Faithful007:


I get this page is about military but I wasn't really thinking about influence though.

I don't see any significant parallels between Nigeria and UK besides English. If any country were to be UK, it could be Mauritius (Again to a certain extent).

Faithful007:

I was looking at internal factors like this:

SA/US: Developed/diversified economy, Strong Democracy, Blue_red and Racial politics, Economic Inequality, Privatisation, Wokeness, Right to bear arms, etc.

NG/India: Developing economy, Population, Emmigration/Strong Diaspora, Convoluted politics, Religous and Tribal tension, Social Inequality, Vibrance, Pride/Quasi-patriotism, Worship of the elite etc.

Lurker4Long:

Except there's not much difference between the UK(15) and US(20) on the Development Index.
Nigeria and SA, on the other hand, is a totally different matter, as the attached pic attests.

As for regional influence, I would think SA being the main trading partner for all her neighbours, plus the direct disbursements under the Southern African Customs Union, affords her some influence.

MiddleDimension:


How much of Nigeria's influence in ECOWAS and in Africa as a whole do you know?

Lurker4Long:

Not my figures. But I've just checked, they're accurate. Important to note that the list only looks at domestic/income taxes, without customs, excise, royalties etc.
The KRA shows revenue of KES1,4 trillion on domestic taxes. That's what, USD7,5 billion?

Exnavyboy62:
I’ve been thinking. If the Nigerian army starts operating the MD-500 attack helicopters for air support, what would the Nigerian airforce need the AH-1Z and T-129 Atak for…?? The same scenario also exists in the Armed Forces of India. The Army and Airforce operates attack helicopters.

Covert1:
Soon we would be told how we dropped further to 8th place and climbed back to 5th place They’d make it look normal just like we are being told now with the Dollar against the Naira that was under 200 NGN to 1$ now above 1200 NGN to 1$ in 9 years of the misruling APC. But of course praised as an achievement by hired propagandists. What the abused children don’t ask is the quid-pro-quo going on, someone benefits — yes not them — at the expense of the people of course which is what round tripping of the Dollar does by the elements in power.

Can someone imagine what our Armed Forces would be like if the right man is in power. By now we might be talking of a German or Chinese built multipurpose Frigates, Corvettes and what I consider the most powerful weapon built by man deadly Submarines. Who would mess with us!

Gush I hate mediocrity.

kabe1:
Nigerian Army Sniper armed with an IWI-DAN.338 Sniper Rifle

GeneralFarouq:

How many Versions do we use.. I remember there was a time T- orsis or is T5000 was popular.. is this a change?
Also when last did anyone see ye Ak alpha

neyobills:
This would be a game changer if the Nigeria Air Force can acquire a couple of this platforms especially in the fight against insurgents

GeneralFarouq:

Check out it operational cost, and you will be wowed

neyobills:
This would be a game changer if the Nigeria Air Force can acquire a couple of this platforms especially in the fight against insurgents

neyobills:
This would be a game changer if the Nigeria Air Force can acquire a couple of this platforms especially in the fight against insurgents

neyobills:


Give or take 20 million USD are u saying Nigeria cant afford say 40 million for 2.....besides these birds are about to be decommissioned so it might be sold for lower with some diplomatic intervention i guess....basically im not wowed..it is what it is .

GeneralFarouq:

Operatinal cost , I am not referring to purchase cost pls.

neyobills:


Its cost only 20K USD per flight hour so u can do the math on how cheap the operational costs can get

kabe1:


What advantage will this provide us over the current capabilities we have, especially when we already have a Squadron of A-29 Super Tucanos?

davefurn:

Dey play

Exnavyboy62:


Nope, the Nigerian airforce doesn’t need this. it’s outdated, it is not multipurpose, it can only carry out ground attacks. Cost of maintenance is expensive. There will be a lot of restrictions on when, where and how the Nigerian Airforce can use it if purchased.
24 M346-FA jets will be delivered to the airforce soon, they can make do with that and the Tucanos on ground. Even the US is not willing to sell them

Raeblack:
The much anticipated 2024 edition of the Africa Land Forces Summit in Livingstone. Zambia

Goel:

Mauritius is a special case, it's a small island country with no say.

Small island countries are dependent upon geopolitics for their situation and not on their own. They can extreme poor like Haiti or extreme rich like Singapore.

Your comparisons are horribly factually incorrect in any context be it comparison between differences in Nig and IND vs SA and US or direct facts.

1. Gap between India and US of income is over 25 times. Levels of SA and Nigeria in development is similar and both are far far behind US or India.

2. SA is far from being a developed country. Except per capita income and few cities (because of white population), SA is abysmally behind India in all development indicators, innovation index, IHDI and so forth. And the way India is growing and SA economy is collapsing, India will thrice as rich as SA by end of this decade.

3. SA is a not a diverisfied economy. US and India are highly diversified industrial economies. Reference their industrial sectors, innovation index, USPTO rankings and economic complexity index.

4. Economic Inequality: SA (Gini 63.0) has most Inequality, much more than India (Gini 35.7) and US (Gini 39.4).

5. Private sector: India's private sector in a month produces more than what is SA's GDP. US is in a different league. India is world's largest pool of startups with a 100 unicorns (start ups crossing 1 billion dollars revenue) and world's third largest FDI receipent. SA's private sector here is not even nut sized.

5. Wokeness: India is the only stable democracy of world with no civil wars, military rule, same sex rights and again, woke movement too has much longer.

6. Right to bear arms: That's a sign of lawlessness if SA takes pride in it.

I do not have to talk about space, scientific research, nuclear & aviation.
Second one

1. Developing economy: Nigeria is a Developing economy, India is a newly industrialized country.

2. Strong Diaspora: Indian Diaspora is not comparable to Nigerian Diaspora. I will remain silent on what Indian Diaspora does in other countries vs what Nigerian Diaspora does or I will look like racist.

3. Every democracy has Convoluted politics. Difference is Nigerian politics has brought civil wars and military rules. Indian politics most long lasting democracy in developing world with only 6 prime ministers ruling country for most history, a western style industrial system, and a system which ranks in line with best democracies in world.

4. Religious and Tribal tension: I won't repeat again. In India, communities do not clash daily. What happens daily in Nigeria would be called civil war in India. Just compare rankings of two countries in fragile stated index.

5. Worship of elite: Utter bullshit coming from you.


There is a no similarity and every country is specific on its own. China, India are Southeast Asian countries and highly industrialized developing countries at levels of developed world and will replace them soon. You cannot compare those to Africa where basic first industrial revolution has not properly started.

Nigeria and South Africa share no similarity with them just because a disgruntled BBC employee loves to yell at India.

neyobills:
This would be a game changer if the Nigeria Air Force can acquire a couple of this platforms especially in the fight against insurgents