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NNAMDIII:
did you pass out through yamuza zakiri parade ground? @Bidexiii

NO

krattoss:
The much anticipated video is out.
Women of war.
A nice and detailed documentary. I think the air force department of our military is trying harder than before.

But I expected to see more combat videos. Anyway just watch and tell us what u think

https://www.facebook.com/1684425015103776/posts/2209380992608173/

NIGERIAN AIRFORCE WOMEN OF WAR




https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xrL4rF_x3Xc

jakeporeshenko:
Throwback, Nigerian Air Force MiG-17 from the civil war

Nice pictures, where do you storm across these blast from the past ....

#EyeWitness Account: @HQNigerianArmy Soldiers returning from Exercise seen giving rescue and first aid treatment to Accident Victims along Kachia Road @InsideKaduna_ As seen 3 Vechicles were involved.

A BRIEF BIOGRAPHY OF RSM (LATER CAPT) YAMUSA ZAKARI KUMASI (THE LONGEST SERVING RSM OF NMS)

RSM (Later Capt) Yamusa Zakari was born in the year 1924 in a commercial town of KUMASI in the South Western part of what was then known as Gold Coast (Now Ghana) to Nigerian Parents who were originally from a small town called Masi, in the present day Katsina State. Zakari came to be known soon as “KUMASI” a nickname which soon came to displace his authentic surname. He was nicknamed Kumasi because he came from a town called Kumasi at Ghana. He enlisted in to the Royal West African Frontier Force (RWAFF) on the 2nd of Jan 1944 at its depot in Zaria. NA/132247 Zakari Yamusa, quickly settle down to life in the Depot at Zaria under the command of Capt NC Cornish. He soon began to distinguished himself and was particularly good in drill and other courses which demanded high levels of discipline, team-work, concentration and co-ordination. His superiors and commanding officers were bound to take notice soon and just after 9 months of his passing out, he was promoted to the rank of Lance-Corporal. Seven days later while he was still celebrating his promotion, he was promoted to the rank of Corporal. On May 30th 1945, seventeen months after his enlistment into the RWAFF, he was promoted again to the rank of Sergeant while most of his mates who were initially enlisted together were yet Privates and Lance Corporals. Indeed 1945 was particularly eventful for Zakari because he was redeployed to South East Asia, to Burma to take part in the final Allied push against the Japanese with which he played a vital role in that war. Following the Japanese surrender on the 5th of Aug 1945, Nigerian troops started returning from Burma in early 1946 and on his return to Nigeria, he was selected to attend the NCO Cadre Course at the West African Practical Training Center which was run under administrative guidance of NRTC, now Depot Nigerian Army. At that time, there was yet provision for the rank of Staff Sergeant in the Queens Own Regiment, so all qualified NCO’s were promoted directly to Warrant Officer (Grade Two). Zakari Yamusa fared very well through-out the course, and on Nov 1st 1951, he was duly promoted to the rank of WO11. Three years later, WO11 Zakari Yamusa was selected to attend the very competitive Hythe Selection Course at the West African Command School, Accra in the then Gold Coast where he obtained Grade “A” at the end of the course. In the early fifties, Zakari was posted as an instructor in the RWAFF and subsequently Boys Company in the year 1957 from NRTC (now Depot Nigerian Army). Just as the school was being asked to play a more active role in churning out boys who would replace the departing British, Zakari settled down earnestly to work with his wards, and it was no surprise when in Oct 1959, on the eve of Nigerian’s independence, he was again promoted to the rank of Warrant Officer 1 and was appointed Regimental Sergeant Major (RSM), the post in which he was to leave an indelible imprint in the Nigerian Armed Forces. The years during which Kumasi was RSM at the school were years when the Nigerian Army underwent phenomenal expansion and demanded an unprecedented supply of officer’s materials. RSM Zakari knew better than anyone else that a great deal needed to be done to nurture and produce the potential young officers needed to remedy the desperate situation of the Country at that time. It cause great sadness for RSM Kumasi to see some of his boys whom he had trained and molded in to one united and disciplined army fighting each other on opposite sides during the Nigerian Civil War. He spent the next 21 years of his life training and nurturing young NMS boy who would later become great men in the history of our country Nigeria. During the Nigerian Civil War,some SNCO’s from NMS were granted field commission and equally, RSM Yamusa was initially drafted for but on a second though, replaced with another SNCO because the then Commandant of NMS, Col TB Ogundeko felt that the school had to be open throughout the civil war years and the school can’t afford the absence of such RSM. RSM Zakari was however given a field commission to the rank of a lieutenant to which he could not hang on the uniform but was effected and thus the salary was also upgraded to fit in his new rank so that he could remain on the job he knew best to do. Based on the recommendations of Col TB Ogundeko to the Army HQ, WO1 Zakari Yamusa was promoted in Feb 1978 to the substantive rank of Captain in the Nigerian Army. Capt Yamusa Zakari Kumasi acted as the OC Administration in NMS for the next 2 months. During those 2 months he acted as the OC Admin, it was obvious that his career in the Army was finally coming to an end having served the Army for 34 years. On 15th April,1978 Capt Zakari Yamusa Kumasi began his terminal leave and a few months later, he was pulled out of service in a colorful ceremony which drew the curtain over a distinguished career. Capt Zakari had consistently maintained a distinguished service record throughout his careers, he earned the following military decoration:
• African Star Defence Medal – ASDM
• War Medal – WM
• Nigerian Independence Medal – NIM
• Member of the Order of the Niger – MON
After his retirement from the Nigerian Army, he still woke up to each new day with a sense of nostalgia for the drill and a passion for the parade ground. As he lay awake in the early morning before sunrise, he could still hear in his inner ears, the call of bugle, the stamping of feet and the roar of orders to the boys on the field. His spirit was still very much with the boys on the boys in the school but his body now had to adjust to the realities of an entire different existence.
In Jan 1985, Zakari Kumasi had a dream. In that dream, he came across some Arabic inscriptions which he could not decipher, so he called on a knowledgeable Imam who later translated the dream to him that his days were drawing to an end. A few days later, a friend of his who had recently left the army came to meet him and complained about leaving the army without receiving terminal entitlement. The friend of his retired from NDA which was then commanded by an Ex-boy who RSM Zakari had trained far back at NMS. RSM Kumasi ever ready to lend a hand to others promised to meet with the NDA Commandant and ensure that his friend’s problem was solved. It was on his journey from Zaria to NDA in Kaduna that a tragedy struck. A careless trailer driver had packed his huge truck on the road without any caution his huge truck on the road without any caution or warning to other approaching vehicles. The unsuspecting driver of the Peugeot 504 saloon car in which RSM Kumasi was travelling crashed his car into the trailer before he could apply his brakes.
Kumasi was seriously wounded and was rushed to the 44 NARHK. For 17 days, the doctors and nurses battled to save his life but on the 20th Feb 1985, Capt Zakari Kumasi breathed his last. Indeed the news of his death threw the nations in to grief and mourning.

