DubaiLandLord1:
In a live video shared by BBC on its page, it can be seen that British War Ship HMS Trent - Navy Patrol Ship landed in Lagos port.

The HMS Trent which has been on patrol for over six months is scheduled to visit the gulf of guinea Which includes Ghana, Senegal, Cape Verde, Nigeria.

Parts of the crew's core mission is to train and teach the countries in the gulf of guinea how to counter security issues such as insurgency, privacy and so on

The video below gives detailed information

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

The British navy teaching us insurgency, wonder shall never end.
Even anti piracy operations, the British Navy doesn't have such a wide gap of experience over us, except in the employment of boarding parties..I e SBS..
This is better termed a training exercise for both parties to learn from each other

An interesting read.
https://www.rt.com/russia/538443-russian-destroyer-pirates-africa/

JOSCOFELIX:
Delegation from the Russian navy was with the chief of navy staff early last week. Much is not know about the visit. But early this year CNS was with Russia navy

Nigeria may want to buy Kilo II Class submarine or midget submarines

RiceProducers:

Nigeria may want to buy Kilo II Class submarine or midget submarines

To achieve what exactly?

SamuelAnyawu:


Are you aware the Military are rumored raking in millions of Naira from Baga?

Did you know why Zulum got so angry and pushed Baga people back, even when he refused pushing people back to Kukawa main town?

Did you know the first day locals moved to Baga and ambush started, till date peeps here say it was military that intentionally did that so that locals won’t return?

Make I no too cap plenty shaaa. Anyone Oga in Baga will be 10times richer than his compatriots in other locations.

We know Wetin Dey sup for that side. Money Dey fish pass rice

Lips Sealed

You have spoken with knowledge... Yes corruption is the main ideology on which our anti insurgency effort is frustrated.

RobotFather:
To achieve what exactly?

To patrol its EEZ and coastal waters exactly. It actually reduces operating cost of surface vessels when you have UAVs

fighting between nigeria army and iswap. may God give nigeria army victory

JOSCOFELIX:
fighting between nigeria army and iswap. may God give nigeria army victory

Location bro?

RobotFather:
So when you see pirate boats you use your submarine to go and jam dem eh? Come to think of it, I think that will actually work. Good one bro.

Never heard of capacity and capability? Even if we don't have a seawolf , Virginia or kilo class sub. Even if it is only a midget sub,you need it to develop your capacity and capability in underwater warfare,hence future naval doctrines for our part of the world and beyond.You don't just jump into a submarine and hence, become a submariner.

cutievik:


Location bro?

koduga

JOSCOFELIX:
koduga

They have always had their asses kicked over there, today wouldnt be different.

RiceProducers:

Nigeria may want to buy Kilo II Class submarine or midget submarines

I don't think it is submarine I am suspecting it will between frigate, convettte or special forces training. Because early this year CNS was in russia, he was the only armed force cheif present when the military was sign technical operation and now they are visiting him. Let us watch

cutievik:

They have always had their asses kicked over there, today wouldnt be different.

they were trying to enter and buy when the military detect them and engage. They refused to return fire and started running . It is all calm now. Super camp 7 should watch out all the FOB under super camp 7 should watch. They take that base as their enemy . They have being well condonation between NA fighting patrol and checkpoint . If one check point or formation is attack . Fighting patrol will move as fast and reinforce that base

RobotFather:
So when you see pirate boats you use your submarine to go and jam dem eh? Come to think of it, I think that will actually work. Good one bro.

Pirate boats are not an issue any longer with Deep Blue. If you don't understand Nigeria's strategic maritime security threat assessments, why don't you just shut up.

lol. you people and your temper

JOSCOFELIX:
koduga

Which part of Konduga? That’s one Big LGA in Borno it’s covers all around Maiduguri city.

SamuelAnyawu:


Which part of Konduga? That’s one Big LGA in Borno it’s covers all around Maiduguri city.

jakena

DubaiLandLord3:
Homosexuality should be legalized in Nigeria so that people like us fit dey free. I know say zombies and wailers no go like this yarn
E no consign me if una get HBP sha

No matter what you do DubaiLandLord dey here gidigbam. Na we full ground

. Omo I wonder how big and expanded your anus is? Can we compare it to the size of water melon?

^^^
Sickening post.

Bandits operating in several parts of Sokoto State have imposed levies on the locals to pay before next Friday or risk attack, Daily Trust can authoritatively report.

