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Re: United States Confirms Sale Of 12 Attack Helicopters, Others To Nigeria For $1bn by adecz: 11:04pm On Feb 04
💲1bn for 12 attack helicopters❓❓❓


This looks like a fkcuing rip-off❗️❗️❗️😮😮😮


An average attack helicopters is in the
region of 💲20m to 💲35m. Top of the range
like the Apache are in the region of 💲50m.

So, how come they are selling 12 &
with whatever accompanying peripherals
and training costing close to💲80m per unit❓❓❗️❗️❗️

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Re: United States Confirms Sale Of 12 Attack Helicopters, Others To Nigeria For $1bn by mosicola(m): 11:22pm On Feb 04
They will be using it to do trials and error. At the end of the day, na civilians go suffer am. Has Nigerian army changed?]
Re: United States Confirms Sale Of 12 Attack Helicopters, Others To Nigeria For $1bn by Konquest: 11:23pm On Feb 04
dre11:


https://www.thisdaylive.com/index.php/2024/02/04/united-states-confirms-sale-of-12-attack-helicopters-others-to-nigeria-for-1bn?amp=1
In a significant move aimed at improving Nigeria’s defence capabilities, the United States Department of Defence has confirmed the sale of arms valued at $1 billion to Nigeria.

According to a statement issued by the US Defence Security Cooperation Agency, the deal includes the procurement of 12 AH-1Z Viper attack helicopters, as well as 32 mission computers from Northrop Grumman.
The acquisition of 12 AH-1Z Viper attack helicopters will enhance Nigeria’s ability to conduct precision strikes and undertake rapid response operations for the country’s overall security and stability.

The statement added that the strategic move is expected to bolster Nigeria’s ability to respond to security challenges and strengthen its overall defence posture.

Nigeria’s complex security challenges have displaced millions and claimed countless lives, making the purchase of the helicopter, scheduled for completion in June 2024, a significant upgrade to the country’s military assets.

The sale follows the US State Department’s approval in April 2022 of Nigeria’s request for the helicopters, which includes guidance systems, night vision imaging systems, and extensive training.

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Re: United States Confirms Sale Of 12 Attack Helicopters, Others To Nigeria For $1bn by NwaliE01: 11:30pm On Feb 04
How many innocent people did we kill with last one we bought?
People were enjoying a wedding celebration, the next thing, Army visited them with a heavy bombardment in Kaduna.
Zero intelligence and the bandits are having a field day in almost all the States of the federation.
May God help us.
Re: United States Confirms Sale Of 12 Attack Helicopters, Others To Nigeria For $1bn by onuman: 11:34pm On Feb 04
Emmanuel900:



That must have happened in your head

How people like you believe fairy tales like that baffle me.
Go school, you did midnight schooling and ended up in NL.
Do a little research if you have a head for doing that.
American troops landed in Nigeria at the onset of Boko Haram to lend hands to Nigeria's troops but quickly left when they understood the level of sabotage within members of Nigeria's armed forces.
Re: United States Confirms Sale Of 12 Attack Helicopters, Others To Nigeria For $1bn by Chickensoup: 11:47pm On Feb 04
Until Boko Haram starts using helicopters and jets that's when our eyes will clear.
Re: United States Confirms Sale Of 12 Attack Helicopters, Others To Nigeria For $1bn by Dagger111(m): 11:48pm On Feb 04
This AH-1Z Viper attack helicopter was bought at over $83m(#83B) for each, so why not buy Apache Helicopters which is the most fearless helicopter in the world and the current unit cost of the latest AH-64E Apache as $52 million.
Re: United States Confirms Sale Of 12 Attack Helicopters, Others To Nigeria For $1bn by Emmanuel900(m): 11:59pm On Feb 04
onuman:

Go school, you did midnight schooling and ended up in NL.
Do a little research if you have a head for doing that.
American troops landed in Nigeria at the onset of Boko Haram to lend hands to Nigeria's troops but quickly left when they understood the level of sabotage within members of Nigeria's armed forces.

You are the illiterate here lol

Quote a source from Google, Wikipedia , Or newspaper to corroborate your claim.

There must be something you guys drink in the East that makes you susceptible to believe anything and any propaganda, same way you believed Buhari was cloned and Nnamdi kanu and Samuel Ekpa continue to deceive you with so many lies.

US might have provided training and support but they don't care to the extent of personally sending troops to engage on the front line. Even in Ukraine that US have helped with billions of dollars they didn't send any troops. What's Nigeria to US that would now make them risk the lives of their soldiers lol ?

