The drivers say ride-hailing platforms such as Uber, Bolt, inDrive, and Lagride charge excessively high commissions on their fares. The drivers want the commission cut down from about 35 percent to five percent and threaten to switch to local ride-hailing apps if their demands are not met.
Thursday, May 8, 2025
Video - App-based drivers in Nigeria threaten to dump riding apps over poor working conditions
The drivers say ride-hailing platforms such as Uber, Bolt, inDrive, and Lagride charge excessively high commissions on their fares. The drivers want the commission cut down from about 35 percent to five percent and threaten to switch to local ride-hailing apps if their demands are not met.
Nigeria's multi-pronged malaria elimination approach gains momentum
Yenagoa, Four months ago, town criers and media in Bayelsa State, notified caregivers of the launch of the malaria vaccination campaign for children under 5-11 months.
The Ministry of Health's message through the Nigeria Primary Health Care Centre, World Health Organization (WHO), Gavi the Vaccine Alliance, UNICEF, and partners was clear: families with eligible children should take their young ones to health centres to bevaccinated against the deadly disease, malaria.
Sherifat Omoniyi, a mother of two, was thrilled that one of her children was eligible. She shared, “When I heard the news, I took my nine-month-old son to the clinic for the vaccine. Since he received it, he hasn't been sick. "
Mrs Omoniyi explained that despite her child receiving the vaccine, she ensures that her household still takes precautionary measures to keep malaria at bay because, during the campaign, the informants reiterated that even with the vaccine, the entire household still needs to ensure the use of other preventive measures to keep malaria at bay.
She said, “We still sleep under the insecticide-treated nets, and ensure we don’t leave our water storage places open. This has significantly reduced the frequency at which my household comes down with fever. We now spend less on malaria treatment”
The Ministry of Health's message through the Nigeria Primary Health Care Centre, World Health Organization (WHO), Gavi the Vaccine Alliance, UNICEF, and partners was clear: families with eligible children should take their young ones to health centres to bevaccinated against the deadly disease, malaria.
Sherifat Omoniyi, a mother of two, was thrilled that one of her children was eligible. She shared, “When I heard the news, I took my nine-month-old son to the clinic for the vaccine. Since he received it, he hasn't been sick. "
Mrs Omoniyi explained that despite her child receiving the vaccine, she ensures that her household still takes precautionary measures to keep malaria at bay because, during the campaign, the informants reiterated that even with the vaccine, the entire household still needs to ensure the use of other preventive measures to keep malaria at bay.
She said, “We still sleep under the insecticide-treated nets, and ensure we don’t leave our water storage places open. This has significantly reduced the frequency at which my household comes down with fever. We now spend less on malaria treatment”
A matter of urgency
Nigeria still faces a concerning malaria burden. Statistics from the 2024 World Malaria Report (WMR) reveal that the country accounts for 27% of the global malaria burden, with 31% of global malaria deaths.
The WHO Global Technical Strategy for Malaria 2016-2030 sets a vision for a malaria-free world by 2030, with specific targets for reducing malaria incidence and mortality and eliminating the disease in at least 35 countries.
The Nigerian government has implemented various strategies such promotion of ongoing use of insecticide-treated nets, seasonal malaria chemoprevention therapy for children under five, preventive care for pregnant women, indoor residual spraying, effective case management, and improved sanitation to reduce mosquito breeding sites in the communities.
Recently, the country commenced a phased rollout of the WHO-recommended (R21) malaria vaccine, targeting children in areas with the highest malaria burden—Bayelsa and Kebbi—to accelerate efforts to reduce malaria among children. More than 140,000 doses have been administered to eligible children from one million doses received from the Nigerian Government and Gavi.
Recently, during the commemoration of 2025 World Malaria Day, the Minister of State for Health and Social Welfare, Dr. Iziaq Adekunle Salako, addressed journalists and malaria stakeholders, stating that eliminating malaria is a top government priority, strongly supported by President Tinubu.
