Odunayaw:
As someone who has stayed in Niger state for the past 4 years, I just can't believe this governor. Person wey be governor of Niger but lives in Abuja and uses helo to come in once a week and run away too?

NafeesaAA:
I watched a video where the locals were hailing and clapping for Gunmen as they raided Area Command of the Police in Ehime Mbano,Imo State & killed scores of Policemen. Many are enjoying what is happening over there.

Odunayaw:
We become magnet for global jihad then. If we can't handle these local beasts, we sure as hell have a fight on our hands when the US shows up. And when push comes to shove, the Congress will start bawling and the US will cut and run.

Our dead body don get one wahala...make e no double abeg

NafeesaAA:
I watched a video where the locals were hailing and clapping for Gunmen as they raided Area Command of the Police in Ehime Mbano,Imo State & killed scores of Policemen. Many are enjoying what is happening over there.

iboboyswag:


As much as the happenings in the South East are regrettable, pinning the blame on the military is not only malicious but also suspect.

What do you say of the idiots who have chosen to set there own house on fire?

War and strife is sweet in Commando movies until starvation and unrest hits. Or do you think it is the military that would suffer?

As much as I support the agitation of Biafra, but my brother, not in the manner MNK has preached it (in fact to me he does not represent the soul of the great movement). And again, what is to say are the gains of Biafra that cannot be the gains of the South East in the current construct?

I have written a lot about this on my old Facebook account since the days of Soludo as CBN Governor and what we have obtainable then still is today. As a bloc, we the South Eastern have refused to ask the right question, subscribing rather to blame game, herd mentality and outright blackmail.

Litmus:


My grandparents did same when Nigerian soldiers entered a village in the East where they where in refuge during the last days of the Nigeria civil war. The effective Biafra propaganda machine had long since convinced everyone in the East of the dire consequences of Nigeria soldiers’ occupancy of Igbo towns and villages. Naturally as Nigerian troops rolled in, my grandmum and all the villagers considered themselves finished and yet they cheered and waved raffia, wrappers, even small children, anything they could, they waved in celebration. They did this in terror, to placate the soldiers and to give the impression that they are on the side of forces occupying the area. You’ll find this behaivoyur in all conflict zone, it is a universal response.

mekussa:
Truth is.... In terms of assets and the ABILITY to procure them, Nigeria doesn't need the US troops in large numbers on the ground here because we have what it takes to defeat ISWAP (after all na our equipment dem dey use attack us meaning say we get enough).

Comm equipment, protected vehicles etc...we can handle it ourselves.

Like has been suggested earlier, the will to fight,leadership, proper coordination and strategy is where we are lacking. Can the foreigners give us all these? Not 100%! Unless we are going to outsource the war to foreign armies.

Me thinks most of the issues hindering this war can be solved IN-HOUSE without foreign intervention(maybe apart from strategy.we can pick the brains of these armies and use the ideas generated to evolve a better fighting doctrine or tactic).

The steps the military command need to do is first of all have the WILL to truthfully acknowledge that there are problems with the way the war is going(propaganda has its limits), then truthfully identify the problems. Developing a proper doctrine or tactic resulting from the information we get from these first two steps and properly implementing them as well as doing proper and routine MONITORING, EVALUATION AND MODIFICATION of these tactics will really help us (as long as we developed the right tactics in the first place.

There are a lot of truths that need to be said by both the officers and men involved in this fight and behind those truths lie a lot of our solutions.

kabe1:
ISWAP has captured newly delivered Nigerian army MRAP.

This is beyond embarrassing.

I feel very, very ashamed!!!

Hoverbird:

When one give a contrary perspective to government position automatically one is seen as a sympathiser of Kanu or IPOB. I have always condemned his utterances, neither have I supported his quest for Biafra am not even from the South east. What IPOB is today is because of the highhandedness of PMB and the military in the first place before they took up arms they were shot point blank, this same army used acids on many of them just for waving flags, we warned that this will only harden them, we should learn to offer political solutions rather than the military options to certain issues. Now they've taken up arms if you ask them they will say the army kills them without holding any arms that it is better for them to die fighting with weapons as they have nothing to lose. We are now stuck in a bubble, same way Bokoharam started and we refused to learn.

