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General Irabor takes over as Operation Lafiya Dole Commande


The Theater Commander of Operation Lafiya Dole, North East, Major General Hassan Umaru has handed over the mantle of leadership of the command to Major General Lucky E. Irabor who was his Deputy Commander.

During the handing over and taking over ceremony at Maimalari Cantonment in Maiduguri, General Umaru said that his transfer to the Nigerian Army Headquarters was to take over as the Chief of Training and Operations after the demise of Major General Yushau Abubakar Mahmood who died recently in a road accident along Maiduguri-Damaturu road while on an official assignment.

While taking over, the new Theatre Commander, Major General Lucky Irabor said he would sustain the military operations against terrorists in order to ensure stability in the North-Eastern Nigeria.

Please Oga bidexii, do you have the original image of this picturewww.nairaland.com/attachments/3506681_photolab20160318081548_jpeg43fd64e4c05827d93980bd108be94e3d . I dont want the watermarked

Vikkie14:
Please Oga bidexii, do you have the original image of this picturewww.nairaland.com/attachments/3506681_photolab20160318081548_jpeg43fd64e4c05827d93980bd108be94e3d . I dont want the watermarked

Yeap........why.......?

bidexiii:


Yeap........why.......?

need it. Just post it. Collating inspirational and "pictures that touch" of our forces. I like this one too. If we dont up the ante of our forces, who will?
OUR FORCES
OUR OWN.

CAMEROON SOLDIERS KILL 20 BOKO HARAM FIGHTERS IN NIGERIA



YAOUNDE – Cameroonian soldiers killed 20 Boko Haram fighters on Wednesday during a raid in northern Nigeria carried out by a multinational force tasked with stamping out the Islamist militants, military sources told Reuters on Thursday.

Cameroon commander General Jacob Kodji said the Islamist fighters were killed in the Nigerian town of Djibrila, which is about 10 km from the Cameroon border.

A spokesman for Cameroon’s Defence Ministry, Colonel Didier Badjeck, said 12 hostages were freed and munitions and armoured vehicles were seized during the operation.

Boko Haram wants to establish an Islamist state in northeastern Nigeria and has waged a six-year campaign of violence to that end, killing thousands of people and displacing two million others.

Boko Haram is thought to have killed around 15,000 people, according to US military figures.

Attacks have spilled over Nigeria’s border into neighbouring countries including Cameroon, which has been the target of a stream of suicide bombings in recent months.

Along with Chad, Niger, Nigeria and Benin, Cameroon has contributed troops to an 8,700-strong regional task force dedicated to fighting the group

Vikkie14:
need it. Just post it. Collating inspirational and "pictures that touch" of our forces. I like this one too. If we dont up the ante of our forces, who will?
OUR FORCES
OUR OWN.

.....okay.......

bidexiii:

Fixing a broken tire of a mowag APC during dusk patrol inside Sambisa ...............

u seem to have quite a collection of pics

harassing BH during the day by air force and then assaulting them during dusk and dawn will always lead to more dividends.
moreover I believe days are very hot so equipment /electronics failure more , nothing to say of the crew comfort.
it seems Nigerian military are doing the same , good.

sitting inside a T72 in thar desert really had me roasting, and most of my electronics testing equipment was beeping system failure lolz

what's the highest temp during daytime in the north.

nemesis2u:


u seem to have quite a collection of pics

harassing BH during the day by air force and then assaulting them during dusk and dawn will always lead to more dividends.
moreover I believe days are very hot so equipment /electronics failure more , nothing to say of the crew comfort.
it seems Nigerian military are doing the same , good.

sitting inside a T72 in thar desert really had me roasting, and most of my electronics testing equipment was beeping system failure lolz

what's the highest temp during daytime in the north.

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Mechanical/engine devices can worn out easily at extreme temperatutes.....same happened to the United States army especially the ahbrams & Bradley tracks during the operation desert storm. The same is with sambisa here............


What's the best time to travel to Maiduguri in Nigeria? Here are some facts:
On average, the temperatures are always high.
Most rainfall (rainy season) is seen in April, May and August.
Maiduguri has dry periods in January and July.
On average, the warmest month is April.
On average, the coolest month is January.
August is the wettest month.
July is the driest month.

#RANDOM PICTURES.....

AN EGYPTIAN SA-342 GAZELLE HELICOPTER FIRES AN HOT ANTI-TANK MISSILES.

Opinion: Buratai: A General’s War Of Boots, Guns And Wits -


It is clear that the Nigerian Army under Buratai's watch have stamped their statement that the dreaded Sambisa Forest, where Chibok girls abducted by Boko Haram terrorists were held captive for months, unchallenged, was not only demystified, but also demolished.

