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Fighter Pilot: In terms of research conducted by Citigroup, American banking group, SOUTH AFRICA IS THE RICHEST COUNTRY IN THE WORLD IN TERMS OF MINERAL RESERVES.

[miningmx.com] -- South Africa is the world's richest country in terms of its mineral reserves - worth $2.5 thousand billion - according to research by the American banking group Citigroup, reports Bloomberg.

The Citigroup report, which was compiled by its mining analyst, Craig Sainsbury, says that Russia comes second after South Africa, and Australia third.

The research states that South Africa, Guinea, the Ukraine, India and Kazakhstan all have mineral reserves unrelated to energy worth more than $200bn.

http://www.miningmx.com/news/markets/SA-richest-country-in-the-world.htm

[size=16pt] Nigeria confirmed richest country in Africa....

...... beats Congo DRC, Algeria, Libya, South Africa..... [/size]



the incomplete report posted by Citigroup is ONLY for minerals NOT related to energy, meaning that crude oil and gas are NOT included in that senseless report that says south africa is the richest country in the world in terms of mineral reserves......


in the world ? where is Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, UAE/Dubai, Bahrain, Iraq, Iran, Brunei, Libya, Algeria, Russia, Venezuela and other OPEC oil and gas giants of wealth ?

south africa has almost NO crude oil and gas.

all the so called biggest mineral wealth of south africa is valued at a tine $2.5 Trillion, when Nigerian mineral resrves of both solid non-energy minerals plus crude oil and gas totals a massive and unbeatable $30 Trillion, 12 times more than south africa's tine peanuts ! FACT !!!


[img]http://energy.gov/sites/prod/files/styles/article_hero/public/Barrel.png?itok=qI8RkA20[/img]
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zaandrew: You want to shoot a drone with a manpad.

Not all AA guns are radar guided and a drone is a lot smaller target than a F16.

SAM-7 manpad has about 4km range. AAA guns have been shooting down anything that flies from 1940 Hurricane combat aircraft to 1991 iraq war F-16 jets of america.

you like to limit what weapons can do so that you can make up a story, i just pity your wife....you will be very easy to k.ill in a war zone

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zaandrew: then why menstion the commincastion satlite at all, muilty choice even has there own coms sats

communication satellites intercept messages and relay location of the communicating parties...that was how america finally located osama bin laden....one final fatal phone call at the gate of his house made by his trusted courier.

Fighter Pilot: Drones use electrical motor s.tupid. They have long moved from using hydrogen fuel which enabled them to fly upto 48 hours to electricity which has proven to last longer. Is only a fool who will use SAMs to fight drones, because drones are cheaper to build compared to missiles. You will miss drones hundred a times with your missiles and as a result wasting your missiles for nothing for something that you cannot even see with your n.aked eye.

fuel does not mean only petrol...you dummy

drones are fueled by many power sources...hydrocarbons, liquid hydogen, liquid coal, electric cells, etc...fuel is whatever powers a mechanism to move...you dumbo !

SAM-7 missile is cheaper than a drone...fool

anti-aircraft guns radar guided will shoot down a drone like a hunter shooting a pigeon bird from the sky...even the supersonic speed high technology F-15 and F-16 jets of america were shot down by anti-aircraft guns...now you talk of some s.tupid drones...fool

if soja work dey too hard for you, better go join police

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zaandrew: South africa had satlites long before nigeria even had the dream.

Fool only 2 of those satlites are observastion satlites and switch to diffrent roots is not easy for them and takes fuel something that is finite.

i know that more than you do...thats why i said the fourth one is coming to make up the third observation satellite....you think i am a mumu like you ?

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Congo DRC....UN force...asian soldiers...they look more like warriors than the south african toy soldiers

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solomon111: Nigeria has more than 7% of the world's uranium deposit,while Niger-republic a border country to Nigeria and a "sister nation" has the largest deposit of uranium in the world.
Very Nice.!!
Nigeria is surrounded by uranium.

nigeria is the richest country in africa in terms of mineral reserves.

let south africans swallow this fact...or else they can go hug 10,000 volts electricity transformer

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NaijaPikinGidi: Who cares what a slimy stupid pig says?

the photo matches the guy we are talking about

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[size=16pt].............................nigeria to become a nuclear power[/size]


Nigeria Partners Russia to build a Nuclear power station!

