RECAPTURED NA VEHICLE/TANKS.

SCENES FROM TODAYS BOMB BLAST iN N'DJAMENA CHAD AND POTISKUM YOBE, NIGERIA .
Scenes from n'djamena chad

Scenes from potiskum yobe Nigeria .

Nigerian army kills many Boko Haram terrorists using. women and children as shield.

Scores of heavily armed terrorists using women and children as shield died on Sunday when they attacked Babangida in Yobe state while their action was being foiled by troops on Sunday.

According to a statement on Monday by the Nigerian military: “Over 10 rifles and weapon accessories as well as hundreds of rounds of ammunition and some hand grenades were also recovered from the terrorists as some of them fled with gunshot wounds.”

“One soldier and a vigilante member however died, while 5 were wounded during the encounter.”

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OPERATIONAL PICTURES IN THE NORTH-EAST .

VIDEO: Nigerian Soldiers Transported In Trailers To Maiduguri Frontline



President Muhammadu Buhari had on the 29th of May, during his inaugural speech as the president of the Federal Republic of Nigeria ordered that the command and control centre of the Nigerian army engaged in the fight against Boko Haram be moved to Maiduguri.

In compliance to the order, the military authorities began the movement of troops and equipments to the hotbed of the Boko Haram insurgency.

While this is commendable, it is however shocking that majority of the troops were being transported in trailers instead of the Tata lorries which the Nigerian army over the years have acquired for such purpose.

The videos below shows several number of trailers filled with soldiers being transported to the frontline of the Boko Haram insurgency.

Click here to watch/download : http://abusidiqu.com/video-nigerian-soldiers-transported-in-trailers-to-maiduguri-frontline/

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NA PICTURES

-1st picture is a NA soldier with a dragunov sniper rifle.

-2nd picture is a made in nigeria "DICON" light portable mortar.

-4th picture is a NA 155-mm self-propelled howitzer with its shells

Army set to court-martial Ransome-Kuti, four others


The Nigeria Army has concluded plans to arraign a former Commander of the Multi-National Joint Task Force, Brig. Gen. Enitan Ransome-Kuti and four other officers on the 29th of June for offences they allegedly committed during the Boko Haram attack on Baga in Borno State in January, the Punch reports.

Those listed alongside Ransome-Kuti on the charge sheet are Col. O.C. Ajunwa, Lt. Col. A. Haruna, Lt. Col. G.A. Suru and Maj. A.A. Malgwi.

The five officers are to be arraigned before a General Court Martial sitting at the Abacha Barracks, Abuja on three counts of cowardly behaviour, failure to perform military duties and miscellaneous offences relating to loss of armament. They were originally scheduled to be arraigned on Monday.

They were alleged to have committed the offences at the headquarters of the MNJTF in Baga, Borno State, when the location was overrun by the Boko Haram terrorists.

Of the five accused officers, only Ransome-Kuti’s name appeared in all the three charges signed by Maj. B.T. Ndiomu on March 25, 2015.

While all the five accused persons will face the first count of cowardly behaviour, the second count of failure to perform military duties was directed against Ransome-Kuti, Ajunwa and Suru.

Ransome-Kuti is the only one that will face the third count of loss of Army’s property that included three multipurpose light-armoured towing vehicles (MTLB in Russian), three rocket-propelled grenade launchers, two pan herd and three Sagie.

The other lost items are one VBL armoured vehicle, eight General Purpose Machine Guns, eight Browning Machine Guns, two trucks, 12 Toyota Hilux vans and a large quantity of ammunition.

According to the charge sheet, Ransome-Kuti was said to have contravened Section 68 (1) (a) of the Armed Forces Act Cap 20 Laws of the Federation of Nigeria 2004 while the other officers were accused in the first count of exhibiting “cowardly behaviour by abandoning duty post at the MNJTF headquarters when the Boko Haram terrorists attacked”, contravening section 47(1)(a) of the Armed Forces Act and punishable under 47(3) of the same law.

In the second count, Ransome-Kuti, Ajunwa and Suru were accused of contravening section 62(b) of the Armed Forces Act “by failing to coordinate troops and assets of HQ MNJTF to repel the Boko Haram terrorists attack of the HQ MNJTF” on January 3, 2015.

