The Secretary-General of the International Seabed Authority , Michael Lodge, has said that African nations are now better equipped to take critical decisions to enhance the development of their blue economies.
According to him, the project is aimed at the whole of Africa and of course Nigeria because they have expressed a very strong interest in it. He said: “We have come up with a set of recommendations and proposals as to how African countries can engage much more in deepsea scientific research, deepsea technology development, capacity development and, eventually, resource exploitation. Overall, I think it has been an extremely productive and exciting three days and I am very positive about the future engagement of Africa in the deepsea economy.