₦airaland Forum

Winnin009:
Exactly... that's why Iran will win in a war against them... because they built more ships than America

Which is it tho?! Trade surplus or ship building?!

You no get sense.

Ask your popsy.

femi4:
Man u is missing Mbeumo & Amad

And Onana.

GravityDefier:
Oga, try rest, you've done well for the day.
Tomorrow you continue

You just woke up?

Winnin009:
So trade surplus is your reason?

Okay bro.

50% of warships are built in China.

10-14% in Russia

1.5 - 3% in Iran


Siddon make pant dey wear you.
2% in North Korea.

Winnin009:
So trade surplus is your reason?

Okay bro.

Stop living in the past.

Technologically, China is far more advanced than US.

Their budget is balanced, they are more patriotic, and they can see the impact of government in their lives.

The cost of war is more manageable.

ViceGovernor:
You talked about China's population 😂 calling it an advantage over America and I simply showed you that may not be the case.

Israel is surrounded by 500 million Arabs who actively seek their death 💀 does that mean they are more powerful than 15 million Jews?

Your logic of using population is skewed and you know it.

In an all out war China's population will be of no use to them against the military might of USA, they don't fight fair or with any sort of morals, they can drop an atom bomb that will level that population by half, hope you get my point sir.

By the way I still insist China won't attack Taiwan because HE that is behind Taiwan is greater than the Chinese.

You actually think Israel had the unilateral capability to handle all its Arab opponents?

What are you 7?

Winnin009:
China isn't more powerful bros... yes they produce stuff and that's only because America is available to buy. The day America indeed goes back to manufacturing locally, this power you think China has will fizzle away.

America's spending is half of the whole Europe if not more. Its that American money that gives them this so called power that you talk about.

America has only 330 million people.
China makes a trade surplus of 2 billion dollars daily.

US is indebted by 20 billion dollars daily.

Can you all just wean yourself of Hollywood?

EponObi:
Someone who calls your country a shit hole on global TV will treat you better? You are blacks, far down below the scale. Lol

When I read Nairaland, I understand how people become colonised.

ViceGovernor:
You are just hyping nonsense, if them born Shiner well make them near Taiwan, na that time una go see the red eye of America.

This midnight arrest is not just about an arrest it's also about passing a very clear message to Beijing and Moscow and the mullahs in Iran have also been put on notice.

Superpower is not the same as World power.
You are talking about population 😂 😂 you should know by now it's not by how much but by how well, if you have 42 Hondas and I have 4 Ferraris does that make us equals?

China would take Taiwan before the end of the year.

Your Ferrari analogy is a strawman argument.

tctrills:
War general, how u take know? Mexico was attacked and defeated by the US long ago, and it only led to the expansion of American territory.

You think the America of today is the America of 1846?

You think those who have tasted Kokaina and mpuru mmiri can face a protracted war on their doorstep?

SenecaTheYonger:
Cartel outsourced long ago. Mexico is just a coverup, the real thing happens elsewhere

Story Story.

The reason is clear, US would suffer if Mexico is attacked.

HacheNoire:
Sincerely, I would wish they have their prayers answered.

In unrest , the poor and less privilege are the victims. The real players have dual citizenships.

Don't mind them.

Strangely enough, those with access to other countries are the ones that try to educate them but they would never accept it.

kernniejay:
You are saying nonsense and you think you are you making points. If you know the amount of illicit drugs that have been shipped into the U.S. through drug peddlers from Mexico, Columbia, Venezuela etc, you will keep shut.

Why is Trump scared of attacking Mexico?

SenecaTheYonger:
Omo Trump is not playing about this drug stuff oh.

Abi Columbia also get top 10 ranking for oil reserve?

Why doesn't he attempt to attack Mexico?

t4him:
You guys need to see how these illegal drugs are destroying lives on the streets of the US then you may understand why Trump is doing this. How much resources of other nations does US really need ? The fact is that US is being destroyed right now with these illegal drugs coming from South and Central America.

Most of the fentanyl, Crystal Meth opiods that Amricans consume are made in America.

chipet67:
Before you complain about United states and Trump. Try to know what's going on here in our oil sector between Nigeria and the British.

There is nothing happening in our oil sector between Nigeria and the Brirish.

Shell only produces less than 300k barrels of oil daily.

A far cry from years before.

Most prolific oil fields are deep offshore.

Do you guys never update your knowledge?

Heffalump:
I dey feel you. You are really a guy man. The oil in the Niger Delta is not benefiting us walahi.

When US takes over Venezuela, they'll make everyone there a millionaire.



Whilst the number 1 cause of bankruptcy in America is medical costs.


