The Nigerian Air Force is the largest and most powerful in West and Central Africa. Numerically it has more aircraft than the next 16 ECOWAS countries, including Chad and Cameroon combined, and its the only Air Force in the region with a dedicated ground combat unit.

But that’s where the good stuff ends. Relative to its size and available resources the Nigerian Air Force is hopelessly obselete. Here’s why.

As of this writing (until/if the JF-17 Thunder is delivered) the most potent and only supersonic aircraft in the Nigerian Air Force inventory is the Chinese built Chengdu F-7N Airguard. Itself a clone of the Russian MiG-21 fighter built five years after the end of World War Two.

In 2005 Nigeria spent a quarter of a billion dollars ($350 billion) to aquire 15 F-7N interceptors as a stop gap measure as it retires its fleet of MiG-21’s. Twelve years later three pilots are dead, spares parts are hard to come by as no sane country uses a post WW2 era aircraft as its frontline strike aircraft. Of the original 15 jets, only 6 are operational.

Chengdu F-7Ni Airguard.

Now the antiquated F-7N is not entirely obselete. There are at least a dozen air forces in the world that still have the F-7N in their fleet. Morroco, Pakistan and Indonisia all operate the F-7N, but they use it as a force multiplier by having them in large quantities. Morroco operates nearly 100 F-7N’s even though they have the Flankers and Fukcrums. Egypt has 120 of the obselete fighters but also flies the F-16 and of recent the French built Rafale. China is reported to have close to 200 of these antiques.

Counties who operate 1950 era jets have them in large numbers. Nigeria however is the exception. The NAF has just 6 of these jets airworthy to defend Nigeria’s airspace.

Dassault Donnier Alpha Jet.


NAF fighter pilots board their Alpha jets for a strike mission.
The Alpha Jet is hopelessly obsolete. Acquired by the Air Force in the eighties as a trainer aircraft to train pilots, the Alpha Jet today is the workhorse of the Nigerian Air Force. If anything, the proliferation of surface to air missile sites in Chad and Niger should be a key impetus for Nigeria to modernise its aircrafts, but the reverse is the case.

If for example war breaks out between Nigeria and Chad, and these antiquated subsonic airplane were to cross into Chadian airspace in an attempt to attack ground targets there will be no need to vector MiG-29’s or SU-25’s. Chad has a battery of SA-3 surface to air missiles and Stinger MANPADS in active service. So long as they are detected on time the 600km per hour Alpha Jets will be blotted out of the sky before they reach their targets.

It’s time for Nigeria’s military leaders to realise that Nigeria is in TROUBLE. In modern warfare the Air Force plays a vital role. In today’s battlefield you cannot isolate land forces from air support. When air superiority is lost the land battle becomes worthless . NAF MiG-21’s played a pivotal role when the Nigerian Army routed and pushed back the invading Chadian forces in the eighties.

Despite that victory the need for a powerful airforce to deter future aggression resulted in the NAF’s acquisition of a complete squadron of 4th gen BAE’s Jaguar jets from Britannia. At a time when the closest foe to the NAF was Chads fleet of 5 Alpha Jets, Nigeria enjoyed decades of unchallenged air superiority.

For example, in the 1980’s the Nigerian Air Force fleet of one squadron (twelve) of BAE’s 4th Gen Jaguar and two squadrons (24) of MiG 21’s was vastly superior in numerical and qualitative term. However, French military aid and cooperation with all of Nigeria’s peripherial neighbors in recent years has considerably narrowed the gap to the point where the Chadian Air Force is now roughly comparable to the Nigerian Air Force in qualitative terms, and is virtually the only country in WEST/CENTRAL Africa with a 4th Gen fighter jet.

Misappropriation of funds.

In late 2016 the Nigerian Air Force placed an order for 12 Embrae Super Tucano aircraft for a staggering $600 million. This has to be a joke. If you are spending two times the amount of the entire defense budget of Chad, then we ought to make sure it counts. We are repeating the mistakes of 2005 when the NAF spent a quarter of a billion dollars ($350 million), the entire budget of Chad on 15 widow maker antiquated aircrafts called the Chengdu F-7N interceptor. $600 million if put to good use will transform the Nigerian Air Force, putting it on per with the South African Air Defence Force, SADF.

Those who support this unbelievably senseless move, or make an argument on “priority, what is needed now, we must focus on the BOKO HARAM threat bladabladabla….. ” fail to realise we are currently suffering from the mistakes of 2005.