Dr Salako appreciated health workers and partners and stressed that achieving a malaria-free Nigeria requires ongoing, united action including tailored actions such as treated nets, preventative medicines for children, larval management, and a phased rollout of the malaria vaccine.
“The government ensures consistent malaria treatment, addresses funding challenges, enhances health systems with improved data, collaborates with the private sector for resources, and encourages preventative measures,” he added.
The minister further encouraged all stakeholders to stay committed to fighting malaria, noting that it requires multisectoral, multi-ministerial, inter-organisational, and community effort.
With the innovative strategies adopted, the country is on the pathway to eradicating malaria by 2030, said Dr Walter Kazadi Mulombo, WHO Country Representative in Nigeria.
Dr Mulombo noted that the 20225 World Malaria Day, observed under the theme “Malaria Ends with Us: Reinvest, Reimagine, Reignite”, is a rallying revitalised efforts at all levels, from global policy to community action, to renew commitment, rethink strategies and accelerate progress towards malaria elimination.
“This year’s theme reminds us that everyone has a role to play. Reducing malaria by 90% by 2030 could boost the country’s GDP.
However, we are at a crossroads. Climate change, humanitarian crises, resistance to drugs and insecticides, and funding gaps are challenging our gains. But malaria elimination is within reach with strong leadership, innovation, and sustained investment,” he said.
Nigeria still faces a concerning malaria burden. Statistics from the 2024 World Malaria Report (WMR) reveal that the country accounts for 27% of the global malaria burden, with 31% of global malaria deaths.
The WHO Global Technical Strategy for Malaria 2016-2030 sets a vision for a malaria-free world by 2030, with specific targets for reducing malaria incidence and mortality and eliminating the disease in at least 35 countries.
The Nigerian government has implemented various strategies such promotion of ongoing use of insecticide-treated nets, seasonal malaria chemoprevention therapy for children under five, preventive care for pregnant women, indoor residual spraying, effective case management, and improved sanitation to reduce mosquito breeding sites in the communities.
Recently, the country commenced a phased rollout of the WHO-recommended (R21) malaria vaccine, targeting children in areas with the highest malaria burden—Bayelsa and Kebbi—to accelerate efforts to reduce malaria among children. More than 140,000 doses have been administered to eligible children from one million doses received from the Nigerian Government and Gavi.
Collective action
Recently, during the commemoration of 2025 World Malaria Day, the Minister of State for Health and Social Welfare, Dr. Iziaq Adekunle Salako, addressed journalists and malaria stakeholders, stating that eliminating malaria is a top government priority, strongly supported by President Tinubu.
Dr Salako appreciated health workers and partners and stressed that achieving a malaria-free Nigeria requires ongoing, united action including tailored actions such as treated nets, preventative medicines for children, larval management, and a phased rollout of the malaria vaccine.
“The government ensures consistent malaria treatment, addresses funding challenges, enhances health systems with improved data, collaborates with the private sector for resources, and encourages preventative measures,” he added.
The minister further encouraged all stakeholders to stay committed to fighting malaria, noting that it requires multisectoral, multi-ministerial, inter-organisational, and community effort.
Pathway to success
With the innovative strategies adopted, the country is on the pathway to eradicating malaria by 2030, said Dr Walter Kazadi Mulombo, WHO Country Representative in Nigeria.
Dr Mulombo noted that the 20225 World Malaria Day, observed under the theme “Malaria Ends with Us: Reinvest, Reimagine, Reignite”, is a rallying revitalised efforts at all levels, from global policy to community action, to renew commitment, rethink strategies and accelerate progress towards malaria elimination.
“This year’s theme reminds us that everyone has a role to play. Reducing malaria by 90% by 2030 could boost the country’s GDP.
