Defence Minister urges investment in local technology to boost Nigeria’s security

The Minister of Defence, General Christopher Gwabin Musa (retd.), has stressed the request for accrued concern successful indigenous defence technology, section manufacturing, artificial quality and strategical partnerships to fortify Nigeria’s nationalist information and trim dependence connected overseas sources for captious defence capabilities.

He made the telephone astatine the maiden variation of the Defence Futures Summit 2026, themed “Sovereign Digital Backbone and Defence Innovation”, held on October 14, 2026, astatine the Armed Forces Event and Multipurpose Centre successful Asokoro, Abuja.

In a statement, Enderline Chukwu, Deputy Director of Information and Public Relations astatine the ministry, said Musa described the inaugural arsenic a landmark level for advancing defence innovation, strengthening technological sovereignty and transforming Nigeria’s defence architecture. He urged Nigerians to proceed making deliberate sacrifices to unite the state and amended its technological capabilities.

Musa said that though accusation and connection technology, artificial quality and different emerging technologies were inactive processing wrong Nigeria’s defence ecosystem, the state possessed the intelligence capacity, quality resources and innovative imaginable to vie successful the evolving planetary defence environment.

He said the inaugural aligned with P...