Every year 650,000 Americans file for bankruptcy due to the burden they bear.

I swear, most of you need education and exposure.

Brendaniel:
Is that your reason for supporting nonsense leaders into office?

You thinking is puerile.

Countries with military might attack and prevent smaller, weaker countries from progressing.

This has been the story since the days of slavery.

Grow up.

SmartPolician:
The day China would be as powerful as America, they would do worse things. There should be a mechanism for taming these countries that consider themselves powerful

China is more powerful than US but exercise restraint.

They are 1.1 billion people with slightly larger landmass.

They are the world's factory.

If you think the country that produces over 1 thousand ships annually compared to measly total of 8 per year by US is incapable of defending itself?

China learnt a bitter lesson during the Opium wars and would never ever leave their defence capabilities shoddy.

Brendaniel:
That is why you should elect good leaders that will make your country great and powerful not leaders like Tinubu that is busy destroying Nigeria, you think if china were having leaders like Tinubu they will be anywhere near being a world power today?

The Opium war in which Britain attacked China was brought about by what?

Trump should author that his dirty mouth.

After giving Bubba BJ.

You mean some moderator, saw the exact thread with better contributions, trashed and tossed that one.

Only to send this one to frontage.


Seunn should be taking a better look at his moderators.

HeadNigga:
He is out... Emmanuelle has not given birth yet

You sabi Immanuela Okorie?

Nigeria’s multi-billion-naira National Public Security Communication System, once sold to the public as a game-changing police communication and surveillance network, now stands across the country as a monument to institutional failure.

From Lagos to Maiduguri and the FCT, purpose-built communication centres, towers, and technical facilities lie idle or vandalised. What was conceived as a $470m (over N700bn at current rates) backbone for modern policing has instead become part of the story of how insecurity deepened nationwide.

The key question is no longer just who to blame — but why Nigeria repeatedly builds strategic security infrastructure it cannot sustain.

The NPSCS was initiated under President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua and aggressively implemented during President Goodluck Jonathan’s administration between 2010 and 2015. It was financed largely through a China Exim Bank facility and executed by Chinese telecoms giant ZTE.

The project was designed to provide a digital trunked radio network for secure voice communication nationwide, command and control centres in all 36 states and the FCT, CCTV coverage in key cities, emergency call centres and tracking capabilities, and Integration of police, security and emergency services into a unified communication framework.

Thousands of specialist cadet inspectors and ASPs were reportedly recruited and trained to man these facilities. On paper, it was one of the most ambitious internal security infrastructure projects in Nigeria’s history.

Despite the impressive launches and political speeches, evidence shows that the NPSCS never became a consistently functional, nationwide operational system.


Several official inspections and legislative probes over the years highlighted major faults:

Many CCTV cameras and base stations worked only partially or for a short period.

Maintenance arrangements and funding were weak or non-existent.

Handover from the contractor to the Nigerian authorities was poorly managed.

By the end of the Jonathan era and into the early Buhari years, multiple components of the system were already failing, idle, or plundered. The infrastructure existed physically, but the network as a living, integrated security tool barely existed in practice.

This is a crucial point: the narrative that a fully functional, highly effective system was deliberately “switched off” overnight is not supported by the broader record. It was limping, under-maintained, and vulnerable long before.

The most explosive claim in public discourse is that the Buhari-led APC administration deliberately shut down Jonathan’s “police communication empire” to aid bandits and criminal elements.


There is no publicly available documentary evidence of a formal directive by President Buhari ordering the shutdown of an operational NPSCS.

What can be established is a pattern of continued neglect: failure to fund maintenance, failure to upgrade, and failure to prioritise the system as a central security asset.

Sources within the police claimed that instructions came from “above” to stop funding ZTE and allow the system to die. Those allegations are serious, but they remain anonymous, untested and uncorroborated in any court or official white paper.

It is also true that the Buhari administration inherited not just infrastructure, but the same security establishment — senior officers, civil servants, and contractors — that managed, compromised, or mismanaged the system under previous governments. Leaders at the top change; the underlying machinery often does not.

To say Buhari personally “shut it down to assist bandits” is therefore a political conclusion, not a proven fact. What is factual is that his government failed to salvage, reform, or transparently audit a system that was already in trouble. That is a serious failing, but it is different from a criminal conspiracy.


Former President Jonathan publicly complained while in office that his government and security architecture were infiltrated by sympathisers or agents of terrorist networks. If that is accurate, it logically follows that:

Sabotage of critical security infrastructure could have occurred internally,


And those actors may have remained in place across administrations, including under Buhari.

