RM786:


Erm... sorry to bug you again. You say this is all happening within Nigeria's borders? On home ground have army equipment forcibly captured and have to recover it. Have to mount a military operation to recapture one of your own cities?! Holy moly brother that's seriously fv(ked up! Sorry for giving you so much grief it's just that I can't comprehend or relate to such a terrible situation, it really puts the crime issue in SA we're always moaning about into perspective... first world problems hey, crying about stolen cellphones etc while people are dying elsewhere...

EVarn:


ARMED MILITARY DRONE CRASH LANDS IN MAIDUGURI !!!!


http://newsrescue.com/breaking-unmanned-armed-drone-crash-lands-dumge-borno-state-nigeria/#ixzz3Q3MkVSsv


an armed military drone has today crashed in dumge,in borno state.according to reports,the drone was fully kitted with missiles,local residents were reported to have spotted the wreakage of the armed drone shortly after it crashed.this event coincide with the defeat of boko haram terrorists in maiduguri and konduga,and also the crash of another military drone in the white house at washington DC.with the crash of the armed drone in borno,more speculations arises as to who owns the drone.Nigeria isnt known to use armed military drones in the war against boko haram,though it has a sizable fleet of surveillance drones.and the US has also only made use of surveillance drones so far.speculations about french involvement arises,as france is known to have military facilities in chad,cameroon and niger.the nigerian authouries have remained silent so far.

agaugust:


That is war, no side has monopoly of scoring hits, war is war, both sides are armed with weapons, both can kill and be killed. That is real war !

You Southies don't know what war is like because SANDF performs only in photographs and on internet, you ask SANDF to deploy 30,000 man army with infantry, artilley, tanks, etc plus a complete air force of jets , helicopters , drones , ISTAR, etc, only then will you Southies know what war really is, only then will your SANDF be truly battle tested.

As at today 2015, SANDF is NOT battle tested, in Bush war old SADF deployed only 4,000 men about 25 years ago.

Since then, South Africa has NEVER deployed up to 2,000 men fighting alone, NEVER !

Your current fleet of air force jets have NEVER flown any combat mission !

You have NEVER written an exam, yet you laugh at those who have written exams many time over, you are really thoughtless !

Go to war, big war , all alone and let us see SANDF performance, not internet boasting of what you have never experienced.

Fight war at home in Soweto, fight against your own citizens and see betrayers, moles, traitors, and secret enemies, plus suicide bombers, then and only then call we call SANDF a real professional battle tested army, for now, SANDF is a photographers club
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agaugust:



Means Nigerian military has the most advanced drones in Africa, first country to use missile armed drones in war !

See the military that @THIZA calls rag tag, LOL !

We are one of the most sophisticated military forces in the world today !

You tell a South African mugu that nobody really knows all the weapons Nigeria has, they will still be arguing like fools.

Mumu village candle light South Africans say Nigerian air force has no PGMs or air to surface guided weapons...LOL



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RM786:


Didn't know you spoke chinese in Nigeria, I'll be damned learn something new everyday. That eye in the sky drone is actually a bit smaller and less impressive looking than my friends radio controlled airplane though.

agaugust:


Light more candles and you will see the photo more clearly, don't let electricity load shedding rob you of your eyesight....Southie
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RM786:


Didn't know you spoke chinese in Nigeria, I'll be damned learn something new everyday. That eye in the sky drone is actually a bit smaller and less impressive looking than my friends radio controlled airplane though.

PS google is your friend search for Denel Seeker and Bateleur(Home grown, not chinese cheapies that fall out the sky):

agaugust:


American drones are the best in the world and they crash dozens of times, all drones are prone to crashes, no pilot control.

