COAS advocates indigenous African defence technology to reduce foreign dependence

Nigeria's Chief of Army Staff, COAS, Lieutenant General Waidi Shaibu, has underscored the strategical imperative of processing indigenous African technologies and strengthening section defence manufacturing capabilities to trim dependence connected overseas subject instrumentality and heighten the continent’s information self-reliance.

This formed the thrust of his sojourn to the Rwanda Engineering and Manufacturing Corporation, REMCO, successful Kigali, connected Wednesday, October 21, 2026, arsenic portion of his authoritative moving sojourn to the Republic of Rwanda.

Colonel Appolonia Anele, acting Director of the Army Public Relations, successful a statement, said during the visit, the COAS, who was received by the Chief Executive Officer of REMCO, Mr Emile Rungambajye, explored the corporation’s engineering and manufacturing capabilities, highlighting the increasing value of African innovation, technological advancement and concern capableness successful gathering resilient and sustainable defence systems.

The engagement reinforced the request for Af...