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Source: Radio "Voice of Russia"

After a few years on the African continent, Nigeria is likely to appear a second nuclear power station (the first was built in South Africa). Construction of nuclear power plant could take Russia.

Already announced for the undertaking of the intergovernmental agreement, which provides for cooperation in the design, construction, operation and decommissioning of the first nuclear power plant in Nigeria. This was reported by the corporation "Rosatom".

After the accident at the nuclear power plant "Fukushima" some countries have decided on the gradual closure of nuclear power plants. Overall, however, the world is not going to give up the peaceful atom. In Africa, nuclear generation is virtually absent, except for nuclear power plants "Koeberg" in the south of the continent, and the interest in it is growing, the director of the communications department of the state corporation "Rosatom" Sergey Novikov:

"The concern is that nuclear power in the world will evolve. As an environmentally friendly source of energy available to the new EU energy-hungry. This is also a technology platform for the development of new technologies, including new energy sources in the future. Therefore demand for domestic nuclear power occurs in different regions: Southeast Asia, Latin America and the Middle East. Including the African continent. And wherever there is a demand for this, Russian media as one of the top three technologies at the global nuclear energy market is ready for mutually beneficial conditions to participate in the creation of a national nuclear power program. "


According to the World Nuclear Association, an interest in the development of peaceful nuclear energy in Africa exhibit Tunisia, Morocco, Algeria, Sudan, Ghana, Senegal, Kenya, Uganda, Namibia. However, for these countries to talk about concrete steps to translate the ideas of peaceful nuclear energy is too early. But in the case of Nigeria, made the first steps, said Sergei Novikov:

"Since Nigeria signed an intergovernmental agreement on the peaceful use of nuclear energy. Now experts have completed work on a new draft of the intergovernmental document on the construction of the first nuclear power plant in Nigeria. At the level of delegations agreed text of the document, and now Rosatom, and our counterparts in Nigeria transmit these documents to the governments of the two countries that there were procedures for the approval and adoption, and the document would be ready for signing. "

Of course, an intergovernmental agreement - it's not a contract, prior to the commencement of construction. But experts believe that the work on it is within the scope of Rosatom, which seeks to create a broad framework for international cooperation in the field of nuclear power generation. In addition, cooperation with Nigeria is interesting from another point of view, the Chief Editor of the atomic portalAtomic-Energy.ru Pavel Yakovlev:

"Nigeria is one of the largest producers of uranium. Around seven per cent of the total world uranium is concentrated in Nigeria. Therefore, interest in this country is not accidental. Until recently, there was a major player in France, and the French mining companies were active there."

On the issue of security, then, according to Sergei Novikov, any project of building the first new nuclear power plant in the country accompanied by regulation and supervision of the IAEA. All of these technologies are perfected. And there does not need to invent anything in terms of physical protection of nuclear facilities.


http://www.atomic-energy.ru/audio/24995


long live nigeria...giant of africa !!!


https://www.sott.net/image/image/s3/62581/full/Tsar_Nuclear_Explosion.jpg


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zetdee: Re: Who Has The Strongest Military On Africa? by zetdee(m): 3:37pm On Sep 08
Nigeria Partners Russia to build a Nuclear power station!

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Source: Radio "Voice of Russia"

After a few years on the African continent, Nigeria is likely to appear a second nuclear power station (the first was built in South Africa). Construction of nuclear power plant could take Russia.

Already announced for the undertaking of the intergovernmental agreement, which provides for cooperation in the design, construction, operation and decommissioning of the first nuclear power plant in Nigeria. This was reported by the corporation "Rosatom".

