Aconomist:
According to the Nigerian government, not a single piece of cargo has been transported on the new rails. Basically, this means the project is unviable. Clearly, an East to West rail would have been the better use of the FOREX.

https://www.thisdaylive.com/index.php/2020/01/29/fg-bemoans-non-utilisation-of-railway-for-cargo-evacuation/

You are a liar. Most of you are liars that is why you are not getting what you want politically. A rail project was launched a few months back and you are saying it has failed. LIAR.
The cargo element of rail is going to evolve with time with great impact to internal costs within the economy and GDP.
We are going to need the terminals and cargo handling aspects which will evolve through private sector participation.

If you expect the Nigerian economy to be a trailer and tanker driven one with go-slows, fire incidents and Dangote trucks parked all over busy highways then go back to your village, you are not ready for the new Nigeria.

Rail as come to stay. Get your brains working on how to derive cost efficiencies from it. Stop moaning. Stop feeling sorry for yourself because Nigeria is prigressing

Xscape1993:
You can never become US president. Trump has done far far better for the Americans than any president in the history of Us.

Says a typical Nigerian - lying, shifty, sentimental, thoughtless and corrupt.

So 13_year olds are starting threads on Nairaland now. What a simple minded question.

ssozel:
hi everyone.

Nigeria air force pilots have lot of experience F7 combat aircraft. Why not buying the Guizhou JL-9, also known as the FTC-2000 Mountain Eagle. This aircraft is a F7 with a new wing, a forward fuselage with side air intakes, and a glass cockpit. The engine, empennage, and mechanical controls of the F7 are retained. It is a multi-role combat fighter aircraft and one of the cheapest multirole fighters on the market with the aim to replace old legacy fighters ( like the F7).
For the moment, Nigeria air force will have many FTC-2000 (on which pilots have already lot of experience) as regular combat aircraft and few JF-17 as high end combat aircraft.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guizhou_JL-9

https://asianmilitaryreview.com/2020/05/chinas-avic-announces-first-export-order-for-ftc-2000g/

https://thaimilitaryandasianregion./2015/11/01/jl-9-jianlian-9-trainer-light-attack-aircraft-china/

That's a nonsense aircraft. How could a country be buying JF17, looking at the SU 35 fpr possible acquisition and still be thinking of FTC-2000?

kabe1:


How is a trainer jet almost on par with a frontline multi-role 4th gen combat aircraft?

Does the Yak even have a radar?.

It is one of the most educated countries in the world and a key part of the world techno industrial system. One of the most important US allies 40 years ago.

Kriss216:
To be frank, give guys in Bunkery business $100Million, they’ll build a world class refinery for you. I’ve visited most Bunkery sites, believe me, those guys are really good. With local and little equipments, they can produce all petroleum products with just firewoods.

This is one of the most stupid and ignorant posts I have read in two years. There is a weird way the Nigerian mind functions that annoys a lot. Calling tin pot distillation units refineries is just one example. It shows technological ignorance when you see year 1BC artisanal stuff being passed along as breakthrough by dunces. All because your country is corrupt and you don't want to get serious. There are working refineries in Jamaica, Sierra Leone, Niger Republic and many other countries below Nigeria's level in technology and managerial skills yet you guys keep pushing rubbish tin pots that govt should be using for target practice everyday

What a load of crap. Why are people so dumb?. The guy has lost elections and there is a transition on. The US is not banana Republic where cut and join actions by a desperate incumbent will change the results of elections and disenfranchise more than 80m people

Trump needs mental treatment. His supporters deserve only contempt. How do you suspend all reasoning and discriminatory faculties and hold LIES in a warm embrace.
Why?
Fear, inferiority, hate?

Trump fighting for masses. Sounds so bland in its falsehood.

Whats a heart infection pls?. Half educated SM nitwits

kabe1:
Recent Nigerian army APC deliveries.

These vehicles are Ex-Jordanian FV-103 Spartan.

Imported recently and delivered to the Nigerian army.

Maybe over 100pcs used Spartans 103 may have been gifted by Jordanian Army to Nigeria since 2 years ago. Probably just being shipped recently

ImadeUReadThis:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?feature=youtu.be&v=iVXoqA6g2DU

For those without data to watch, let me break it down for you.

For Biden to emerge winner , he must win the electoral college votes.

The electoral college is determined by the respective state houses from which a list of electors are drawn by the house leadership.

In the 9 states in contention , 8 are controlled by Republicans .

The Democrat governor may attempt to block the house drawing a list of electors and so there will be counter suits flying around challenging the electors' list.

