US, UK train Nigerian, African troops counter-terrorism combat

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-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Nigerian defense force, at the side of unique forces from the uk, U.S., Spain and Netherland have begun a training to support its capability to combat terrorism within the county’s maritime setting. Rear Adm. Babalola Ogunjimi, the Nigerian Navy’s Chief of coaching and Operations, who
 mentioned this at a information convention on Sunday in Abuja, said that the exercise would contain a hundred and fifty personnel drawn from gadgets of the Nigerian armed forces, military, Navy and Air force whereas 739 are from the overseas different Forces. Ogunjimi said that the learning known as “African Winds’’, started out on October three, and used to be anticipated to remaining for 14 days and would be adopted via a four day exercise. He stated that the train could be carried out by using cellular training groups (MTTs) of the special Forces in Lagos and Calabar, respectively. “it is anticipated that the African Winds training and train will further reinforce the capability of the Nigerian militia to care for a lot of safety challenges within the Gulf of the Guinea.’’ He stated that one of the challenges include crude oil theft and attacks on merchant ships.