Nigerians hardly agree or indulge themselves in collective appreciation of the performance of any public officer.  It is like a cherished culture of endless criticism, the people hate to relinquish.  It is worse when the matter at stake concerns a national issue and the personality at the epicentre of the heat delights more in verbal justification job than action.

But there appears to be a unanimous consensus on how the current Chief of Army Staff (COAS), Lt. Gen. Tukur Buratai has handled the ongoing war on Boko Haram insurgents in the North eastern part of Nigeria. The war on terror is a global phenomenon, but since terrorists took a firm, offensive grip on Nigerians, the country has known no peace, manifest in all facets of national life. It was like a puzzle that can never be solved.   But Gen. Buratai has given Nigerians hope of survival and dignity in their darkest hour, much as he has vibrated deadly labyrinths.

Until his appointment July 13, 2015, by President Muhammedu Buhari, as Nigeria’s COAS, Gen. Buratai was the Commander of the Multinational Joint Task Force, headquartered in the Republic of Chad. He succeeded Gen. Kenneth Tobias Jacob  Minimah as COAS, whose reign diminished the once proud army which regaled in excellence on foreign assignments, anywhere in the world. Under Minimah, Nigerian soldiers were re-classified and derogatively described as worse than ragtag militias, evident in troop’s sheepish retreat in the middle of battle.  Boko Haram militants held the country on its jugular, recklessly killing, abducting, conquering and annexing territories of Nigeria with their insignia boldly mounted.
Credentials of the Borno-born Army General are replete with trappings of excellence anywhere he has served the country before now. As Commander 2 Brigade covering other parts of the Niger Delta region, where he doubled as the Sector Commander Joint Task Force Operation Pulo Shield,  Buratai brought  respite to Nigerians in the restive Niger Delta region by significantly curtailing  oil theft, piracy, kidnapping and armed robbery through relentless security surveillance and operations.

But what appears to have shot him to limelight is his new job as COAS. Many attest that upon his appointment as the Army’s helmsman, Buratai deemed it a personal mission to rescue his people. But when he vowed to confront the insurgent’s headlong; the terrorists mistook his outbursts as the same empty bragging of his predecessors.
Administering their usual baptism of fire on whoever dares them, the insurgents immediately unleashed an attack on his home town   in Biu LGA  of Borno, killing and destroying houses. While the action of the Islamic sect members was meant to permanently silence Gen. Buratai, it surprisingly rather emboldened him.
And with President Muhammadu Buhari’s relocation of the military command structure to the epicenter of the Boko Haram war, Buratai perceived it a rare opportunity to again excel in his military career.

Son of Alhaji Yusuf Buratai, a World War II veteran, the COAS reminisced his father’s admonishments to him at a tender age, when opted for the military. He remembered that his father, now aged told him to strive to excel and always be loyal to his superiors and constituted authority and to distance himself from any form of vice. So, he considered failing Nigeria in the insurgency war as failing his own biological father.

Therefore, having climbed the ladder in his military career to get to the peak, Gen. Buratai dammed the coziness of his office in Abuja, laced his boots, cocked his guns and personally led troops to the battle field. It was a marked departure from the disposition of COAS before his arrival on the scene.
To demonstrate that he is an Army General with proper grasp and briefs of his new assignment, Buratai restructured the Nigerian Army hierarchy by deploying his subordinates to superintend on new commands stations or areas. He set out to task with a singular mission; firstly,   to boost the very low morale of troops, which hitherto made them dread war and by extension, to also extract a commitment from soldiers that insurgency is a war that must be won in record time, to enable soldiers get back to their regular duties.

Thereafter,  Buratai frequently toured the zone embattled by insurgency war, even to dreaded Boko Haram controlled zones.  It was on one of such mission that his convoy was ambushed while travelling to Maiduguri-Gamboru-Ngala. No senior officer of his ranking or portfolio had rendered himself to be caught in the crossfire of insurgents in the past. But Buratai braved the odds and did not only deflate the potency of the terrorists who attacked his convoy, but also arrested some of them who later made useful confessions.

It is clear that the Nigerian Army under Buratai's watch have stamped their statement that the  dreaded Sambisa Forest, where Chibok girls abducted by Boko Haram terrorists were held captive for months, unchallenged, was not only demystified, but also demolished. He proceeded to belittle the once fortified haven of the insurgents by establishing a military presence   in Sambisa Forest.

