Nigeria is seeking to buy arms from Russia, The Nation learnt yesterday.

It is unclear if Russia has granted Nigeria’s request, following an arms embargo by the United States.

The military has opted for more aerial bombardments of insurgents than infantry encounters.

The aerial strikes have assisted in killing more insurgents in the last few months.

A source said a delegation had gone to Russia for talks on the arms purchase.

If all goes well with the talks, there will be orders for war planes, helicopters and other equipment.

The source said: “The US has refused to sell arms and lethal equipment to Nigeria to prosecute the war against Boko Haram.

“The US, instead, prefers to concentrate on assistance to Nigeria to consolidate its democracy.

“We have had pilots trained in the US. We train our military pilots in the US. They come to Nigeria for conversion.

“The Federal Government has no choice than to look elsewhere for war planes, helicopters and lethal equipment against Boko Haram insurgents.

“We have opened up negotiation with Russia for arms bailout. We want to buy military hardwares from them.”

The source spoke about the reported training of 1,200 special troops in Russia, saying it is all propaganda to frustrate Nigeria’s moves to get equipment to fight Boko Haram.

“More countries are also interested in assisting us. We need this help urgently now,” he said.

Nigeria’s Ambassador to the US, Prof. Adebowale Adefuye, on Tuesday, criticised the US refusal to sell arms to the Federal Government.

He said: “The US Government has up till today refused to grant Nigeria’s request to purchase lethal equipment that would have brought down the terrorists within a short time.

“We find it difficult to understand how and why, in spite of the US presence in Nigeria with their sophisticated military technology, Boko Haram should be expanding and becoming more deadly.”

It was however gathered that the US turned down the nation’s request for arms because its laws ban the sale of lethal equipment to nations whose military have alleged worst human rights records.”

Another diplomat said: “The ban is not peculiar to Nigeria; many countries are covered by the ban.”

The National Coordinator of Citizens Initiative for Security Awareness (CISA), Mr Chidi Omeje, yesterday faulted the US arms embargo on Nigeria.

Omeje made the call during a media interaction hosted by I-Nigerian Initiative in Abuja.

Omeje said: “The group deplores the cold indifference of United States towards Nigeria in her time of need. This is now the time for the true friends and allies of Nigeria to declare their stand.

“The spate of bombings and sundry attacks on civilian targets in the north eastern part of Nigeria is enough to attract global support for the Nigerian government and its security forces.

“For almost two years, the US Government refused to label Boko Haram a foreign terrorist organisation (FTO) even with glaring evidence of major atrocities displayed by the group against unarmed citizens.

“From our enquiries, it was also discovered that for more than 20 years, United States Government has not endorsed the sale of Western military hardware to Nigeria and this has led to a situation whereby our country always resorts to getting supplies from the alternative market or shop from other power blocks.

“How is the situation in Syria and Iraq different from that of Nigeria that the US decided to send in troops and its air force to confront the IS terrorists?”

He said it was no longer tenable to keep citing alleged abuse of human rights by Nigerian troops as the reason for the arms embargo.

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ooh na now day break for una eyes
continue following america

It's not by Buying Alone. boost d morale of our Fighting men.

The same ammunition they are abandoning is what Bokoharam is still using to commit Atrocities

Why did the FG wait this long?
This boko are ram menace really exposed nigeria.

They should do this as quickly as possible.


Imagine a whole giant of africa, running helta-skelta looking for weapons to fight one islamic group. When most countries are Heavily loaded and prepared for war at anytime.

How can a country as big as Nigeria not be prepared to fight even other countries if necessary. And we call ourselves the Big brother that is watching over other african countries.

Our default pro-west inclination is unhealthy.

What they don't know is that, when it comes to the affairs of the black race, the whites are usually quick to close ranks.

A better alternative for them would have been China.

Whose private Jet are they using ds tym around?

This is the most unserious govt in the history of Nigeria. They wasted 6 months begging the US for arms, another 6 months sponsoring articles in newspapers lambasting the US for not selling arms now we are on the 6months of telling us they are 'going to' buy from Russia. There is a subsisting order for helicopters and maybe tanks, so which one is this new one. All this is just posturing to award procurement contracts to the Aurthur Ezehs, cronies of IBB and share the money between Senators and PDP top shots. THIEVES profitting from blood money.