A resident of the area revealed that locals are also barred from their farms by the bandits pending payment of the prescribed levies.

Daily Trust reliably gathered that some of the communities had settled the bandits while others were working hard to raise the money.

It was gathered that the bandits considered the population of each community in determining the amounts they would pay.


“Some are asked to pay N400,000, some N700,000 while some even pay less than that and is left for the community to decide how the money will be raised.

“In some communities, heads of households are asked to pay N12,000 each and young men that are not married pay N1,000 each,” another source said.

Findings revealed that Attalawa, Danmaliki, Adamawa, Dukkuma, Sardauna and Dangari villages were asked to pay N400,000 each.

However, residents of Kwatsal village billed N4million were said to have already paid N2million out of the money to the bandits.

“All the villages were given up to Friday to pay the money or risk attack. People are paying because they have no other option,” one of the sources added.

A member representing Sabon Birni North Constituency, Aminu Almustapha Gobir, who confirmed the development, said there had been no attack in Sabon Birni in recent times because the locals were complying with the directive of the bandits.

“The people prefer to pay and live in peace in their communities than to rely on security agencies or go on exile,” he said.

“We have different groups of bandits in the area,but if you pay a levy to this group how sure are you the other group will not attack you?”

“The same scenario unfolded in Gatawa and Tarah, which were attacked and several of their people abducted by different groups of bandits. Their relatives had to pay ransom to those different groups before their release.

“This is what will continue to happen, if one group places a levy on you and you pay, another group will come to either attack you or demand for levy again and you must pay them or face the consequences,” he said.

Several calls placed to the spokesman for the police in Sokoto, ASP Sanusi Abubakar, and the Commissioner for Security and Carriers Matters, Colonel Garba Moyi (retd), were not answered.

They also did not respond to text messages sent to them.

https://dailytrust.com/bandits-impose-levies-on-sokoto-communities-issue-ultimatum-for-payment

GeneralFarouq:

The British navy teaching us insurgency, wonder shall never end.
Even anti piracy operations, the British Navy doesn't have such a wide gap of experience over us, except in the employment of boarding parties..I e SBS..
[b]This is better termed a training exercise for both parties to learn from each other/b]

Agree without reservation

DubaiLandLord1:
Bandits operating in several parts of Sokoto State have imposed levies on the locals to pay before next Friday or risk attack, Daily Trust can authoritatively report.

A resident of the area revealed that locals are also barred from their farms by the bandits pending payment of the prescribed levies.

Daily Trust reliably gathered that some of the communities had settled the bandits while others were working hard to raise the money.

It was gathered that the bandits considered the population of each community in determining the amounts they would pay.


“Some are asked to pay N400,000, some N700,000 while some even pay less than that and is left for the community to decide how the money will be raised.

“In some communities, heads of households are asked to pay N12,000 each and young men that are not married pay N1,000 each,” another source said.

Findings revealed that Attalawa, Danmaliki, Adamawa, Dukkuma, Sardauna and Dangari villages were asked to pay N400,000 each.

However, residents of Kwatsal village billed N4million were said to have already paid N2million out of the money to the bandits.

“All the villages were given up to Friday to pay the money or risk attack. People are paying because they have no other option,” one of the sources added.

A member representing Sabon Birni North Constituency, Aminu Almustapha Gobir, who confirmed the development, said there had been no attack in Sabon Birni in recent times because the locals were complying with the directive of the bandits.

“The people prefer to pay and live in peace in their communities than to rely on security agencies or go on exile,” he said.

“We have different groups of bandits in the area,but if you pay a levy to this group how sure are you the other group will not attack you?”

“The same scenario unfolded in Gatawa and Tarah, which were attacked and several of their people abducted by different groups of bandits. Their relatives had to pay ransom to those different groups before their release.

“This is what will continue to happen, if one group places a levy on you and you pay, another group will come to either attack you or demand for levy again and you must pay them or face the consequences,” he said.

Several calls placed to the spokesman for the police in Sokoto, ASP Sanusi Abubakar, and the Commissioner for Security and Carriers Matters, Colonel Garba Moyi (retd), were not answered.

