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16 Jan, 6 tweets, 3 min read
The Nigerian military is doing a lot more local production & repair of equipment/hardware these days. NAF doing In-country reactivation of dormant aircraft, the Navy is building a lot of boats and barges in-country, and Army is locally assembling MRAPs (The “Ezugwu”) etc.
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The Ezugwu MRAP is named after Major Gen Victor Ezugwu, who currently heads the Defence Industries Corporation of Nigeria. Before then he headed the Nigerian Army Vehicle Manufacturing Assembly Company, established 2018 to produce patrol & combat vehicles: google.com/amp/s/www.jane…
February 2017. The Nigerian Army Vehicle Manufacturing Company was then established in 2018.
“2017: The Nigerian Army has unveiled a wide range of locally-made weapons and equipment which includes an Infantry Patrol Vehicle (IPV), a Combat Fighting Motorcycle (CFM), unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), an Automated Sniper Rifle (ASR)...” google.com/amp/s/www.defe…
.@NigAirForce built this remote-controlled gunnery (carrying a general-purpose machine gun).
Locally developed @NigAirForce rockets. Vehicle-mounted. 3,000m range. I made these videos a year ago (Feb 2020) on the day NAF was inducting new platforms into service at Eagle Square. Pre-pandemic days for Nigeria (which now seems like an eternity ago)

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15 Jan
Heartwarming news of the successful separation of conjoined female twins at the University of Ilorin Teaching Hospital (UITH), yesterday.

Can anyone pls confirm that these photos circulating on social media are from that surgery?
Part of why this is even more exciting is that the 1st time UITH attempted a separation of conjoined twins, fifteen years ago, the babies sadly died, after 14 hours. So it’s really gladdening to see that UITH haven’t given up, and that the ‘class of 2020’ are alive & doing well.
Nov 2019, another set of conjoined twins, girls, joined in the chest & stomach, were successfully separated, this time at the National Hospital Abuja. Here’s @VOAAfrica reporting on the surgery,described as the most complicated of its kind ever in Nigeria: voanews.com/africa/nigeria…
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26 Dec 20
Random: I saw this barge moving containers on the Lagos Lagoon a week ago. Like 6 containers - which is the equivalent of 6 trucks (or 3, if 40ft) taken off the roads no?
Feb 2018: joc.com/port-news/inte…
Feb 2018: nigerianports.gov.ng/2018/02/23/npa…
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24 Dec 20
Breaking news from #Nigeria: Presidential Task Force on COVID-19 says it’ll this weekend publish a list of 100 Nigerian Passport Nos that will be suspended for a minimum of 6 months for flouting obligation to test within 7 days of arrival in Nigeria from overseas travel.
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PTF says the 100 affected persons (this is only Phase 1, more coming) have been contacted and have confirmed that they failed to do the post-arrival test. Only passport numbers will be published, PTF says, not names. Nigerian Passports will be suspended for 6 months (minimum).
PTF says Nigeria not banning flights from UK and SA, at least for now. Instead there will now be very stringent monitoring of inbound direct flights from the two countries. Any Nigerian who fails to do Day-7 test will have passport suspended, foreigners will have visas revoked.
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23 Dec 20
Recently came across my father-in-law’s stash of newsmagazines (1985-1990), glory days for Nigerian magazine journalism. And a fascinating window into Nigeria’s recent(?) past. A lot of déjà vu, to be honest, changing eras, but the same challenges that must be solved & resolved.
Also quite a bunch of star journalism talent in their younger (starting-out-ish, late-20s) days: Writing/Reporting by @DeleOlojede @TunjiLardner @anietieusen et al

Also, this Kingsley C. Moghalu (“Personal Assistant to the Chief Executive”) has to be @MoghaluKingsley, right?
Sept 28, 1986 is (should be) one of the most famous days in history of Nigeria. It’s the day the IBB Govt ‘floated’ the Naira - an unprecedented move - by kickstarting the “SFEM”.

The Naira fell from N1.54 to $1, to N4.61 to $1, in the course of that day, and never looked back.
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21 Dec 20
PTF says 20,216 travelers into Nigeria from abroad “have not shown up for post arrival test thereby endangering members of the community & breaching protocols they signed up to.”

@nigimmigration will “impose sanctions on these defaulters for breaching public health protocols...”
“The test positivity rate in travellers arriving Lagos has recently doubled to 6.3%.” — @DigiCommsNG #PTFCovid19
“Lagos, Kaduna and the FCT have emerged as the new epicentres during this period, with over 70% of all confirmed cases.” — Presidential Task Force on Covid-19 @DigiCommsNG
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15 Oct 20
Today was the National Economic Council (NEC) Meeting - which brings the 36 Governors and @NigeriaGov together, monthly, under the Chairmanship of VP @ProfOsinbajo. Main item on Agenda was Police Reform and the ENDSARS protests.

Highlights of Resolutions/Decisions:

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Every State Government mandated to establish a Judicial Panel of Inquiry into Police Brutality and Extrajudicial Killings, chaired by a retired High Court Judge, with other members selected by the State Governor as follows:
*Two representatives of Civil Society groups

*One Retired Police Officer of high repute

*One Youth Representative

*One Student Representative

*One Representative of the State Attorney-General

*One representative from the National Human Rights Commission.
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