However, we are at a crossroads. Climate change, humanitarian crises, resistance to drugs and insecticides, and funding gaps are challenging our gains. But malaria elimination is within reach with strong leadership, innovation, and sustained investment,” he said.
Related story: Flying Malaria Vaccines Arrive in Nigeria
Nigeria Nabs Trafficking, Robbery Syndicate Leaders
Authorities in Nigeria have arrested two internationally wanted fugitives—a convicted human trafficking ringleader sought by Belgium and a suspected leader of a Dubai-based armed robbery syndicate.
Felix Omoregie, and Okwudili Ezeje were captured in separate operations, according to a statement from the Nigeria Police Force announced Wednesday.
Omoregie had been on the run since 2021, when a Belgian court convicted him in absentia on multiple counts of aggravated human trafficking and leading a criminal organization. After the conviction, he fled to Nigeria. On December 19, 2023, Belgian authorities issued an Interpol Red Notice describing him as the "mastermind of a large-scale human trafficking operation." He was arrested in Benin City and is expected to appear before the Federal High Court there.
Omoregie is accused of trafficking Nigerian women and minors to Italy, where victims were allegedly sold across Europe for sexual exploitation. Authorities said his network used "voodoo-based oaths" to coerce victims and trap them in fabricated debts ranging from 20,000 euros to 50,000 euros ($22,720 to $56,794).
In a separate operation, Nigeria’s Interpol National Central Bureau arrested Ezeje, at his hiding place in Enugu, in south-central Nigeria. Authorities said he was allegedly running criminal operations remotely from within the country.
Ezeje is wanted by the United Arab Emirates for charges including armed robbery, cult-related activities, drug trafficking, and other organized crimes. He has been directly linked to a series of high-profile robberies in Dubai and Sharjah, including an armed robbery at a grocery store in Dubai Mall and several thefts at currency exchanges. Police said his trial is scheduled to “take place shortly.”
By Mariam Shenawy, OCCRP
Felix Omoregie, and Okwudili Ezeje were captured in separate operations, according to a statement from the Nigeria Police Force announced Wednesday.
Omoregie had been on the run since 2021, when a Belgian court convicted him in absentia on multiple counts of aggravated human trafficking and leading a criminal organization. After the conviction, he fled to Nigeria. On December 19, 2023, Belgian authorities issued an Interpol Red Notice describing him as the "mastermind of a large-scale human trafficking operation." He was arrested in Benin City and is expected to appear before the Federal High Court there.
Omoregie is accused of trafficking Nigerian women and minors to Italy, where victims were allegedly sold across Europe for sexual exploitation. Authorities said his network used "voodoo-based oaths" to coerce victims and trap them in fabricated debts ranging from 20,000 euros to 50,000 euros ($22,720 to $56,794).
In a separate operation, Nigeria’s Interpol National Central Bureau arrested Ezeje, at his hiding place in Enugu, in south-central Nigeria. Authorities said he was allegedly running criminal operations remotely from within the country.
Ezeje is wanted by the United Arab Emirates for charges including armed robbery, cult-related activities, drug trafficking, and other organized crimes. He has been directly linked to a series of high-profile robberies in Dubai and Sharjah, including an armed robbery at a grocery store in Dubai Mall and several thefts at currency exchanges. Police said his trial is scheduled to “take place shortly.”
By Mariam Shenawy, OCCRP
Nigerian film-makers pivot to YouTube as streaming firms pull back
For an entire weekend this March, romcom fever gripped Nigerian social media. Thousands of Nigerians, even in the diaspora, debated fervently about Love in Every Word, in which an affair takes off after a smooth-talking, free-spending businessman hires a dance troupe to get an advertising executive’s phone number.
Critics poked holes in the plot but the movie’s melodrama appealed to many. Clips and memes were shared online as viewers spun fantasies about their own odogwu, an Igbo word used to refer to an influential or well-to-do man.
The film clocked up 1m views on YouTube within 24 hours and hit the 5m mark within three days. “God did it and I don’t have anything but a grateful heart,” said Omoni Oboli, the film’s director.
