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The United States has delivered critical military supplies to Nigeria as part of ongoing efforts to strengthen bilateral security cooperation between the two countries.

The delivery was confirmed by United States Africa Command (AFRICOM), which oversees US military operations across the continent.
In a post on X, formerly Twitter, on Tuesday, AFRICOM said the supplies were handed over to Nigerian partners in Abuja.
“U.S. forces delivered critical military supplies to our Nigerian partners in Abuja. This delivery supports Nigeria’s ongoing operations and emphasizes our shared security partnership,” AFRICOM stated.

The post, which tagged US Mission Nigeria, did not disclose the specific nature or quantity of the military

equipment delivered.

This comes amid a broader security partnership between Nigeria and the US. On Christmas night, US forces conducted airstrikes in Sokoto State, targeting Islamic State–linked militants accused of working with the Lakurawa jihadist group and local armed bandit networks.

The strikes followed a diplomatic disagreement sparked by allegations of persecution and violence against Christians in Nigeria.

US President Donald Trump had previously described the situation as “genocide,” an assertion that was strongly rejected by the Nigerian government.




https://www.vanguardngr.com/2026/01/us-delivers-military-supplies-to-nigeria/

Kobicove:
A Nigerian customs officer would not have shot an unarmed female driver in the back like this trigger-happy American ICE agent

lol, a soldier killed a minor for making sexual advances towards her minor sister...show me any sign of protest from the people

A country where life matters, one life lost and whole country is protesting. in my country we count them in numbers still nobody dare to speak, even media houses has been trained to always reduce the number of casualties...shitty country with a drug baron in power

Thundafireseun:
Unfortunately for you… sense is far away from you

may ur type happen to ur family again and again

Abi

Thundafireseun:
Seconded

Fubara is a green snake under the green grass

i was thinking sense will be common this 2026

Omo this 2027 game go too sweet, las las both APC and opposition parties are all out to hunt each other badly

Lol, eyes go soon clear, ask Ganduje, las las wike will be partiless, and APC will rally round Fubara, icajtwait to witness the fallout between Wike and Tinubu and APC...

Lol, eyes go soon clear, ask Ganduje, las las wike will be partiless, and APC will rally round Fubara, icajtwait to witness the fallout between Wike and Tinubu and APC...

I can't wait to see the drug lord in asovilla to be dragged this same way soon, he will eventually d*e even b4 being flown to US out of high BP

Ok oh, let's see how it goes, hopefully good

BIZNess123:
Always looking for attention.

He will soon be defeated by atiku.. in the primary...
Someone that finished distant third...he was flogged like a child by tinubu...

and we continue with tinubu foral another 4yrs, if u can survive it all of us will...

Richtaiwo:
Quite predictably, he has arrived, right on cue, as if responding to a calendar alert titled Selective Outrage. Disasters have come and gone in the East, reports piling up like unread emails, yet not a single blink of concern. Last week, he graciously visited Enugu, not to engage, not to empathize, but apparently to change outfits and exit stage left.

It seems compassion, in this case, is a strictly external affair, it begins outside his compound and ends wherever the cameras stop rolling. What happens back home? Utterly irrelevant. One can only conclude that his brand of charity is strictly ceremonial, pressed, polished, and completely allergic to responsibility.

if we can get rid of people of ur mindset Nigeria will be a better place, and the only way to get rid of ur types os to continue to educate u on how to belive in truth no matter who is been spoken about...I wish u well

garykoeman:
As if awkuzu river kill-ing did not happen during his tenure in Anambra.

All of una Nigeria politician are ole and hypo-crite.

omo, some of una really no too well oh...kai

SonOfWords:
You people took a flourishing country from a PhD holder and handed it to a cattle-rearing ssce-holding aboki, then expected flabbergasting results .

If no be madness been dey worry una, wetin we go call am now?!

and later una take am from an illiterate cattle rearing aboki and gave it to a well known drug lord and expect a sane county?, na joke una dey joke

Orlandoo:
Trump can't try this in Nigeria under Tinubu.

Ah swear, agbadorians will bring US down with their weapon of discussions (their mouth)

Am the last person to take Wike serious again, just wait and see if Tinubu try to force SIM on Rivers people and Wike will tell the world how he made him the president...lousy drunken ikwerre man

Venezuela first
Nigeria second

...if u know u know

If Venezuela president with the backing of China and Russia can be taken away so easily by US forces, imagine what will happen to the mannequin in Aso-rock should the US decide to pick him up...omo

My 485k, who do me for cut1, if I play 25 games 24 will enter and 1 game will cut, even if then as low as playing only 1 game, 1 game will still cut it...nawa o

And they keep proving us right. Some of us take the warning from our older generation lightly, today Nigeria activities keep reaffirming those warning...WE WON'T FORGET

Two average clubs doing what they're known for

It has emerged that the United States of America, USA, military has designed plans for intervention in Nigeria. This is coming after President Donald Trump alleged that “Christian genocide” was happening in Nigeria, and the US would invade to take care of the terrorists.

In Trump’s words: “Christianity is facing an existential threat in Nigeria. Thousands of Christians are being killed. Radical Islamists are responsible for this mass slaughter.”

He then ordered the military to prepare a plan.

The Defense Secretary, Pete Hegseth, quickly responded, “Yes, Sir,” and then directed the Africa Command to send plans for possible strikes.

Officials at the command, which is based in Stuttgart, Germany, sent options to Washington. The new AFRICOM commander, Gen. Dagvin R.M. Anderson, has a previously scheduled trip to Nigeria next month.

Three defense officials said the plans from the command had three options — light, medium and heavy — and were intended to be escalatory.

Option 1
The light option, the officials said, included what the military called partner-enabled operations.

