{"id":351402,"date":"2026-01-12T02:08:34","date_gmt":"2026-01-12T01:08:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetidenewsonline.com\/?p=351402"},"modified":"2026-01-11T18:02:48","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T17:02:48","slug":"abbas-vow-to-improve-personnel-welfare-and-naval-patrols","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetidenewsonline.com\/?p=351402","title":{"rendered":"Abbas Vow To Improve Personnel Welfare And Naval Patrols"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"gs\">\n<div class=\"\">\n<div id=\":os\" class=\"ii gt\">\n<div id=\":oh\" class=\"a3s aiL\">\n<div id=\"avWBGd-269\">\n<div dir=\"auto\">\n<div dir=\"auto\">The Chief of Naval Staff (CNS), Vice Admiral Idi Abbas has pledged to ensure improved welfare for personnel and more patrols on the maritime corridors of the nation.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">\u00a0Abbas said there is the need for officers to always be ready,\u00a0 by improving on their welfare, in a bid to keep the country secured.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">He disclosed this during an on the spot assessment of things at the Eastern Naval Command (ENC) Calabar<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">\u201cI am here for an on the spot assessment of our operations and like you have seen, I have also gone round to check the ongoing buildings.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">\u201d These\u00a0 are welfare issues and for us to be able to have our men ready and keep us secured, their welfare needs to be catered for.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">\u201cSo we are here to kill two birds with one stone,\u00a0 which are basically operations and welfare issues.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">\u201d I am happy with what the command is doing; it is doing well in terms of keeping the maritime environment safe.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">\u201cWe will continue doing what we are doing and improve on that, which is patrol of the waters and increase in the area of surveillance,\u201d he stated.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">As part of the visit,\u00a0 Abbas commissioned the 12\u00d71 Junior Rates Accommodation Block A and B, at the Navy Barracks at Atimbo in Calabar.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">The Naval chief,\u00a0 also inspected other ongoing projects in the Akim Barracks, 1006 flats and the Navy hotel, all within Calabar<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">By: CHINEDU WOSU<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Chief of Naval Staff (CNS), Vice Admiral Idi Abbas has pledged to ensure improved welfare for personnel and more patrols on the maritime corridors of the nation. \u00a0Abbas said there is the need for officers to always be ready,\u00a0 by improving on their welfare, in a bid to keep the country secured. He disclosed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":67315,"featured_media":351429,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[60],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-351402","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-maritime"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetidenewsonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351402","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetidenewsonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetidenewsonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetidenewsonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/67315"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetidenewsonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=351402"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetidenewsonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351402\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":351448,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetidenewsonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351402\/revisions\/351448"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetidenewsonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/351429"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetidenewsonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=351402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetidenewsonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=351402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetidenewsonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=351402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}