There is never a RIGHT TIME to modernise the capability of a nation’s fighting force. If 18 Alpha Jets, 15 L-39’s, 40 Mi-24 and Mi-35 helicopter gunships, 9 Mi-17sh and five CH-3 Rainbow combat UAV (One lost to attrition) is not enough to pummel Boko Haram back to the days of Salladin, then we have no business having a air force.

A stunning 99% of our entire strike aircraft fleet is 30 years old and can only be used in less contested enviroment where the Air Force has a margin of air superiority. Boko Haram is a spent force, it does not have an airforce.
A nation with obselete and outdated air force assets will be exposed to aerial threats from a potential enemy. It is prudent for the Nigerian Air Force to gradually transit from Counter Insurgency operations to conventional operations. The procurement programmes for the Nigerian Air Force is nothing short of a complete joke and an embarrassment.

Spending twice the entire defence budget of Chad on 12 subsonic turbo prop aircraft amidst threats arising from Franco Chadian Cameroonian growing aggressive stance on issues over disputed territory is almost beyond belief.

Ours already struggling and is shrinking before our eyes. The Nigerian Air Force is the smallest and oldest since the end of the civil war.

If those guys at Aso-Rock step back and look at the collective impact of patch patch acquisitions and capability cuts due to refusal to modernise, they will find out that not only is there virtually no slack left in Nigeria’s air power to protect Nigeria’s airspace, much less meet regional peacekeeping demands. The acquisition of 10 Super Muchank trainers, two VIP helicopters is emblematic of country driving its air force to extinction.

https://defensenigeria.blog/2017/10/14/the-nigerian-air-force-is-junk/

Well said n pointed out

all this one you wrote is nonsense!
if you know how and the country that country that is ready to sell modern jets to Nigeria
money to buy and (guarantee that the jets will be delivered on Nigerian soil) to is never our problem

baralatie:
all this one you wrote is nonsense!
if you know how and the country that country that is ready to sell modern jets to Nigeria
money to buy and (guarantee that the jets will be delivered on Nigerian soil) to is never our problem

What you wrote is nonsense. Can you write in term people can understand?

SSBN:


What you wrote is nonsense. Can you write in term people can understand?

what do you think is hindering acquisition of modern rn jets in the Nigerian airforce since you want to understand

SSBN:
The Nigerian Air Force is the largest and most powerful in West and Central Africa. Numerically it has more aircraft than the next 16 ECOWAS countries, including Chad and Cameroon combined, and its the only Air Force in the region with a dedicated ground combat unit.

But that’s where the good stuff ends. Relative to its size and available resources the Nigerian Air Force is hopelessly obselete. Here’s why.

As of this writing (until/if the JF-17 Thunder is delivered) the most potent and only supersonic aircraft in the Nigerian Air Force inventory is the Chinese built Chengdu F-7N Airguard. Itself a clone of the Russian MiG-21 fighter built five years after the end of World War Two.

In 2005 Nigeria spent a quarter of a billion dollars ($350 billion) to aquire 15 F-7N interceptors as a stop gap measure as it retires its fleet of MiG-21’s. Twelve years later three pilots are dead, spares parts are hard to come by as no sane country uses a post WW2 era aircraft as its frontline strike aircraft. Of the original 15 jets, only 6 are operational.

Chengdu F-7Ni Airguard.

Now the antiquated F-7N is not entirely obselete. There are at least a dozen air forces in the world that still have the F-7N in their fleet. Morroco, Pakistan and Indonisia all operate the F-7N, but they use it as a force multiplier by having them in large quantities. Morroco operates nearly 100 F-7N’s even though they have the Flankers and Fukcrums. Egypt has 120 of the obselete fighters but also flies the F-16 and of recent the French built Rafale. China is reported to have close to 200 of these antiques.

Counties who operate 1950 era jets have them in large numbers. Nigeria however is the exception. The NAF has just 6 of these jets airworthy to defend Nigeria’s airspace.

Dassault Donnier Alpha Jet.


NAF fighter pilots board their Alpha jets for a strike mission.
The Alpha Jet is hopelessly obsolete. Acquired by the Air Force in the eighties as a trainer aircraft to train pilots, the Alpha Jet today is the workhorse of the Nigerian Air Force. If anything, the proliferation of surface to air missile sites in Chad and Niger should be a key impetus for Nigeria to modernise its aircrafts, but the reverse is the case.