Below Is pic of Brig Gen. Enitan Ransome-Kuti

our people funny o ,una go copy the man pix for facebook

Nigerdeltaboi:
our people funny o ,una go copy the man pix for facebook

Sorry its because its because u r not a military researcher brig gen
Enitan Ransome-Kuti, Is the former Commander of the Multi-National Joint Task Force, a very important task force in the far north east which is to check mate cross -boarder activities of BH !

So his not new to the media, I have come across couples of his pictures/news before now/this incident !

bidexiii:


Sorry its because its because u r not a military researcher brig gen
Enitan Ransome-Kuti, Is the former Commander of the Multi-National Joint Task Force, a very important task force in the far north east which is to check mate cross -boarder activities of BH !

So his not new to the media, I have come across couples of his pictures/news before now/this incident !

i know everything about the man,that pic used to be his profile pic on facebook.as for military researcher talk you wan sabi pass person wey sabi yamusa zakari parade ground hmmm

bidexiii:


Sorry its because its because u r not a military researcher brig gen
Enitan Ransome-Kuti, Is the former Commander of the Multi-National Joint Task Force, a very important task force in the far north east which is to check mate cross -boarder activities of BH !

So his not new to the media, I have come across couples of his pictures/news before now/this incident !

lol military researcher ,i know everything about him even before he became mjtf CO ,our lazy journalist copied that pics from his facebook page.

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Nigerdeltaboi:
lol military researcher ,i know everything about him even before he became mjtf CO ,our lazy journalist copied that pics from his facebook page.

Anyway I don't know that's the picture on his FB page ? Definately you being on its facebook page before what's the defference between you and the lazy journalist !

bidexiii:


Anyway I don't know that's the picture on his FB page ? Definately you being on its facebook page before what's the defference between you and the lazy journalist !

i give up , you have misunderstood me ,anyway nice thread.

-BOKO HARAM BOOBY TRAP KILLS NIGERIAN SOLDIERS-

A booby trap set by the group Boko Haram has detonated in a barracks in northeast Nigeria's Borno state, killing at least 10 Nigerian soldiers and injuring several others.

Al Jazeera's Yvonne Ndege reported that the Monguno barracks was previously under the control of Boko Haram but had been retaken by the Nigerian army a couple of months ago.

"Amid sorting out the barracks explosive devices were found and accidentally went off," our correspondent said of Tuesday's incident.

"The military believe it was some sort of booby trap set by Boko Haram before they were killed or fled."

Nigerian fighters routinely use improvised explosive devices in their attacks.

Boko Haram had taken control of a large swathe of northeast Nigeria until a multinational force this year forced them out of towns and villages. Nigeria's military says the group is now confined to the Sambisa Forest.

Bombings and hit-and-run attacks continue, however.

Suspected Boko Haram gunmen last week killed 37 people in raids on five villages around Maiduguri, the capital of Borno state, a military source and a local village defence group said.

Fighters from the armed group, who arrived in four-wheel drive vehicles and on motorcycles, fired into houses and shot fleeing locals during Wednesday evening and the early hours of Thursday, the military source said on Friday.

  Curled from yahoo news ; https://en-maktoob.news.yahoo.com/boko-haram-bombs-kill-scores-northeast-nigeria-125028889--spt.html

Tanzanian Special Forces With IWI Galil MAR Carbine, Meprolight Sights.

Unbeknownst to us, the Tanzanian Special Forces adopted
the IWI Galil MAR compact carbine along with Meprolight
Sights and Bulgarian night vision googles. The troops in
these photos are taking part in a multinational training
exercise as part of the United Nations Intervention
Brigade in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

The rifle and sight are impressive equipment for a
country that has a mean wage of just $0.52/hour. The cost
of each rifle and sight is probably equivalent to three
years of its operators wages. This would be like supplying
a rifle and scope that costs $60,000 to a US Army Private
First Class (E3). Judging from photos, not many of them
are issued night vision googles.

