 Apologize for that break in that report, to bring you more in our subsequent bulletin. An Indian Navy Sheep Pioneer, system of their visited Nigeria to enhance bilateral relations and security in the Gulf of Guinea. The flag officer commanding of Western Never Command, Rea Admiral Mustafa Hassan, praised the visit for fostering friendship, cooperation and interoperability between the two countries. The visit aligns with the Chief of Neville Staff's vision of improving security and Nigeria's maritime domain. The Indian defense touching to Nigeria, Connell Romy's seeing layer, emphasized the visit's aim to enhance interoperability and anti-piracy operations. The Nigerian Navy, primarily along with other navies in the region in the Gulf of Guinea, has been instrumental in controlling piracy in the last two years. And in cooperation and to further this, the Indian Naval Sheep INS Sumeda is there as an adjunct to help in these operations which the Nigerian Navy is carrying out. Naval Sheeps visit diplomacy is one of the things, thereafter is cross-deck like meetings, visiting each other ships, the Nigerian Navy will be visiting INS Sumeda, conducting training on board. And in addition, whilst it is leaving from here, it will be having a small exercise with the Nigerian naval vessels here and then there will be normal exercises between both the vessels of India as well as Nigeria. This kind of goodwill visit are good for improving friendship, cooperation and interoperability between our two countries. The collaboration between our two countries are good for enhancing national security and in this case, security in the Gulf of Guinea which aligns us with the vision of the CNS towards improving security in our maritime domain. We've had a very beautiful relationship with India which has spanned over decades, well over five decades and the Navy in particular has had good relationship in terms of training support, hardware exchanges, port visits and exercises. So today we hope that the visit by INS Sumeda will help to further consolidate our security gains in the Gulf of Guinea. Hello, hope you enjoyed the news. Please do subscribe to our YouTube channel and don't forget to hit the notification button so you get notified about fresh news updates.