If for example war breaks out between Nigeria and Chad, and these antiquated subsonic airplane were to cross into Chadian airspace in an attempt to attack ground targets there will be no need to vector MiG-29’s or SU-25’s. Chad has a battery of SA-3 surface to air missiles and Stinger MANPADS in active service. So long as they are detected on time the 600km per hour Alpha Jets will be blotted out of the sky before they reach their targets.

It’s time for Nigeria’s military leaders to realise that Nigeria is in TROUBLE. In modern warfare the Air Force plays a vital role. In today’s battlefield you cannot isolate land forces from air support. When air superiority is lost the land battle becomes worthless . NAF MiG-21’s played a pivotal role when the Nigerian Army routed and pushed back the invading Chadian forces in the eighties.

Despite that victory the need for a powerful airforce to deter future aggression resulted in the NAF’s acquisition of a complete squadron of 4th gen BAE’s Jaguar jets from Britannia. At a time when the closest foe to the NAF was Chads fleet of 5 Alpha Jets, Nigeria enjoyed decades of unchallenged air superiority.

For example, in the 1980’s the Nigerian Air Force fleet of one squadron (twelve) of BAE’s 4th Gen Jaguar and two squadrons (24) of MiG 21’s was vastly superior in numerical and qualitative term. However, French military aid and cooperation with all of Nigeria’s peripherial neighbors in recent years has considerably narrowed the gap to the point where the Chadian Air Force is now roughly comparable to the Nigerian Air Force in qualitative terms, and is virtually the only country in WEST/CENTRAL Africa with a 4th Gen fighter jet.

Misappropriation of funds.

In late 2016 the Nigerian Air Force placed an order for 12 Embrae Super Tucano aircraft for a staggering $600 million. This has to be a joke. If you are spending two times the amount of the entire defense budget of Chad, then we ought to make sure it counts. We are repeating the mistakes of 2005 when the NAF spent a quarter of a billion dollars ($350 million), the entire budget of Chad on 15 widow maker antiquated aircrafts called the Chengdu F-7N interceptor. $600 million if put to good use will transform the Nigerian Air Force, putting it on per with the South African Air Defence Force, SADF.

Those who support this unbelievably senseless move, or make an argument on “priority, what is needed now, we must focus on the BOKO HARAM threat bladabladabla….. ” fail to realise we are currently suffering from the mistakes of 2005.

There is never a RIGHT TIME to modernise the capability of a nation’s fighting force. If 18 Alpha Jets, 15 L-39’s, 40 Mi-24 and Mi-35 helicopter gunships, 9 Mi-17sh and five CH-3 Rainbow combat UAV (One lost to attrition) is not enough to pummel Boko Haram back to the days of Salladin, then we have no business having a air force.

A stunning 99% of our entire strike aircraft fleet is 30 years old and can only be used in less contested enviroment where the Air Force has a margin of air superiority. Boko Haram is a spent force, it does not have an airforce.
A nation with obselete and outdated air force assets will be exposed to aerial threats from a potential enemy. It is prudent for the Nigerian Air Force to gradually transit from Counter Insurgency operations to conventional operations. The procurement programmes for the Nigerian Air Force is nothing short of a complete joke and an embarrassment.

Spending twice the entire defence budget of Chad on 12 subsonic turbo prop aircraft amidst threats arising from Franco Chadian Cameroonian growing aggressive stance on issues over disputed territory is almost beyond belief.

Ours already struggling and is shrinking before our eyes. The Nigerian Air Force is the smallest and oldest since the end of the civil war.

If those guys at Aso-Rock step back and look at the collective impact of patch patch acquisitions and capability cuts due to refusal to modernise, they will find out that not only is there virtually no slack left in Nigeria’s air power to protect Nigeria’s airspace, much less meet regional peacekeeping demands. The acquisition of 10 Super Muchank trainers, two VIP helicopters is emblematic of country driving its air force to extinction.

https://defensenigeria.blog/2017/10/14/the-nigerian-air-force-is-junk/

you are not a serious o! First you should know that any aircraft you buy from the US has a kill switch in them that's controlled from washigton and before you can start the aircraft you must get approval from them the Americans.. so pple or rather countries don't want to sell aircrafts to African nations especially Nigeria because they feel threatened we buy some of the aircrafts from the black market but let me just allow you bask in your ignorance.. don't quote me

DonBobes:
Well said n pointed out

is this the famous done bobes. The shining example... rsm

SSBN: You have really hit the nail on the head. I had to ask a mid level air force officer the status of our acquisition of the JF17. To be honest, he said he is not sure we are getting it soon. Indications from PAC does not show any impending delivery to any foreign customer apart from Myanmar.
Something is really wrong somewhere and the air force top brass do not want to open up on this issue probably for security reasons.I really hope going by the defence minister's recent comment that we are going for a more potent fighter like the latest iteration of the mig29. My only issue with a twin engine jet is the higher cost of operations and maintenance. However, going by the environment we are in and surrounded by mig29's, mirage 2000's and rafales, the mig29 will be a good buy.