After the accident at the nuclear power plant "Fukushima" some countries have decided on the gradual closure of nuclear power plants. Overall, however, the world is not going to give up the peaceful atom. In Africa, nuclear generation is virtually absent, except for nuclear power plants "Koeberg" in the south of the continent, and the interest in it is growing, the director of the communications department of the state corporation "Rosatom" Sergey Novikov:

"The concern is that nuclear power in the world will evolve. As an environmentally friendly source of energy available to the new EU energy-hungry. This is also a technology platform for the development of new technologies, including new energy sources in the future. Therefore demand for domestic nuclear power occurs in different regions: Southeast Asia, Latin America and the Middle East. Including the African continent. And wherever there is a demand for this, Russian media as one of the top three technologies at the global nuclear energy market is ready for mutually beneficial conditions to participate in the creation of a national nuclear power program. "


According to the World Nuclear Association, an interest in the development of peaceful nuclear energy in Africa exhibit Tunisia, Morocco, Algeria, Sudan, Ghana, Senegal, Kenya, Uganda, Namibia. However, for these countries to talk about concrete steps to translate the ideas of peaceful nuclear energy is too early. But in the case of Nigeria, made the first steps, said Sergei Novikov:

"Since Nigeria signed an intergovernmental agreement on the peaceful use of nuclear energy. Now experts have completed work on a new draft of the intergovernmental document on the construction of the first nuclear power plant in Nigeria. At the level of delegations agreed text of the document, and now Rosatom, and our counterparts in Nigeria transmit these documents to the governments of the two countries that there were procedures for the approval and adoption, and the document would be ready for signing. "

Of course, an intergovernmental agreement - it's not a contract, prior to the commencement of construction. But experts believe that the work on it is within the scope of Rosatom, which seeks to create a broad framework for international cooperation in the field of nuclear power generation. In addition, cooperation with Nigeria is interesting from another point of view, the Chief Editor of the atomic portalAtomic-Energy.ru Pavel Yakovlev:

"Nigeria is one of the largest producers of uranium. Around seven per cent of the total uranium is concentrated in Nigeria. Therefore, interest in this country is not accidental. Until recently, there was a major player in France, and the French mining companies were active there."

On the issue of security, then, according to Sergei Novikov, any project of building the first new nuclear power plant in the country accompanied by regulation and supervision of the IAEA. All of these technologies are perfected. And there does not need to invent anything in terms of physical protection of nuclear facilities.


http://www.atomic-energy.ru/audio/24995

mmmh !!! something to think about...this news is spreading fast since it leaked out last year 2012.

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Fighter Pilot: You can have thousands of satellites but they won't help you to win the war. Drones can undoubtedly help you to win the war. There is also a new technology that has been developed of blinding the satellite by using highly powered lasers to blind satellites.

Your satellites have failed you in BH operation, had it not been through the US help you would have been struggling by now. Chezzzy!!!

sorry sir, you are very wrong....american drone are in niger republic capital city of niamey.....nigeria did NOT use any american drone against boko haram, we use our own home made amebo drone plys spy balloons and satellite ...go d.ie of envy

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"The Predator drones in Niger Republic are unarmed, US officials said, though they have not ruled out equipping the aircraft with Hellfire missiles in the future.

The US Embassy in Niamey, Niger Republic did not respond to an email on the matter.

When contacted, spokesman for Nigeria’s Defence Headquarters, Brig-Gen. Chris Olukolade, denied any collaboration with the US in the campaign.

He said, “This is solely a Nigerian planned operation and we are doing it our own way. This operation is our own and we are doing it in line with best practices. It is Nigerian designed and executed.”

SOURCE

http://www.punchng.com/news/us-drones-spy-on-boko-haram/

Fighter Pilot: Bwahahahahaha!! You must be the biggest joke of Nairaland. Infact you are the moemish of the year, because your ballons and even your satellites are too slow to have the capability of seeing our drones. Satellites can easily be studied by expert to locate their position at that very time. Satellites all have channels to travel with just like planes have routes to avoid collision. We know when will satellites pass a certain points and at what time and once they pass it will be difficult for them to come back.

its true south africa has no satellites, thats why you dont know how they operate....

fool....reason why nigeria has 3 satellites and the fourth one is coming soon....3 satellites will cover the whole earth monitoring from different positions along the entire earths orbital circumference, one does not need to come back to previous position, the next satellite takes its spot and the observation continues in a linked cycle...fool...go back to school

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Fighter Pilot: It shows that you haven't read the link I have attached to understand the whole thing. Drones are difficult to be noticed, imagine a plane which is bigger than a house flying 20 000 metres above the sky, how difficult is it to be seen with a naked eye. Drones are very small, not even the size of Agaugust and when they fly high they will be difficult to be noticed by your soldiers. Spy satellites can easily be deceived by the enermy due to their channelled movement from the North to the South pole.