In recent years, creatives in Nollywood, the world’s second-largest film industry by volume, have pivoted en masse to YouTube as the global streaming companies have taken flight from a market where they struggled to make money.
“I didn’t think it would be a movie on a YouTube channel that would break out like this, challenging everything we know in Nollywood on any platform,” Oboli said. “God has a way of using the foolish things of this world to confound the wise.”
In January 2024, Amazon Prime, the third-biggest streaming platform in Nigeria after Netflix and Showmax, laid off all its employees in Africa as part of a scaling back on original content acquisitions. Netflix has noticeably reduced its take-up of originals.
Why? “Profitability is the very short answer,” said Jessica Abaga, a former Amazon Prime Studios executive who helped commission originals for Nigeria. “It almost feels like as far as the African market is concerned, the business model still isn’t working in their favour.”
The issue unlikely to be helped by film industry worries over Donald Trump’s recent threat of 100% tariffs on films made abroad. Shares in Netflix, Amazon, Warner Bros Discovery and Paramount fell on Monday as studios reeled from the US president’s announcement on Sunday.
Industry insiders say other factors have also driven the YouTube boom, including a dearth of cinema infrastructure in west Africa. According to the 2024 Nigerian box office yearbook by the major distributor Film One, Nigeria’s estimated 200 million people are served by only 102 cinemas. And some of those do not fill up due to a cost-of-living crisis that has made paying for films an unaffordable luxury.
Abaga said that as ticket prices went up, people realised that the same money could be used to subscribe to a streaming service. Or they could just watch content on YouTube for free.
Another factor, according to some industry observers, is that streaming companies and traditional distributors have returned repeatedly to the same high-profile directors with proven viewing numbers, freezing out newer talent.
YouTube’s zero cost of entry and the vast potential audience act as pull factors. “The biggest appeal YouTube has is the ease of putting your stuff there,” Abaga said. “Streamers are particular about production value, production quality, story quality, all-around storytelling integrity. On YouTube, nobody cares. It’s your prerogative as a producer … no red tape, no restrictions, nobody’s stifling your creativity. But that also means there’s no quality control per se.”
Oboli agreed. “The audience is left to reward us or punish us for our efforts based on what we choose to produce. Failure and success are solely dictated by market forces, whereby the audience (customers) are again king,” she said.
The result has been a ruthless, relentless market, with new titles appearing constantly. Oboli has two production units that help meet her goal of turning out one movie a week, and Love in Every Word is one of more than 60 titles on a YouTube channel launched just a year ago.
Hundreds of actors have turned directors. Some scriptwriters get as little as 150,000 naira (£70) to deliver feature-length films shot in four to five days. To save costs, some producers now rent an Airbnb for a week to shoot more than one movie, with the only major change being outfits for the cast.
Afterwards, cast and crew do dance videos on TikTok to promote the films. Given the short timeframe for post-production, shots of crew members on duty are sometimes still visible in movie frames.
In January, Oboli removed a movie from her channel after it emerged that her scriptwriter had reportedly sold the same script to another producer for a 2022 film.
Nora Awolowo, a 26-year-old film-maker, has raised funding from angel investors for her first full-length film, Red Circle, which begins showing in Nigerian cinemas from 6 June. But she is supportive of colleagues who are focusing on YouTube, saying they get direct access to audiences and are giving new faces a chance to rise. Her challenge, she said, “is to reconnect to this audience by giving them quality”.
One longstanding problem has not gone away with the YouTube revolution: pirates republishing content.
“Some [pirates] even went as far as putting their watermark [and] their own soundtrack on the movie, claiming it to be theirs,” Bimbo Ademoye, an actor and producer, claimed recently on Instagram after finding her new movie on more than 50 other channels. “Some had as much as 200k views … and it’s painful because we thought the days of piracy were over.”