DubaiLandLord:
A lot of people are dying almost daily in the North West geopolitical region of Nigeria. People are been killed there by bandits and Fulani heardsmen. Most of it are not even reported.

When you go to a country like Benin republic, you will be shock with how peaceful the country is. Even if you want to start searching for news of gunmen killings, you might not get one in weeks.

In Benin republic, once they get hold of this fulani heardsmen, they do kill them immediately. Fulanis and bandits hardly try all this bullshit they try in that country.

Odunayaw:
Acids?

ugo4u:

In the first place it is the search of a strong man that Nigeria got itself into this level of mess. Suspend the constitution and watch the nation disintegrate. Sri-Lanka it's not as ethnically and religiously diverse as Nigeria, what worked there most likely won't work here. We should come up with a homegrown national defense policy that is peculiar to our clime, build and strengthen our Institution, so that they can function properly, then the 1999 constitution which was hurriedly drafted by a few khaki boys should be revisited and tweaked to reflect our realities, it should be truly a constitution based on "We the people".


The President lacks the political will and to a great extent the competence to address some of the security issues we are facing it has nothing to do with old age, the prime minister of Malaysia is almost 93 and he showing leadership, same for Biden 78 & Nana Akufo 77.

NafeesaAA:
I watched a video where the locals were hailing and clapping for Gunmen as they raided Area Command of the Police in Ehime Mbano,Imo State & killed scores of Policemen. Many are enjoying what is happening over there.

jpphilips:


Size is the only thing your analysis left out, Benin republic is the size of Kano state alone.

Hoverbird:

I swear to God the Nigerian military used acid to dissolve the corpses of IPOB guys they killed in 2017 what was is more shocking is that some where bathed with acid while still alive. I worked for an NGO that documented all this and we even visited some of the victims at Nkpor, ABA area.
What we are seeing today is largely caused by their actions most of this boys are unemployed and Kanu has presented himself as a Messiah, leadership in the east is absent and nature abhors vacuum. People we met with grievous body injuries inflicted by the military were on their hospital bed still shouting Biafra or death, that was the time I knew we are in a very grave danger of entering into another ideology inflamed insurgency if not properly managed and with what I saw if those guys have something doing, many of them wouldn't have been radicalised to a point of no return.

DubaiLandLord:
Niger State youth leader has said that the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), must do something, to stop the insecurity going on in the State.

https://punchng.com/video-insecurity-buhari-must-do-something-or-else-we-will-take-the-law-into-our-hands-niger-youth-leader/



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_D5eEbaLVxw

Is your right to defend yourself. With the right connection the Niger state government can import assault rifles and arm youths in different communities.

NafeesaAA:
. Many are enjoying what is happening over there.

DubaiLandLord:
Wetin dey funny pass be say, when Fulanis herdsmen dey attack your community, soldiers and policemen no go show up, till this guys are through and they leave the community after killing people, abducting people and burning down properties.

Once the community arm themselves and start facing the fulanis, then soldiers or policemen go com your community say make una drop una weapons... Nah mad things dey happen for this country. The vegetable wants his people to keep on killing us and expect us not to defend ourselves. What a useless Government.

