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This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 24 January 2025. Pokémon species Fictional character Charizard Pokémon character Charizard artwork by Ken Sugimori First game Pokémon Red and Blue (1996) Designed by Atsuko Nishida (normal form and Mega Charizard X) Tomohiro Kitakaze (Mega Charizard X and Mega Charizard Y) Voiced by Shin-ichiro Miki ...
Nigeria: Produced as OBJ-006. [14] [15] AKM [16] Assault rifle Soviet Union: SIG SG 540 [2] Battle rifle Switzerland: NR1: Battle rifle Belgium Nigeria: Local variant designated NR1. [17] [18] [19] Beretta BM 59: Battle rifle Italy Nigeria: Produced locally under licence by DICON. Machine guns; M2 Browning [2] Heavy machine gun United States ...
The 17 Brigade was established in December 2017, [2] but was officially commissioned in February 2018. [1] According to Army chief of staff Lieutenant General Tukur Yusuf Buratai , the establishment of the 17 Brigade is part of a wider reorganisation of the Nigerian Army.
Nigeria women's national under-17 football team, also nicknamed the Flamingoes is a youth association football team operated under the auspices of Nigeria Football Federation. Its primary role is the development of players in preparation for the senior Nigeria women's national football team .
A single 172J prototype, registered N3765C (c/n 660), was built. However, the popularity of the previous 172 with Cessna dealers and flight schools prompted the cancellation of the replacement plan, and the 172J was redesignated as the 177 from the second prototype onward and sold alongside the 172. [17] [22] [23] 172K
The history of the territories which since ca. 1900 have been known under the name of Nigeria during the pre-colonial period (16th to 18th centuries) was dominated by several powerful West African kingdoms or empires, such as the Oyo Empire and the Islamic Kanem-Bornu Empire in the northeast, and the Igbo kingdom of Onitsha in the southeast and ...
From 22 May to 8 July 1969 von Rosen's small force attacked Nigerian military airfields in Port Harcourt, Enugu, Benin City and Ughelli, destroying or damaging a number of Nigerian Air Force jets used to attack relief flights, including a few MiG-17's and three of Nigeria's six Ilyushin Il-28 bombers that were used to bomb Biafran villages and ...
In 2021 it was reported that China was replacing the Russian-made Mi-17 with their own Z-20, except possibly for the Mi-171Sh assault helicopter; the last Mi-17 order was in 2014. [ 3 ] In 2021 the website of Russian Helicopters , the manufacturer, said that the Mi-8/17 was "the most widely operated helicopter in history."