Tinubu asked to unmask operators of Nigerian-owned supertanker seized by US Coast Guard

The Independent Security Experts of Nigeria, ISEN, has asked President Bola Tinubu to instantly bid an autarkic probe into the seizure of a Nigerian-owned supertanker, Skipper, by the United States Coast Guard and the US Navy.

It volition beryllium recalled that the vas was intercepted successful December 2025 connected suspicions of crude lipid theft, piracy and cause trafficking. The supertanker was besides said to person links with Iranian and Islamist money-laundering networks.

The 20-year-old Very Large Crude Carrier (VLCC), with IMO Number 9304667, was reportedly owned and managed by Nigeria-based Thomarose Global Ventures Ltd portion registered to Triton Navigation Corp of the Marshall Islands.

At the clip of apprehension the supertanker was illegally flying the Guyanese flag, and Corporate Affairs Commission, CAC, records amusement Thomarose arsenic inactive, with its code listed astatine 111 Jakpa Road, Effurun, Warri, Delta State, nether registration fig 1007876 and with nary functional telephone numbers.

In a connection connected Saturday, the Independent Security Experts of Nigeria, ISEN, demanded an probe to unmask the owners and operators of the vessel, arsenic good arsenic their enablers.

The information experts insisted that those operating the rogue vas indispensable beryllium brought to justness without dela...