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Re: United States Confirms Sale Of 12 Attack Helicopters, Others To Nigeria For $1bn by PaulH07: 12:08am On Feb 05
arantess:
All the ones they have sold to us before, what impact have they had?
Terrorists still doing their business like nothing happened

I doubt we even know how to use these things we're buying.

Na to just go crash am inside one bush and waste innocent lives. undecided
Re: United States Confirms Sale Of 12 Attack Helicopters, Others To Nigeria For $1bn by Dennisochampa: 12:09am On Feb 05
Tinubu will make 9ja strong again...
With this... Hopefully our military can be a strong force...
Hopefully, it won't be sabotaged by greedy military leaders
Re: United States Confirms Sale Of 12 Attack Helicopters, Others To Nigeria For $1bn by Emmanuel900(m): 12:09am On Feb 05
adecz:



💲1bn for 12 attack helicopters❓❓❓


This looks like a fkcuing rip-off❗️❗️❗️😮😮😮


An average attack helicopters is in the
region of 💲20m to 💲35m. Top of the range
like the Apache are in the region of 💲50m.

So, how come they are selling 12 &
with whatever accompanying peripherals
and training costing close to💲80m per unit❓❓❗️❗️❗️


What do you know jon snow?

Arm chair expert, talking as if you have worked in an attack helicopters sale shop or something before.

The monitoring or guidance and precision system and computers that would come with it are even more useful than the helicopters and should not be underestimated because Nigeria currently don't have much capabilities to track terrorists and bandits. With better system they wouldn't be attacking civilians instead of terrorists like it happened last time.

You know a thing or two about something and think you have known it all and an expert. Typical black man, don't be so close minded

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Re: United States Confirms Sale Of 12 Attack Helicopters, Others To Nigeria For $1bn by Honestey: 12:11am On Feb 05
Another innocent village for test run
Re: United States Confirms Sale Of 12 Attack Helicopters, Others To Nigeria For $1bn by Originalsly: 12:13am On Feb 05
In these times .... foreign exchange scarcity.... loans to begin repaying.... $1 B to for attack helicopters. Weren't helicopters bought before for the same purpose? What have they done? ... how many insurgents have they really killed?.... how many civilians have they really killed? ... how many are still operative? A military coup is badly needed to round up all these politicians and ehmmm .... let me shut up.
Re: United States Confirms Sale Of 12 Attack Helicopters, Others To Nigeria For $1bn by Kenmarine(m): 12:17am On Feb 05
Politics... So that Russia won't gain foothold in Nigeria
Re: United States Confirms Sale Of 12 Attack Helicopters, Others To Nigeria For $1bn by Emmanuel900(m): 12:27am On Feb 05
apalasedo:
exactly my thought.

Buying weapons for 1billion dollar at a time like this is pure cluelessness and complete misplaced priority.

People are starving and Nigeria is buying Jets... for what exactly? To fight kidnappers? Or to fight thesame terrorists that will be reinvented to the society.

Nigeria is broke but President get $1 billion to spend on Jet. This is pure madness. So they can't use the ones Buhari bought?

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.Just wail and continue wailing
.You will also be the first to wail on how the military are not equipped very well when they get out gun by terrorists and bandits.

If Bokoharam and other terrorists take over every where, Food would be the last thing on your list, they are even kidnapping and attacking people in Abuja.
Re: United States Confirms Sale Of 12 Attack Helicopters, Others To Nigeria For $1bn by onuman: 12:39am On Feb 05
Emmanuel900:


You are the illiterate here lol

Quote a source from Google, Wikipedia , Or newspaper to corroborate your claim.

There must be something you guys drink in the East that makes you susceptible to believe anything and any propaganda, same way you believed Buhari was cloned and Nnamdi kanu and Samuel Ekpa continue to deceive you with so many lies.

US might have provided training and support but they don't care to the extent of personally sending troops to engage on the front line. Even in Ukraine that US have helped with billions of dollars they didn't send any troops. What's Nigeria to US that would now make them risk the lives of their soldiers lol ?
You have obviously not been following the genesis and progress of Boko Haram uprising in Nigeria. Ask senior army officers in Nigeria about what Americans did at the onset of Boko haram uprising.
Americans also sent their troops to Afghanistan to combat extremist Islamists. You may also ask what is Afghanistan to Americans for America to send troops to combat the Afghan Taliban.
Your introduction of East to the discuss is not unexpected, as your lot is the most sophistiWretched ethnic bigots in Nigeria; you manifested your usual ethnic bigotry. Anyhow, your soul mate APC with its Buhari rejected by Easterners at the onset, is now the savior of Nigeria. You must be writing from the darkness of lack of electricity into which your saviour Buhari, and APC threw Nigeria.

