Nigeria has signed a Army-Technical Cooperation Settlement with the Russian Federation.
The Minister of Defence, Main Normal Bashir Salihi Magashi (rtd), signed the settlement on behalf of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, whereas the Director of the Federal Service for Army-Technical Cooperation, Dmitry Shugaev, signed for the Russian Federation.
This was disclosed in an announcement issued by the Nigerian Embassy in Moscow, Russia.
In line with the assertion, “The signing ceremony, which befell on 23 August 2021, was witnessed by the Nigerian Ambassador to the Russian Federation, His Excellency (Prof.) Abdullahi Y. Shehu, the Chief of the Naval Employees, Vice Admiral Auwal Zubairu GAMBO, the Defence Attache within the Embassy of Nigeria in Moscow, Air Vice Marshal Olatokunbo ADESANYA, representatives of the Nigerian Military and the Nigerian Air Power, different senior army officers, and officers of the Nigerian Ministry of Defence.
“This Settlement terminates the sooner Settlement between the 2 international locations signed on 6 March 2001.
“In a short assertion after the signing ceremony, Ambassador Shehu expressed appreciation to the Russian authorities and reiterated that Nigeria just isn’t searching for an alternate however for complementarity and mutual advantages.”
The assertion added, “The Settlement on Army-Technical Cooperation between each international locations offers a authorized framework for the provision of army tools, provision of after-sales providers, coaching of personnel in respective academic institutions and know-how switch, amongst others.
“The signing of the Army-Technical Cooperation Settlement is a landmark growth within the bilateral relations between Nigeria and the Russian Federation.”
In a associated growth, declaring open the seventh Worldwide Army-Technical Discussion board – Military 2021, on 23 August 2021, Russia’s President Vladimir Putin said that “Huge mutually useful portfolios of contracts for the provision of Russian army items are concluded on the discussion board’s sidelines yearly.”
In line with Putin, “The discussion board has on show over 28,000 items of contemporary army arms and tools starting from small firearms to artillery, tanks, and army fight plane. Our military and navy are being modernised at a quick tempo as they obtain the most recenttechnology army property. For instance, the share of contemporary weapons.”
