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Oga Ibrahimnees, how can you write Nigeria is diversified than China, Brazil and India? Nigeria is one of the most monotonous economies with a large population. Many industries are yet to be because the banks rarely borrow or the interest rates are too high. The better the country can support infrastructures for business, the more likelihood we can achieve a greater diversity of industries. Metallurgy, IT, and R& are some of the supporting acts for strong armies largely absent in ours for a start.

Ultimately our military ability would be linked to the economic foresight of our leaders and the ability of the armed forces chiefs to navigate and develop an appropriate approach.

This is a disgrace. While Adeleke might look incompetent, I was looking forward to a scenario where voters count actually mattered and where for once rigging is almost eliminated.

[quote author=LTGEN post=71412870][/quote]Yes, prior orders remain unaffected but its potential orders in the future with the Russians as long as sanctions remains in place. I hear Turkey is next to feel the brunt for making an order while the RU exporter was sanctioned.

One partially unrelated news...
ROSOBORONEXPORT, the main export arm for Russian hardware is under US sanction for propping up Assad.

What are the possible implications if Nigeria goes to Russia for weapons while we're still awaiting Tucano jets?

If not for the clusterfuck of our politics and no regard for rule of law. The Adeleke dude might be complicit as alleged, but I was also hoping for the beginning of the end for the megalomaniac Tinubu from Osun state then to Lagos.

Hoping for credible opposition in the future with no blemish that can successfully start the unfurling of the criminal empire of Tinubu.

jteku:
Chairman this your attack on me is becoming much, it doesn't matter if the guy is Igbo, Yoruba or Hausa, a scammer is a scammer, he re badge cars for God sake, I posted with good faith, stop making as if I did a personal attack.

And why asking what I have done for this country, you don't know me and what I have done, but what I know is I don't re badge other peoples product

Wouldn't call it a scam.
I think it's known already known they're rebadged. Done all over the world. He's got licensing agreements with the OEM. I'd always wish for a Japanese rebadge though as they have more motoring pedigree. Probably costs more.

doziex:
Finally, hesco barriers which is the mordern way of rapidly engineering an impregnable base defense. I had suggested NA adopt it asap since 2012 on beegeagles blog. To no avail.
The US used it all thru Iraq and Afghanistan. US introduced it to Amisom how have done a good job with it, but have also suffered some harrowing base overruns with it as NA has with out it.

Anywho, I am seeing buratai deploy hesco barrier defense technology for the first time.

It's interesting they prefer trenches. Is it better for stacked barriers like a fence around the base to prevent easy entry to their base?

Away from hesco, The North East insurgency is now nearing its 10th year!

There's still a massive problem with infrastructures, cash society, fraud that is a burden for online retailers.

Jumia/Konga lose probably millions daily for customers who aren't at locations at the point of delivery. 2-3 redelivery attempts adds up to costs that customers don't charge for.

Issue of dishonest sellers/buyers. Buyers can hijack deliveries, fake notes, swap goods for return etc. Sellers can sell fake amongst other issues.

Exchange rates, data affects econmerce. If product is homegrown, you'll have no problem with the former.

Economy also affects your sales.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-pO5D8sWvkc

Documentary about the North East. Released today.

Established now that they failed in the attack. As for the AFSF, are they the only SF deployed every time we lack punch power? How about the others, SBS or the 72nd?

Buterflyle0:
I am.speaking of your ineptitude and not those of your buyers.

When you say there is low spending on your end, others are saying there is high spending on their end.

What are YOU not doing right is the question and has nothing to do with the spending levels of your customers.

Give them what they want and they will return to their spending. Remain rigid with your methods and services and keep complaining.

You clearly know nothing about tweaking anything. People who refuse to change with the tide, get swept off with it.

You're partisan is all I can read and you clearly lack basic knowledge of economics.

Jo wasn't a terribly good president nor is Buhari. The latter had no cabinet for months and when he did, they put in place a system where currency arbitrage made things worse only for them to repeal later.

My company is not loss making and for the staff and love I have for it, I'll keep it going. From the army barracks at Borno to the shores of Bonny Island, expatriates, Nigerians, CBN, banks, etc are people and places we've delivered to. Repeat customers not excluded.

I'm pretty damn sure they didn't hold a meeting to lock up their disposable incomes.

I'll leave it here.

Buterflyle0:
Don't blame the FG for your ineptitude.

People are being made to look inward now and that is a good thing. You on the other hand should learn how to cash in on that shift rather than remaining where you are when people have moved on

You are certainly far from brilliant if 'ineptitude' is the cause of low spending and decreased economic activity.