Hoverbird:

I swear to God the Nigerian military used acid to dissolve the corpses of IPOB guys they killed in 2017 what was is more shocking is that some where bathed with acid while still alive. I worked for an NGO that documented all this and we even visited some of the victims at Nkpor, ABA area.
What we are seeing today is largely caused by their actions most of this boys are unemployed and Kanu has presented himself as a Messiah, leadership in the east is absent and nature abhors vacuum. People we met with grievous body injuries inflicted by the military were on their hospital bed still shouting Biafra or death, that was the time I knew we are in a very grave danger of entering into another ideology inflamed insurgency if not properly managed and with what I saw if those guys have something doing, many of them wouldn't have been radicalised to a point of no return.

ugo4u:
I'm not one of those that just throw big words to massage our ego that Nigeria is the giant of Africa, a giant that can't influence what happens in neighbouring countries. That being said, if Buhari is begging AFRICOM to move it's HQ to Nigeria I don't see anything bad it in, we stand alot to gain ranging from military infrastructures including hardwares/softwares, shared intelligence, training, joint ops etc the advantages supercedes the disadvantages, but the reality is that the US don't give a toss about Nigeria and Africa in general. What we see as a kind of interventions in some countries including our neighbors by the US is strictly a proxy game with China, the US are worried about the growing influence of the Chinese in the continent. It will be far easier to get the Chinese military to offer support than the US, why we're not even exploring that option is what I don't still understand. If I'm at the helms of affairs I'll seek for all the help I can get, I won't mind inviting the Chinese to come establish a world class military drone base fully funded by them in the northeast similar to what the US built in Djibouti from where they can jointly operate 24/7 with our security agencies, while also building a defence industry.
As for the DSS their problem lies in the ACT that established them as a department of the presidency, they were created I think by IBB solely primarily for regime protection that's why they're more interested in who insults the president or members of the ruling class than state protection, again this is one of the reasons we have to bin the 1999 constitution and come up with a workable document.

Faithful007:
The Chinese military are more interested in power projection than Terrorism control. As for China controlling Nigeria, they're still a long way to go. The US still controls most of our fossil fuel industry.

Why do you say the US doesn't give a damn about Nigeria? You know they our biggest economic partner right? Which other country gives foreign aid as much as the US to Nigeria?

Odunayaw:
The lack of cohesion and fighting skills of the regular infantry doesn't in anyway dismiss the fact NA has comms issues.

Furthermore, what do you mean "SF are actually not SF". What " normal army unit" takes the fight in small numbers against a superior numbered enemy, does recon etc etc?

jpphilips:


Nigeria is not a strategic economic partner to the US because they give us loans alone, China gives us loans too.
Nigeria & her OPEC allies crude oil output could determine global prices like the US presently does.

If oil goes UP, US & China spend more that weakens the greenback & vice versa, that's the strategic economic partnership they always talk about.

NafeesaAA:
I watched a video where the locals were hailing and clapping for Gunmen as they raided Area Command of the Police in Ehime Mbano,Imo State & killed scores of Policemen. Many are enjoying what is happening over there.

Faithful007:
Acids? Just imagine how condescending humans can be.

Nigeria's problem is gravely complex.

Hoverbird:

When one give a contrary perspective to government position automatically one is seen as a sympathiser of Kanu or IPOB. I have always condemned his utterances, neither have I supported his quest for Biafra am not even from the South east. What IPOB is today is because of the highhandedness of PMB and the military in the first place before they took up arms they were shot point blank, this same army used acids on many of them just for waving flags, we warned that this will only harden them, we should learn to offer political solutions rather than the military options to certain issues. Now they've taken up arms if you ask them they will say the army kills them without holding any arms that it is better for them to die fighting with weapons as they have nothing to lose. We are now stuck in a bubble, same way Bokoharam started and we refused to learn.

Geronimoe:



You mean to tell me what we call SF take the war to the enemy in small numbers? And doing that makes them SF? Lol. Give me an idea of your "small numbers please",I might understand you better. Oga we don't have any comms problems cos I've seen many on vids/pix go out on operations with comms. The Mainok issue that people were talking about lack of comms, how were they able to request for additional forces? How did they request for NAF CAS, and how did they know the requested additional forces were on the way coming, how did they know there was blue on blue and they had to withdraw. Did they use smoke/drum signal or sent the fastest one's amongst them?

ugo4u:

The human mind has the capacity to wreck unimaginable evil. Saro Wiwas body was dissolved with acid after he was executed and mind you Abacha was his very good friend before they fell apart.