ABSTRACT
This chapter addresses crucial issues of the law of the sea in the Bakassi case and subsequent challenges. It focuses on the continuing challenges in three specific areas: delimitation of maritime boundaries of the Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ)/ Continental Shelf, certain domestic littoral implications of the Bakassi case in Nigeria, and the issue of innocent passage by warships in the territorial sea. The need to delimit overlapping maritime zones within national jurisdictions between either adjacent or opposite coastal States has become a crucial issue in the law of the sea, which relevant treaties, international cases and academic literature have had to engage with. Apart from the obvious law of the sea implications that the Bakassi case has had on nationstates' relations, especially as regard the delimitation of maritime boundaries of Cameroon and Nigeria, it also has had far-reaching implications on domestic maritime boundaries, especially on the Nigerian side.
