The Nigeria Army: Best In Land Troops Worldwide?

Hahaha!!!very funny indeed. This ought to be in the jokes section. Best in Land troops!!!! 

Yes we have the best land troops on earth without airforce and missiles. Nigerian army should not even focus on other things like flying or navy. They can just increase their trainning, technology for bringing anything that flies to its knees with africa's resources, and somehow come up with a way to disable warships thousands of miles away. And lastly, be discipline not just beating up civilians they supposed to be protecting.
  Anybody can say this is funny and this and that but the truth and potentials remain. I mean if our military and civilians start being discipline and innovative, we can bring respect without being in combat but also ready for whatever. Japan is like the population of Nigeria, and they are this developed, God knows they are not better than us.

The Nigerian army is not th best in Infantry. The statement people are trying to quote is that Nigerian soldiers working in the UN peace keeping force, after being retrained and equipped with standard weapons body armour and support services, are among the top 3 most efficient. Including Bangladesh and Pakistani Soldiers. Also the age of Nigerian soldiers in the UN Peace Corps shows that they are well experienced. Most of them are averagely 30years old.
Unlike ground soldiers of Japan and the US where you can still find 18year olds.

Anyway, about this same rating, it was in a year that the UN assessed Nigerian, Bangladeshi and Pakistani soldiers the best 3 in infantry. The list did not say forever and ever. Every year a new assessment is made. There was a time Swiss soldiers were the best, there was a time it was French soldiers.

All the same, if the Nigerian Army can provide the kind of weapons, armour and aerial support as the ones provided by the UN, no doubt we'll have one of the best infantries in the world.

And by the way, people should not judge reality by watching action movies. In action movies, the US won the Vietnam war, which they actually lost, in action movies, the US and south Korea won the Korean war, which they actually lost, and in movies we see Chuck Norris and Rambo alone fighting millions of VietKong or North Korean soldiers, but the war veterans have admitted it was a 1 on 1 affair. So let's seperate reality from cinematography.

Here comes another "Joseph the dreamer"!

I nio no wetin dey worry u, but u dey talk like say I talk something wey dey impossible, u never hear when people dey yan say never say never. Bros, e dey very very possible but our people no go put head together do am instead we go dey busy dey plan how we go ask for aid. Na d same continent wey those people wey u call go come carry one or two things wey we no dey send now, make better ones pass wetin them get.

u'r on point initiate, abeg inititate them.

There is no army in Africa greater than the Biafran Army. Hail Biafra!!! If not for foreign assistance, Nigeria wouldn't have been able to defeat Biafra!!! The Igbos are getting ready to return to the promise land; the land of milk and honey.  Yar'adua, let my people go!!!

BEST?  It's too cute the way we get to be so proud and make stark claims - regardless of facts

An old Nigerian adage goes something like this:

                         "The monkey who hasn't ventured far from his father's tree will always think that his forest is the biggest" 

My point is: Even within Africa, close observation may very well reveal that the Nigerian Army is far from being BEST in terms of Land Troops or any other factors - not to talk of WORLDWIDE.

@MAMAJAMA

All infantry training for the Nigerian military is practical. Either inside the Nigerian Jungles or Sierra Leone, or Liberia. A lot of them die. Only the best survivors remain. The Navy, Airforce, Medical and Engineering personnel recieve lots of theoretical training but the infantry soldiers learn take their first and subsequent tests on the field.

The Niger-Delta matter is very political. If the army is unleashed on those people, there will be a massacre resulting in the deaths of not less than 7 million people and it will not last long. That kind of disaster is what will finally dry the in from the pen that is trying to write Nigeria's name in the good books.

Just check yourself. I'd rather be Joseph than take my facts in life from movies.

imagine yourself telling people to take what they see in films and movies as what real life is about.

Pathetic indeed.

As long as we have people who try to pass off as Nigerians taking in what they see in movies as real life, we will constantly be beneath and never above.

This person thinks that when she sees a white soldier in a movie destroying 1000s of black soldiers, that is what happens in real life.

mumulicious person

@naijaway, either the bottle was speaking or something - Where in my post did you see me say "Nigerian Army haven't fought in wars outside nigeria."

Abeg cross-reference your posts before you mis-yarn. Maybe someone else said such but not me,  as much as I think the person that said so may actually be on point, I do not KNOW that for a fact and won't/haven't opened my mouth on what I don't know.

Also., when you make a blanket statement like Nigerian Army is the most practical in Africa, can you substantiate yourself. What does it mean to be practical, then most practical, and what are the criteria considered for your extremely broad conclusion?

Anyone can mis-yarn. Make sure you have something tangible to say though 

When was AU (former OAU) headquarters moved from Addis Ababa, Ethiopia to Nigeria? 

@ MAMAJAMA

your words were: have they been exposed to practical training? Have they been to ANY wars?

I want to make it clear here that Nigerian infantry soldiers only take practical training and they prove their worth in battle fields. Them don fight war all over Africa so tay them dey do peace keeping for all them Bosnia and Serbia. My Neighbour was their.

@rubbermaid your posts are quite illuminating.Accept my praise for your logical analysis
of the issue.
A few words of mine:
We should note that the UN's rating is strictly based on performance during peacekeeping
missions. The UN is in no position to judge the fighting capability of national armies.

To make this debate scientific,and beyond our patriotic emotions, we would have to introduce measurable parameters by which to judge armies. Ofcourse it goes without saying that such a scientific treatment of the issue would be impossible in this forum.

In the interim,however, i feel that the issue of which army is the best or whatever else,
should not be the immediate concern of a backward nation like Nigeria. Japan has, for the last four decades, been a largely pacifist nation but i doubt that more than a few nations have their clout.

Nigeria has the best military in the world. We have the most seasoned officers in the entire world.

Their main area of specialization includes over invoicing of contracts, political concocting, international money transfer to swiss accounts in US$, and the sheer fact that most of them have even forgotten where the trigger of the gun is.

Ours is indeed the best in the world MILITARILY.

@ohelala
Why are you going round resurrecting dead threads?