 Four Nigerian Navy ships and a helicopter five-day combined naval exercise codenamed Grand African Nemo was flagged off in the Nigerian waters with four Nigerian Navy ships and two helicopters participating. The exercise, which is coordinated by the French Navy, according to the flag officer commanding Western naval command, Rare Admiral Yacuba Wombay, was aimed at supporting the efforts of regional navies with a view to countering criminal activities in the maritime domain through different operational modes of planned exercises. Exercise Grand African Nemo 2022 is a continuation of series of exercise that started in the year 2018 which is geared towards enhancing the operationality and collaborative efforts of both the Nigerian Navy and other Gulf of Guinea navies collaborating with our zones, navies of the zones, then our international partners. The essence is to continue to keep the Gulf of Guinea and host nation waters as safe as possible. So once we are able to continue to have this under their own architecture, we believe that we will continue to see as we have seen Nigerian waters becoming pirate sea-free, other nations will also have a similar trend as they continue to do this. By and large, at the end of the day, we expect to have safe seas that is open to commerce and communication.