Awolowo is worried that YouTube could change the criteria for entry or payment, like X did in 2024, and many of her colleagues will have to “go back to square one”. She hopes a new model emerges to secure the industry’s future.
“We have a structural problem,” she said. “Nobody wants to take risks. We are not addressing our problem in this industry, which is a distribution problem. How do we get to the grassroots? How do we engage the government? What are the policies?”
Chris Ihidero has worked in Nollywood for decades, including directing one of Nigeria’s most beloved series, Fuji House of Commotion, in the early 2000s. He believes the solution is hiding in plain sight – a revamp of the state-owned Nigerian Television Authority (NTA).
Previously, it was a hub for original programming, like its British and South African counterparts BBC and SABC respectively. Since the return of democracy in 1999, however, NTA has progressively become known primarily as a mouthpiece for state propaganda.
“There are no substitutes for investment in quality content on free-to-air platforms,” Ihidero wrote in March. “This is the NTA’s statutory obligation and it has failed at it for decades.”
Critics poked holes in the plot but the movie’s melodrama appealed to many. Clips and memes were shared online as viewers spun fantasies about their own odogwu, an Igbo word used to refer to an influential or well-to-do man.
The film clocked up 1m views on YouTube within 24 hours and hit the 5m mark within three days. “God did it and I don’t have anything but a grateful heart,” said Omoni Oboli, the film’s director.
In recent years, creatives in Nollywood, the world’s second-largest film industry by volume, have pivoted en masse to YouTube as the global streaming companies have taken flight from a market where they struggled to make money.
“I didn’t think it would be a movie on a YouTube channel that would break out like this, challenging everything we know in Nollywood on any platform,” Oboli said. “God has a way of using the foolish things of this world to confound the wise.”
In January 2024, Amazon Prime, the third-biggest streaming platform in Nigeria after Netflix and Showmax, laid off all its employees in Africa as part of a scaling back on original content acquisitions. Netflix has noticeably reduced its take-up of originals.
Why? “Profitability is the very short answer,” said Jessica Abaga, a former Amazon Prime Studios executive who helped commission originals for Nigeria. “It almost feels like as far as the African market is concerned, the business model still isn’t working in their favour.”
The issue unlikely to be helped by film industry worries over Donald Trump’s recent threat of 100% tariffs on films made abroad. Shares in Netflix, Amazon, Warner Bros Discovery and Paramount fell on Monday as studios reeled from the US president’s announcement on Sunday.
Industry insiders say other factors have also driven the YouTube boom, including a dearth of cinema infrastructure in west Africa. According to the 2024 Nigerian box office yearbook by the major distributor Film One, Nigeria’s estimated 200 million people are served by only 102 cinemas. And some of those do not fill up due to a cost-of-living crisis that has made paying for films an unaffordable luxury.
Abaga said that as ticket prices went up, people realised that the same money could be used to subscribe to a streaming service. Or they could just watch content on YouTube for free.
Another factor, according to some industry observers, is that streaming companies and traditional distributors have returned repeatedly to the same high-profile directors with proven viewing numbers, freezing out newer talent.
YouTube’s zero cost of entry and the vast potential audience act as pull factors. “The biggest appeal YouTube has is the ease of putting your stuff there,” Abaga said. “Streamers are particular about production value, production quality, story quality, all-around storytelling integrity. On YouTube, nobody cares. It’s your prerogative as a producer … no red tape, no restrictions, nobody’s stifling your creativity. But that also means there’s no quality control per se.”
Oboli agreed. “The audience is left to reward us or punish us for our efforts based on what we choose to produce. Failure and success are solely dictated by market forces, whereby the audience (customers) are again king,” she said.
The result has been a ruthless, relentless market, with new titles appearing constantly. Oboli has two production units that help meet her goal of turning out one movie a week, and Love in Every Word is one of more than 60 titles on a YouTube channel launched just a year ago.