Drones armed with mokopa missiles will pose a very serious challenge to Nigerian Army. No wonder the world is against the use of unmanned drones because you will be killed from the very far distance by unknown enermy.

That will be the madness of the highest order, fighting drones with SAMs. SA has more drones than all missiles that Nigeria have on their arsenal.

so according to the fools of soweto, satellites are now useless because south africa does not have one....in this modern age ? what a bunch of fools you are in south africa, saying satellits are useless.....why is south afriac planning to get a new satellite by 2017 then ? fools

anyway, nigeria builds drones at home, so we have both drones and satellites combined with spy balloons which south africa does not have....blind bat military forces of soweto

nigeria has over 800 SAM missiles, south africa does not have up to 100 drones...else show us source to prove it....maybe south africa has about 50 drones i guess.

i dont like repeating posts and wasting my time. i mentioned only SAM because i am tired of listing all nigerian air defence weapons 777 times in 7 months....Bofors AAA, Type 90 AAA, SAM-7, Blowpipe SAM, Roland SAM....and AKASH SAM is coming soon



your own source that you quoted, is agreeing with me that drones are used against rebels and religious terrorists and it said the so called american stealth drone was shot down when it tried to spy on Iran


please dont waste my time, go fly south african drones against Rhino poachers NOT nigerian air defence forces
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Fighter Pilot: It shows that you haven't read the link I have attached to understand the whole thing. Drones are difficult to be noticed, imagine a plane which is bigger than a house flying 20 000 metres above the sky, how difficult is it to be seen with a naked eye. Drones are very small, not even the size of Agaugust and when they fly high they will be difficult to be noticed by your soldiers. Spy satellites can easily be deceived by the enermy due to their channelled movement from the North to the South pole.

Drones armed with mokopa missiles will pose a very serious challenge to Nigerian Army. No wonder the world is against the use of unmanned drones because you will be killed from the very far distance by unknown enermy.

That will be the madness of the highest order, fighting drones with SAMs. SA has more drones than all missiles that Nigeria have on their arsenal.

i dont care about stories, i only care about realities of the battlefield action. most drones are not stealth, and even the few that are, they still get seen by powerful countries like nigeria that has camera spy balloons that fly far above drones.....and powerful radar will pick up a stealth drone showing small signature. when a drone fires weapons, its presence if revealed if it was hidden by stealth.

show us mokopa missile armed drones....ordinary one alpha jet will eat twenty slow speed drones for breakfast.

i have not seen nation vs nation warfare where drones became a threat to a standard army and airforce like that of nigeria or algeria, drones are only a threat to religious fanatics and rebels like al qaeda/osama bin laden and M23 rebels

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Fighter Pilot: Have you ever ask yourself why would America use spy drones instead of their most expensive spy satellites which are orbiting the earth on the outer space. Does it have to do with the fact that people have now developed the skills to beat spy satellites or does it have to do with the fact that their use become almost useless and is fading away by the day.

More news below:

http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2011/12/drones-nuclear-spies/

drones need fuel to keep flying, drones need a land base to operate. satellites stay 24 hours a day in space and dont need any landing base.


america is using drones against religious terrorists of al qaeda group NOT against another country's military force. let america fly drones over the head of iran and lets see how it works.... because iran has shot down american drones before.

nigerian air defense will waste all south african drones if they dare to fly against us. FACT !!!


think before you post comments

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zaandrew: I am not talking about the L15

whatever chinese jet it is, i dont care. i have quoted F-8 IIM Finback jet purchase to people in america before, nigeria paid over $200 million for it but the contract was cancelled and no F-8 jets till today, so how is that my problem ? i dont care. i am not the source. sure south africans too have quoted A400M Atlas aircraft that was paid for and contract later cancelled...so what ? none of us here is government official.

naija army...training

zaandrew: last time you tried to argue nigeria bought new jets ended bad for you.

no, i quoted a source, and if the source is not a report i wrote, then its not my problem. ask the source

beegeagle quoted a russian newspaper for nigerian L-15 jets purchase, what if it is wrong eventually ? beegeagle is responsible for that ?