For once FG is using their common sense to think I wonder why it took them this long to use their common sense to know that they are suppose to buy weapons from Russia since US has refused to sell arms to us

America is the home of shaitan and the white house is the devil's foo stool

WombRaiders:
America is the home of shaitan and the white house is the devil's foo stool

Why? Because they refused to sell weapons to you? Nah by force to sell?

Story for gods! Pure lubish.
This kinda news makes want to slap everything around me even mosquitoes. For every hardware ameriki makes their is a duplicate. Albeit inferior chinko model. Go china buy am( chinko or not once it will get those mofos killed period). Stay their telling me *hit about America till I slap the hangover out of your head.

[size=15pt]This is what they should have done long ago.

Enter strong tie with China and Russia and abandon the convenient parasite relationship with America!!!

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I wonder why we waited on our so called ally...when the so call ally is not interested in nigeria winning the war...

I just wonder why our government just realised this now...anyway its not too late, I hope the deal with russia pulls through

pazienza:


Why? Because they refused to sell weapons to you? Nah by force to sell?

Because they created this monster and any attempt to destroy them by the FG is seen as human rights violation

The current US ambassador keeps spewing trash and aligning US with boko haram and opposition figures of dubios backgrounds

His worst utterance so far was that christian victims of boko haram and marauding fulani militias in the middle belt are to be blamed for the violence perpertuated on them.

Keep deceiving yourself about america. This is a country that has its hands stained in blood in virtually all crisis globally since the end of ww2

Long overdue. I don't understand why the FG is clueless.

pazienza:


Why? Because they refused to sell weapons to you? Nah by force to sell?

you are stup!d.

Nobleval:
you are stup!d.

Really? *grins*

“From our enquiries, it was also discovered that
for more than 20 years, United States Government
has not endorsed the sale of Western military
hardware to Nigeria and this has led to a situation
whereby our country always resorts to getting
supplies from the alternative market or shop from
other power blocks.

So it as been like this for 20 years Then this is long overdue! What is the point of even training our pilots there when they won't sell us their warplanes.

pazienza:


Really? *grins*

hehehe...funny guy. Yea you are.

WombRaiders:


Because they created this monster and any attempt to destroy them by the FG is seen as human rights violation

The current US ambassador keeps spewing trash and aligning US with boko haram and opposition figures of dubios backgrounds

His worst utterance so far was that christian victims of boko haram and marauding fulani militias in the middle belt are to be blamed for the violence perpertuated on them.

Keep deceiving yourself about america. This is a country that has its hands stained in blood in virtually all crisis globally since the end of ww2

We can't blame the west for all our problems, you know.

America is no saint, but BH problem only thrived because of the poverty in the land, caused by the failure of the Northern leadership of the country.

But on the spin side, one can equally argue that those Northern failed leaders were all puppetes of the west. For example Gowon was given unlimited supply of weapons by the West during the civil war and would have easily been defeated by the Biafrans without this western help, and so is a product of the west interference in African politics, likewise his successors.

But can we blame the west for the failures of Gowon and co that led to the under development and poverty in the North that is leading to this BH terror?

Nobleval:
hehehe...funny guy. Yea you are.

Good to know that i am stupid. *grins*

Hillary Clinton’s State Department Refused to Brand Boko Haram as Terrorists … But, Hillary Called the Abduction of the Girls by Boko Haram was “Abominable, It’s Criminal, It’s an Act of Terrorism”
 

Former Secretary of State and 2016 Democrat presidential candidate Hillary Clinton has a lot of explaining to do. In the wake of the Muslim Islamist terror group Boko Haram kidnapping nearly 300 girls and threatening to sell them into human sex slavery, Hillary Clinton like many jumped on the bandwagon of outrage. On Wednesday, Hillary Clinton called the abduction of the girls by Boko Haram was “abominable, it’s criminal, it’s an act of terrorism and it really merits the fullest response possible, first and foremost from the government of Nigeria. Clinton went on to say that as Secretary of State she had numerous meetings with Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan and had urged the Nigerian government to do more on counter-terrorism.



Oh contraire mon frère … Hillary Clinton supposedly urged the Nigerian government to do more on counter-terrorism, but as reported at The Daily Beast, Hillary’s State Department refused to brand Boko Haram as terrorists. According to accounts by Josh Rogin, what Hillary Clinton failed to mention was that her own State Department refused to place Boko Haram on the list of foreign terrorist organizations in 2011, after the group bombed the U.N. headquarters in Abuja. The refusal of branding  Boko Haram as terrorists came despite the urging of the Justice Department, the FBI, the CIA, and over a dozen senators and congressmen.But of course naming a new group to the terrorist list would have gone against Obama’s reelection talking points that al Qaeda was on the run.