Nice article ad usual..

Nigeria Air force used to be the pride of the region till Buharis meaningless coup of 1984 sent Nigeria the wrong direction which are yet to recover from

TopGunFighter:
you are not a serious o! First you should know that any aircraft you buy from the US has a kill switch in them that's controlled from washigton and before you can start the aircraft you must get approval from them the Americans.. so pple or rather countries don't want to sell aircrafts to African nations especially Nigeria because they feel threatened we buy some of the aircrafts from the black market but let me just allow you bask in your ignorance.. don't quote me

Who brought America into this? Since when did the Nigerian Air Force, or military for that matter use American weapons systems? Can you name any major made in America hardware in the Nigerian military hardware? Even during the golden age, our aircrafts have always been Russian. Our feud with BAE Systems ended Nigeria's appetite for Western built high performance jets, do not make excuses for the powers that be.

Russia is cash strapped from Western sanctions and is more than willing to sell to Nigeria Flankers and Fukcrums. China needs an export market for its J-10. Britain has signified several times its willingness to provide Nigeria surplus Tornado GRA's.There are a ton of countries we can buy high performance jets from. How did Uganda get its Fulcrums. Do you know what $600 million is? That's the combined defence budget if Chad and Cameroon combined. We are buying 12 propeller planes that can be brought down with rifle fire for over half a billion dollars yet you see no problem with this.

It would have made sense if the NAF had purchased the YAK-130,instead of those crop sprayers.

some people just like turning blind eye sha!

Russia sell you modern fighter jets? I dey laf una!
Britain that one is case study!

at least PMB can see the real hustle involved when it comes to BUYING a military craft talk less of a modern one!

op! more analysis of how Nigerian air force can buy China fourth generation fighter jet like 25 with Russia third generation jet like 30

SSBN:
The Nigerian Air Force is the largest and most powerful in West and Central Africa. Numerically it has more aircraft than the next 16 ECOWAS countries, including Chad and Cameroon combined, and its the only Air Force in the region with a dedicated ground combat unit.

But that’s where the good stuff ends. Relative to its size and available resources the Nigerian Air Force is hopelessly obselete. Here’s why.

As of this writing (until/if the JF-17 Thunder is delivered) the most potent and only supersonic aircraft in the Nigerian Air Force inventory is the Chinese built Chengdu F-7N Airguard. Itself a clone of the Russian MiG-21 fighter built five years after the end of World War Two.

In 2005 Nigeria spent a quarter of a billion dollars ($350 billion) to aquire 15 F-7N interceptors as a stop gap measure as it retires its fleet of MiG-21’s. Twelve years later three pilots are dead, spares parts are hard to come by as no sane country uses a post WW2 era aircraft as its frontline strike aircraft. Of the original 15 jets, only 6 are operational.

Chengdu F-7Ni Airguard.

Now the antiquated F-7N is not entirely obselete. There are at least a dozen air forces in the world that still have the F-7N in their fleet. Morroco, Pakistan and Indonisia all operate the F-7N, but they use it as a force multiplier by having them in large quantities. Morroco operates nearly 100 F-7N’s even though they have the Flankers and Fukcrums. Egypt has 120 of the obselete fighters but also flies the F-16 and of recent the French built Rafale. China is reported to have close to 200 of these antiques.

Counties who operate 1950 era jets have them in large numbers. Nigeria however is the exception. The NAF has just 6 of these jets airworthy to defend Nigeria’s airspace.

Dassault Donnier Alpha Jet.


NAF fighter pilots board their Alpha jets for a strike mission.
The Alpha Jet is hopelessly obsolete. Acquired by the Air Force in the eighties as a trainer aircraft to train pilots, the Alpha Jet today is the workhorse of the Nigerian Air Force. If anything, the proliferation of surface to air missile sites in Chad and Niger should be a key impetus for Nigeria to modernise its aircrafts, but the reverse is the case.

If for example war breaks out between Nigeria and Chad, and these antiquated subsonic airplane were to cross into Chadian airspace in an attempt to attack ground targets there will be no need to vector MiG-29’s or SU-25’s. Chad has a battery of SA-3 surface to air missiles and Stinger MANPADS in active service. So long as they are detected on time the 600km per hour Alpha Jets will be blotted out of the sky before they reach their targets.