Explaining his tactics, Buratai said, having studied the insurgency war in the North East, he decided to adopt the same guerrilla approach used by the terrorists by introducing motorbike battalion to move swiftly against terrorists anytime. No innovation, that simple with such positive impact that cannot attract world acclaim in the comity of Army Generals anywhere in the world.
He simply explained it as,   “We are using the same guerrilla strategy adopted by the terrorists. We are giving them back their own strategy. We have motorbike battalion which has added more capacity as well as the ability to move quickly to wherever the terrorists are.”

Also, Buratai’s foot soldiers were constantly assured by the Army Chief himself, whether in the rain and in cold, about their welfare. He availed himself at their doorstep to personally respond to the issues confronting them to give them a psychological impetus to face the insurgency battle and come out victorious.  Soldiers no longer complained of owed allowances, delayed salaries or pushed to battle front, on empty stomach and without ammunitions.

While addressing troops of the 112 battalion at Mafa,  Buratai touched on their patriotism and emotions as Nigerians reminding of their sacred duty to the country thus;  “We all know we have a task to clear this general area of these criminal elements once and for all so that we all can go back to our normal soldiering business. It is the commitment of the President, government, the leadership of the military, the troops and the support of Nigerians that brought the successes. We have intensified efforts to enable the military get to the insurgents before they cause any havoc or even run away from their hideouts…the most important thing is to prevent them from having the capacity to launch attacks on innocent individuals and on our troops` locations.”

In effect, when Nigerians now witness isolated incidents of Boko Haram attacks in towns and villages of the troubled North East, the world is now convinced that the remnants of terrorists who have been chased out of the forests, alienated in towns and caged in their hideouts, who are still venting their last spleen, which would soon extinguish. Confessions from some arrested terrorists now indicate that they are tired of the “business”, as against the haughty posture of some of their arrested colleagues in the past.
Buratai assures, “Terrorism is a global phenomenon. It may seem unending, but I want to assure you that here in Nigeria, we are working hard to ensure that the Boko Haram terrorists are completely eliminated. We still have some remnants of them, but we are closing up and clearing them by the day.”

Therefore,  when Nigerians generally, including hardcore critics like the Comrade Governor, Adams Oshiomhole   and his Oyo state counterpart,Governor Abiola Ajimobi  applaud Buratai, it’s not unexpected and about the least laurel still awaiting  this General of the people.
Oshiomhole sums it all, “We in Edo State appreciate the leadership that you are providing for the Nigerian Armed Forces and the Nigerian Army in particular. We watch you on television and we see a very senior officer going to meet his officers and men right in the battle field, sharing the dust, the sun and all the deprivations, the sort of thing you sometime see in foreign countries. I think that you are leading by example in every sense of the word.”
So, with Buratai on stage, the Nigerian Army is back from a long “sabbatical” leave, hitting and biting. There is now hope that Nigerian Army would once again regain its pride and status in the community of the military world-wide.

#BERYL RIFFLES.............

#NA SNIPERS........

#VICTORY...

nice photo @bidexi

stillchris:
nice photo @bidexi

Tnx mate

IMAGES FROM SOUTH AFRICA’S ARMED FORCE'S DAY 2016 CAPABILITY DEMONSTRATION...

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TROOPS AMBUSH BOKO HARAM SUICIDE BOMBER


Troops of 25 Task Force Brigade ambushed and killed a Boko Haram terrorist suicide bomber at Kumala and Musafanari villages general area last night effectively saving lives and properties of innocent citizens.

The troops who on receipt of information, laid an ambush for the terrorist at suspected Boko Haram terrorists crossing point, engaged the terrorist who was obviously on suicide mission, from Sambisa general area. The bomber paid the price of his wicked activities as he was dealt with decisively.

The troops recovered a motorcycle, 12 primed Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDs) and a hand bag containing personal effects which included a hijab obviously meant for disguise and concealment of explosives for the intended nefarious act.
The morale of troops remains high as they continue to mop up all surviving terrorists.

Thank you for your kind cooperation.
Colonel Sani Kukasheka Usman
Acting Director, Army Public Relations

TROOPS AMBUSH AND KILL TERRORISTS


Troops of 7 Brigade have ambushed and killed 7 Boko Haram terrorists at Dawashi early this morning. The gallant troops that laid in wait at the terrorists suspected crossing point engaged them on sight, killed the 7 terrorists and recovered 1 Peugeot Station Wagon loaded with 2,010 litres of Premium Motor Spirit packed in 67 Jerri cans, uniforms, some materiels and Improvised Explosive making Devices (IEDs). Others items recovered include, dry cell batteries, 1 AK-47 rifle, tools and fish.
Thank you for your usual and kind cooperation.
Colonel Sani Kukasheka Usman
Acting Director, Army Public Relations

Somalia:Military jets pound Al shabaab base southern Somalia


Unidentified fighters jets struck a training camp for Al shabaab in southern Somalia, the latest in series of aerial bombardment in the region since El Adde attack in January 15, 2016.

