youghs:
The solution to Nigeria's insecurity issues are

1. Border security through border surveillance equipments in short term and border fence in long-term.

2. Improvement and advancement in the entire law enforcement including intelligence agencies.

3. Decentralisation of the police, The NPF should be dissolved and decentralised into state police such that governors have direct control over the police in each state with supervison of a federal board, the police in every state should consist of personnel from all states of the federation so as to avoid the failure of amotekun.

4. Life or death sentence for anyone who is caught in involvement or conspiracy in smuggling and illegal local production of weapons and explosives.

The weapons you see with those bandits, do they look like something you can produce illegally or locally...

For those not following Tomasz; these are satellite images of Abadam in 2012 and in 2020 respectively.

Kumshe, Bama LGA before(October 2013) and after(November 2020)

Salatavor:
The weapons you see with those bandits, do they look like something you can produce illegally or locally...

Terrorists, bandits, kidnappers, herdsmen, armed robbers do use alot of locally made guns.

The abductors of the Kagara boys have demanded for #500 million as ransom.


https://eonsintelligence.com/details/news-108923456/kagara-abduction-bandits-demand-n500-million-ransom-from-niger-state-government-1941210267

Whyem15:
NAF currently bombarding Orlu forest in a bid to engage members of the ESN based in the forest.

It is sad that at a time that the military is over stretched in various operations across the country, the decision makers are still pour fuels to sparks. There are better ways to solve political crises. Force should be the last resort.

. When i said that logistic is being moved from 82 divion to orlu people never belive me. will know nigeria armed force will reply any attack against there men, many esn is dead now. when sowore want to fight aganist the government he did not run rather he lead is men but kaun is in uk and is creating and make people chlidren to belive juju thinking it will save them. please let drop war and make please with one another. intel review it was based on order by south east government to the armed force

Whyem15:
The abductors of the Kagara boys have demanded for #500 million as ransom from the Niger state government.


https://eonsintelligence.com/details/news-108923456/kagara-abduction-bandits-demand-n500-million-ransom-from-niger-state-government-1941210267

The question now is that should the ransom be paid? The Kankara incident set the precedent and the failure of the government to follow up by hunting for the people behind the mass abductions led to this and if care isn't taken, we might have many more of such.


If the government lacks the ability to go after the terrorists after paying the ransom, then they should make a clear statement to all criminal groups that they will never pay ransom for whatever reason and let them know that they will never earn anything from such kidnappings. Either they will eventually release the victims or the military rescues them or God forbid the third option. If that isn't done, be sure that armed robbery and other petty crimes will reduce significantly while cases of kidnapping for Ransom will skyrocket.


Additionally, the government should push for the early delivery of the air assets expected so that they can be deployed to these new hotspots to deal with the crises in the infancy stage before it gets worse.

Whyem15:



The question now is that should the ransom be paid? The Kankara incident set the precedent and the failure of the government to follow up by hunting for the people behind the mass abductions led to this and if care isn't taken, we might have many more of such.


If the government lacks the ability to go after the terrorists after paying the ransom, then they should make a clear statement to all criminal groups that they will never pay ransom for whatever reason and let them know that they will never earn anything from such kidnappings. Either they will eventually release the victims or the military rescues them or God forbid the third option. If that isn't done, be sure that armed robbery and other petty crimes will reduce significantly while cases of kidnapping for Ransom will skyrocket.


Additionally, the government should push for the early delivery of the air assets expected so that they can be deployed to these new hotspots to deal with the crises in the infancy stage before it gets worse.

Paying the ransom will encourage more banditry. Government should go after them with full force regardless of Collateral damage, this will send a strong message to bandits.

tutudesz:

Paying the ransom will encourage more banditry. Government should go after them with full force regardless of Collateral damage, this will send a strong message to bandits.

It may sound like a good decision until you lose the support of the people you are trying to protect too. If your kids were to be among the abducted students, will you pray that the government do this to them?

Whyem15:


It may sound like a good decision until you lose the support of the people you are trying to protect too. If your kids were to be among the abducted students, will you pray that the government do this to them?

Paying the ransom will put more children in danger too, because they will keep kidnapping school children to get easy money. Government payment of Kankara boy ransom is the cause of this and this will encourage such kidnapping round Nigeria.

Orlu: Soldiers, ESN members in gun battle

The Eastern Security Network, ESN and the Nigeria Army are currently in a gun battle in Orlu forest Imo State.

Details soon

https://www.vanguardngr.com/2021/02/orlu-soldiers-esn-members-in-gun-battle/

Some ipob in my area say two military helicopter is being shot down . Please can someone confirm this

KAGARA ABDUCTIONS - WE ARE COMMITTED TO THE SAFE RESCUE OF ALL ABDUCTEES, SAYS IGP.

