By Helen Udo,Outlook Media ABUJA.

On Wednesday 11 December 2024, the Chief of the Naval Staff (CNS), Vice Admiral Emmanuel Ikechukwu Ogalla, commissioned several facilities at Ebubu-Eleme and Borokiri in Port Harcourt, Rivers State.

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The facilities commissioned include:

a. Parade Ground and Pavilion.
b. Junior Rates’ Mess.
c. Senior Rates’ Mess.
d. Headquarters Naval Training Command Officers’ Mess.
e. 2x Ratings Accommodation Blocks of 47xRooms each.
f. One Block of 56x 1 Bedroom Flat Apartments.

A statement by the Director of Naval Information, Commodore Adams-Aliu quotes ” The multiple commissioning of projects is part of the ongoing Nigerian Navy (NN) End of Year activities. In his remarks, the CNS promised to continue addressing the issues of inadequate accommodation to boost NN personnel welfare.

“We are rehabilitating and bringing back abandoned accommodations to become useful for us because we have a very serious challenge of inadequate accommodation. We have put all our resources to make sure that whichever one we can do is done properly, in addition to the new ones that we are building in Port Harcourt and other areas.”

With these words are CNS further reassured his officers & men that their welfare is his topmost priority.