The warplanes have bombed Sindigow village, an Al shabaab controlled rural area located between Qoqani and Afmadow towns in Lower Jubba region, causing unknown casualties.

Jubbaland state army commanders in the region, confirm  that they are figuring out the casualty numbers on Al shabaab militants as a result of the airstrike on Sindigow village.

Over the past few month, the Al Qaeda-linked Al shabaab fighters have been carrying out attacks against Jubbaland and Kenyan army bases in southern Somalia.

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It seems NAF prefer the alpha jets to F7. We hardly see or hear of F7 now a days.

TROOPS KILL BOKO HARAM KINGPIN IN DALORE


Elements of 22 Brigade Garrison carried out clearing operation at Dalore camp on Sunday in which they killed 19 Boko Haram terrorists among whom was Ameer of Dalore. The troops also captured 2 AK-47 Rifles, 1 Small Machine Gun and 1 Hand Grenade and recovered 4 pickup vehicles.

The troops also rescued 67 hostages from the terrorists. The freed hostages are undergoing screening at Internally Displaced Persons in Dikwa.

Unfortunately, during the operation the troops Mine Resistant Anti-Personnel (MRAP) vehicle ran into an Improvised Explosive Device and had a damaged tyre.

Kindly disseminate this information and attached photographs to the public through your medium.

Thank you for your usual and kind cooperation.

Colonel Sani Kukasheka Usman
Acting Director, Army Public Relations

iblawi:
It seems NAF prefer the alpha jets to F7. We hardly see or hear of F7 now a days.

The NAF basically operates the alpha and f7 and both are actively involved in the CTCION going on. one is just actively involved than the other.

The alpha jet is an advanced trainer and a light attack jet than carries 2500kg bomb and rocket pods which should be sufficient for most CTCION , that's a very good pay-load and a advantage or edge the alpha jet has over the f7. The f7 variant jet the NAF operates can only carry bombs which really limit it's role in CTCION.

Air Force jets attack terrorists’ logistics base in Yobe


This was disclosed via a statement released on Monday, March 21, 2016, by NAF spokesman, Group Captain Ayodele Famuyiwa.

The Nigerian Air Force (NAF) has said that its fighter jets have launched an attack on a Boko Haram logistics base in Allagarno, Yobe State.
This was disclosed via a statement released on Monday, March 21, 2016, by NAF spokesman, Group Captain Ayodele Famuyiwa.
It reads in part:
“This effort is likely to create certain logistics constraints for the terrorists along the Allagarno axis.”
“This is a follow-up to other interdiction missions previously carried out in Sambisa Forest, Kumshe, Iza and other suspected terrorists’ hide-outs.”
“So far, the NAF has carried out a total of 55 missions comprising 14 ISR, 30 interdiction/combat air support and 11 air logistics support missions in the month of March 2016.”
Famuyiwa said further that the mission had served the purpose of degrading the fighting capacity of the remnants of the insurgents.

bidexiii:



The NAF basically operates the alpha and f7 and both are actively involved in the CTCION going on. one is just actively involved than the other.

The alpha jet is an advanced trainer and a light attack jet than carries 2500kg bomb and rocket pods which should be sufficient for most CTCION , that's a very good pay-load and a advantage or edge the alpha jet has over the f7. The f7 variant jet the NAF operates can only carry bombs which really limit it's role in CTCION.

ok thanks. F7 is not really efficient in COIN not that they are useless.

iblawi:
ok thanks. F7 is not really efficient in COIN not that they are useless.

Yeap.....

pls i jst want 2 knw if thr is anything like shortlisting before going for the naf screening tanx

Al Shabaab briefly seizes army base, kills soldier



Al shabaab says it has taken “complete control” of the Somali National Army (SNA) camp in Laanta Buuro village in lower Shabelle region and killed more than 74 soldiers.

Reports say heavily armed Al-Shabaab militants have launched overnight the strategic town of Laanta Buuro, some 90Kms north-west of Mogadishu and engaged heavy exchange of fire with SNA forces.

Al shabaab said in a statement published pro-militants websites, they seized 10 military pick-up trucks during the attack on SNA base in Laanta Buuro village.

Somali troops, backed by AMISOM soldiers have regained control of the base on Monday morning without a resistance after Al shabaab pulled out of the village after hours of control, according to residents.

The militants lectured the residents publicly after their seizure, urging them to discontinue supporting the federal government of Somalia and the African Union forces known as AMISOM.