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Chad Bombs Boko Haram Bases in Nigeria After Suicide Blasts


Chad’s military says it has carried out airstrikes on Boko Haram positions in neighbouring Nigeria to avenge twin suicide bombings in Chad’s capital that were blamed on the extremist group. The military says its helicopters have struck at least six bases in Nigeria used by the Islamist militant group Boko Haram. Earlier Chad said it had arrested at least five suspects in connection to the suicide bombings  that killed 34 people.The country has also banned religious burqas- a garment covering the whole body from head to feet worn by Muslim women. Monday’s attacks were the first of their kind in Chad and appeared to be retaliation by Boko Haram for Chad’s leading role in an offensive against the militants.

Chad said Thursday its military carried out retaliatory airstrikes against Boko Haram militants in neighboring Nigeria after a pair of suicide bombings earlier this week in the Chadian capital that killed at least 33 people. The military said in a statement that the airstrikes targeted six militant camps and caused “considerable human and material losses.” There were no details on where exactly the strikes took place. Monday’s deadly blasts happened at a police headquarters and police academy in N’Djamena where more than 100 people were also injured.

Prime Minister Kalzeube Pahimi Deubet said Wednesday that in response to the attacks the government was banning the wearing and sale of burqas in the country. Chad, along with Niger and Cameroon, deployed troops earlier this year to fight Boko Haram after the militants launched a series of cross-border attacks.  Last week, those countries joined Nigeria and Benin in announcing a new regional task force headquartered in N’Djamena to counter the militants.

No Chadian airstrikes in Nigeria,’ Army denies reports

Chad’s military had claimed, via a statement, on Thursday, June 18, 2015, that it had bombed Boko Haram camps in Nigeria.
     

Chadian troops carried out airstrikes within its territory.

Chad’s military had claimed, via a statement, on Thursday, June 18, 2015, that it had bombed Boko Haram camps in Nigeria.

In response however, Nigerian Army spokesperson, Chris Olukolade stated that the report was incorrect.

Olukolade said further, via a statement also released on Thursday, that the Nigerian Air force surveillance mission identified targets tagged, Camp 6, around Bosso town which is not within Nigerian territory, “and alerted the partners, accordingly”.

The statement reads:

“The claim that the Chadian military have conducted air strikes against six terrorist camps in Nigeria is not correct.”

“The fact is that the Nigerian Airforce surveillance mission identified targets tagged at Camp 6 around Bosso town which is not within Nigeria's territory and alerted the partners accordingly. The places reported to have been struck by the Chadians are therefore most likely to be in Niger Republic and not Nigeria as widely reported in the international media.”

“Although the terms of the multilateral and bilateral understanding with partners in the war against terror allow some degree of hot pursuit against the terrorists, the territory of Nigeria has not been violated as insinuated in the reports circulated in some foreign media.”

“The Nigerian military will continue to cooperate with partners in the mission to exterminate or contain terrorists strictly in conformity with existing terms of the Concept of Operation at strategic, operational or tactical levels.

“It is however important that issues are accurately reported while avoiding misleading or unnecessary sensationalism from any quarter.”

Chad said that it carried out the air strikes in retaliation for twin suicide bombings in its capital, Ndjamena which claimed 33 lives and were blamed on Boko Haram.

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1st pic is a NN SF batch

2nd pic is inside NNS THUNDER, SF having lunch.

3rd pic is inside NNS LANA and her sailors

4th pic are NN SBS commandos

Henry240:


We know we have a terrible deficiency in equipment, however we cannot compare how a militant group operates to a proper army.

Militants throw everything they get into an attack, whether it is a 14.5mm mounted on Pick-up trucks or IED laden goats. The idea is to overwhelm and over-run their target by whatever means, no doctrine.

Let us for instance claim the Nigerian military is properly armed, e.g, NATO standard.

Each out-post cannot be armed with a 14.5mm shilka or a Tank because the military operates on a Doctrine.

-So each squad would be armed appropriately.


- Each section would also be armed

- Each platoon also armed appropriately.

All of these groups would be armed based on the Doctrine with which the Nigerian Army operates.

Only the platoon would have the big guns.
At squad level, troops would only have access to their rifles, grenades, RPG's and radios with which to call in Air-Support and artillery fire. They may not even have access to APC's at squad levels.

Now, this is for a hypothetical armed Nigerian army.


Reality on the ground is, the Nigerian army is neither well funded or well armed. Most of these issues probably have nothing to do with corruption. I'm not saying there is no corruption, but we add too much importance to this corruption thing that we fail to see the bigger picture.

