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iracy off the coast of Nigeria portends grave danger to the economic,security, and sociopolitical development of the country. It also threatens both interna-tional and regional trade as well as the stability of the West African sub-region. DespiteNigerian government’s attempts to curb piracy caused by poverty, unemployment,including corrupt and weak maritime regulatory and security institutions, attacks bypirates have continued to occur off the country’s coast. Consequent upon the adverseeffects of piratical attacks on their day to day activities, seafarers can facilitate thesuppression of piracy off the Nigerian coast. This paper uses statistics, provisions ofinternational instruments and domestic legislations, the United Nations Security Coun-cil resolutions, soft laws, and opinions of researchers to examine the nature, causes, andeffects of piracy on seafarers in Nigeria. The author argues that seafarers are necessarypartners to curb piracy off the coast of Nigeria through enforcing maritime securityconventions and other related instruments as well as testifying against pirates duringtrials. In conclusion, this paper contends that acts of piracy adversely affect crewmembers’life, health, family, job, and finance thereby providing an overwhelmingmotivation for seafarers to play a role in suppressing piracy off the Nigerian