It’s time for Nigeria’s military leaders to realise that Nigeria is in TROUBLE. In modern warfare the Air Force plays a vital role. In today’s battlefield you cannot isolate land forces from air support. When air superiority is lost the land battle becomes worthless . NAF MiG-21’s played a pivotal role when the Nigerian Army routed and pushed back the invading Chadian forces in the eighties.

Despite that victory the need for a powerful airforce to deter future aggression resulted in the NAF’s acquisition of a complete squadron of 4th gen BAE’s Jaguar jets from Britannia. At a time when the closest foe to the NAF was Chads fleet of 5 Alpha Jets, Nigeria enjoyed decades of unchallenged air superiority.

For example, in the 1980’s the Nigerian Air Force fleet of one squadron (twelve) of BAE’s 4th Gen Jaguar and two squadrons (24) of MiG 21’s was vastly superior in numerical and qualitative term. However, French military aid and cooperation with all of Nigeria’s peripherial neighbors in recent years has considerably narrowed the gap to the point where the Chadian Air Force is now roughly comparable to the Nigerian Air Force in qualitative terms, and is virtually the only country in WEST/CENTRAL Africa with a 4th Gen fighter jet.

Misappropriation of funds.

In late 2016 the Nigerian Air Force placed an order for 12 Embrae Super Tucano aircraft for a staggering $600 million. This has to be a joke. If you are spending two times the amount of the entire defense budget of Chad, then we ought to make sure it counts. We are repeating the mistakes of 2005 when the NAF spent a quarter of a billion dollars ($350 million), the entire budget of Chad on 15 widow maker antiquated aircrafts called the Chengdu F-7N interceptor. $600 million if put to good use will transform the Nigerian Air Force, putting it on per with the South African Air Defence Force, SADF.

Those who support this unbelievably senseless move, or make an argument on “priority, what is needed now, we must focus on the BOKO HARAM threat bladabladabla….. ” fail to realise we are currently suffering from the mistakes of 2005.

There is never a RIGHT TIME to modernise the capability of a nation’s fighting force. If 18 Alpha Jets, 15 L-39’s, 40 Mi-24 and Mi-35 helicopter gunships, 9 Mi-17sh and five CH-3 Rainbow combat UAV (One lost to attrition) is not enough to pummel Boko Haram back to the days of Salladin, then we have no business having a air force.

A stunning 99% of our entire strike aircraft fleet is 30 years old and can only be used in less contested enviroment where the Air Force has a margin of air superiority. Boko Haram is a spent force, it does not have an airforce.
A nation with obselete and outdated air force assets will be exposed to aerial threats from a potential enemy. It is prudent for the Nigerian Air Force to gradually transit from Counter Insurgency operations to conventional operations. The procurement programmes for the Nigerian Air Force is nothing short of a complete joke and an embarrassment.

Spending twice the entire defence budget of Chad on 12 subsonic turbo prop aircraft amidst threats arising from Franco Chadian Cameroonian growing aggressive stance on issues over disputed territory is almost beyond belief.

Ours already struggling and is shrinking before our eyes. The Nigerian Air Force is the smallest and oldest since the end of the civil war.

If those guys at Aso-Rock step back and look at the collective impact of patch patch acquisitions and capability cuts due to refusal to modernise, they will find out that not only is there virtually no slack left in Nigeria’s air power to protect Nigeria’s airspace, much less meet regional peacekeeping demands. The acquisition of 10 Super Muchank trainers, two VIP helicopters is emblematic of country driving its air force to extinction.

https://defensenigeria.blog/2017/10/14/the-nigerian-air-force-is-junk/

I cannot believe Chad had MiG-29s or SU-25s yet it is a landlocked country. Why are most dumbass Nigerians keep talking about landlocked Biafra when moronic Nigeria cannot even attempt to see the airspace of Chad? Nigeria is a bottomless pit.

Su-30MKs.

This is an aircraft comparable to the F-15 Falcon in capabilities.

Unit price : $32 million.

Users

Uganda
Angola
Algeria

Ugandan Air Force SU-30

brosiye99:
SSBN: You have really hit the nail on the head. I had to ask a mid level air force officer the status of our acquisition of the JF17. To be honest, he said he is not sure we are getting it soon. Indications from PAC does not show any impending delivery to any foreign customer apart from Myanmar.
Something is really wrong somewhere and the air force top brass do not want to open up on this issue probably for security reasons.I really hope going by the defence minister's recent comment that we are going for a more potent fighter like the latest iteration of the mig29. My only issue with a twin engine jet is the higher cost of operations and maintenance. However, going by the environment we are in and surrounded by mig29's, mirage 2000's and rafales, the mig29 will be a good buy.

