Ol_Soldier:

first, i am a retired nigerian soldier and my personal quote has always been 'stronger than nails' Glad to stumble on this. But where are all the military pensions going to, the arrears that has been left unpaid for decades now to retired military personnel's. why flaunt the nigeria soldier capabilities in weapons when they still suffer in abject dejection, even after risking their lives in wars and several peace keeping missions.

pls stop posting this weapons. why show your anus to your enemy, it is not all that right to tell everything you got to the world, i mean weapons and all.

if you want to know me you ask ask anything.

so unfortunate . . . you are right ol' soldier. no need to show off old weapons when they cant take care of human beings. you guys should fight for it.
an american soja when retired will continue to earn half of his retirement pay. some go back to work with the govt (collecting pay and retirement pay), some go back to school fully paid for (housing included). honestly, it is sad to hear that nig soja still queue up to collect their pension.


those toy weapons sef
SemperFI
God bless our troops

Ol_Soldier:

Stormm: no thanks to nigeria government.

it is actually a bit of risk and threat to nigeria security entity in times of invasion by neighbouring war enemy's. having posting all this armoury's what chance do we have to protect ourlseves, since they already have known all we got in term of weaponry, so they know basically where to struck us against our defence. so i think its a bit improper to display all of these.
but please help us pass the message accross to those incharge if you can anyway. i have been to abuja and other states uncountable times for the purpose of military pension screening, queuing under the hot sun, with no mercy from any one. i have been screened million times and yet no pay from any where, even after spending a whole lots to travel for the so called screening. . . the old soldiers needs to comfortable abode.
very sad.

Eddeux:

What neighbor of Nigeria has the capability to invade? Benin, Togo, Niger, Chad?

lordangers:

@cap28
Do you know anything about the Nigerian military. They sucsessfully spear-headed the first African peace force (ECOMOG) with other neighbours in countries like Liberia, Sierre Leon and Guinea Bissau. Thats what sort of rewards there are for having the no1 military in the region[color=#990000][/color]

Eddeux:

BTW some great pics paddy lo. Good thread to start and continue. I see a lot of people didnt give you much slack especially when you tried to get on with the topic and be the mature one.

Also Edeuxx if you said Ghana I wouldnt blame you. I'd say they could hold their own for a quite a while if Nigeria went by sea to Ghana. I know it would probebly never happen but just saying if by some miracle it did then Ghana would do pretty well. It's pretty disiplined and well organised + equiped. I mean they use the M16 whilst the Nigerians have that but not enough to make it the core weapon. It's made up of too much. Yes in terms of armour it would over-whelm Ghana if they could get it there. Yet it's Navy is usually in-operable compared to Ghana. As for the air-force well it would have to around Benin and I dont think they can do that whithout air-refueling. So the Ghanaians again would usually have that sort of advantage. And their armoured veachiles arnt that bad (Ghana). They could probebly compensate for the limited armour Nigeria brings.

lordangers:

Also the Ghanian can be found on this page http://www.hazegray.org/worldnav/africa/africa.htm#6. You can also see the Nigerian ships. It was compiled in 2001 but the Nigerian navy has only deteoriated.

Also the Ghanian can be found on this page http://www.hazegray.org/worldnav/africa/africa.htm#6. You can also see the Nigerian ships. It was compiled in 2001 but the Nigerian navy has only deteoriated.

paddy_lo:

[color=#000099][b]@Lordangers

Your quip about Nigerias Navy deteriorating since 2001,shows u absolutely know nothing about Nigeria or its military

The last 10yrs of democratic rule has been the best for the military in terms of new equipment,training,professionalism,and a real boost in military spending

Obasanjo our former leader in 2006 alone spent over $4billion on new military hardware,ships,tanks and other stuff because of the Niger delta