The Nigerian Navy has issued a response to the recent publication by People’s Security Monitor. In its reply, the Navy outlines what it considers to be the facts surrounding its operations against organized oil theft.

Below is the Nigerian Navy’s response.

Good afternoon sir.

Thank Mr Mustapha for your feature on Nigerian Navy’s anti- crude oil theft efforts.

It is good that your article recognises and  commends the NN & CNS but there are factual errors especially in the first paragraph. 

All industry authorities agree that Crude Oil Theft is at an all time low.

Trans Niger & Trans Forcados pipelines have been doing100% terminal output for months. These are the biggest pipelines for crude export in Nigeria.

And just last week, the Group CEO NNPCL stated that “for the very first time  in many years, Nigeria achieved 100% pipeline availability in the month of June 2025.” – all pipelines, large and small delivered 100% output without any breach.

Based on the above, how can you say that crude oil losses are between 200k – 400k barrels daily? That is a BIG FACTUAL ERROR.

Pls fact check everything I have written from NNPCL, NUPRC etc…In fact OPEC recently confirmed that Nigeria has overtaken Angola as the no.1 crude oil exporter in Africa.

I respectfully request you go and do proper fact check and do a sequel to correct the WRONG facts in the first paragraph. 

Thank you sir and well done. 

– you also made a spelling error in writing Operation DELTA SANITY (you wrote “Delata”).

A Adams-Aliu 

Commodore 

Director Naval Information