Victory with Honour

Name: Victory with Honour
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Victory with Honour is an account of my stewardship whilst I was in command of the Nigerian Navy Ship OKPABANA (F93) from November 2015 to October 2016.

The book renders a chronological narrative of my operational and command experience onboard the ship beginning with an exposé on the essence of sea power and the concept of navies, a brief historical perspective of the Nigerian Navy (NN) in the second chapter, and the third chapter begins with my own story.

In between, I also did an appraisal of the maritime security situation in the Gulf of Guinea and how to address the challenges being experienced therein. The book then continues with a personal account of the various exercises and operations that the ship participated in whilst I was in command.

Chapter Eighteen being the last chapter gave some leadership principles, though navy-centric, that could apply to almost any sphere of life. Largely esoteric in nature, I believe the readership would be inspired to draw lessons from my experiences and also add to the corporate/institutional knowledge of the Nigerian Navy as a whole. I also believe more needs to be laid out in the public space on how Nigeria as a maritime nation, can further leverage its potential to become a sea power state like other nations with access to the seas did in the past.

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Brief Profile of the Author

Olusegun Ferreira is a Rear Admiral in the Nigerian Navy who has served the nation since 1993 as a Seaman/Executive Officer upon graduation from the Nigerian Defence Academy as a gentleman officer in the Armed Forces of Nigeria. The author has been involved in operations at sea and has also served on board various classes of ships until he qualified as a helicopter pilot and got involved in air operations, both seaborne and shore-based.

He has also attended a number of military courses including the National Defence Course, which prepares military officers for strategic level appointments and higher defence management functions. Rear Admiral Ferreira has also had command of both the Naval Air Base and NNS OKPABANA, a Nigerian Navy frigate which was his last appointment until he was designated as Nigeria’s Defence Adviser to the Nigerian High Commission in New Delhi with concurrent accreditation to 6 other countries: Bangladesh, Myanmar, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Singapore and South Korea.

He is currently serving at the Nigerian Navy Headquarters in Abuja on completion of his tour of duty in India. He is an experienced seaman who has put together his command and operational experience whilst in command of NNS OKPABANA culminating in the publishing of this book, “Victory with Honour”. Olusegun is also an alumnus of the Geneva Centre for Security Policy, Coventry University and the Harvard Kennedy School of Government.