27naira:

SMH @ the responses.

Your minds are gradually being programmed to remain recipients of aids and western programme.
Talk about colonial mentality. We can buy state-of-the-art presidential jets for the dumbest presidents but will rather accept a decommisioned outdated water patrol ship and sing america's praise.

This is trash! we should bury our heads in shame. you can never be greater than your master! Thats the latent message.

It's a disgrace my brother

c`mon 1968 dats too old, almost as old as d country, not even 1990`s, abeg we dnt want, na wa oo, wat do dey take us for monkeys??

you no know before?

27naira:

SMH @ the responses.

Your minds are gradually being programmed to remain recipients of aids and western programme.
Talk about colonial mentality. We can buy state-of-the-art presidential jets for the dumbest presidents but will rather accept a decommisioned outdated water patrol ship and sing america's praise.

This is trash! we should bury our heads in shame. you can never be greater than your master! Thats the latent message.

It's a disgrace my brother

c`mon 1968 dats too old, almost as old as d country, not even 1990`s, abeg we dnt want, na wa oo, wat do dey take us for monkeys??

you no know before?

USaid aid; UNESCO aid; UNICEF aid; IMF aid; Worldbank aid; Paris club aid; and now US Navy aid.

It beats me to see Nigeria remain a recipient of aids and western programme and yet we feel it is absolutely normal to stay same.
All of you commending this "donation" should have your heads checked. Apparently, a "recipient" is always a subject to the "donor" and will uncompromisingly do his biddings. This is the bottomline of western foreign policies on Africa.

sebastinta:

Its obvious we cnt make it, we can aswell buy it, is anythn wrong wiv dat, istead of keepin junk in d country

We can make it, but we are too phucking lazy and burdened with low self esteem. Is it not humans that made as long ago as 1968?
If for sad reasons, we are incapable, then none of us has the right to condemn the old boat we've bought, because we don't have the money to buy a brand new one.

MEND Just took delivery of a Typhoon class submarine, I wonder if this canoe would last two days in Niger Delta waters!  

Beaf:

We can make it, but we are too phucking lazy and burdened with low self esteem. Is it not humans that made as long ago as 1968?
If for sad reasons, we are incapable, then none of us has the right to condemn the old boat we've bought, because we don't have the money to buy a brand new one.

It appears you just love to talk without facts. Sometimes, i wonder if you just love to coin words to sound intelligible without recourse to a little research.

FRIGATES

Absalon (Denmark)-$269 million

Bertholf National Security Cutter-$641 million

F100 Bazan (Spain)-$600 million

F105 Cristobal Colon (Spain)-$954 million

De Zeven Provincien (Netherlands)-$532 million

FREMM (Franco/Italian)-$745 million

LCS Freedom-$637 million

Holland (Netherlands)-$169 million

LCS Independence-$704 million

Iver Huitfeldt (Denmark)-$332 millon

Nansen (Norway)-$557 million

Sachsen Type 124 (Germany)-$1.06 billion

Valour MEKO A200 (South Africa)-$327 million

F-22P Zulfiquar (China/Pakistan)-$200 million

thats the cost of new frigates. Nigeria can afford them

Beaf:

We can make it, but we are too phucking lazy and burdened with low self esteem. Is it not humans that made as long ago as 1968?
If for sad reasons, we are incapable, then none of us has the right to condemn the old boat we've bought, because we don't have the money to buy a brand new one.

Who says we dont have what it takes to buy a brand new one of that BOAT let no one deceive you,Nigeria can comfortably buy a dozen of those in cash without pulling a hair.

Okija_juju:

MEND Just took delivery of a Typhoon class submarine, I wonder if this canoe would last two days in Niger Delta waters!  

wahala wa oh

Beaf:

We can make it, but we are too phucking lazy and burdened with low self esteem. Is it not humans that made as long ago as 1968?
If for sad reasons, we are incapable, then none of us has the right to condemn the old boat we've bought, because we don't have the money to buy a brand new one.

wat re u talkin abt, wat hav we made so far, even d cars on our roads re imported, who is gonna make d ship YOU?  and who says we dnt hav money to buy a new 1, seems u dnt knw d country u live in.

Rap

Beggar, beggar
even if it's 1968
just that 1968 ship,
even from the U.S.Navy, Coast Guard
1968 for 2011 battles?