At this point, Michigan votes may be disallowed over strong evidence of voter fraud, thereby denying Biden the minimum 270 electoral college votes.

The US Constitution is very specific on this scenario as it states clearly that the US House of Representatives will then vote to decide the winner.

The Democrats have a majority of seats in Congress owing to wards as Democrat states like California and New York (due to their population) send more Representatives to Congress.


You may be thinking that this will see Nancy Pelosi lead the charge to confirm Biden as the winner but the Constitution specifies that all states have just one vote.

The current house is composed of 26 Republican states against that of Democrats with just 24.


So at the very end, Trump will win.

That's why the man is not bothered and is out everyday playing golf.


Lol.

Only Nigerian kids think this way. Childishness and crookedness mixed together. No republican led states that Biden won will vote Trump.
You and Trump are at the same infantile level of thinking. Those Republican state voted electors who will knock Trump out if office. They also returned most members of their party back to state houses and Senate but they have booted out Trump.
You need to stop deceiving yourself , Trump has stopped. They have told him the truth

Openbusiness:
Yes agreed, with the way time is so short, the case might never get to the Supreme Court on time before the Electoral College starts voting. And that's why if you read my original post very well, you will see that I highlighted this reality there. And which is why, because the Supreme Court might end up not even being in the picture at all, this thread is not based on Trump winning via the Supreme Court; BUT based on another viable alternative to Trump winning his 2nd Term that will surely play out.

Even the idea of electors from dome states voting their conscience against the wish of voters, that's amateurishness in the extreme.
If you think this happens and you don't extend the thinking to the dissolution of the entire US but you think all it does is return Trump to the White House then Nigerian crookedness has joined the amateurishness

Supreme Court judgements are not run of the mill judgements. They would only rule on fundamental legal system procedural issues in the light of the constitution

You have to be a simpleton to think the SCOTUS will disenfranchise millions of voters by upturning what they voted for.

Geregu figure is wrong

Fuckingmallam45:

I’m still pained on how this Arsenal could beat Ole at home

Pogba defeated ManU not Arsenal

Whyem15:
Not being able to pay for the remaining MI-35 is becoming too unbearable for me. Like I just can't bear the pain anymore. The remaining 7 are ready for pickup upon payment but we are scared of US sanctions.
Maybe if we beg US properly, we can get a waiver.

It is money. Not sanctions.

A tribe of traders, businessmen and professionals could conceivably be easily deceived by a rabid ethnic nationalist demagogue.
Igbos are too busy to think outside narrow material and subsistence goals
Thats why they are contracting out contemporary social analysis and commentary to some guy in Europe.

Biden is doing drive thru campaigns. You sit in your car and you participate in the rally. There is no way camera's can capture. They are hooking up massively. Democrats are spending billions of $$$$ in person to person campaign targeting battle ground states and even traditional Republican havens like Texas and Georgia

Trump is toast.

Some of his intelligent supporters may be right though. Only God can help him because he already lost this election. He himself knows.

He won't do better than he did in 2016 but his performance on COVID19 and race and corruption has made him lose the narrow margins he won in battle ground states.
Game over.

He still loses even if he wins these states.

That's a complete idiot calling hoodlums protesters. The genuine protesters already left and are at home. You want respect as youths, you dont want to be harassed by police but to say the truth is a problem for you.

UltimateDreamer:


dopeness of life...
hopefully the UAV champions will take this as a win... because it is a win....10 CH4's(if confirmed) will greatly improve situational awareness for personnel on the front line. 30-40 hours loiter time , with precision weapons (AR-1 or AR-2) should reduce the instances of ambush suffered by military personnel. We need more though, at least 40 - 50 of these; 10-15 always operational 10-15 as standby(take over from operational UAV's after 1 month; maintenance schedule) 10-15 for external engagements(coastal/west Africa/Sahel) 10-15 for continuous training, eventually no military patrol team/ strike team in Nigeria should leave base without the cover of a designated UAV ready to be re-directed to specified coordinates. Although we need many more small and specialized tactical UAV's, for example: tethered drones for base perimeter security, the super camps have made bases a lot safer but having tethered UAV's in camp to provide additional layer of perimeter security wouldn't hurt.
Now, talking about one weak link we will definitely encounter with using these drones: precision munitions; the military needs to start looking at ways of reverse engineering the AR 1 missile that they got with the CH3 drones, they definitely will been acquiring more air to ground missiles along with the new purchase of the Ch4 UAV's but judging from the videos released by DHQ about 70% of the strikes are dumb bombs, they are accurate enough but boosting the level of precision strikes to 60% will greatly increase the efficiency of the CH4 platform. AR-1 missile should and must be reverse engineered, the newer and lighter AR-2 should also be looked into. AR-1 is a replica of the AGM-114 Hellfire. The military need to cut down the cost of these precision munitions in order to strike even more effectively. MOU's between the military and technical colleges, private universities, steel/aluminum fabrication companies, private software companies should help speed development. Some of the components of an air to ground missile like the Hellfire or AR-1 include, laser seeker, rocket propulsion(military already has this figured out), guidance(motherboard, circuits, semiconductors and software) this section can be replicated using Raspberry pi or Arduino boards. The warhead section, well, they can figure this one out too. Point is once one is disassembled by a group of very curious engineers the smartest physics students working with capable software engineers, they should be able to replicate it using mostly off the shelf components; the replicated missile might be larger at first but so long as it works, they can figure out how to make the next one smaller. Nigeria has all the required professional personnel needed for a project like this.