They also did not respond to text messages sent to them.

https://dailytrust.com/bandits-impose-levies-on-sokoto-communities-issue-ultimatum-for-payment

How sure are they that the same bandits won't demand for money again next month? Then other bandit groups will start demanding too every month. Many of these communities are very remote without any government presence, it will take years if government wants to go the normal route, many of them will be willing to fight the bandits if given arms, organize them into vigilante groups so that they can at least have something to defend themselves with. We will deal with the consequences of that later but for every day the government waits, the bandits get stronger. Many of them are already taking in several millions each month that is mostly spent on more weapons. Slow their growth and limit their movements with vigilantes to start with.
Call them JTF or whatever you like, have military officers heading them for oversight and so on, whichever way, many southern states are already doing this. Was traveling at night on Saturday and I was amazed at how conscious security wise some states in the SW are, they are not where they aught to be yet but they've made positive steps. The men of the NPF we saw were only concerned about their pockets yet at the point we met JTF personells(vigilantes) they were very professional.

DubaiLandLord1:
Bandits operating in several parts of Sokoto State have imposed levies on the locals to pay before next Friday or risk attack, Daily Trust can authoritatively report.


https://dailytrust.com/bandits-impose-levies-on-sokoto-communities-issue-ultimatum-for-payment

It seems the NAF is not bombing civilians in Sokoto yet because Bandits are not a terrorist group.

When they are proscribe as a terrorist group, any farmer in Sokoto will be treated as a terrorist.

Is either you don't go to your farm in and you become broke and starve to death. Or you will go to another community to start all over againm

DubaiLandLord1:
It seems the NAF is not bombing civilians in Sokoto yet because Bandits are not a terrorist group.

When they are proscribe as a terrorist group, any farmer in Sokoto will be treated as a terrorist.

Is either you don't go to your farm in and you become broke and starve to death. Or you will go to another community to start all over againm

The situation in lake Chad is an entirely different story, with many fishermen working for ISWAP to generate income for the group.
If bandits start farming to generate income too, the military will be expected to destroy the farms.

I am not surprised that Nigerian Army’s spokesman Brigadier General Onyema Nwachukwu came out with [oral] guns blazing at The Economist of London, which last week published an uncomplimentary editorial on Nigeria’s government and its army. It called Nigeria “A crime scene in the centre of Africa.” Which I think is okay because Britain itself is a historic crime scene in the centre of the world, of slavery, colonial exploitation, unprovoked warfare, economic undermining of nations and subtle instigation of conflicts dressed up as fine diplomacy.

The magazine said Nigerian Army “is mighty on paper” because it has not been able to end Boko Haram insurgency in ten years or, more recently, to defeat bandits and kidnappers. Well, if that is the yardstick for determining a mighty army on paper, I think The Economist should more appropriately direct that label at the US Army.

Nigeria’s military has been battling Boko Haram for only 12 years now, with a relatively meagre budget because the national treasury is beset by other problems. In contrast, the US military spent 20 years and $6 trillion battling the Taliban in Afghanistan. What was the result? Taliban is back in power in the country even as the Americans escaped with their tails behind their backs.

The British Army wasn’t any better in that respect. In twenty years until 1992, it proved wholly unable to defeat the Provisional Irish Republican Army [IRA], the “Provos” as they were called then, or even to end what the Irish called “The Troubles” in their province. It took the signing of the Good Friday Accord in 1992 to end the British Army’s agony. Now, the British Army is several hundred years older than, its armoury a hundred times more lethal and its annual budget is several times bigger than Nigerian Army’s. In addition, IRA were lightly-armed thugs compared to Boko Haram. So which of the two armies is mightier on paper, if truth be told?

All conventional armies in this world have difficulty fighting asymmetric warfare, essentially because they are not trained for it. Guerillas also have many advantages, including lack of scrutiny of their actions by human rights organisations. The Economist said many of our soldiers are “ghosts” who exist only on the payroll.

This allegation has routinely been made with respect to some Local Government Councils and some MDAs in Nigeria. This is however the first time that anyone is making this allegation against the Army, whose troops are always seen at the numerous battle fronts fighting insurgents, bandits, militants, secessionists and other criminals. Almost everyone in Nigeria can see that the number of our troops is inadequate for our current needs, but no one ever said the number is adequate on the payroll.

The Economist also made the strange allegation that “much of [Nigerian Army’s] equipment is stolen and sold to insurgents.” It should please cross-check with MI6, the British intelligence service. Much of Boko Haram’s weapons came from Muammar Gaddafi’s arsenal, which NATO countries bombed despite pleas from the African Union [AU] to desist. What about the weapons that have destabilized other Sahelian African countries all the way from Mali to Burkina Faso to Niger Republic to Darfur, South Sudan and Somalia? Were they all sold to insurgents by rogue Nigerian soldiers?