SANDF does NOT have Seeker drone in service, so you have nothing comparable to Nigeria's armed drones in service
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agaugust:
Means Nigerian military has the most advanced drones in Africa,first country to use missile armed drones in war!
See the military that @THIZA calls rag tag,LOL!
We are one of the most sophisticated military forces in the world today!
You tell a South African mugu that nobody really knows all the weapons Nigeria has,they will still be arguing like fools.
Mumu village candle light South Africans say Nigerian air force has no PGMs or air to surface guided weapons...LOL

RM786:
Wow, thanks for the update and pics that is genuinely very intriguing. Definitely an indication there are things going on behind the scenes that are being kept very much hushed up and out of the public domain. Is anyone here able to identify or recognize the weapons attached to the drone? May help to give an idea as to it's origin.

DieVluit:
Oh boy!

This is what happens when you make too many babies for your situation.

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-01-26/nigerian-water-shortage-is-bigger-killer-than-boko-haram-cities

Nigerian Water Shortage Is Bigger Killer Than Boko Haram: Cities



(Bloomberg) -- The lack of running water killed more people in Nigeria last year than Boko Haram.

While the terror campaign claimed more than 4,000 lives, the shortage of potable water and poor sanitation led to about 73,000 deaths, according to WaterAid, a London-based nonprofit.

The water deficit isn’t limited to isolated areas in the country’s vast north. In Lagos, about 15 million of the coastal metropolis’ 21 million have limited access to piped water.

Africa’s accelerating urbanization is colliding with governments’ failure to provide the most basic services. Next year alone, Lagos will add more than the population of Boston, worsening its infrastructure shortfall.

“Water is strained, transportation is strained, housing is strained,” Toyin Ayinde, the state commissioner for planning and urban development, said in an interview.

Folks still need about 25 gallons a day, the state-run Lagos Water Corp. reckons.

That’s where Mohamed Adamu comes in. Starting at 5 a.m. every day, he fills 10 jerry cans and walks down rutted streets to deliver clean water to corrugated iron-roofed homes in the Otumara district about a half-hour walk away. Vendors like him are known as “mairuwa” -- or “water owner” in the Hausa language.

“This is just something to do until you get a better business,” said Adamu, 36, who migrated two years ago from northwestern Kebbi state, some 530 miles away. “It’s the type of work you can’t do for long because it’s hard on the body.”
Flight to Lagos

Thousands like him have fled northern Nigeria to escape both the rural poverty there and the Islamist insurgency in Africa’s largest economy. The government says Boko Haram has killed more than 13,000 people since 2009. They killed at least 4,740 last year, more than double the number in 2013, Bath, U.K.-based risk consultancy Verisk Maplecroft estimates.

Just yesterday, at least 65 people were killed in the northeastern city of Maiduguri during a Boko Haram assault on the capital of Borno state, according to a local militia member.

“Everybody is worried about Boko Haram but the average Nigerian continues to see water as a private good not a public good that has to be provided by the government,” said Idayat Hassan, director of the Centre for Democracy and Development, a research institute based in the capital, Abuja.

The water company’s capacity is 210 million gallons a day compared with the 540 million gallons needed by Lagosians. Its potable piped water reaches about 7 million people. That leaves two-thirds of the city struggling to find safe water.

“Mairuwa are one of the most common forms of informal water supply,” said Oluseyi Abdulmalik, a communications manager at WaterAid Nigeria. “They’re filling the gap of what government’s utilities should be doing.”
Meeting Demand

Lagos water officials have developed a $3.5 billion plan to more than triple capacity to 745 million gallons a day by 2020 to meet a projected population of 29 million, according to Shayo Holloway, the company’s group managing director.

The third-biggest killer of children under the age of 5 in Africa is diarrhea, a disease that can -- in nine out of 10 cases -- be prevented by access to safe water and sanitation, according to WaterAid. Nigeria accounts for 11 percent of all global under-5 deaths, according Unicef.

Nigeria isn’t the only sub-Saharan African country struggling with shortages; 325 million people on the continent didn’t have access to improved drinking water in 2012, according to a World Health Organization and Unicef joint report last year. Dakar, Accra, Abidjan and Nairobi were cited as other water-stressed cities.
Reselling Barred

Today’s water woes were deepened by a 2009 law that barred past distribution methods. Until then, residents who could afford a direct connection to the main line stored water in tanks and sold it to neighbors on a pay-as-you-use basis. When such reselling was made illegal, police seized vendors’ tanks and disconnected them from the mains.