Ain't a thing men


End Rap

27naira:

SMH @ the responses.

Your minds are gradually being programmed to remain recipients of aids and western programme.
Talk about colonial mentality. We can buy state-of-the-art presidential jets for the dumbest presidents but will rather accept a decommisioned outdated water patrol ship and sing america's praise.

This is trash! we should bury our heads in shame. you can never be greater than your master! Thats the latent message.

u wan compare the price of jet to battle ship? oboy, where your brain dey?

I am more bothered by the fact that the west and particularly the american dont offer free gifts.there is always a price to pay for their gifts.usually the price is hidden in their agenda.sometimes it is what we call 'wash-wash'-to paint their image in good light.they would fool you that they are your friends only to be stabbing you from behind.

America will gift you ammunitions when they want you to do their biddings,subjugate you,or make you fight yourselves and commit suicide by accepting their gift.it is indeed a cheap gift america is investing.this goes to show that they either dont trust us or they dont value us as so called 'friends' or they see us as too common,ordinary and cheap.

Can the US give such a gift to a country in europe? Can they even give to south africa or brazil? Shame!

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GZ8X-p7Muv4[/flash]

Short video depicting history of the ex-US hamilton class cutter turned frigate.

That old ship will need a lot of TLC, so we may need to import U.S crew to maintain the ship and don't forget, they'll have to paid in foreign currency. If it's a gift, well what can you do but take it and say thank you. I hope we didn't pay cash money for it because i remember Canada buying 3 fairly used submarines from britain and they are still lamenting about that 419 deal.

if we do not accept it we wont have a war ship until we accept one!
We know they bugged it with hidden cypher audio and video transmission bots.
We dont care, what else should we have done but accept it.
At least to raise swags against our of neighbouring togo and cameroun.
Lol

'one thousand five naira ship ship wey some country theo they wear.' - mallam sanusy!

The ship was given out for free and was being modernized to cater for her new role as a frigate.

Probably fitted with new heavier armaments and upgraded military hardwares.
Also can be used as a heli pad for the Navy's helicopters

Last time I checked, it wasn't only Nigeria that got de-commissioned ships, also The Philippines

Next step would be to acquire some corvettes.

blayz0923:

u wan compare the price of jet to battle ship? oboy, where your brain dey?

My brain is intact. I will rather suggest you reboot your win95 CPU you called a brain. 

A German made Corvette / Cutter goes less than 400 million USD
Braunschweig K-130 (Germany)-$309 million

how much did we buy the Presidential jets and how many where they? stop being a dauchbag

I can now understand why the US is so opposed to a country like Iran and keep screaming against Iran's peaceful nuclear technology.the iranians have learnt the hard way after they shut the US embassy in Tehran since 1979.it is very simple:if you want to be strong and respected you must be able to feed yourself and invent and build technology for your people.otherwise,you will continue to be a recipient of old cheap gifts and be exploited by america like Iran was before the 1979 revolution.americans use to commit crimes in Iran and be 'tried' in US courts.the american CIA engineered a coup in Iran when they didnt like the prime minister.

Today,Iran builds its nuclear technology,cars,military submarines,sophisticated missiles,ships,tanks and many more tools of technology.these iranian made may not necessarily be the best in the world,but at least the iranians are depending on themselves to do something.that is the only way to fight exploitation and be self-reliant and independent.

beg-beg nor dey pay!

Just two words ve got for this post:[size=8pt][size=8pt][size=8pt][size=8pt][size=8pt] DUMPING GROUND![/size][/size][/size][/size][/size]

It really looks like a fishing boar, in fact the old Norwegian fishing boats that came to the West coast of Africa and take their fish. Disgraceful country.

Here she is. . .

Not my pic for copyright reasons.

Am sure they are after our oil.

Onyocha:

I can now understand why the US is so opposed to a country like Iran and keep screaming against Iran's peaceful nuclear technology.the iranians have learnt the hard way after they shut the US embassy in Tehran since 1979.it is very simple:if you want to be strong and respected you must be able to feed yourself and invent and build technology for your people.otherwise,you will continue to be a recipient of old cheap gifts and be exploited by america like Iran was before the 1979 revolution.americans use to commit crimes in Iran and be 'tried' in US courts.the american CIA engineered a coup in Iran when they didnt like the prime minister.

