egift:


First Nigeria will not scatter. Secondly, Jonathan is not transparent and excessively corrupt - nobody in his right mind make a deal with such person.

How can one justify smuggling money to South Africa to procure illegal arms when there legitimate ways to get it? Why is Jonathan afraid of the Front gate? Why must he always enter his good neighbour's house by jumping over the fence at the back-yard? Why is he exporting his Stealing-Is-Not-Corruption style of Government to other countries?

The Zoologist must be voted out before he sinks this nation with anarchy and corruption.

Lordave:
It's funny how people keep accusing USA of wanting to invade Nigeria. For what? To what benefit?

I see more than a good reason why USA shouldn't even sell a rusty pistol to Nigeria if y'all don't.

It's election time and if anything goes wrong and those weapons fall into the wrong hands what would be the fate of Nigeria? Why would America sell weapons to Nigeria after y'all have finished condemning the country and accusing them of sponsoring terrorism?
Let me stop here.
They did this to show Nigeria that they don't want our money, we should deal with ourselves.

ojialo:
I doubt if your generation on earth will ever smell vice President not to talk of President... he is a zoologist and your President and will still be your President till 2019..... if you don't like em jump into a moving lorry load of dangote cement.

mcdokwe:
Well they made their point clear. Our military is enmeshed in gross human rights abuse which we as Nigerians who chose to be sincere to ourselves can't deny.

Besides, apart from the allegations against our military, it is obvious the US is waiting for the situation to get so terribly bad to the point where their interest, whatever it is would be best met.
("Nigeria will break up in 2015"-US government)

adedayourt:
Now this got me wondering if US is the only country with sophisticated wepon


Why the craze bout them. . .

kendrick93:
because u are sayin rubbish.... SA has or can't hav a nuclear weapon.. u must be a fool to bliev so

egift:


First Nigeria will not scatter. Secondly, Jonathan is not transparent and excessively corrupt - nobody in his right mind make a deal with such person.

How can one justify smuggling money to South Africa to procure illegal arms when there legitimate ways to get it? Why is Jonathan afraid of the Front gate? Why must he always enter his good neighbour's house by jumping over the fence at the back-yard? Why is he exporting his Stealing-Is-Not-Corruption style of Government to other countries?

The Zoologist must be voted out before he sinks this nation with anarchy and corruption.

Unibenstudent:
Yes

texazzpete:


How is the US being 'mischievous'? If US laws prevents the Americans from selling arms to countries with alleged human rights violations, why condemn them? Why should you expect the U.S. to breach their own laws?

Using the U.S. as an excuse is just despicable. A huge portion of our weaponry ( helicopters, tanks, fighters) are Chinese or Russian. Why not simply buy from them instead?

This is a non-issue. And the Ambassador is a clown for accusing the U.S. of not stopping Boko Haram when the Nigerian Army that is more equipped than Boko Haram is failing at the task.

Nonsense.

gbishman:
I am of the view that we are not really addressing the issue but rather allowing our emotions come between our reasoning. The issue is that the US has raised concerns about human rights abuses meted out on suspected boko haram insurgents as seen in some gruesome videos published on the internet like the one soldiers were beheading victims and throwing them into hand dug graves. Now the US which in their entirety is a nation governed by laws and have clear rules of engagement when it comes to war fare has said that that laws do not permit them to sell arms to nations found to have falling short of their laws, to me this crystal clear.
So what Nigeria should do is to prosecute those found to have gone against their rules and bring them to book and let the whole world see that we are making efforts in curbing this excesses of our boys in uniform and then and only then would be able to have a justifiable case.
Or better still meet with other western countries like Russia, China, England (our supposed colonial masters) and purchase arms from them.

ojialo:
Nigeria should have gone to Russia for the same weapon they sold to Syria.

GeneralShepherd:



Why can't we make our own?

Raiders:
sometimes I wonder how boko haram get those rockets and tanks. All the tanks in possession of boko haram are Nigerian army tanks. If US give the Nigeria army more sophisticated weapons it will fall in the hand of boko haram

egift:


Chai, watin person no go hear for this Obodo Nairaland

Dibiachukwu:
Is it by force? Make your own. I wish everybody would refuse to sell arms to those fatties and big heads.

VivaDeAngelo:
It is more rewarding to be an ally to Putin than the United States,no wonder he was ranked by Forbes as the most powerful man in the world. Jelly-fish Obama will always give Jona a broad smile as if it is from his heart. But again am not completely exonerating the Nigerian Military from any blame,indeed they are repeat violaters of human right,over the years,the military have compromised their sincerity of purpose for selfish interests as they have reduced themselves as puppets in the hands of politicians.

egift:


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Meet a friend of mine. He is more handsome than you and you are just jealous of him

Tweetums:
bAba iyabo watching u, shey u know?

bnovative:

Which military is without records of human right abuse? The USA military committed worse atrocities in Iraq. The truth is America is denying us bc we refused to pass laws in favour of gays.

OLADD:
[color=#006600][/color]Monkey! I thought you said you don't have time for me? Only apes think and talk the way you did. Anyway, I have passed my information to you and you can storm Sambissa thereafter.

bushdoc9919:


Yours is the only post that makes sense on the thread.

In South and North Korea....they both had no domestic weapons programme by 1960....everything was imported.

Now, both of them do.

In an oil rich society like Nigeria....investing in technology is something that is despised.....after all we can use our oyel kudi to import what we need.

So we refuse to invest in local technology, we refuse to invest in technical people, and we refuse to invest in technical education.

Instead we use our oil money to remain dependent on foreign powers through imports (sigh).

Oil is a curse.

omenka:
Is the US the only arms dealer in the world

All I see is a government so desperate to sell to the electorates some reason why the war is not being won. Watch out, when campaigns come full swing, this is all we will be hearing!! They will blame the inability of our troops to make gains on the refusal of US to sell us arms!! Then they can even step it up a little by associating the opposition with this refusal.

Shame.

onitshaigbo:
God bless the US! Nigeria should never be allowed to buy arms before it apologizes for the genocidal atrocities against Igbos in the Biafran War [size=20pt]and pay[/size] us the reparations owed.

egift:


What information? Keep deluding yourself in that massive Corruption the Zoologist is downloading in your psyche.

I extended a hand of friendship you rather chose to groom your Schizophrenia.