Nigeria is not serious at all. When I learnt that Nigeria is going for a Pakistani rubbish, I just laughed. Pakistan of all countries!!
Nigeria claim to be friendly with Russia. What is stopping the NSA and Defense minister from going to Russia, make a deal for 3 -5 squadrons of SU-34s, which is far better than that JF-17 nonsense.
Nigeria obviously have the money. Even a gradual payment plan will be agreed to by the Russians who are looking for money.

Algerian AF SU-30

CHAD

MiG-29 Fulcrum and SU-25 Foxtrot

If Zambia, Uganda, angola can have SU-30s which in all honesty are the best airframes in the African airspace, tell me , what is stopping Nigeria from buying squadrons and squadrons of it and dominating the entire African airspace like the 70s and 80s.?

....

cstr1000:

Nigeria is not serious at all. When I learnt that Nigeria is going for a Pakistani rubbish, I just laughed. Pakistan of all countries!!
Nigeria claim to be friendly with Russia. What is stopping the NSA and Defense minister from going to Russia, make a deal for 3 -5 squadrons of SU-34s, which is far better than that JF-17 nonsense.
Nigeria obviously have the money. Even a gradual payment plan will be agreed to by the Russians who are looking for money.

DEFENCE BUDGET $5 BILLION. 15 years of continuous conflict, foreign encroachment on Nigerian territory to embarrass us...yet we are celebrating mediocrity. Super Mushank, Super Tucano. God help us.

If Nigeria is serious, all your defense ministers since OBJ till now should be hanged for treason.
What is more treasonous than wasting money on Pakistani rubbish that is untested when you can get a far superior equivalent in Russia for a little above the price?
What is more treasonous than allowing your country to be surrounded by poorer nations with far superior long strike capability than you?

Why isn't Nigeria patronizing russia more SSBN. Russia is biggest arms deal in Africa anyway. I'm still waiting for your navy article.

Sudanese AF

SSBN:


DEFENCE BUDGET $5 BILLION. 15 years of continuous conflict, foreign encroachment on Nigerian territory to embarrass us...yet we are celebrating mediocrity. Super Mushank, Super Tucano. God help us.

It is a shame.
Chad, Cameroon, togo. All French puppets buoyed by French rafale. And yet Nigeria's response is the archaic F-7.
Nigeria has no patriots in government.
Look at southern camerroon who are anglophone being oppressed by Biya and facing French recolonization. They left Nigeria in the first place though a referendum and some of them are looking to come back.
If Nigeria had critical planners and thinkers, we should be looking to get them back by supporting their rising secessionism at the UN, and provide for them aid and logistics and then covertly supporting southern Cameroonian leaders favourably disposed to a return to Nigeria.
We should be all up in southern Cameroon. They were one of us until they left due to the NCNC.

Blue3k:
Why isn't Nigeria patronizing russia more SSBN. Russia is biggest arms deal in Africa anyway. I'm still waiting for your navy article.

I know. Research is near completion.

Look at the way Russia took back Crimea from ukraine because some of them want to be Russian.
That is exactly what Nigeria should do in southern Cameroon. But you need a strong military to do that.

Blue3k:
Why isn't Nigeria patronizing russia more SSBN. Russia is biggest arms deal in Africa anyway. I'm still waiting for your navy article.

Nigeria has always being asking Russia is not selling to Nigeria

baralatie:

Nigeria has always being asking Russia is not selling to Nigeria

Bullshitt.
You have not offered enough money. Russia sells to dictators, I am sure selling to Nigeria is not a big deal for them.

https://www.nairaland.com/2897531/minister-defence-dan-ali-russia

The Russians are saying show me the money.

baralatie:

Nigeria has always being asking Russia is not selling to Nigeria

Corruption apologist. You have to come up with a better lie.

cstr1000:

Bullshitt.
You have not offered enough money. Russia sells to dictators, I am sure selling to Nigeria is not a big deal for them.

you said it,Russia sell to dictators because of the right price meaning there is more than meets the eye when it comes to buying new craft!
with Nigeria Russia,China make it a big deal!
even with a high asking price from Russia which Nigeria is still willing to pay!
Russia is not easy to convince to sell to Nigeria