Navy foils sea robbery, rescues 16 in Ibaka–Calabar Channel

The Nigerian Navy foiled a suspected oversea robbery effort and rescued 16 passengers on the Ibaka–Calabar Channel during a swift maritime information cognition connected Sunday, March 8, 2026.

The Director of Naval Information, Captain Abiodun Folorunsho, said successful a connection that the cognition followed credible quality astir suspicious maritime transgression enactment astir Buoy 12 on the strategical Ibaka–Calabar maritime corridor.

According to him, gunboats from the Nigerian Navy Forward Operating Base (FOB) Ibaka were instantly deployed to intercept the suspected criminals and reconstruct information successful the area.

“Upon accomplishment astatine the location, the naval patrol squad encountered suspected oversea robbers who had intercepted and taken power of a fibre rider vessel conveying civilians from Ibaka successful Akwa Ibom State to Bakassi successful Cameroon,” Folorunsho said.

He explained that the criminals had held the passengers hostage with the volition of abducting them into adjacent creeks.

The naval patrol squad e...