Hundreds of actors have turned directors. Some scriptwriters get as little as 150,000 naira (£70) to deliver feature-length films shot in four to five days. To save costs, some producers now rent an Airbnb for a week to shoot more than one movie, with the only major change being outfits for the cast.
Afterwards, cast and crew do dance videos on TikTok to promote the films. Given the short timeframe for post-production, shots of crew members on duty are sometimes still visible in movie frames.
In January, Oboli removed a movie from her channel after it emerged that her scriptwriter had reportedly sold the same script to another producer for a 2022 film.
Nora Awolowo, a 26-year-old film-maker, has raised funding from angel investors for her first full-length film, Red Circle, which begins showing in Nigerian cinemas from 6 June. But she is supportive of colleagues who are focusing on YouTube, saying they get direct access to audiences and are giving new faces a chance to rise. Her challenge, she said, “is to reconnect to this audience by giving them quality”.
One longstanding problem has not gone away with the YouTube revolution: pirates republishing content.
“Some [pirates] even went as far as putting their watermark [and] their own soundtrack on the movie, claiming it to be theirs,” Bimbo Ademoye, an actor and producer, claimed recently on Instagram after finding her new movie on more than 50 other channels. “Some had as much as 200k views … and it’s painful because we thought the days of piracy were over.”
Awolowo is worried that YouTube could change the criteria for entry or payment, like X did in 2024, and many of her colleagues will have to “go back to square one”. She hopes a new model emerges to secure the industry’s future.
“We have a structural problem,” she said. “Nobody wants to take risks. We are not addressing our problem in this industry, which is a distribution problem. How do we get to the grassroots? How do we engage the government? What are the policies?”
Chris Ihidero has worked in Nollywood for decades, including directing one of Nigeria’s most beloved series, Fuji House of Commotion, in the early 2000s. He believes the solution is hiding in plain sight – a revamp of the state-owned Nigerian Television Authority (NTA).
Previously, it was a hub for original programming, like its British and South African counterparts BBC and SABC respectively. Since the return of democracy in 1999, however, NTA has progressively become known primarily as a mouthpiece for state propaganda.
“There are no substitutes for investment in quality content on free-to-air platforms,” Ihidero wrote in March. “This is the NTA’s statutory obligation and it has failed at it for decades.”
By Eromo Egbejule, The Guardian
Wednesday, May 7, 2025
China expands military supply pact in Africa with new Nigeria deal
Nigeria is set to begin local production of military-grade ammunition under a new partnership with a leading Chinese defense company.
The agreement, announced by Minister of State for Defence Bello Matawalle during an official visit to China, includes the construction of production lines for various types of ammunition and servicing of military equipment, marking a significant step toward strengthening Nigeria’s defense capabilities.
The meeting follows a March visit by a senior delegation from China’s North Industries Corporation (Norinco) to Abuja, marking a significant step in strengthening defense ties between China and Nigeria.
According to a statement issued by the Office of the Director of Information and Public Relations, the Minister said the main objective of the engagement was to formalize a partnership through a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between the Chinese firm and the Defence Industries Corporation of Nigeria (DICON).
He noted that under the MoU, the Chinese company has agreed to facilitate the transfer of cutting-edge defence technology to Nigeria, establish local manufacturing facilities for advanced military equipment, and support technical knowledge exchange to enhance the skills of Nigerian personnel.
Other key areas of collaboration include the maintenance and upgrading of existing military hardware, servicing of battle tanks, and offering military engineering services.
Under the MoU, new production lines will be constructed for various ammunition types, including 7.62×51mm ball cartridges, 7.62×51mm blank cartridges, 9×19mm pistol cartridges, and machine gun ammunition.
Additionally, manufacturing workshops and facilities will be established in Kaduna and Kachia, Kaduna State, for the production of brass casings, bullet jackets, and other essential defense components.
