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I had the honour and pleasure this morning to have delivered an online lecture on the landmark Bonny amphibious operation to the participants on this year's Naval Warfare Course (NWC 10) at the Naval War College Nigeria.
The lecture was presented to 34 participants as part of the Module on Naval History. The participating officers are mainly from the Nigerian Navy but with a component from the Nigerian Army, Nigerian Air force and foreign allied navies, coming this year from Ghana, Cameroon and Liberia. They are generally middle cadre officers i.e. Lieutenant Commanders, Commanders and their equivalents in the other armed services.
My thanks go to Captain Ikenna Okolagu, the Sponsor Director of the lecture, as well as other staff at the college including Commodore Akinrisola Obisesan and Brigadier General S.O. Agada who spoke after I had concluded my lecture by fielding questions from the participants.
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My article "The Bonny Landing: The anatomy of Black Africa’s first amphibious operation, July to September 1967" was published in the August 2024 edition of The Mariner's Mirror, the international journal of the Society for Nautical Research.
© Adeyinka Makinde (2026).
Adeyinka Makinde is a Law Lecturer and Writer based in London, England.