However, this remains in the realm of political intelligence and conjecture, not fact. No administration — Jonathan’s, Buhari’s or Tinubu’s — has successfully prosecuted a network of “fifth columnists” linked directly to the failure of the NPSCS.

The fairest conclusion today is that the system was brought down by a mixture of corruption, incompetence, poor project design, institutional decay and possible internal sabotage — a collective failure, not the handiwork of a single man or party.

It is also inaccurate to pretend that insecurity started under Buhari. Under Jonathan, Boko Haram reached its most territorially ambitious phase, controlling large areas in the North-East.

The 2014 Chibok girls abduction, arguably the most globally infamous kidnapping in Nigeria’s history, occurred on his watch and remained unresolved for years.


Nigeria’s multi-billion-naira National Public Security Communication System, once sold to the public as a game-changing police communication and surveillance network, now stands across the country as a monument to institutional failure.

From Lagos to Maiduguri and the FCT, purpose-built communication centres, towers, and technical facilities lie idle or vandalised. What was conceived as a $470m (over N700bn at current rates) backbone for modern policing has instead become part of the story of how insecurity deepened nationwide.

The key question is no longer just who to blame — but why Nigeria repeatedly builds strategic security infrastructure it cannot sustain.

The NPSCS was initiated under President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua and aggressively implemented during President Goodluck Jonathan’s administration between 2010 and 2015. It was financed largely through a China Exim Bank facility and executed by Chinese telecoms giant ZTE.



The project was designed to provide a digital trunked radio network for secure voice communication nationwide, command and control centres in all 36 states and the FCT, CCTV coverage in key cities, emergency call centres and tracking capabilities, and Integration of police, security and emergency services into a unified communication framework.

Thousands of specialist cadet inspectors and ASPs were reportedly recruited and trained to man these facilities. On paper, it was one of the most ambitious internal security infrastructure projects in Nigeria’s history.

Despite the impressive launches and political speeches, evidence shows that the NPSCS never became a consistently functional, nationwide operational system.


Several official inspections and legislative probes over the years highlighted major faults:

Many CCTV cameras and base stations worked only partially or for a short period.

Maintenance arrangements and funding were weak or non-existent.

Handover from the contractor to the Nigerian authorities was poorly managed.

By the end of the Jonathan era and into the early Buhari years, multiple components of the system were already failing, idle, or plundered. The infrastructure existed physically, but the network as a living, integrated security tool barely existed in practice.

This is a crucial point: the narrative that a fully functional, highly effective system was deliberately “switched off” overnight is not supported by the broader record. It was limping, under-maintained, and vulnerable long before.

The most explosive claim in public discourse is that the Buhari-led APC administration deliberately shut down Jonathan’s “police communication empire” to aid bandits and criminal elements.


There is no publicly available documentary evidence of a formal directive by President Buhari ordering the shutdown of an operational NPSCS.

What can be established is a pattern of continued neglect: failure to fund maintenance, failure to upgrade, and failure to prioritise the system as a central security asset.

Sources within the police claimed that instructions came from “above” to stop funding ZTE and allow the system to die. Those allegations are serious, but they remain anonymous, untested and uncorroborated in any court or official white paper.

It is also true that the Buhari administration inherited not just infrastructure, but the same security establishment — senior officers, civil servants, and contractors — that managed, compromised, or mismanaged the system under previous governments. Leaders at the top change; the underlying machinery often does not.

To say Buhari personally “shut it down to assist bandits” is therefore a political conclusion, not a proven fact. What is factual is that his government failed to salvage, reform, or transparently audit a system that was already in trouble. That is a serious failing, but it is different from a criminal conspiracy.

Former President Jonathan publicly complained while in office that his government and security architecture were infiltrated by sympathisers or agents of terrorist networks. If that is accurate, it logically follows that:

Sabotage of critical security infrastructure could have occurred internally,


And those actors may have remained in place across administrations, including under Buhari.

However, this remains in the realm of political intelligence and conjecture, not fact. No administration — Jonathan’s, Buhari’s or Tinubu’s — has successfully prosecuted a network of “fifth columnists” linked directly to the failure of the NPSCS.

The fairest conclusion today is that the system was brought down by a mixture of corruption, incompetence, poor project design, institutional decay and possible internal sabotage — a collective failure, not the handiwork of a single man or party.

It is also inaccurate to pretend that insecurity started under Buhari. Under Jonathan, Boko Haram reached its most territorially ambitious phase, controlling large areas in the North-East.

The 2014 Chibok girls abduction, arguably the most globally infamous kidnapping in Nigeria’s history, occurred on his watch and remained unresolved for years.