As the folks at Hot Air opines,“Sound familiar? … Now Hillary wants to fight Boko Haram with hashtags. Too bad she didn’t fight them with real resources when she had the chance.”



Under Hillary Clinton, the State Department repeatedly declined to fully go after the terror group responsible for kidnapping hundreds of girls.

The State Department under Hillary Clinton fought hard against placing the al Qaeda-linked militant group Boko Haram on its official list of foreign terrorist organizations for two years. And now, lawmakers and former U.S. officials are saying that the decision may have hampered the American government’s ability to confront the Nigerian group that shocked the world by abducting hundreds of innocent girls.

In the past week, Clinton, who made protecting women and girls a key pillar of her tenure at the State Department, has been a vocal advocate for the 200 Nigerian girls kidnapped by Boko Haram, the loosely organized group of militants terrorizing northern Nigeria. Her May 4 tweet about the girls, using the hashtag #BringOurGirlsBack, was cited across the media and widely credited for raising awareness of their plight.

What Clinton didn’t mention was that her own State Department refused to place Boko Haram on the list of foreign terrorist organizations in 2011, after the group bombed the U.N. headquarters in Abuja. The refusal came despite the urging of the Justice Department, the FBI, the CIA, and over a dozen senators and congressmen.

But of course Clinton’s response to these questions will be, we have 300 girls threatened to be sold into sex slavery, what difference does it make that Boko Haram are terrorists.

War against an insurgent group can't be won by aerial bombardment alone. You need boots on ground to conduct a mop up operation to dislodge them from there strongholds. Take for instance the American and other allied nations bombardment of ISIS position is yet to yield any result due absence of boots on ground if nt for the Kurdish fighters-eventhough ill equiped fighting the militants, Iraq would have been history against the rampaging ISIS terrorist. Hence, the Nigerian armed forces should adopt the tactics of infantry advance under the protection of helicopter gun ships deployed for tactical support. BH would be history only when stop using obsolete tactics and weapons.

omarlee:
War against an insurgent group can't be won by aerial bombardment alone. You need boots on ground to conduct a mop up operation to dislodge them from there strongholds. Take for instance the American and other allied nations bombardment of ISIS position is yet to yield any result due absence of boots on ground if nt for the Kurdish fighters-eventhough ill equiped fighting the militants, Iraq would have been history against the rampaging ISIS terrorist. Hence, the Nigerian armed forces should adopt the tactics of infantry advance under the protection of helicopter gun ships deployed for tactical support. BH would be history only when stop using obsolete tactics and weapons.

I totally disagree on the military solution.

Boko recruits keep increasing by the day and the recruitment pool is from the Hausa Fulani Kanuri Muslims.

Boko haram enjoys tacit support from northern Muslims across all stratas.

Why has the group not attacked Borno governor?

Na now GEJ come. I would even prefer us to be Russian ally than USA.

And again I ask, why did Nigeria wait this long to upgrade their military hardware? I can't imagine myself waiting for a virus to threaten my laptop before updating the anti virus.

A nation that is serious about protecting it's own citizens makes its own weapons. If unable to, will acquire them by any means necessary. The nation will have them on standby and not wait for an attack before seeking to source weapons.

ThaProphet:
A nation that is serious about protecting it's own citizens makes its own weapons. If unable to, will acquire them by any means necessary. The nation will have them on standby and not wait for an attack before seeking to source weapons.

Is it GEJ's fault that we don't have a military industry complex now?

WombRaiders:


Is it GEJ's fault that we don't have a military industry complex now?

You don't necessarily need to have a military industrial complex. In many ways, being obsessed with a military industrial complex can be damaging. However, A nation must be at the ready to defend itself by having enough military hardware to fend off possible attacks. So, if we can't develop our own weapons, we should acquire them as a necessity. If we are struggling to get rid of BH because of lack of military supplies, how would the country cope in the (unlikely) event of an invasion?

About GEJ, I didn't mention his name at all. I was talking about Nigeria as a whole. The pitiful state of the military did not start with GEJ and I wasn't blaming him.