- As Police Deploy Additional Rescue Assets to Niger State

The Inspector-General of Police, IGP M.A Adamu, NPM, mni has assured the nation that the Force is irrevocably committed to the safe rescue of all abductees in the recent attack on Government Science College, Kagara in Rafi LGA of Niger State and other related incidents.

The IGP notes that a joint massive search and rescue mission involving the Police, the Military and other law enforcement agencies is ongoing to ensure that all abducted persons are rescued unhurt and reunited with their families.

To give impetus to the rescue operation, the IGP has ordered the deployment of additional tactical, intelligence and investigative assets of the Force including four (4) units of Police Mobile Force (PMF) attached to Operation Puff Adder II, one (1) Unit of Police Special Forces, personnel of the Counter Terrorism Unit (CTU) and operatives from the Force Intelligence Bureau and the Force Criminal Investigations Department. One (1) Police aerial surveillance helicopter has also been deployed.

The Police component of the search and rescue operation is being coordinated by the Commissioner of Police, Niger State who is effectively harnessing all the deployed resources and working in sync with the Military and other law enforcement agents in ensuring an intelligence-driven, focused and result-oriented ground and aerial surveillance in the rescue operations and to bring the perpetrators to book.

The Inspector General of Police, while calling for calm, has enjoined members of the community to provide the Force and the security community with useful, relevant and timely information that can assist in the ongoing search and rescue operations.
https://twitter.com/PoliceNG/status/1362418056560074753?s=19

JOSCOFELIX:
Some ipob in my area say two military helicopter is being shot down . Please can someone confirm this

Most likely propaganda. Even ISIS central have been unable to down helicopters such as the ones deployed. What did they use to shoot it down? RPG? Lol even MANPADS have very low probability of shooting such down.

JOSCOFELIX:
Some ipob in my area say two military helicopter is being shot down . Please can someone confirm this

Most likely propaganda. Even ISIS central have been unable to down helicopters such as the ones deployed. What did they use to shoot it down? RPG? Lol even MANPADS have very low probability of shooting such down.

If ever there is an helicopter incident, it will most likely be due to technical issues. But then you can't be sure of anything.

By now the media should be over saturated with videos of the wreckages if it were true.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hBv1SHjqd1Q


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zpDnlGT3LxY


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dWL0Nz4g5yk

It’s an interesting channel, lots of fascinating historic military stuff

Now I must unfollow.

It was nice while it lasted. Goodluck folks!

A temporary solution to Nigeria’s problems is intense 24/7 surveillance, search and destroy operations of the total area of land north from the line drawn east and west fromthe confluence point of the Niger and Benue rivers. That's approximately 715000km². The government should better start investing in ISR platforms and recon drones.

Whyem15:
A temporary solution to Nigeria’s problems is intense 24/7 surveillance, search and destroy operations of the total area of land north from the line drawn east and west fromthe confluence point of the Niger and Benue rivers. That's approximately 715000km². The government should better start investing in ISR platforms and recon drones.

Easy to type

Thanks Big man

Litmus:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hBv1SHjqd1Q


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zpDnlGT3LxY


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dWL0Nz4g5yk

It’s an interesting channel, lots of fascinating historic military stuff

foxtrot101:
Thanks Big man

you're welcome

Dikwa currently under attack !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

GeneralFarouq:

How is this related to the thread...
Mynd44 pls take actionz this guy keep posting wrong info on the wrong thread.

Residents say the attack on the Anambra community was carried out by suspected members of IPOB.

By Taiwo-Hassan Adebayo February 19, 2021

Six children have been killed in an attack on a community in Anambra State.

The children, all under 10 years old, were killed during an attack on a Fulani community in Oba, Idemili Local Government Area.

Residents said the attack was carried out by suspected members of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra, (IPOB), amid escalating ethnic tensions in Nigeria.

Members of the community told PREMIUM TIMES they would not retaliate as they are trusting the security authorities to deliver justice to them, with the host community and state assuring of solidarity and assistance.

The attack happened on Tuesday evening but the facts were slow to emerge and PREMIUM TIMES just confirmed on Thursday evening.

Horrific photographs obtained by PREMIUM TIMES show the deceased children savagely macheted and one said to be just one-year-old, burnt.

Also, the background of the photographs shows razed homes. The impact of the attack suggests children were targeted or that they were only killed because elderly members of the community were absent at the time attack was carried out.

PREMIUM TIMES also obtained a short video showing the remains of the children wrapped in white cloths ready after they were washed and before internment according to Islamic tradition.

Following the attack, the community is now displaced.