Apart from securing the military training and hardware production deal, Nigeria is strengthening its defense ties with China to enhance its air defense systems.
A recent high-level visit by a Nigerian delegation led by Air Marshal Hasan Bala Abubakar, Chief of the Air Staff, to China resulted in discussions with key defense contractors, including China Electronics Technology Group Corporation (CETC) and China North Industries Corporation (NORINCO).
The talks focused on advanced technologies to support Nigeria's Military Total Radar Coverage (MTRACON) initiative.
The Chinese side showcased defense systems such as high-energy laser counter-drone technologies and the Sky Dragon air defense system.
The agreement, announced by Minister of State for Defence Bello Matawalle during an official visit to China, includes the construction of production lines for various types of ammunition and servicing of military equipment, marking a significant step toward strengthening Nigeria’s defense capabilities.
The meeting follows a March visit by a senior delegation from China’s North Industries Corporation (Norinco) to Abuja, marking a significant step in strengthening defense ties between China and Nigeria.
According to a statement issued by the Office of the Director of Information and Public Relations, the Minister said the main objective of the engagement was to formalize a partnership through a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between the Chinese firm and the Defence Industries Corporation of Nigeria (DICON).
He noted that under the MoU, the Chinese company has agreed to facilitate the transfer of cutting-edge defence technology to Nigeria, establish local manufacturing facilities for advanced military equipment, and support technical knowledge exchange to enhance the skills of Nigerian personnel.
Other key areas of collaboration include the maintenance and upgrading of existing military hardware, servicing of battle tanks, and offering military engineering services.
Under the MoU, new production lines will be constructed for various ammunition types, including 7.62×51mm ball cartridges, 7.62×51mm blank cartridges, 9×19mm pistol cartridges, and machine gun ammunition.
Additionally, manufacturing workshops and facilities will be established in Kaduna and Kachia, Kaduna State, for the production of brass casings, bullet jackets, and other essential defense components.
Nigeria eyes Chinese air defence systems
Apart from securing the military training and hardware production deal, Nigeria is strengthening its defense ties with China to enhance its air defense systems.
A recent high-level visit by a Nigerian delegation led by Air Marshal Hasan Bala Abubakar, Chief of the Air Staff, to China resulted in discussions with key defense contractors, including China Electronics Technology Group Corporation (CETC) and China North Industries Corporation (NORINCO).
The talks focused on advanced technologies to support Nigeria's Military Total Radar Coverage (MTRACON) initiative.
The Chinese side showcased defense systems such as high-energy laser counter-drone technologies and the Sky Dragon air defense system.
China’s military in Africa
China has continued to exert its influence in Africa through infrastructure financing and military training, particularly through its Peace Unity-2024 project.
The Peace Unity-2024 project focuses on enhancing the capacity of African nations to address regional security challenges.
By offering military training, joint exercises, and defense equipment, China has positioned itself as a significant partner in helping African countries build self-reliant security frameworks.
This project also emphasizes the sharing of military expertise and technology, aimed at improving the operational effectiveness of African armed forces.
The recent deal between China and Nigeria to produce military ammunition locally is an example of China's expanding role in Africa’s defense sector showing China's commitment to solidifying its relationships with key African countries, while also increasing its influence in regional security matters.
China has continued to exert its influence in Africa through infrastructure financing and military training, particularly through its Peace Unity-2024 project.
The Peace Unity-2024 project focuses on enhancing the capacity of African nations to address regional security challenges.
By offering military training, joint exercises, and defense equipment, China has positioned itself as a significant partner in helping African countries build self-reliant security frameworks.
This project also emphasizes the sharing of military expertise and technology, aimed at improving the operational effectiveness of African armed forces.
The recent deal between China and Nigeria to produce military ammunition locally is an example of China's expanding role in Africa’s defense sector showing China's commitment to solidifying its relationships with key African countries, while also increasing its influence in regional security matters.
Solomon Ekanem, Business Insider Africa
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