Today,Iran builds its nuclear technology,cars,military submarines,sophisticated missiles and many more tools of technology.these iranian made may not necessarily be the best in the world,but at least the iranians are depending on themselves to do something.that is the only way to fight exploitation and be self-reliant and independent.

beg-beg nor dey pay!

Thanks for this info, like some mentioned earlier American gifts are nothing short of Greek gifts, this is just a thank you 1968 Tokumbo gift for our vote on the devastation of Libya through a dubious UN mandate which allowed the US led NATO to bomb that country back to the stone age. Will the US give this kind of gift to South Africa or Brazil? NO. They wouldnt accept it and if they do it will not be in the public news.
The cutter is to be used to fight militants in the Niger Delta and protect American oil installations while no effort is being made to better the polluted environment and improve the lives of the people.

27naira:

It appears you just love to talk without facts. Sometimes, i wonder if you just love to coin words to sound intelligible without recourse to a little research.

FRIGATES

Absalon (Denmark)-$269 million

Bertholf National Security Cutter-$641 million

F100 Bazan (Spain)-$600 million

F105 Cristobal Colon (Spain)-$954 million

De Zeven Provincien (Netherlands)-$532 million

FREMM (Franco/Italian)-$745 million

LCS Freedom-$637 million

Holland (Netherlands)-$169 million

LCS Independence-$704 million

Iver Huitfeldt (Denmark)-$332 millon

Nansen (Norway)-$557 million

Sachsen Type 124 (Germany)-$1.06 billion

Valour MEKO A200 (South Africa)-$327 million

F-22P Zulfiquar (China/Pakistan)-$200 million

thats the cost of new frigates. Nigeria can afford them

Nigeria's 2010 budget was $31billion, of that amount, 70% (about $22billion) was recurrent expenditure (salaries etc) leaving roughly $9billion to sort out the states, LG's and capital expenditure. Where is the money to afford a new ship? Nigeria is not only poor, but our people are also too phucking lazy and low self-esteemed to make anything. Better accept what you've been given with thanks and rejoicing; if you don't want to do that, then roll up your sleeves and actually start making your own stuff and make it good enough for export.

No be just to de mek maut.

when they have no need of it again they decommission it, & becos of Nigeria they recommission it. this is good but is that all about it? i know america will not show interest (in form of help) if their is nothing to gain; if what they want is oil; fine, not to take total control of Nigeria indirectly, reenacting the indirect rule system. they will come in at anytime without permission like they did in pakistan they then give a flimsy excuse that they have to keep the information to themselves(security reasons)they were never in Rwanda(during the genocide) reason  nothing to gain.

Beaf:

Nigeria's 2010 budget was $31billion, of that amount, 70% (about $22billion) was recurrent expenditure (salaries etc) leaving roughly $9billion to sort out the states, LG's and capital expenditure. Where is the money to afford a new ship? Nigeria is not only poor, but our people are also too phucking lazy and low self-esteemed to make anything. Better accept what you've been given with thanks and rejoicing; if you don't want to do that, then roll up your sleeves and actually start making your own stuff and make it good enough for export.

No be just to de mek maut.

GDP $377.6 billion (2010 est.) , so we can assign it for 2012 budget.

sebastinta:

GDP $377.6 billion (2010 est.) , so we can assign it for 2012 budget.

   

GDP and budget ain't the same thing.

How many millions of dollars did we pay for refurbishment and training of the crew. Guys, nothing goes for nothing, they might even have tracking and spying devices secretly installed on it unknown to the nigerian navy.

ah ah now my people lets not be hasty to condem them, this may be the recent addition to a suprise national artefacts museum in the US historical war praphenelia department!!

This is possibly now an ancient and invaluable as in valueless piece of equipment that should be respected and reverenced! lmao!

abouzaid:

How many millions of dollars did we pay for refurbishment and training of the crew. Guys, nothing goes for nothing, they might even have tracking and spying devices secretly installed on it unknown to the nigerian navy.

Thought I was the only paranoid one here,


If my memory didn't fail me I think we spent around 30 million dollars on refurbishing.

I don't want to imagine the cost of transportation to Nigeria.

donspony:

   

GDP and budget ain't the same thing.

obviously, but ur budget depends on ur GDP.