“The mairuwa took advantage of our stopping to bring water from outside,” said Ogundele Agbede, 80, a retired civil servant who was forced to shut his sideline selling water after more than 30 years.

Vandalism of the water pipes remains frequent and even when the pipes are intact, the flow is as erratic as electricity supply in a country that suffers from daily blackouts.

At the Dustbin Estate slum, where the ground is soft from building over a refuse dump and swamp land in the city’s southern Ajegunle district, pipes paid for by development organizations are often broken. Sanitation in the community is poor. Residents dump bags of trash and feces into an adjacent canal, looked on by grazing goats and emaciated cows.
Vandalized Pipes

“They sabotage this one a lot,” Tolulope Sangosanya, 32, the founder of LOTS Charity Foundation, said pointing to one of four pipelines and the faucets her group installed there. “Sometimes they go and break it in the middle of the night.”

In Otumara, many from Agbede’s association sunk boreholes to secure a new source to continue their trading business.

“Very unfortunately, 90 percent of the boreholes are not drinkable,” Israel Akintimehin, 55, a pastor dressed in a Cleveland Cavaliers basketball vest, said in an interview at his Cherubim and Seraphim Church of Zion. “It’s a very big irony, we’re surrounded by water, yet we do not have good water.”

To contact the reporters on this story: Yinka Ibukun in Lagos at yibukun@bloomberg.net; Chris Kay in Lagos at ckay5@bloomberg.net

To contact the editors responsible for this story: Antony Sguazzin at asguazzin@bloomberg.net James Hertling, Randall Hackley

agaugust:


Hey, load shedding candle nation man, It compares like this : -


Seleka used AK-47 to white-wash 250 South African army elite paratroopers plus highly trained special forces. The SANDF men ran so fast one of their Gecko vehicle wheels/tyres came off, Seleka was close behind them, SANDF abandoned Gecko, began to do Olympic Springbok race for life, performed speed race as if spectators were cheering, lost ALL four Gecko vehicles, some Toyota 4x4, and new uniforms plus nice kits.

Nigerian army? The 3 photos you posted are of vehicles Naija Ninjas have destroyed, the tracked APC photo has been repeated here shown over 20 times, burnt to ashes, the Mowag APC photo has been posted here repeatedly over 20 times recaptured by Nigerian soldiers driving it around Konduga town with crowd cheering and hailing the champions of Africa, the Boko Haram leader in your photo is dead....Nigerian army of courage put pumped bullets into his lungs and also hammered his head.

Anyone who calls Nigerian army cowards has been proved wrong in 7 days o ! Recaptured all APC and artillery lost in Baga as Boko Haram abandoned equipment and ran away for dear life like Mandela's SANDF Springbok photomania army o !

Smoking hot NA infantry repelled 6 simultaneous attacks on 3 different cities all at the same time, withdrew only from Monguno temporarily to reload more ammunition, returned back to counter attack Monguno in 2 days, roasting Bokos as we speak.

Now show me how South African army has done any combat like this in the past 20 years fighting alone .....Seleka slaves = SANDF

That is how it compares!
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agaugust:



Means Nigerian military has the most advanced drones in Africa, first country to use missile armed drones in war !

See the military that @THIZA calls rag tag, LOL !

We are one of the most sophisticated military forces in the world today !

You tell a South African mugu that nobody really knows all the weapons Nigeria has, they will still be arguing like fools.

Mumu village candle light South Africans say Nigerian air force has no PGMs or air to surface guided weapons...LOL



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EVarn:
picture of the armed drone.it resembles a MALE US Army MQ-1C Gray Eagle UAV.but on looking closely,i discovered a few distinct differences between this drone and the US Gray Eagle,
*the fulcrums{legs} are bow in shape instead of the diagonally shaped lift present in the Gray Eagle.
*the nose is narrow and pointed,instead of long and thick.
this drone looks more like a pakistani "burraq" UAV.it also bear similarities with the saudi-arabian standard UAV.

