Kano Naval Base and the scramble for national cake | The Guardian Nigeria News - Nigeria and World News

According to a statement dated 1st September 2021, released by Abba Anwar, the chief press secretary to the governor of Kano State, the approval was “a response to Governor Abdullahi Umar Ganduje’s request for the Nigerian Navy visibility in the state, in strengthening the security of the state.

Well, I’ve not been to the US, but South Africa, where I’ve sojourned for some 20 years, has ‘one of the most capable naval forces in the African region, operating a mixed force of sophisticated warships, submarines, patrol craft, and auxiliary vessels, with over 7,000 personnel; including a marine force.’• Naval Base Simon’s Town – The base houses the frigate and submarine flotillas as well as support vessels. A naval dockyard is also situated here.

• SAS Simonsberg – training in gunnery, anti-submarine warfare, communications, diving and seamanship.• Maritime Warfare School, Simon’s Town.All of the above are located on the coasts of South Africa. None is in the hometown of South Africa’s Naval Chief, Vice-Admiral Mosuwa Samuel Hlongwane, who was born in Frankfort, Free State Province and raised in Bophelong, some 70 kilometres from Johannesburg, both in the hinterland.

• General Azubuike Ihejirika, was Chief of Army Staff from 2010 to 2014. Before he retired, he made sure a military barracks was built in Isuikwuato, his village in Abia State, with an Army School of Linguistics inside the Barracks. . Beyond weapons systems, the Kachia school is charged with pre-deployment training of personnel earmarked for special operations. Don’t ask me whether such training would involve how to dive in the desert. In all probability, students in these schools would still need to be sent to ‘original’ naval bases in the country for courses involving sea drills and manoeuvres. That is how we roll in Nigeria!

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