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Webmaster,
Thanks for your prompt assistance. I really appreciate it.

This is fantastic. Have you checked with Bifraland.com?

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Active duty personnel in the three Nigerian armed services total approximately 76,000. The Nigerian army, the largest of the services, has about 60,000 personnel deployed in two mechanized infantry divisions, one composite division (airborne and amphibious), the Lagos Garrison Command (a division size unit), and the Abuja-based Brigade of Guards. It has demonstrated its capability to mobilize, deploy, and sustain battalions in support of peacekeeping operations in Liberia, Yugoslavia, Angola, Rwanda, Somalia, and Sierra Leone. The Nigerian navy (7,000) is equipped with frigates, fast attack Pratt, convenes, and coastal patrol boats. The Nigerian air force (9,000) flies transport, trainer, helicopter, and fighter aircraft, but most are currently not operational. Nigeria also has pursued a policy of developing domestic training and military production capabilities. After the imposition of sanctions by many Western nations, Nigeria turned to China, Russia, North Korea, and India for the purchase of military equipment and training.

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What you don't know can hurt your people.

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The year 2000 changes to the force structure are not included in the report above.

You must be very proud of this military of yours, to showcase its strenght in an attempt to send us shuddering.

Pathetic!...Pathetic!

We are really quaking in our booths for this mighty advanced army. Yes we know the strenght of your army, no need to have the Americans re-train them. Yes we know also the caliber of the generals (both weeping and begging types) that command such mighty men of "valour".

We hope that the world will soon lift its sanctions, so that your military industrial complex can start manufacturing its own sophisticated weapon systems

The truth is that your dysfunctional country cannot manufacture a screw much less a hammer. Your demoralised, unfocused military can only level villages case in point Odi, where they moe down villagers.

If the law of probabilities were to be abrogated, and Camaroon decides to invade Nigeria, your military will not be a match.

On peace keeping, they have often concentrated in looting and raping than following strict military discipline. Some recent cases are still pending.

If that disgruntled military is the only hope that you can muster to save a dying nation...check this.

Soviet Union a world power, first rate military, equipped with inter-continental misles-------------Yet when the time came for its fall, all the military hardware did not prevent it from splitting.

Czekeslovakia, another equally militarilly strong country, for your information Nigeria bought its first Mig fighters used agianst Biafrans from this country in 1967. Yet when the time came for its political seperation, its military did not stop its seperation...and many others in the Adriatic peninsular.

Seun

What is not ment to be will not be, it could be temporarily delayed, but much stronger forces in this case centrifugal is getting stronger by the day to the point that even a million-man army will become impotent as this force sweeps through.

Certainly, the Nigerian army is nothing, compared to the British army. Indeed, I know that one afternoon of serious bombing campaign is enough to send the entire Nigerian Navy and Air Force to the bottom of the Indian Ocean, and reduce the 60-thousand man Army and its equipment into piles of worthless wreckage. Ultimately, whether the army is non-violently avoided or violently defeated is a matter that requires you as a Biafran to know what that army has and how it is likely to use it. You get no argument from me that Nigeria has nothing left to redeem.

June 27, 2001
Posted to the web June 27, 2001

Madu Onuorah
Abuja

Officers of the United States special forces will from September 1, this year start the training of three battalions of Nigerian Army just as Minister of Defence Lt. Gen. Theophilus Danjuma (rtd) extolled the beauty of democracy stating that cordial civil-military relationship is imperative for the consolidation of Nigeria's democracy.

The training of the three new battalions is aimed at enhancing their professionalism and equipping them with modern weapons. U.S. Ambassador to Nigeria Mr. Howard Jeter who announced the new package at the opening of the five-day military public affairs workshop which opened on Monday at Nicon-Hilton Abuja said the training was coming following the success and enhanced capacities of the two Nigerian battalions earlier trained last year.

According to Ambassador Jetter who spoke at the workshop jointly sponsored by the United States embassy and Nigeria's ministry of defence, the three battalions to be trained are located in Kebbi, Serti and Ilorin. Those to benefit under the package of Operation Focus Relief III include the 1 battalion Kebbi, the 20 battalions Serti and the 222 battalions Ilorin. Apart from the training which had earlier been given to two battalions in Sokoto and Ibadan, Mr. Jetter said the U.S. has extended the hand of friendship to the armed forces and is working to restore the capacity and pride of Nigeria's military institutions.

Today he said, military affairs and security are now matters for public debate, legislative scrutiny and media inquiry. Nigerian military, the U.S. envoy stated have good stories to tell.

Said he, "domestically, the Nigerian armed forces are turning in the same new direction as the nation - a fundamental democratic and political transition that, I assure you, will make this country greater, more prosperous and more stable in the future. The Nigerian armed forces will win the respect of the Nigerian people as corruption ends, as the standards of training and professionalism increase, as leadership takes on a democratic spirit, as the (military) bases and installations are recognised as good neighbours in the community they serve and as people see soldiers, sailors and airmen engaged in useful tasks."

Internationally, he said, "your troops are a vital force for peace and stability in Africa. Nigerians should know it, Africa should know it and the world should know it. But it will fall to you to tell these stories of honour, achievement and success."

Ambassador Jetter urged the military to build a bridge of understanding with the Nigerian people through the media, stating that "once that bridge is secure, you will be well on your way to regaining the confidence and admiration of the Nigerian people. Nigerians want to be proud of their military, and frankly, so do we."

Gen. Danjuma said that democracy demands openness and accountability which is not tenable in a military regime.

"In a democracy", he noted, "public officials including military personnel are stewards who are accountable to people - to the common man to whom democratic power belongs. The public has the right to know what government and public officials are doing, because whatever they are doing is supposed to be for the people. They have a right to ask questions because they are stakeholders in the affairs of the nation."

"The military," Danjuma stated, "must make conscious and sustained efforts to communicate openly with the public. In spite of popular misconceptions and misgivings about the military, the Nigerian military is still one of our strongest and patriotic institutions."

The five-day military public affairs workshop ends on Friday.