I follow Nigerian economic indices like a hawk. You can only but tweak until no room left. Shame there's no record at present monitoring consumer spending lest people like you continue misinformation.

Don't know about best.
The economy has certainly tanked and consumer spending is down by over 70%.

My company used to clear N1 million or less over that a month on Konga/Jumia. Towards the tail end of Goodluck's it began to dip. In Buhari tenure, we're effectively doing 60-90% less of what we used to earn in the past.

If this is the 'best economy', then all of Africa is doomed!

@doziex, We should rather take our shoe string budget for a shopping list in any of those Soviet states than another loan in China. We're effectively signing away national assets to the Chinese should we fail to repay loans. Ask Sri Lanka and the most recent example in Zambia.

If we don't start leveraging on developing our natural resources, tax structure, etc we will continually be condemned to a cycle of borrowing and insufficient resources to execute military operations.

Also from the video, looks like we're effectively resupplying the terrorists from gun trucks to weapons

Sad what's happened. And for all our repeated mistakes, deploying jets or helicopters would not plaster over our deficiency on the ground.

Going by the evil residents of Gudumbali suffered in the past from the terrorists, they'll be more likely to have noticed and informed the army base of strange elements lurking in or at the outskirts of town days ahead of an attack. How did they then managed to still get routed...?

Hierarchy seems to be out of depth regarding a suitable solution and things looking like 1 step forward, 2 backwards.

This is why we should hope for an opposition party to win Lagos, effectively dismantling the corrupt structures instituted by Tinubu and probably jail him too.

There's a reason why area boys and touts are still a thing in Lagos. They're his foot soldiers who come election time continue to help him prop up his evil empire.

naifizzy:
The world is a large place. They are several countries with disadvantaged climatic factors that hinders the growth of Marijuana.

The key is locate demand, supply and reap Returns.

That's it!!

Trust me on this. Except it's an illegal crop, most countries can grow large scale farms indoors with led lights and so.
Certain states in America, Netherlands etc do this on large scales.
Weed is often very easy to grow.

lefulefu:
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Certainly.

naifizzy:
The question is can it be exported?

If yes than actualize it in whatever process rather than burn it.

It's not a question of just export. There's also varieties of strains, hybrids etc with some more favoured than others. We don't know which is ours and the liberal countries allowing cannabis products already have capitalists growing certain desirable strains in their own countries and closer to their markets for quicker distribution.

Lol this guy should be serious. Canabis is not exported in its raw form by any country unless by 'cartels'. It'll have to be processed extensively to produce other cannabis based creams or prescription products and then exported.

We can do with a lot of food/agricultural exports which are staples and whose consumption are in millions of tonnes.

Algerian1:
For 2018 :
Health budget is 392 billions algerian dinars ( 1190 billions naira )

Education budget( primary college highschool) is 709,5 billions D ( 2154 billions naira )

High educatiion budget ( universities) Is 313,3 billions dinars ( 951,4 billion naira )

Well Nigeria has 4 times Algeria's population. Multiply your current problems by 4 (plus if you had successive inadequate governance)

Nigeria can go 2 ways about this...
Reduce our population by cautioning about high birth rates while increasing our economic potential or we can have still have a large population but we then become as productive as The Americans or Chinese. Our case is as a rich man with but too many mouths to feed. Never enough money to educate our youths, build, feed or even buy enough military hardware.

At the moment, our development pace is too slow compared to how quickly the population is growing and if not getting quality leadership, those we fail to educate or invest on properly now would become additional burden in the future (God forbid) who would then consume a significant portion of our budget all over again for war consumables.

No doubt Saraki is paying his several thousand minions millions monthly to launder his image.
Pity he's a thief and his bunch of hopeless youths are only but hoping to eat the crumbs that falls off his table.

Moghalu and Durotoye in that order are preferable on a joint ticket.
Sowore if taking a cue from his Sahara reporters can be roguish and unprofessional. Compare his organisation to the 'investigative' Premium Times and you can see a clear gulf in credibility and integrity.

Trump is a modern day Caligula, and certainly the worst villain President America ever had. Lying, racist, misogynistic man.

His modern comparatives would be either Mussolini or Berlusconi.

Lol. Should have just done it underground or better still zebra crossing. (if Nigerians obey traffic light) The cluster of houses very close to the main road is a big accident waiting to happen.

The long strip along the middle of the road is unnecessary since you can use pedestrian bridges at other ends to connect it.

Well, there goes another self deprecating African leader. Shameful really.

Henry240:
The cutter from the US carries a 76mm gun, how's that deranged? Do you expect we get missile armed ships from them?". We obviously would not get any of that.

