Nigeria: Maku - Nigeria Can Develop Its Armed Forces Outside Foreign Help

18 December 2013

The Minister of Information and Supervising Minister of Defence, Mr. Labaran Maku, has boasted that the country has the capacity and resources to independently or through collaboration develop its armed forces purely on local content.

Maku stated this Tuesday Night during the Chief of Air Staff (CAS) Award Night for 2013, at Air Force Base, Kaduna. The officers and men who had excelled in their careers were honoured with awards and the occasion also witnessed the winging of some pilots and presentation of certificates.

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