- The Nigerian military has killed and wounded children in an airstrike in neighbouring Niger, a local governor in Niger, state television and an aid agency said on Sunday, although Nigeria's armed forces said they were still investigating.

The attack took place in the village of Nachadé in the region of Maradi, Niger, on Friday, a few kilometres from the border with Nigeria, said Chaibou Aboubacar, the governor of Maradi. He said seven children were killed and five wounded.

He did not say how he knew that Nigerian forces carried out the attack. Niger's state television also said it was carried out by Nigerian forces, without providing evidence.

"As a matter of policy, the Nigerian Air Force does not make any incursions into areas outside Nigeria's territorial boundaries. That's our policy," Major General Jimmy Akpor, Nigeria's Director of Defence Information, said. He said an investigation was underway.

Medical charity Medecins Sans Frontieres, which cared for some of the wounded, confirmed the strike. It said that 12 people died, including four children. Local inhabitants told MSF that Nigerian forces were pursuing targets who had fled a border town.

The specific reason for the strike was not clear. It occurred in a region where banditry is common and where both governments fear that Islamist insurgents linked to Islamic State are gaining ground.

https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/nigerian-forces-kill-children-airstrike-over-border-niger-official-says-2022-02-20/?rpc=401&

Gallant nigeria airforce, they were taught to kill anything that moves

Well-trained strikers.
Na just mistake.

Lmao

The US is to blame for supplying an incompetent regime.

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The Nigerian armed forces and incompetence is like 5 and 6.

That's what happens when people trade competence for tribalism and bigotry. I'm sure there are better qualified combat pilots that ought to be flying those planes but due to ethnic reasons, they're overlooked.

No be mumu be dat

And you think this Army can survive world war..

Trump have a very good reason that he suspended the sale of aircrafts to Nigerian airforce.

abouzaid:
Trump have a very good reason that he suspended the sale of aircrafts to Nigerian airforce.

Don't be daft.
Trump sold all the aircrafts currently in use.

ivolt:

Don't be daft.
Trump sold all the aircrafts currently in use.

i said suspended, the delivery of the aircrafts were deliberately delayed because many interest groups in the USA petitioned and even went to court over it. Their reason is what you're reading as headline on this thread.

abouzaid:
i said suspended, the delivery of the aircrafts were deliberately delayed because many interest groups in the USA petitioned and even went to court over it.

Trump neither suspended nor delayed the delivery.
Trump was the one who lifted Obama's ban on arms sale to Nigeria.
The jets were delivered as promptly as the signed contract demands.
It is some stupid senators who were making the suggestion and they were ignored.
The same group tried to force Biden's hand and they were ignored again.

Nobody went to court except Ipob and their associates.

Their reason is what you're reading as headline on this thread.

That will be a pretty stupid reason.
No country has killed more children and innocents via airstrike and drones than the US.
The records are public for all to read.

The so called children might be those adolescents that graduated from islamiyya and Mai shoe that got enlisted into the ISWAP.
Young boys from those barren Sahel ravaged by famine and poverty are susceptible to be a potential recruits for radicalism.

NwaNimo1:
The US is to blame for supplying an incompetent regime.

Same US that has the worst records of bombing innocent civilians and children is same one you are hyping here. Please do not allow your bigotry against PMB to translate to a pathological inferiority complex o.

Here is one of the many US fatal bombing just few months ago and there are still many fatal US bombing and drone attacks that are classified

https://www.cnn.com/2021/08/29/asia/afghanistan-kabul-evacuation-intl/index.html

FreeStuffsNG:


Same US that has the worst records of bombing innocent civilians and children is same one you are hyping here. Please do not allow your bigotry against PMB to translate to a pathological inferiority complex o.

Here is one of the many US fatal bombing just few months ago and there are still many fatal US bombing and drone attacks that are classified

https://www.cnn.com/2021/08/29/asia/afghanistan-kabul-evacuation-intl/index.html

The US should bomb more of these terrorists. The world must be washed off of these pissful adherents of terror. If e pain you, you can use the third mainland bridge