EVarn:
MILITARY DEPLOYS ARMED DRONES IN RENEWED AIRSTRIKES AGAINST BOKO HARAM
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http://thenationonlineng.net/new/military-deploys-drones-battle-boko-haram/
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The nigerian army has finally opened up on the crash of an armed drone in dumge,borno state.according to a senior army official,armed drones have been deployed in renewed airstrikes against boko haram positions in north east nigeria.this new development is said to be the beginning of a larger aggressive response against boko haram which will escalate in the next two weeks.

agaugust:


That is war, no side has monopoly of scoring hits, war is war, both sides are armed with weapons, both can kill and be killed. That is real war !

You Southies don't know what war is like because SANDF performs only in photographs and on internet, you ask SANDF to deploy 30,000 man army with infantry, artilley, tanks, etc plus a complete air force of jets , helicopters , drones , ISTAR, etc, only then will you Southies know what war really is, only then will your SANDF be truly battle tested.

As at today 2015, SANDF is NOT battle tested, in Bush war old SADF deployed only 4,000 men about 25 years ago.

Since then, South Africa has NEVER deployed up to 2,000 men fighting alone, NEVER !

Your current fleet of air force jets have NEVER flown any combat mission !

You have NEVER written an exam, yet you laugh at those who have written exams many time over, you are really thoughtless !

Go to war, big war , all alone and let us see SANDF performance, not internet boasting of what you have never experienced.

Fight war at home in Soweto, fight against your own citizens and see betrayers, moles, traitors, and secret enemies, plus suicide bombers, then and only then call we call SANDF a real professional battle tested army, for now, SANDF is a photographers club

Nigerian army losing vehicle to Boko Haram and going back to fight and recapture it from the deadly enemy is a great achievement ! No army of cowards can ever do that ! Even the mighty American marines did not have courage to go back and collect their captured Humvee vehicles from Taliban terrorists, Nigerian soldiers are braver than American soldiers.....See photos !
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mzilakazi:



One thing in short, you can never claim territory using drones especially the faulty ones. You have been dubbed again with drones that come falling from the sky.

Boko will not worry, they will just leave the drones to drop down by themselves and remove all the weapons and use them against your military. You are being warned!!!!

agaugust:


That is war, no side has monopoly of scoring hits, war is war, both sides are armed with weapons, both can kill and be killed. That is real war !

You Southies don't know what war is like because SANDF performs only in photographs and on internet, you ask SANDF to deploy 30,000 man army with infantry, artilley, tanks, etc plus a complete air force of jets , helicopters , drones , ISTAR, etc, only then will you Southies know what war really is, only then will your SANDF be truly battle tested.

As at today 2015, SANDF is NOT battle tested, in Bush war old SADF deployed only 4,000 men about 25 years ago.

Since then, South Africa has NEVER deployed up to 2,000 men fighting alone, NEVER !

Your current fleet of air force jets have NEVER flown any combat mission !

You have NEVER written an exam, yet you laugh at those who have written exams many time over, you are really thoughtless !

Go to war, big war , all alone and let us see SANDF performance, not internet boasting of what you have never experienced.

Fight war at home in Soweto, fight against your own citizens and see betrayers, moles, traitors, and secret enemies, plus suicide bombers, then and only then call we call SANDF a real professional battle tested army, for now, SANDF is a photographers club

Nigerian army losing vehicle to Boko Haram and going back to fight and recapture it from the deadly enemy is a great achievement ! No army of cowards can ever do that ! Even the mighty American marines did not have courage to go back and collect their captured Humvee vehicles from Taliban terrorists, Nigerian soldiers are braver than American soldiers.....See photos !
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rka1:


You really are a r$tard.