Senate tasks government on extension of nation’s continental shelf

The Senate has passed a resolution urging the Federal Government to redouble efforts towards extending the nation’s continental shelf. Citing Article 76 of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS), Nigeria, had in May 2009, written the United Nations Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf (CLCS) to extend its continental shelf beyond the 200 nautical miles from the baselines wherein the breadth of the territorial sea is measured.