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swanky@vodamail:
Sorry we already has nuclear power station and we dismantlEd our own nuclear heads we walk the talk other talk the walk OMG a country which still cannot provide the basic amenities like 24h electricity clean water can really dream about. Nuclear anyway is just a dream

Pakistan is a nuclear power with many nuclear bombs...and Pakistan has social/public electricity supply problems just like Nigeria.

meanwhile, nigeria is now investing billions of dollars in electricity production and in about 2 years, it will be near perfect as we have signed huge contracts with very successful electricity power companies from Canada, China, South Korea, and Britain in the last 9 months.

Nigeria is advancing too fast for you to comprehend in your soweto bucket holes where you guys are stuck and never travel overseas

http://uk.reuters.com/article/2012/09/25/nigeria-power-idUKL5E8KP7I820120925

http://premiumtimesng.com/opinion/119166-power-sector-reform-tcn-manitoba-and-suggestions-for-the-new-power-minister-by-tunji-ariyomo.html

http://allafrica.com/stories/201309050473.html
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Zeus_Ayo: S̶̲̥̅outh african mofos this is dedicated to you: Uranium found in 6 States in Nigeria!

Uranium found in 6 States

WORLD highly valued uranium has been found in six states of the country, placing the nation's economy in a vantage position for further growth.

The six states are Cross River, Adamawa, Taraba, Plateau, Bauchi and Kano, a document from the Federal Ministry of Solid Minerals Development has said.

According to the document, "an inventory of solid minerals potentials," made available to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) yesterday in Abuja, the uranium find was by the Atomic Energy Division of the Geological Survey of Great Britain.

Ministry sources told NAN that the highly sourced and priced radioactive mineral could be second to oil in revenue generation when fully exploited.

Uranium is used to produce nuclear energy and also as a fuel for nuclear reactors and nuclear weapons.

According to studies, not many countries of the world are endowed with the radioactive mineral, which makes it highly priced and of high value.

The valued mineral which was mainly obtained from the ore uranite, occurred in small bodies of granite containing pyrochlore with 3.3 per cent uranium oxide, 3.3 per cent, thorium oxide and 41.1 per cent niobium and tantalum oxides, the document said

nice one there...it is a gooooooal !!!

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Fighter Pilot: CIA information is credible, all encyclopaedias use or derive their information from the world fact book. World renowned professors have used information derived from World fact book to compile their thesis and even wikipedia, World Economic Forum, International Monetory Fund and World bank do the same. You claimed to have studied your MBA in the US and that directly makes you the product of the world fact book. So, tell me if you want any information about economic indices of any country for your research would you not make use of world fact book which you can even buy or access on the net.

CIA is updated by media at large, Sipri, government gazettes of various countries, world stats, world health organisations, etc. It has lot of people who are paid to gather all that information together to be used by not only America, but many governments when they formulate their foreign policies. Their information is updated from time to time.

only you thinks that CIA is omnipotent, omniscient, and omnipresent like God in heaven....we the real american citizens have a different opinion after the false information on Iraq. you are stuck in your south african local homeland, try to travel out

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Zeus_Ayo: There is this rumour that am hearing of nigeria acquirin 4- 4.5 gen fighters Ѧп dere hav been reports of several cargo planes flying @ some airforce bases particularly north & jet engine testings without any plane taking off................Ѧп also construction of hangars ℓ̊ almost all airforce bases In country................... Is dis early signs of new toys asides L-15s ?

heard same rumours too, just watching and waiting....we know Jonathan signed some defense pact with China last july he visited chinese president 2 months ago.

naija too dey keep secret, but we go know am later sha, because the chinese go talk inside china, news go find way reach lagos.... cheers !