Bigger Picture :

- we tried to purchase arms from Israel, the U.S and South-Africa, but we were consistently blocked. Our plane wasn't also given clearance to fly over Saudi-Arabia.

- the U.S stopped buying our oil, hence we have no money.

- we do not have a Defence industry to support our military. Yes, we make this and that, here and there, but we actually do not have an Industry.

-Tactics is also an issue,

All of these things got nothing to do with corruption.

I have spoken to many soldiers, including those in the line of battle. Truth is, these issues are not necessarily as simple as we would love to believe.

That in the first instance is an assumption not a substantiated fact.

Arms procurement in the west follows very definitive laid down formalities and procedures, it is highly formalised and will require approval on a number of fronts. You don't buy arms on the pages of a newspaper.

With regard to the USA the word arms is just too wide, what did we specifically try to procure supposedly. When you consider that criminals can buy assault rifles from Walmart, then it would irrational to refuse Nigeria.

Actually factually speaking (1st hand) I know of a US arms manufacturer's business development consultant / contractor who made definite overtures to Nigeria but was rebuffed. Why, failure to arrange EGUNJE.

bidexiii:

I totally diagree with u on these _
Firstly the beryl riffle "wz.2004 Beryl"/M762 is still the latest since 1997 till date ! And that's the type polish army carry till now !
Secondly its maximum effective range is 600mm not 300mm. And what u r saying about the latest version his its ammunition sizes and from the research I made they all av the same range .

Correction the Kbs Wz.1996 Beryl, chambered with the 5.56x45mm has an effective range of 600metres not the M762 Beryl which the NA procured, which still remains at 300metres. (http://www.military-today.com/firearms/beryl.htm) As I have explained earlier what we are talking about is basic physics the configurations of weight, speed, velocity and impact on distance amongst other variables. The heavier 7.62x39mm bullet looses velocity consequence of its heavier weight.

komekn:


Correction the Kbs Wz.1996 Beryl, chambered with the 5.56x45mm has an effective range of 600metres not the M762 Beryl which the NA procured, which still remains at 300metres. (http://www.military-today.com/firearms/beryl.htm) As I have explained earlier what we are talking about is basic physics the configurations of weight, speed, velocity and impact on distance amongst other variables. The heavier 7.62x39mm bullet looses velocity consequence of its heavier weight.

Correction ;even with the 7.62×39mm shell it as an effective range that is more than 300mm . All beryl riffles has. Irrespective of ;5.56×45mm NATO
7.62×39mm - Beryl M762
5.45×39mm - Beryl M545 shells as a effective range of 600mm .

Secondly u mentioned speed/velocity and weight you forgot to mention the strength of the spring that projects the object/projectile ?, these is where the technology comes in ?

Thirdly beryl. M762 which is more latest than the Kbs Wz.1996 Beryl as an effective range of 600mm than the M762, how can a more older version of an equipment be more effective than the newer version ? Then what's latest about it technology does not bring u back-wards ? I totally disagree with u on these I don't think our top brass are that dumb ?

Lastly the link u provided only showed the effective range of Kbs Wz.1996 Beryl and not Beryl M762 . And if the cartridge or shell is the problem I think we can easily switch. But from the wikepedia they grouped all the beryl variants as the same effective range of 600-1000mm with optical sights even with different shells/cartridge !

From all my findings all beryl version as the same effective range with sights . Its only in the design ; from the railings to adjust sights which the later do not have, hand grip, probably its housing casing (looks/design) and magazine e.t.c. But they all possess the same effective range irrespective of there ammo !

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How military officers are led to their death Amnesty. International’s damning report

http://www.vanguardngr.com/2015/06/boko-harams-winning-startegy-1/

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BIAFRA: The Untold Story of Nigeria’s civil war.