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Re: United States Confirms Sale Of 12 Attack Helicopters, Others To Nigeria For $1bn by occfx: 1:12am On Feb 05
vanbonattel:
This sounds interesting, on the face of it, its a good news and a means of fighting insurgency. But the reality on the ground had shown that many innocent civilians living in their homes, (maybe even above the number of insurgents) has been killed, maimed and slaughtered by the very own fighter jets being flown by the NAF trained fighters.

In some quarters, there are worries that the jets are knowingly targeting and killing people that are not too friendly with the people in power, inquiries has been carried out in the past, reports of innocent people killed litters the Internet.

State policing will cure insecurity, any other measures are just to postpone the evil day.

USA just need the oil money, if una like kill una selfs. Bulaba use this one reconcile with his pending case. $1B will empower 1m youths hansomly or generate at least 10mw of electricity but no... The foolish people at the helm don't understand shiiit.
Re: United States Confirms Sale Of 12 Attack Helicopters, Others To Nigeria For $1bn by SaLongs1(m): 1:30am On Feb 05
Godfullsam:
Ok

Nice one grin

Gumi will not like this news.
His propaganda machine is here on this forum wailing loudly already grin.
Re: United States Confirms Sale Of 12 Attack Helicopters, Others To Nigeria For $1bn by t2luv1: 1:41am On Feb 05
Glassysea:
12 AH-1Z Viper attack helicopters is old type why not new model once .

You read my mind This AH_1Z was made during the Vietnam War in 1967. How come Nigeria is not buying the latest Apache attack Helicopter? To be honest drone would have been better. Very low-tech. Identify a bandit cell phone and track the phone using a simple Google Earth app and launch a drone with the coordinates feed. Do you have any idea how many drones you could with $1B?
Re: United States Confirms Sale Of 12 Attack Helicopters, Others To Nigeria For $1bn by madjune(m): 3:32am On Feb 05
PlushyRealtor:
Some Nigerian ministers/lawmakers may have padded this up.

That's stating the obvious.

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Re: United States Confirms Sale Of 12 Attack Helicopters, Others To Nigeria For $1bn by Dancebreaker: 3:42am On Feb 05
DMerciful:
That's like N1.5 trillion . Tinubu has turned the naira to tissue paper!

And Nigerian national budget for 2024 expenditure is 27.5 trillion Naira. Even though they will use padding/appropriation to add more later, it's a paltry sum. This should be the budget of Bayelsa or Ekiti Sate. For decent quality education, healthcare, welfare system and local amenities that are well funded. Considering where we were in 1960 compared to Australia, Singapore, NZ, etc.

https://www.pwc.com/ng/en/assets/pdf/nigeria-budget-highlight-2023.pdf

This budget was prepared with forex of $1 = 750 Naira.

We never ready o.
Re: United States Confirms Sale Of 12 Attack Helicopters, Others To Nigeria For $1bn by Emmanuel900(m): 3:48am On Feb 05
onuman:

You have obviously not been following the genesis and progress of Boko Haram uprising in Nigeria. Ask senior army officers in Nigeria about what Americans did at the onset of Boko haram uprising.
Americans also sent their troops to Afghanistan to combat extremist Islamists. You may also ask what is Afghanistan to Americans for America to send troops to combat the Afghan Taliban.
Your introduction of East to the discuss is not unexpected, as your lot is the most sophistiWretched ethnic bigots in Nigeria; you manifested your usual ethnic bigotry. Anyhow, your soul mate APC with its Buhari rejected by Easterners at the onset, is now the savior of Nigeria. You must be writing from the darkness of lack of electricity into which your saviour Buhari, and APC threw Nigeria.

You just proved you are very ignorant.

Americans entered Afghanistan after the 911 attack on world trade center in New York by Osama Bin Laden and his gang that killed almost 3000 people.

If not for that Americans wouldn't enter Afghanistan.

Provide one source to corroborate your claim not some wishful story you heard somewhere.
if it really happened it would be all over the news even with video.
Re: United States Confirms Sale Of 12 Attack Helicopters, Others To Nigeria For $1bn by akigbemaru: 3:53am On Feb 05
onuman:
To kill Nigerians or to ...

Wake up Nigerians and resolve your problems.