Fighter Pilot: Why are those satellites failing to pin down BH. So what about SA which is thousands of miles away. Satellites up in the outer space cannot do anything to me nor even kill me. Tell me about solar empowered drones which can stay on the sky for many days and which have the capability to kill.

Moreover, Nigeria will never, never and never have nuclear weapons, they are among countries which are against nuclear proliferation.

nuclear non-proliferation treat is a piece of paper not binding for life, you can sign today and withdraw from it tomorrow. FACT !!!

go ask UN why Israel and America break international laws in the name of 'national security interest' and UN cannot do anything to stop them

the current nigerian army offensive against boko haram was launched because nigerian spy satellites spotted boko haram anti-aircraft guns in the far north, then the government felt boko was going too far and launched the current all out attack. during the first wave of attack on boko haram, nigerian airforce Mi-24 helicopter gunship was hit by the satellite spotted boko haram anti-aircraft guns....thanks to the the nigerian spy satellites, the anti-aircraft guns of boko haram have been d.estroyed and boko is now on the run doing only hit-and-run guerrilla tactics on soft target civilians...

nigeria....the space spy giant military of africa !!!!

solar drones of south africa will not fly in long in cloudy weather when sun power is down or during rains...

nigerian Type 90 anti-aircraft guns, Roland SAM, or Akash SAM anti-aircraft missiles will shoot down all south african drones

nigerian satellites take photos and spy on american airports thousands of kilimetres away, south africa is too blind to see that far

south african drones cannot operate from soweto and spy on nigeria, but nigerian military officers in lagos/abuja are sitting down at home and watching south african president chasing his wives around the home swimming pool....and nigeria is more than james bond...spying on jacob zuma even when he is doing the 'thing' on his mattress

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Courtesy Of @NaijapikinGidi


[size=16pt] ‘Nigeria Eyes Space Defense Programme’[/size][/b]
Sunday, 08 September 2013 00:00 By J.K. Obatala


A HIGH ranking military officer, attached to the National Space Research and Development Agency (NASRDA), has revealed that Nigeria is working towards an active and fully equipped Space Defense Command, to meet national security challenges.

Brigadier General Toyin Osazuwa, Defense Adviser to NASRDA, said the Command would, in all likelihood, be activated within the next two years.

“It’s taking time,” Osazuwa explained in an interview at the Obasanjo Space Centre, Lugbe, Federal Capital Territory, “for several reasons”.

One reason, he said, is because “the awareness of those in authority” has developed slowly. But this, he quickly added, is changing rapidly, as strategic planners come to realise that there is no feasible alternative to a Space Defense Command.

“When you see what is happening in the advanced nations,” Osazuwa said, “in terms of the application of space technology, you discover that it is the in-thing, the modern trend, and we cannot be left behind… In those countries, the military is actually at the forefront…”

The other cause of delay, he noted, is that in the Nigerian military, conditions are not quite right for the immediate application of space technology. Consequently, the main priority, at present, is creating an awareness and, above all else, capacity building.

“It will surprise you to know,” Osazuwa said, “that we have a lot of military officers doing Ph.D. work in space science technology in the advanced countries… Presently, about four or five of them are studying abroad. One is in the U.S.A. Two are in the United Kingdom, and one is in France.”

But quite a number, the General said, have already graduated and have been posted back to the mainstream of the military. More than 200 officers, in all branches of the Nigerian Armed Forces, including the Police, have reportedly had space science and technology training.

“So, when we eventually go ahead and establish the Defense Command Council, these people will form the arrowhead -the policy makers and trainers of the younger ones.”

Osazuwa laid emphasis on communications infrastructure, stressing the need for a dedicated military satellite, with controlling ground stations, “even though NigComSat-1r has the capacity to provide communications for the armed forces”.

Combining military and civilian functions in a single satellite, the General said, “is not expedient. There will definitely be conflict, one way or the other. Military activity is very dynamic, especially in the area of communication. An exclusively military communications satellite is needed”.

