 Correspondent Chapel of the Biosha State Council of the Nigerian Union of Journalists has held its annual public lecture. The journalist called on the government to create economic opportunities for the people of the Niger Delta so they would be too occupied to consider attacking oil and gas facilities. Our correspondent, Jesse Essay, has more details. Stakeholders at the event appreciated the military for Israel in protecting the nation's maritime sector, but stressed the need for the federal government to address root causes of insecurity in the waterways. They said the lecture with the theme maritime security implications for Nigeria's oil and gas industry was apt, considering current happiness in the Niger Delta. They need to have a functional economy and for human beings around this area to have a sustainable source of livelihood. It's a prerequisite to discourage this madness. If we do not look at that, if it is typical for a normal human being who has even managed to hurt himself on training to survive, then of course, whatever it seems he has to do to end the deal, he will do it. So our own pepulia challenges burden on the security in the waterways, policy, militancy, and civil rights for them. So we feel that, and relate to the dominant environmental activity in this area, oil and gas, which is what kind of nation is dependent upon. So if there are the source funds there, all means that are probably going to be down, going to go in there, and everything will not be working well in the country. The guest speaker, flag officer commanding central Nava Command, Rea Admirah Obinwani Ibuchulam, who was represented by the commander, Nigerian Navy ship N. Soro Komodo Patrick Effa said the Nigerian Navy remains resolute in protecting the nation's oil and gas facilities. He listed factors posing threats to Nigeria's oil and gas industry to include illegal oil bunkers, militancy, and communal disruptive activities, piracy, and maritime terrorism. Despite this, he said the Nigerian Navy has done a lot in protecting the nation's oil facilities for enhanced maritime security. And the chief of the Nava staff has reviewed the Nigerian Navy's strategic plan 2021 and reinforced the summits to mitigate the challenges. There is no doubt that this challenges significantly stressed the Nigerian Navy's capacity to effectively tackle the contemporary threats. Therefore, there is the need for all stakeholders in the maritime domain to foster more synergy and tinker with current methods of providing standardized security for the oil and gas industry in order to achieve a more robust and integrated security architecture. At the lecture, concerns were raised by some stakeholders on the destruction of recovered stolen crude by the joint tax force JTF and Nigerian Security and Civil Defence Corps, NSEDC, saying that this is harmful to the environment. They also expressed fears that the planned relocation of irises from onshore to offshore exploration will increase crude oil theft, as stolen products are usually exported through the seas for plus-TV Africa. I am JCC. Thanks for watching, and I'll see you in the next video.