On the Tucanos, they are on the same level as the cutter. The aircraft doesn't provide any leap in capability from what we had previously gotten from the US.

Tucanos got temporarily blocked because of the Air Force bombing in Rann. It was initially approved by Obama before that incident.

I'm telling you that the US will not sell any equipment to Nigeria that might pose a threat to American allies in the region. This is a fact!!

Dude read your own comment.

Please, a giant ship like an Hamilton Cutter and it only has a 76mm gun for offense passed on to us. That's how they used it? If not for BH, you think we would get Tucanos from the Americans? The threat of BH/IS if not taken care of would become a springboard for terrorism through which they can attack the west. How many times did army chiefs lament about not having appropriate aircrafts, complaining about the F7 and being too fast?

We got Cutters because piracy was becoming a threat and inadvertently affected American interests.

Henry240:
Tucanos were approved for Nigeria before Obama halted the sale because of the Air Force air strike in the IDP camp in Rann.

The sale of the Tucano is in the same class as the transfer of Cutters to the Nigerian navy or the transfer of MRAPs to the army.

They do not represent any leap in capability for the Nigerian military, but rather seek to secure American interest in Nigeria without representing any threat to America or her allies in the region.

The US will never sell F-16s to Nigeria, because any such sale will represent a threat to French interests in West-Africa.

You are telling us that a decommissioned IFV doesn't represent guns?


The only meaningful hardware we've gotten from Germany in the last 35 years are 6 units of Epenal Gunboats. We have been a steady democracy for nearly 20 of the 35 years.

So how is it that we would now be wishing for IFVs and other military hardware from them? In fact we are even more likely to get decommissioned IFVs from France than Germany.

http://nigerianewsday.com/2018/03/14/germany-donates-5-gun-boats-to-navy

You're contradicting yourself in the same post. Tucanos got blocked but cutters got passed. Most transfers until recent were defanged hardwares. No one is also asking for F16, no need to elevate the discussion to a level I have not stated.

Clearly we have different definitions of steady. ND, Boko haram, IPOB.

durodee:
Before I knew of this forum, I gave my set of 200amp telecom batteries to a battery charger for repair because they were not holding charge. He filled it with diluted acid and sealed it up. We first noticed the pervading smell of acid on return but worse with charging the batteries, later one could also dance to the music of boiling liquid inside the batteries!
It was a disaster waiting to happen. I learnt my lesson sha!

Please Durodee, What's your concensus on telecom batteries for solar. Read in the past that they're best suited for short term emergency backup.

Henry240:
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All well and good. Didn't read the full report about 'economic delegation'. 30 years ago, Nigeria was more or less a pariah due to military ruler so we were conveniently shunned by most. Until The Tucanos, Uncle Sam only passed us 'defanged' mostly sea going hardware (due to piracy which affected American interests).

Germany is under an influx of immigrants amongst which are Nigerians who conveniently apply the BH narrative to get a stay. Apart from seeking increased economic potentials from the government for Nigerian youths, it falls into the sphere of security for the ones abroad in Germany who don't want to come back.

She is under immense pressure from her party and country to sort out the influx especially as they were the most open country in the last few years to take the bulk of the immigrants into Europe.

Hardware from Germany doesnt mean guns and arty. We can do with decommissioned but useful bits such as IFV, or any initiative from Germany's expolits in Afghanistan.

giles14:
last I heard the ports in cross river,river and delta under Eastern and central naval command are not functional due to PIRACY activities in those waters .
so yes we need them

Hmmn...makes a bit of sense. There are uploads of quite a few pirates incident in Nigerian waters on youtube. Anti piracy measures as in Somalia, they use frigates down to RHIB.Our shaldag would have provided a nice mid level solution but not much of them we have.

Merkel in Nigeria next week. Hopefully we can sneak in few discussions about military relations and maybe hardwares.

Henry240:
A 25mm RWCS cannon on the ARA MRAP, a 6x6 variant will be awesome.

Say we had a minimum of this per convoy paired with a Russian Bpm 97 and or BMP 2/Marder (German retired ifv - if they'll sell) and the hilux or Innosons military type jeep. Ied are probably inevitable but they can be managed if deployed with certain tactics. I think every hilux should have its own 12.5mm at the back rather than making it as another seating outpost for soldiers. (they easily become hit when ambushed)

If possible, soldiers should be allowed to add modifications to their vehicles if deemed necessary.

If wishes were horses, I'd have said the Israeli NAMERS as the best examples for our soldiers but...I think it'd be interesting what Proforce/army may be able to do with a BMP chassis if the funds are there.