Osazuwa praised Dr. S.O. Mohammed, the Director General, for his support of the military, and for “making NASRDA’S next project, the launch of a dedicated communications satellite for the Armed Forces, which he has already presented to the Presidency and the National Security Advisor”.

An electronics and telecommunications engineer, Osazuwa has represented the military at NASRDA for the past five years, making him the longest serving officer with a civilian agency in Nigerian military history.

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http://www.ngrguardiannews.com/national-news/132201-nigeria-eyes-space-defense-programme-


if we did not have all this information and sources now, the south african 33% brain mofos will say it is not true....

soweto mofos....go hug 10,000 volts electricity transformer....

nigerian spy satellites are watching your president zuma and his four wives inside their home's backyard swimming pool....skimpy bikini...free video....will soon post them on facebook...zuma and his four wives....almost no clothes

.....and south africa has no single satellite...blind bat soweto military force of the stone age

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NaijaPikinGidi:

[size=16pt] ‘Nigeria Eyes Space Defense Programme’[/size]
Sunday, 08 September 2013 00:00 By J.K. Obatala


A HIGH ranking military officer, attached to the National Space Research and Development Agency (NASRDA), has revealed that Nigeria is working towards an active and fully equipped Space Defense Command, to meet national security challenges.

Brigadier General Toyin Osazuwa, Defense Adviser to NASRDA, said the Command would, in all likelihood, be activated within the next two years.

“It’s taking time,” Osazuwa explained in an interview at the Obasanjo Space Centre, Lugbe, Federal Capital Territory, “for several reasons”.

One reason, he said, is because “the awareness of those in authority” has developed slowly. But this, he quickly added, is changing rapidly, as strategic planners come to realise that there is no feasible alternative to a Space Defense Command.

“When you see what is happening in the advanced nations,” Osazuwa said, “in terms of the application of space technology, you discover that it is the in-thing, the modern trend, and we cannot be left behind… In those countries, the military is actually at the forefront…”

The other cause of delay, he noted, is that in the Nigerian military, conditions are not quite right for the immediate application of space technology. Consequently, the main priority, at present, is creating an awareness and, above all else, capacity building.

“It will surprise you to know,” Osazuwa said, “that we have a lot of military officers doing Ph.D. work in space science technology in the advanced countries… Presently, about four or five of them are studying abroad. One is in the U.S.A. Two are in the United Kingdom, and one is in France.”

But quite a number, the General said, have already graduated and have been posted back to the mainstream of the military. More than 200 officers, in all branches of the Nigerian Armed Forces, including the Police, have reportedly had space science and technology training.

“So, when we eventually go ahead and establish the Defense Command Council, these people will form the arrowhead -the policy makers and trainers of the younger ones.”

Osazuwa laid emphasis on communications infrastructure, stressing the need for a dedicated military satellite, with controlling ground stations, “even though NigComSat-1r has the capacity to provide communications for the armed forces”.

Combining military and civilian functions in a single satellite, the General said, “is not expedient. There will definitely be conflict, one way or the other. Military activity is very dynamic, especially in the area of communication. An exclusively military communications satellite is needed”.

Osazuwa praised Dr. S.O. Mohammed, the Director General, for his support of the military, and for “making NASRDA’S next project, the launch of a dedicated communications satellite for the Armed Forces, which he has already presented to the Presidency and the National Security Advisor”.

An electronics and telecommunications engineer, Osazuwa has represented the military at NASRDA for the past five years, making him the longest serving officer with a civilian agency in Nigerian military history.

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http://www.ngrguardiannews.com/national-news/132201-nigeria-eyes-space-defense-programme-

Something for readers to ruminate on!

nice post..... one of the reasons Nigerian military is ranked above the military of Algeria, Ethiopia, and South Africa.

Egypt will have a very tough time fighting nigeria, they have a much bigger force, but they have to be very careful with a Nigerian military force that fights from outer space.