Early in the morning of 1 July 1967, Nigeria’s young head
of state, Colonel Yakubu Gowon, was feeling uneasy in his
office at the Supreme Headquarters, Dodan Barracks in
Lagos. The unease was a result of his being ceaselessly
pressured to authorize a military invasion of the breakaway
Republic of Biafra.
Thirty officers had been recalled from courses abroad.
Trains and truck convoys, bearing fuel, supplies and men,
were still leaving Kano and Kaduna for the south of River
Benue. Colonel Mohammed Shuwa of the First Area Command had moved his command headquarters southwards and set it up in Makurdi. The 2nd Battalion was already headquartered in Adikpo. Schools and private homes had been commandeered for the use of Major Sule Apollo and his 4th Battalion in Oturkpo. They were itching for action. The same day, Major B.M. Usman “a member of the intimate northern group around Gowon” told the American defense attaché: “I do not know what in hell he is waiting for; the boys are all ready to go. They are only waiting on his word.”
Members of the Supreme Military Council, who had been
meeting twice daily, were waiting for his word. The whole
nation was waiting. Biafra, which was on high alert, was also
waiting.
On 27 June 1967, Cyprian Ekwensi, famous writer and
Biafra’s Director of Information Service, through the Voice of Biafra (formerly Enugu Radio), urged Biafrans to be
prepared for an invasion on June 29 since “Northerners
have often struck on 29th day of the month.” He was
alluding to the day northern officers, led by Major T.Y.
Danjuma, seized Gowon’s predecessor, Major- General
Aguiyi-Ironsi, and killed him in a forest outside Ibadan.
Gowon, then 31, had been running the affairs of 57million
Nigerians for 10 months. It had not been easy. Chief
Obafemi Awolowo, his 58-year old trusted deputy and
adviser, was with Okoi Arikpo and Philip Asiodu, permanent
secretaries of the ministries of External Affairs and Trade
and Industries respectively.
They were preparing to put the noose on the neck of the
Anglo-Dutch oil giant, Shell-BP, which had frozen royalty
payments due to the Federation Account on 1 June 1967 and
had offered to pay the Biafran government £250,000.
Lieutenant Colonel Odumegwu Ojukwu, Biafran leader, had
ordered all oil companies to start paying all royalties to
Enugu because they were operating in a new country or risk
heavy penalties.
Specifically, he demanded a minimum of £2million from
Shell-BP. The Federal Government had imposed an
economic blockade on Biafra. It entailed barring all
merchant vessels and sea tankers from sailing to and from
Koko, Warri, Sapele, Escravos, Bonny, Port Harcourt, Calabar ports, which Ojukwu had declared part and parcel of Biafra. Biafra controlled the land on which the oil installations sat;
the Nigerian government controlled the coastal entrance
and exit to those lands. Shell-BP was confused as to whose
order should be obeyed. Sir David Hunt, the British High
Commissioner to Nigeria, told his American counterpart
after the meeting with the Nigerian delegation: “Awolowo is
very firmly in control of Ministry of Finance and he is giving
Stanley Gray, Shell’s General Manager and other experts
from London a very difficult time for the past three days.”
They persuaded Awolowo to accept a deal that would favour
the Nigerian government and, at the same time, would
predispose oil workers and the £150million investment to
danger in the hands of Biafran military forces. Awolowo
refused, arguing that anything short of the status quo was
recognition of Biafra and concession to the rebels. As for
security of investments and personnel, he argued that once
royalties were paid, the Nigerian government would have
the capacity to fund whatever action it would take on the
rebels and Shell-BP’s investments would be safe.
Gowon paced to the large outdated map of the country by
the door to his office. When he asked Awolowo to come and
join his government, Awolowo said he would accept only if
Gowon did something about the dominance of North over
the rest of the nation. A month before, Gowon had broken
up the North into six states, but the map by the door still
showed the old Nigeria, with an imposing North at the top.
He ran his finger around the boundaries of Biafra and asked
himself: “How can I authorize an invasion of my own
people?” He knew what it meant to be resented. He was not
the most senior officer in the army. He was not a Muslim
Hausa or Fulani from Kano, Kaduna or Sokoto. He was a
Christian from one of the small minorities that dot the North and yet, events had promoted him to the position of the Head of State and Commander-in-Chief–to the chagrin of many northern officers, politicians, and emirs.
He knew the Igbo were resented in the North for succeeding where indigenes had failed. His Igbo lover, Edith Ike, told him her life was threatened twice in Lagos since she returned from the North in March.

Secret American diplomatic dispatches, spread over 21,000
pages, provide previously unknown information about the
Nigerian Civil War.