Under that option, the U.S. military and the State Department would support government forces in Nigeria to target Boko Haram and other Islamic insurgents who have attacked, kidnapped and murdered civilians, mostly in northern Nigeria, where sectarian and ethnic violence has raged for almost 20 years.

The United States would have to conduct these operations without the expertise of the U.S. Agency for International Development, whose office in Abuja, the capital, officially closed in July, after the Trump administration shuttered the agency.

But that action would come with a host of issues, the thorniest being that the violence in the northern Nigerian Sahel falls along linguistic, cultural and religious lines.

Much of it is based on land use and tenure and is fomented in some cases by corruption in the Nigerian government.

Farmers and herders in the region have battled one another over land use for decades, and militant Islamic groups have taken advantage of the distrust to push their own agenda.

Option 2
The medium option being put forward by Africa Command, officials said, includes drone strikes on militant camps, bases, convoys and vehicles in northern Nigeria.

American Predator and Reaper drones can loiter for hours before striking, and other U.S. intelligence can gather information on specific targets’ pattern of life.

But that option comes with its own issues, not least being that the U.S. military in August vacated its two nearest drone bases, in Agadez and Niamey, both in neighboring Niger. Russian forces now occupy those bases.

Drones launched from Niamey or Agadez could reach Nigeria in an hour, one military official said. But now, the closest known places from which the United States could launch drones are southern Europe and perhaps Djibouti, in East Africa, where the U.S. military has a large base.

U.S. troops at an air base in Agadez, Niger, in 2018. The United States vacated its drone base in the city in August.

One official suggested that West African countries seeking favor with the Trump administration might allow their territories to be used, but that is less clear. Doing so would also go against the wishes of the Nigerian government, which is hugely influential on the continent, and could open up another set of problems for neighboring countries.

The Nigerian government has said it welcomes U.S. assistance in targeting Islamist insurgents but added the caveat that any action must respect Nigeria’s sovereignty and its territorial integrity.

Option 3
The heavy option, military officials said, would be to move an aircraft carrier group into the Gulf of Guinea and to deploy fighters and perhaps long-range bombers to conduct strikes deep in northern Nigeria.

However, the United States is already in the process of moving one of its aircraft carriers, the Gerald R. Ford, from its deployment in Europe to the southern Caribbean, where Mr. Trump has declared war on drug cartels.

Other aircraft carriers are currently deployed in the Pacific or in the Middle East or are undergoing maintenance.

Deploying an American aircraft carrier to the Gulf of Guinea to take on Islamic insurgents in Nigeria was not deemed to be a 2025 national security priority as recently as Friday, several military officials said.

Americans react
The American military cannot do much to quell the violence unless it is willing to start an Iraq- or Afghanistan-style campaign, the officials said, something that no one appears to be seriously contemplating.

But they said there were some steps available to American war planners that could have limited impact on the militants.

Militant groups like Boko Haram and the Islamic State West Africa Province have targeted Christians in Nigeria, along with many Muslims accused of not being devout enough. Any major military operation by the United States would be likely to fail, current and former military officials said.

“It would be a fiasco,” said Maj. Gen. Paul D. Eaton, a retired Army veteran of the war in Iraq and U.S. efforts to counter the insurgency there.

The American public had not shown much interest in repeating the Iraq- or Afghanistan-style military campaigns in Nigeria, he noted. Nor had the president, beyond his recent social media posts.

Any potential effort by Mr. Trump to direct the military to target Nigerian insurgents through his preferred method — airstrikes — would be likely to cause shock and awe but not much more, military officials said.

General Eaton likened such an effort to “pounding a pillow.”






https://www.vanguardngr.com/2025/11/us-military-design-plan-for-intervention-in-nigeria-light-medium-or-heavy/

You see that car called Honda Accord, I really don't know why I dislike it so much...maybe bcuz I've seen it keep lot of families stranded on the road due to bolt joint failures

You see that car called Honda Accord, I really don't know why I dislike it so much...

We shall go out and come in safely...our blood shall not spill on the Nigerian road nor any other

If only we know the energy and sacrifices our forefathers put in to create most of what we see as *norms* today, this our Gen-Z generation are only after consumption, ordinary farm work most of us now see it as *suffer-work*, we're only interested in enjoying life, omo like this eh 200yrs to come na only God know how our great grandchildren to take dey life oh, maybe on alien mode sha

Zionmdde:
@ bolded. That's when dangote choose to defy the law of the country and international laws and sack workers for joining union

2nd NNPC does not give anybody license for anything, you can't write a long epistle of what you don't know

Dangote is owing nnpc a lot of money somewhere

No PENGASSAN leader is in any filling station or has any business or invested interest with any anywhere in this country

Who suffers more? Dangote, the sacked workers, the thousands of Indians replacing Nigeria, the common man, the uncommon man, together in unity we will all suffer for the injustice meted on those sacked workers

NNPC is not Pengassan and pengassan is not nnpc. Why not also call out total, Chevron, nlng, seplat, shell and the rest because their staffs are also pengassan members.

If NNPC refuses to sell crude to dangote, let him buy from total or mobil, or seplat or Chevron they are all crude producers

Go and read your books for next year utme abeg. For your mind now you have written an essay

Injury to those sacked workers is injury to everyone. When we learn to stand up for each other, oppression will end

thanks for educating those ignorant Nigerians who choose to take side with zero knowledge of what is at stake, I worked with Dangote group for 5yrs, if they allow him break the bond that guide oil and gas sector we will buy petrol for 5k b4 2027, Dangote is a good capitalist, he don't have our interest at heart, he MUST obey the law of the land, am fully in support of PENGASSAN for this one

Actors everywhere, time shall come we all will realise how they sold our dear country to a jihadist group all for selfish reasons