Nigeria will soon add long range missiles when Epe project is completed and then we add the Nuclear weapons from the proposed Russian built reactor to supersede the mini nuclear reactor currently operating in Abuja.

then Nigeria will be among the 12 nuclear weapon armed powers of this world....

then maybe we march into pretoria and re-colonize south africa....just like the Boer....Nigeria becomes new colonial masters and supreme ruler of south africa

long live nigeria, the giant of africa !

https://www.4thmedia.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/Spy-Satellite.jpg

Fighter Pilot: You are crazy!!! CIA is everywhere and their findings are even used as credible sources in academic research. Nigeria is not a rich country, finish and klaar.

CIA gets fed with data sent from all over the world by people they cannot validate their data/messages, CIA information about weapons of mass destruction in Iraq was very wrong and the whole world laughed at the foolish CIA of america, we hate them here, they led us into a foolish war with wrong information that was posted to them bu so called CIA sources in Iraq, the man apologized to us later in america for misleading CIA and CIA mislead the whole of america

i dont care about the big name CIA, i am Augustine, i challenge anybody in areas i have knowledge...i dont take misinformation and swallow it because the name attached to is.....CIA....CIA my foot !!!

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zaandrew: Do you have contacts in the CIA that tell you all this? Did it cross you pea sized brain that CIA does not have to set foot in Nigeria but merely access the info from compainess and people that were in there and did surveys?

You once again show your genrain ignorance and incompetency

my calculation is world standard, and i beat CIA Fact book on technical analysis, they did NOT analyse nigeria's mineral wealth figure by figure and number by number, let them show me their accountant or valuer.

i dont respect people for who they say they are, but rather for what they can do, i dont care about any american CIA, i am as intelligent and educated as they are....and i have more nigerian current data.

let CIA show us their detailed calculation and valuation of nigerian mineral wealth as at today june 30th 2013.

only you people in soweto have not defeated americans on an intellectual debate one-on-one before in your whole life....i have put american backs flat on the floor of intellectual debate many times....and i will do it again in my field of competence. FACT !!!

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Fighter Pilot: It is official Nigeria is not the richest country in Africa in terms of minerals.

The link below is for all to see that Nigeria is still lagging after DRC and South Africa.

https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/fields/2111.html

CIA does not have any researcher on ground in nigeria to gather up to date date, even BBC does better on nigerian reports and statistics. try use better sources so your intellectual class can be better, mediocrity is a chronic disease among south african men

Fighter Pilot: Angola this month of September topples Nigeria as Africas largest oil producer.

http://www.ventures-africa.com/2013/07/angola-to-export-50-million-barrels-of-oil-in-september/

every country's crude oil production fluctuates a bit for many reasons including periodic shut downs for full facility maintenance, or export contracts adjustments by monthly schedules.

south africa has almost zero oil and gas industry so let we nigerian teach you...

nigeria produces not only crude oil, we also produce natural gas, OSO condensates, and also bitumen oil sands...angola does not have all those....nigeria even has much more gas than oil. try use google before you post comments, it helps people like you

zaandrew: now you want to use minnrael reserves? yes you are a fony fool

no, you are the fool who does not know that when cash reserves finish up after a long war, economy is rebuilt by mineral reserves that will be mined and exported. try use google if you cannot use your brain

zaandrew: so then the casspier is a IFV, Fire power alone does not make a IFV by the way. The cobra protection is only vs small arms.

and using the definition you posted for a IFV this is all so a IFV
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Cobra is a modular weapon, means it is meant to change role for different combat needs. your brain has problem with modular weapons and those modular equipment may one day send you to your early g..r..a..v..e on a battlefield

nigeria is advanced enough to fit a simple 20mm gun on a Cobra is we wish to, we put all the remote control 20mm cannon on nigerian navy two NNS Andoni ships, only you think that small technology is very big and no african country can do the smallest things....fool

the NATO source says the armoured vehicle is expected to deliver anti-tank weapons too...the photo you showed cannot do any anti-tank guided missile launch...and the one that is a truck with open back...exposes the soldiers...use your brain, reason why NATO wont be the same level as south africa...see the open truck you compare with Cobra...is that your truck for anti-Rhino poaching ?

please find another topic, i am done with this one...NATO qualifies Cobra as APC/IFV...FACT !!!