The Nigerian defense sector had the largest budgetary allocation while technological development received the smallest. The military budget was 100 times larger than the technological development budget. It should be reversed. After forty years of exporting oil, Nigeria still contracts petroleum exploration and recovery to western companies who, in turn, retain 10 percent of the oil revenues. Strength is not purchasing an obsolete Russian jet fighter.
Strength is Nigeria owning the technology it uses to extract and refine petroleum.