In his final weeks in office, former President Muhammadu Buhari played his Commander-in-Chief role to the hilt, attending the Trooping and Presentation of Colours Parade of the Nigerian Army, the Nigerian Navy’s Presidential Fleet Review, and a Regimental Dinner hosted in his honour by the Defence Headquarters. At each event, he dressed in ceremonial military […]
In his final weeks in office, former President Muhammadu Buhari played his Commander-in-Chief role to the hilt, attending the Trooping and Presentation of Colours Parade of the Nigerian Army, the Nigerian Navy’s Presidential Fleet Review, and a Regimental Dinner hosted in his honour by the Defence Headquarters.
Nigeria’s newest Warship, NNS KADA, was delivered in May 2022, a year after the arrival of NNS LANA, a brand-new Offshore Hydrographic Survey Vessel. A few months after delivery, in August 2022, NNS KADA saw its first operation: deployment to Guinea Bissau, where it conveyed Nigerian troops and materiel to support the ECOWAS Stabilization Force there.
The Army also established two new Divisions , the Land Forces Simulation Center Nigeria , and the Nigerian Army Cyber Warfare Command, and a Nigerian Army Cyber Warfare School. A Nigerian Army Aviation Unit has been created and is being operationalized, to provide close air support, casualty evacuation, logistics delivery, among other supporting roles for the Army.
The NAF has also recently developed and launched fourteen new Operational Doctrines, while also updating the existing Basic Air Power Doctrine. Also under former President Buhari’s watch, Nigeria established the Defence Space Administration , the Defence Research and Development Bureau, the Nigerian Army University , and the Nigerian Navy’s Admiralty University. In 2018, the Air Force Institute of Technology was upgraded to University status.
In addition to these are the establishment of a National Center for the Coordination of Early Warning and Response Mechanism, a National Center for the Control of Small Arms and Light Weapons , and a National Counter Terrorism Centre . In terms of local technical capacity, under President Buhari the Nigerian Air Force began the reactivation/upgrade of dormant aircraft, with several since successfully reactivated. The Nigerian Navy through the Naval Dockyard Limited has ramped up local assembly of Seaward Defence Boats and other vessels.
Boko Haram and ISWAP are on the back foot in the North-East, and their goal of establishing a Caliphate on Nigerian territory is dead and buried. Hundreds of thousands of displaced Nigerians have since returned to their homesteads, while close to 80,000 thousands of terrorist fighters and their families have surrendered to the authorities since May 2021.
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