{"id":877038,"date":"2025-10-12T00:19:43","date_gmt":"2025-10-12T05:19:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2025\/10\/12\/why-nigerias-arms-deals-keep-failing-and-what-needs-to-change\/"},"modified":"2025-10-12T00:19:43","modified_gmt":"2025-10-12T05:19:43","slug":"why-nigerias-arms-deals-keep-failing-and-what-needs-to-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2025\/10\/12\/why-nigerias-arms-deals-keep-failing-and-what-needs-to-change\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Nigeria\u2019s Arms Deals Keep Failing And What Needs to Change"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Yusuf Maikanti In 2021, Nigeria\u2019s military quietly acquired Chinese Wing Loong II drones to combat Boko Haram. By 2023, many were grounded, victims of faulty tech and zero after-sales support. The same happened with our T-72 tanks, bought from Belarus and left to rust without spare parts&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/dailytrust.com\/why-nigerias-arms-deals-keep-failing-and-what-needs-to-change\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><br \/>\n .<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Yusuf Maikanti In 2021, Nigeria\u2019s military quietly acquired Chinese Wing Loong II drones to combat Boko Haram. By 2023, many were grounded, victims of faulty tech and zero after-sales support. The same happened with our T-72 tanks, bought from Belarus and left to rust without spare parts&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":877039,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3377,21970,192],"tags":[5799,86607],"class_list":{"0":"post-877038","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-deals","8":"category-nigerias","9":"category-sports","10":"tag-deals","11":"tag-nigerias"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/877038","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=877038"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/877038\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/877039"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=877038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=877038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=877038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}