Problem of Nigeria is in forcing different groups with opposed value systems to form a country.
Europeans are not stupid for dissolving nearly all the multi religious, multi ethnic and multi religious countries that existed in Europe after the fall of Berlin Wall when Europeans got to understand that such countries never thrive.

The political and religious leaders of the 12 far northern Nigeria states that adopted unconstitutional Islamic sharia criminal justice system had since drawn the boundaries of their Arewa Islamic Republic but clutch tight to one Nigeria because of what they see as lucre in the southern regions.

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Re: United States Confirms Sale Of 12 Attack Helicopters, Others To Nigeria For $1bn by Benwallt(m): 3:57am On Feb 05
This one is like, take, go n kill yourselves by yourselves.

I hope they remember to by pilots join.

So, won't come down to that unfortunate being that almost turned a village to dust
Re: United States Confirms Sale Of 12 Attack Helicopters, Others To Nigeria For $1bn by SALIMAN(m): 4:05am On Feb 05
They should operate this machine before totally handling over so that there won’t be mis targeted citizens just like last year
Re: United States Confirms Sale Of 12 Attack Helicopters, Others To Nigeria For $1bn by correkguy: 4:37am On Feb 05
Nigeria will buy expensive guns and fighter jet.. and end up packing them somewhere and say its [color=#000099][/color] because they cant afford the bullet
Re: United States Confirms Sale Of 12 Attack Helicopters, Others To Nigeria For $1bn by onuman: 5:06am On Feb 05
grin
Emmanuel900:


You just proved you are very ignorant.

Americans entered Afghanistan after the 911 attack on world trade center in New York by Osama Bin Laden and his gang that killed almost 3000 people.

If not for that Americans wouldn't enter Afghanistan.

Provide one source to corroborate your claim not some wishful story you heard somewhere.
if it really happened it would be all over the news even with video.


https://www.state.gov/u-s-security-cooperation-with-nigeria/


U.S. Security Cooperation with Nigeria
FACT SHEET

BUREAU OF POLITICAL-MILITARY AFFAIRS

JANUARY 23, 2024

[For more than 50 years, the United States and Nigeria have enjoyed a strong security partnership and friendship. The U.S.-Nigeria relationship is among the most important in sub-Saharan Africa, given Nigeria’s status as Africa’s most populous country, largest economy, and our shared democratic values. The United States works closely with Nigeria, both bilaterally and through regional and multilateral fora like the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), the Multinational Joint Task Force (MNJTF), the Global Coalition to Defeat Daesh/ISIS, and the African Union. Our joint efforts are focused on increasing cooperation on maritime and border security, military professionalization, counterterrorism efforts against Boko Haram and ISIS-West Africa, defense trade, and strengthening governance of the security sector.]

Perhaps you are waiting for newspaper or television with news of American soldiers who died combating Boko Haram, before you believe that America cooperated on ground, and still cooperates with Nigeria, in the fight against Boko Haram.
You are most likely to be in sympathy with Boko Haram and the sharia states of northern Nigeria in their openly stated desire for a country to be governed with Islamic Sharia criminal laws. The desire of Boko Haram and the political/religious leaders of the far north Nigeria sharia states remains the reason why the fight against Islamic extremists in Nigeria is an unwinnable fight. Your saviour Muhammadu Buhari in 2001 pledged before a large crowd of Muslims in Kaduna that he would not relent until Islamic sharia criminal laws are applied in all the states of Nigeria. One of the earliest demands of Tanko Mohammed, the CJN of Nigeria appointed by then President Muhammadu Buhari was for Islamic sharia criminal laws be included in Nigeria's Constitution.
Re: United States Confirms Sale Of 12 Attack Helicopters, Others To Nigeria For $1bn by walade(m): 5:40am On Feb 05
The very people selling arms and weapons are the very people behind the insecurities in the world. Supply insurgents with a few thousand Ak 47 and make the country ungovernable, then make their leaders craw and beg to buy some outdated weapons to fight the same insurgents armed by arms dealers. After selling some useless tucano helicopters, it’s now vipers helicopters that will defeat insurgents? Well done America!!

Re: United States Confirms Sale Of 12 Attack Helicopters, Others To Nigeria For $1bn by Forkthiefnubu: 5:48am On Feb 05
Hope he doesn’t use it on the igbos he hates so much
Re: United States Confirms Sale Of 12 Attack Helicopters, Others To Nigeria For $1bn by GAS76: 6:10am On Feb 05
People that has never involved in an ordinary street fight will be telling an army in the battle how to go about fighting terrorists. Get enrolled in the army and have a taste of how easy it is you bunch of hypocrite!!

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