That Nigeria is the most populous black race in the world is beyond debate, Nigerias trade volume (import and export) is huge which accounts for high traffic of ships in and out of Nigeria. Following the promulgation of the Admiralty Jurisdiction Decree of 1991 which widened the scope of the Federal High Court, there has been an upsurge of applications for the arrest of merchant ships majority of which are not particularly on reasonable grounds, unfortunately; most of these applications are granted because there has not been uniform guidelines regarding how applications for "ships arrest...