Nigeria has bought warplanes and helicopters from Russia and Pakistan the Chief of Air Staff, Sadique Abubakar, has confirmed.
According to Abubakar ordered the planes from Russia and Pakistan following the refusal of the US to sell arms to Nigeria.
The purchase was aimed at boosting the military in its efforts to end the insurgency by militant Islamists in the north and oil militants in the south.
Though the warplanes and helicopters have purchased they are yet to be delivered.
More than 700 Nigerian troops were receiving training in the US, UK, Russia, Pakistan, South Africa and Egypt, Air Marshall Abubakar said.