Surviving victims are now taking refuge inside the army barrack in Onitsha, the patriarch of the community, Dogo Isa, army sources, and Mahmud Imam, who has seen the displaced persons, told PREMIUM TIMES on Thursday.

All the six children were buried inside the barrack, Mr Isa said, a claim corroborated by other sources. Mr Isa said the oldest of the slain children was six-year-old.

The police spokesperson for the state, Haruna Mohammed, said he was not aware of the attack.

An IPOB lawyer and spokesperson, Ifeanyi Ejiofor, said, “I am not aware of this one” when contacted on Thursday.

Names of the slain children as disclosed by Mr Isa are:

1. Nasiru Laminu, two years old;

2. Sirajo Ali, two years old;

3. Zainabu Mutmeru, four years old;


4. Aminu, two years old;

5. Mairo, six years old; and

6. Maryam, one year old.

Mr Isa said nothing happened to their cattle because it was in the evening when the animals had been herded to the stream.

He said he has been in Anambra State for 43 years but, on Monday, he was called by a person, who asked him and his extended family to leave the community.

“The person told me I should take my family to the north because the Fulani are no longer wanted in Igboland,” Mr Isa said. “They said they gave me one day to leave. But around 5 p.m., on Tuesday, I was called that I should come home. Then, I met six of our children dead and my house razed. All of us had to leave to stay in the barrack here.

“I have begged the soldiers to help me get the man that called me to take him to the police.”

IPOB

Led by a fugitive, Nnamdi Kanu, IPOB is agitating for the secession of the Igbo from Nigeria, decades after late Odumegwu Ojukwu first mobilised the nationalist aspirations of the ethnic group to break away, resulting in a 30-month civil war (1967-1970) that led to the death of millions.

With years of bad governance and the government’s failure to address the challenge of national integration, secessionist agitations were reawakened by IPOB, leveraging people’s anger against the state.

In 2017, Nigeria proscribed IPOB and declared it a terrorist organisation amid a major standoff with the army in Abia, the home state of Mr Kanu.


The group has rejected being labelled a terrorist organisation saying its actions and demand for secession are peaceful. But it recently established a formation called Eastern Security Network, which it said would protect the Igboland “against Fulani herders.”

Criminal herders have been involved for a long time in deadly conflicts with farmers across the country – and recently in cases of abductions for ransom.

But communities in southern Nigeria have recently declared readiness to resort to self-help against the Fulani herders, bringing even the innocent among them at risk of indiscriminate violence.

The IPOB-linked Eastern Security Network is currently the target of a “not-so full military operation” in Orlu axis of Imo State.

In Oba area, fear of a Fulani reprisal has risen, a local police source said.

Mr Isa said the host community leaders had been calling to sympathise with him and assure him of solidarity. He said he should let security authorities handle the matter instead of resorting to self-help.

PREMIUM TIMES could not speak with any of the local leaders but a soldier corroborated Mr Isa’s account.

“They said they heard that some Fulani were coming to attack but I have told them that it is not true and no Fulani will attack them in retaliation but they should help us find the person that called me and those that attacked us,” Mr Isa said.

https://www.premiumtimesng.com/news/headlines/443855-exclusive-six-children-killed-in-attack-on-anambra-community.html

Popular Islamic cleric Sheik Ahmad Gumi has asked the federal government to grant an unconditional amnesty to bandits and killer herdsmen terrorising the country, Igbere TV reports.

This, according to the cleric is the requirement needed to be met by the government for peace to reign in the country.

Gumi stated this in a brief interview in Minna, Niger State shortly after he met with the gunmen believed to be abductors of staff and students of Government Science College, Kagara.

“The Federal Government should give them blanket amnesty, then if somebody continues, then we will deal with them,” Gumi told journalists in a 1 minute video obtained by Igbere TV.

Recall that the school was attacked on Tuesday night. One student was killed in the process.

Sources said that Gumi met with the armed men on Thursday night between Tegina in Niger State and Birnin Gwari in Kaduna State.

Earlier in the month, the cleric had met with gunmen across forests in Zamfara State, appealing to them to drop their arms.



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2FNLGgYVCfY

https://igberetvnews.com/1383015/just-fg-must-grant-blanket-amnesty-bandits-peace-reign-sheik-gumi-video/

SamuelAnyawu:
Dikwa currently under attack !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

nigeria army currently relpying the attack. we hope nigeria army should roast them like barbacue. thank for the fast inform

SamuelAnyawu:
Dikwa currently under attack !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

lol. the bastards are trying to divert the military's attention

Not only Dikwa but also Marte. Twin attacks to divert attention from the offensive. Some air assets should be on standby to prevent any surprises.

https://humangle.ng/borno-nigerian-military-repelling-iswap-twin-attack/

Samuel anyawu, Please what's the current status