Technical Intelligence and Security Management within the Nigerian Territorial Waters: The Nigerian Navy Challenge Security Law, Water and Marine Law

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Ngboawaji Daniel Nte
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1331-3511
Brebina Kelvin Enoke
Ilyasu Abubakar

Abstract

With the world becoming a more volatile place and certainly high - threat environments becoming too far and dangerous to send personnel, the insufficiency of human intelligence has placed a greater stress on technical aids in gathering intelligence. Technology has allowed the acquisition of intelligence to rely less on human intelligence. The progeny of modern day equipment - both offensive and defensive has made provision for myriad levels in intelligence gathering. The Gulf of Guinea Basin countries rely heavily on their maritime sector for greater per cent of their exports and imports. The Gulf of Guinea is strategic to the development of West African countries and has been characterized by various maritime crimes, thus the need for technical intelligence and surveillance measures by basin countries to enhance the security of the region. Nigeria is a strategic stakeholder in the maritime security around the Gulf of Guinea with her Navy and Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency as the lead agencies responsible for her maritime security and safety. This work discusses the various leverage and the challenges of modern surveillance equipment to aid the achievement of securing the Nigerian maritime environment by the Nigerian Navy as well as her involvement in several internal security operations in Nigeria.

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Nte, N. D., Enoke, B. K., & Abubakar, I. (2022). Technical Intelligence and Security Management within the Nigerian Territorial Waters: The Nigerian Navy Challenge. Unnes Law Journal, 8(1), 179-206. https://doi.org/10.15294/ulj.v8i1.56453
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Author Biographies

Ngboawaji Daniel Nte, Novena University

Ngboawaji Daniel Nte in a Professor of Security and Intelligence Studies at Novena University, Ogume, Nigeria. He currently working on national intelligence culture and the challenges of nation building in Africa and Nigeria in particular. Some of his works have been published on several international journals and publishers such as Small States, Statescraft and The Challenges of National Security: The Case of Guyana Insights Into Regional Development (2022); Two Nations, Different Regions, Same Challenges: Legal and Political Analysis of Internal Security Threats in Nigeria and Pakistan (2021); International Legal Instruments in Responding to Human Trafficking (2021); The Dynamics And Vicissitudes of China- India Relations in The Post-2017 Border Conflict (2021); Competitive Intelligence and Resilience of Small Medium Enterprises (SMEs) in Developing Economies (2021); Competitive Intelligence and Resilience of Small Medium Enterprises (SMEs) in Developing Economies: The Case Benin City, Nigeria (2021); Religious Extremism and The Challenges of De-Radicalisation in Nigeria's North East Region (2021); and The Adversity on Establishing Places of Worship: Has Religious Freedom Failed in Indonesia? (2021). He also working as a Head of Department of Security and Intelligence Studies Novena University Nigeria. 

Brebina Kelvin Enoke, Niger Delta State University

Brebina Kelvin Enoke  PhD is a Lecturer at Faculty of Law, Niger Delta University, Wilberforce Island,  Amasoma, Bayelsa State, Nigeria

Ilyasu Abubakar, Novena University

Ilyasu Abubakr is a student at School of Postgraduate Studies, Department of Intelligence and Security Studies, Novena University, Delta State, Nigeria

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