{"id":851131,"date":"2025-05-25T22:12:03","date_gmt":"2025-05-26T03:12:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/25\/nigerian-navy-rescues-99-victims-of-boat-mishap-in-rivers\/"},"modified":"2025-05-25T22:12:03","modified_gmt":"2025-05-26T03:12:03","slug":"nigerian-navy-rescues-99-victims-of-boat-mishap-in-rivers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/25\/nigerian-navy-rescues-99-victims-of-boat-mishap-in-rivers\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigerian Navy rescues 99 victims of boat mishap in Rivers"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>By BARBARA KALU, Port-Harcourt \u2013<\/p>\n<p>The Nigerian Navy ship Pathfinder has rescued ninety-nine passengers from a mishap involving a market boat in a headon collision with a barge en-rout Akulu Toru Local Government Area of Rivers State.<\/p>\n<p>The Commander, NNS Pathfinder, Commodore Cajethan Aniaku, confirmed the development ina  statement issued on Wednesday in Port-harcourt.<\/p>\n<p>He noted that the incident happened in Tuma, some three hundred meters away from Naval security station NNS 35 along the Bukuma rivers axis.<\/p>\n<p>According to him, the operatives of NNS Pathfinder deployed to the Naval security station 35 in collaboration with other four Naval gunboats launched a coordinated search and rescue operation; leading to the rescue of all ninety nine passengers on board.<\/p>\n<p>He added that despite the challenging conditions, the operative acted effectively towards the successful rescue of lives and avert maritime disaster in the state.<\/p>\n<p>Commodore Aniaku stressed that the exceptional composure, timely intervention and bravery displayed by the Naval rescue team is worthy of commendation.<\/p>\n<p>He said the Nigerian Navy that under the leadership of incumbent CNS, vice Admiral Emmanuel Ogalla, it will continue to ensure the security and safety of mariners within the nation\u2019s maritime.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalaccordnewspaper.com\/nigerian-navy-rescues-99-victims-of-boat-mishap-in-rivers\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By BARBARA KALU, Port-Harcourt \u2013 The Nigerian Navy ship Pathfinder has rescued ninety-nine passengers from a mishap involving a market boat in a headon collision with a barge en-rout Akulu Toru Local Government Area of Rivers State. The Commander, NNS Pathfinder, Commodore Cajethan Aniaku, confirmed the development ina statement issued on Wednesday in Port-harcourt. He<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":851132,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21999,93680],"tags":[14533,5955],"class_list":{"0":"post-851131","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nigerian","8":"category-rescues","9":"tag-nigerian","10":"tag-rescues"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/851131","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=851131"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/851131\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/851132"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=851131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=851131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=851131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}