Very good visioning. Realistic, knowledge able and achieve able

kabe1:
Looking at the defence budget, you'll be confused, but it seems procurement listed on Nigeria's defence budget is usually different from actual procurement.

For example the VT-4 Tank, SH-5 artillery, ST-1, CH-4 UCAVs, ARA MRAP, Ezugwu MRAP, K-152 and MI-17s are not listed in the Defence budget. SDB3 is also not listed in the Defence budget, but Nigeria is getting them.

The budget, especially on the project side might seem empty, but it more like a mirage than anything else.

"The devil is actually not in the detail, but what is delivered".

Those weapons you listed here have been bought, paid for and being delivered. They were bought outside the defence budgets. The capital items in the 2021 budget are separate from them and will come differently.

GeneralPula:
Trump self dey use naija politician style..

If you know you know..

Trump na Nigerian

The most stupid political party in the US is the Republican Party. Liars, liars, liars.
Now the chickens are coming home to roost. Irresponsible white privilege people. They are going to watch a rich, powerful country wither and die before their very eyes because they have given it all to an idiot called Trump.

As for Nigerians supporting these clowns, just watch.

Trump has completely destroyed the US economy with his low brow nationalism. There are consequences to all these thoughtless posturing. Europe is going to be pursuing weapons programs independent of the US. That a potential $3Tr hit to the US economy. They are also going to be major competitors to the US for markets globally.
The US is now cursed to be a poorer, whiter, more isolated, more irrelevant country in world affairs because they put a failed business man misfit in the White House

Blue3k:
Lol 2020 is an interesting year, 1/4 of rice production is washed away. These little events along with news of Nigeria importing grain put Nigeria's Argo sufficiency into question. I think its safe to say the agriculturual policies have failed and the government should admit like they did the subsidies.

Floods washed away harvests and that means agro policies have failed?.
I hope you know this is a bad reflection on your IQ. Nigerians say they are educated yet they find thinking difficult.
All these farmers will get NIRSAL agric insurance loan compensation so no permanent loss.
There will be an increase in rice prices which will further encourage rice farming.
Even rice importation that a lot of you unpatriotic simpletons are hoping for will only go to companies active in rice vslue chain. Only rice mill owners will import rice and they will be mostly northerners.

To the place where badly educated people with poor English language skills go .

LTGEN:

STFU
You have been carrying on" your holier than thou crusade" because no one answered you
till now .
The police in the US yesterday shot a man in the back several times , he wasn't a criminal he was breaking up a domestic dispute , is Nigeria the only country in the world that has rogue security personnel ? you act like Nigeria should fight the bh with sticks and stones .I am sick and tired of your ilk
Like as if a 155 mm ARTY SHELL bought in Russia is some how inferior to one made in the US .Nigeria bought 12 planes from the US and MOFOS like you wont allow us to rest. with your Human right mantra .
WTF is shocking about 12 A29? is it the only plane in the world ?
Since then the US has sold 3 drones to Nigeria
NIGERIA is getting 3 JF 17 which is a 3.5 GEN Multi role fighter and will be here in 8 weeks.
kilo de gan?
I beg this is not 2009 with your crappy sanctions .
The US supplies the Syrian freedom fighters , dances with some pretty awful shady characters in the Mid east that you shouldn't visit their embassies and we won't hear word about sanctions that won't happen .

Oga sir, JF17 is 4th Generation. We are probably getting AESA radar on it, so i make bold to call it 4+ generation

The US is on full blown one chance