Nigeria celebrates first home-made warship

[Mario B]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-18300358

[Yunis]

^@Home Made, I was excited to read this story.

 

In it you have this:

 

".....The engines, generators and navigation equipment came from outside."

 

they import the most precious pieces , coming up only with the metal parts of decks, Funnels, and ladders....and call it home made...Only in Africa

[burahadeer]

^^^^ and probably the engineers.

[Abwaan]

This is a step in the right direction and they should be congratulated rather than criticize.

[Carafaat]

Well done by Nigeria. Check the cars that are made in Ethiopia, called Holland cars. Spareparts come from abroad.

[Somalia]

Looks like a fishing boat hahahahahahaha

[Archdemos]

This is great, well done indeed. These are patrol vessels and not a 'warship' what ever that means in today's context. Shoddy sensationalist headlines from the beeb. Depending on the displacement an argument could be made to class it as a frigate, but that also dependents on armaments carried. Certainly a 'warship' or battle cruiser it is not. You fail to see the irony Somalia. Nigeria is no laughing stock.