Under Buhari, the map shifted:

Boko Haram/ISWAP was gradually pushed back territorially


But banditry, mass abductions, rural terrorism and kidnapping for ransom exploded, especially in the North-West and North-Central.

Both periods exposed deep structural weaknesses in Nigeria’s security and intelligence system. Neither government can credibly claim success on internal security, and neither can honestly be singled out as the reason the NPSCS failed.

Various signals show that the Nigerian state knows the NPSCS failure is a scandal:

The National Assembly has held multiple probes and issued reports calling for accountability.

Federal agencies have announced “revival” efforts more than once, often with media fanfare but little visible impact on the ground.

More recently, committees and project management teams have been inaugurated to reassess or concession parts of the infrastructure.

Yet ordinary Nigerians still see abandoned masts, dark CCTV poles and empty buildings. That tells you the gap between announcement and delivery remains massive.

Arguing endlessly about whether Jonathan’s team or Buhari’s team “killed” the project misses the urgent point: Nigeria still does not have a reliable, modern, nationwide security communication system in 2025.

With a fresh wave of kidnappings, rural attacks and urban banditry, the priority should be:

Independent technical and financial audit of the NPSCS assets — what is salvageable, what is obsolete, and what was never properly delivered.

Transparent accountability for officials and contractors involved in any fraud, sabotage, or gross negligence — across all administrations.

Designing a new, modern system, possibly with new vendors, incorporating: encrypted nationwide radio, integrated emergency response and tracking, CCTV and drone feeds into central and regional command centres, and remote operation and redundancy for when physical sites are attacked.

Ring-fenced funding and strict governance so that maintenance is not treated as an optional luxury.

It is entirely reasonable — and urgently necessary — to rebuild or replace Jonathan-era infrastructure with newer digital, networked systems, as security experts and civic groups like the National Patriots have proposed. What is not reasonable is to pretend the old system was a flawless masterpiece assassinated by one politician.


The NPSCS story is not just a Buhari problem or a Jonathan problem. It is a Nigerian state problem: a pattern of grand projects launched with fanfare, under-delivered, under-maintained, then weaponised in partisan blame games once they fail.

If Nigeria is serious about confronting insurgency, banditry and mass kidnapping, it must stop treating critical communication infrastructure as political property and start treating it as a non-negotiable backbone of national survival.

The collapse of Nigeria’s multi-billion-naira police communication network is not the failure of one administration but the consequence of years of institutional decay, sabotage, and neglect.

What was designed to give the nation real-time security intelligence was allowed to rot in silence while criminals evolved faster than the state. Blaming one regime distracts from the truth — the system was never protected, never maintained, and never prioritised. Nigeria cannot fight 2025 threats with a broken 2010 infrastructure. We need a modern, fully networked, fail-safe communication architecture now, backed by transparency, funding, and accountability. Until then, insecurity will continue to outrun governance.

It is incorrect and deeply misleading to claim that the APC-led Buhari administration deliberately shut down a ‘fully functional’ police communication system to aid bandits. First, the system was never fully operational. Second, its collapse had already begun before 2015. Third, the failure was institutional, not personal. And fourth, blaming one administration is both incomplete and unfair.

Our rebuttal is based on evidence, not politics. Nigerians must get their facts right and stop circulating narratives built on partial information or economic truths, especially at a time when national security demands clarity, honesty, and responsibility.

It is incorrect and deeply misleading to claim that the APC-led Buhari administration deliberately shut down a ‘fully functional’ police communication system to aid bandits



First, the system was never fully operational. Second, its collapse had already begun before 2015. Third, the failure was institutional, not personal. Fourth, blaming one administration is both incomplete and unfair.

Our rebuttal is based on evidence, not politics. Nigerians must ensure they get their facts right and refrain from circulating narratives based on partial information or economic truths for political reasons, especially at a time when national security demands clarity, honesty, and responsibility.

Princess Adebajo-Fraser, MFR, the founder of The National Patriots, writes from Lagos.

https://punchng.com/the-real-story-behind-failed-police-communications-system/

Facebook?

No pictures?

No sources?

He wanna real, dye?

He's in charge of Toilet cleaning on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday.

Sunday is between him and Musa.

The protest is NOT non-payment but non-payment of the increment arrears. .

Get it right.

DoctorStanley:
You the one ought stop arguing nonsense. US "debt" is NOT AT ALL same as Nigerian debt.
Like I said CB owes you the N1000 debt (Naira) you have in your pocket BUT you'll never go to collect BECAUSE there are others waiting to pick up same debt

You're the one comparing it to Nigerian debt.

It is a debt and it would tank the US economy if not better managed.

You think they are too big to fail?