Vice President Yemi Oshibajo, Federal Republic of Nigeria, I quote, Nigeria loses around $26 billion a year to criminal activities, particularly piracy and syrupy, unquote. This development imposes huge burden on the Nigerian Navy to protect critical infrastructure within Nigeria's environment as well as to tackle all forms of maritime crimes. Frequent abuse of the domain through illicit activities of local and foreign collaborators has continued to illicit concerns from different quarters. More disturbing is the fact that many of these illicit acts are targeted at the nation's economic lifeline for the exacerbating wide-scale poverty. Please do subscribe to our YouTube channel and don't forget to hit the notification button so you get notified about fresh news updates.