MARITIME INSECURITY IN THE GULF OF GUINEA AND THE NEED FOR INTELLIGENCE DEPLOYMENT AND PROMOTION OF LOCAL SHIPBUILDING FOR COMBATING THE GROWING MENACE IN THE REGION

Description

The book focuses on maritime security threats that are currently ravaging the Gulf of Guinea and the need for intelligence deployment and promotion of local shipbuilding by the Nigerian Navy for sustainable security in the region. The book comprises five glowing chapters that discuss various brilliant ideas and information thus where the concepts of security intelligence; local shipbuilding; and maritime security were discussed. The book also depicts the various intelligence gathering disciplines in combating crimes and insecurity; the relationship between local shipbuilding and maritime security; and highlights the various local shipbuilding instances for maritime security in some selected states across the globe. However, the book gave an assessment of intelligence deployment and local shipbuilding efforts of the Nigerian Navy for enhanced maritime security in Nigeria’s maritime domain and Gulf of Guinea with the prospects; and strategies to improve local shipbuilding and security intelligence efforts for enhanced maritime security in Nigerian waterways and in the Gulf of Guinea. The book therefore made some laudable recommendations which included; formulation of a national shipbuilding regulatory body; upgrading the shipyards shipbuilding support facilities; human resource capacity development; establishment of a Shipbuilding Fund Trustee Board; industrial base through articulated research and development; and implementation plan for the proffered strategies. All these issues were made in respect to security intelligence deployment, security patrols on high seas, surveillance, regulatory policy, shipyard productivity capacity, human resource capacity, funding for infrastructure and equipment as well as local industrial base; all in a bid to strengthen the security on the seas and Gulf of Guinea respectively.