What is true is that in the earlier phase of this conflict, Boko Haram overrun many army posts and seized their weapons, a happening which ended with the consolidation of army posts into super camps. That is not the same thing as “selling” weapons to insurgents. In any case, you Western guys withheld from us much needed equipment and material needed to end this war based on allegations that our troops abused human rights of captured insurgents.

That was another hypocrisy. Were weapons denied to the US Army in Vietnam because of the My Lai massacre, when soldiers from Company C, 1st Battalion, 20th Infantry Regiment and Company B, 4th Battalion, 3rd Infantry Regiment, 11th Brigade, 23rd Infantry Division of the US Army massacred 504 unarmed South Vietnamese civilians in March 1968? More recently, were they denied weapons because of the Abu Ghraib prisoner abuse scandal in Iraq?

Nigerian Army needs assistance from friendly countries to finish off insurgents and bandits. Sniping from the sidelines with false allegations, such as The Economist did, will only prolong everyone’s agony.

Quick Intervention in 21st Century Chronicle.

Mahmud Jega writes from Abuja

Mahmud Jega was kind to the British.

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No fewer than six persons were confirmed killed and houses razed in a sustained and coordinated attack by gunmen, in the early hours of Monday, in Bagana village, Omala Local Government Area of Kogi State.

DAILY POST recalls that a similar attack occurred barely a month ago leading to the death of about nine persons and property worth millions of naira destroyed.

The attack it was gathered forced hundreds of inhabitants to seek refuge in neighbouring communities.


In the latest incident, DAILY POST gathered that the attackers went straight to the House of one Chief Salifu Anyebe and set it ablaze.

The attackers also shot three persons, including one Madam Achebe Alih, popularly known as Mama Teacher to death.

It was further gathered that Chief Salifu Anyebe is one of traditional rulers, whose stool was upgraded to third class a forth night ago by the present administration.

The early morning raid made the villagers, who were just returning to the village after a similar attack, to scamper for safety in the bushes.

It was gathered that, the attackers, linked to a clan opposed to his ascendancy, had planned to attack him during the proposed ceremony for the new title.

However, our correspondent reliably gathered that the information of the attack leaked to him, forcing the abrupt suspension of the ceremony, but the attackers burnt down his palace, his car and other valuables belonging to the chief and close families that lived in a cluster with him.

Our correspondent equally gathered that immediately the attackers left, some militias from nearby communities were allegedly mobilized, armed with sophisticated weapons and they started razing down houses belonging to the suspected opposing clans.

The reprisal led to the burning down of the palace of the Oga Onu Ife, a paramount ruler and the District Head of Bagana, Chief Alih Haruna. Other houses belonging to some notable inhabitants were also torched.

According to the locals, a house belonging to the Councillor representing the District, Hon. Alidu Usman Idakwo and those of other tribes were not spared.

A local, who could not hold back tears over the wanton destruction of lives and property, lamented the nonchalant attitude of the government.

He added that since 2013, no fewer than 300 persons have lost their lives and property worth millions of naira destroyed.

While speaking with our Correspondent, the Special Adviser on Security to the Omala Local Government Area, Hon. Steve Shaibu confirmed the death of six persons, while one person was critically injured and has been evacuated to undisclosed health facility in a nearby village.

The Special Adviser gave the names of the deceased as Suleiman Baba, Yusuf Lere, Mrs Achebe Alih, others are Abubakar Salifu, Danlami Yahaya and Ugbede Attah on admission.

However, the leader of Indigenous People of Bagana, Alhaji Umar Bagana lamented the recurring orgy of killings and destruction of properties, since 2014, and blamed the violence on the clanish jingoists contending for the soul of the town.

He called on Governor Yahaya Bello to enforce his directives on the Chiefs to relocate to their respective domain as a measure to tame the tide of violence being unleashed on the community.

Meanwhile, the Commissioner of Police, Idrisu Dauda Dabban in company of the Chairman of Omala Local Government Hon. Ibrahim Aboh had on Tuesday visited the area.

The Police Commissioner urged the people to return home, assuring that they had commenced discreet investigation to bring the perpetrators to book.


https://dailypost.ng/2021/10/27/again-gunmen-kill-six-raze-houses-in-kogi-community/

I know people from our establishments are here.

Please, can we adopt this model of procurement and reduce the cost of arms.

This will also reduce unemployment while simplifying and modernising our assault weapon stocks

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indo-Russia_Rifles?wprov=sfla1

Hard