RECOLLECTIONS OF EX-BOYS ON RSM YAMUSA ZAKARI KUMASI
Commodore Areola (1962-1966 Set)
“ One time KUMASI made us laugh was sometimes in May 1962, when the wife of the then OC Boys Company Maj PJ Wakeman was walking her dog around the OC’S Office. A number of Boys were standing around when RSM Kumasi suddenly saw the lady. As usual and in military decorum, he called all us attention, he then turned smartly to the lady, gave hand salute and said, in a loud voice, ‘Good morning madam OC Sir’.All the boys managed to escape from the immediate environment and started singing, “Good morning madam OC Sir” with delirious laughter”.

“I hardly forget the day the Commandant passed some instructions to RSM Kumasi by telephone. A couple of boys who witnessed Kumasi talking to the Commandant could not help laughing because Kumasi came to attention, held the hand-set on the left hand and kept saluting with the right hand while answering intermittently ‘Yes sir’ and saluting at the same- time. The whole scene was as if Kumasi was facing the Commandant face to face”.

Late Maj Gen AN Bamalli
“We Exboys should be proud of him for the role he played in our careers. His honesty, humor and piety were his major strengths. I learned from him that one should never accept failure, or be hindered from achieving an aim once one has made up his mind. And I learned that discipline is the hallmark of all virtues and you need a lot of it to succeed”.

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*PARTICIPANTS OF ARMY WAR COLLEGE NIGERIA EMBARK ON OPERATIONAL THEATRE VISIT TO OPERATION WHIRL STROKE*

In line with the Army War College Nigeria (AWCN) Mission Statement to produce well trained, educated and inspired operational level leaders for the Nigerian Army, participants of AWCN Course 2/2018 embarked on operational theatre visit to Operation WHIRL STROKE in Benue State. The visit was aimed at exposing the participants to Operation WHIRL STROKE operational plans with a view to conducting an assessment of the operation. The theme for the operational visit was *" Enhancing the capabilities of the Nigerian Army in Combating Internal Security Challenges"*

The AWCN team comprised the Commandant Maj Gen EJ Enenche, four members of faculty and 33 participants. The Force Commander Operation WHIRL STROKE Maj Gen MA Yekini while briefing the team said his troops are made up of Special Operation Forces (SOF) who are well trained and capable of engaging adversaries in close quarter battle. He noted that Operation WHIRL STROKE covers Nasarawa, Benue and Tara a States. Maj Gen Yekini said the mandate of the force was to destroy identified camps used by militia elements and other criminal groups in the 3 States with a view to creating conducive atmosphere for Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) to return to their communities and reclaim their farmland abandoned due to incessant attacks

The Force Commander said since the commencement of Operation WHIRL STROKE over 157,000 IDPs have returned to their respective homes, various kinds of assorted weapons recovered and several militia suspects arrested and handed over to relevant authorities in Benue, Nasarawa and Taraba States.

In his remarks, the leader of the visiting team Maj Gen EJ Enenche stated that the visit was to enable the participants conduct an assessment of the operational plans of operation WHIRL STROKE with a view to contributing to the ongoing operations. He reiterated that the knowledge gained would reinforce the participants' understanding of tactical and operational estimates

The highlights of the visit included operational brief by the Force Commander, interaction between the troops committed to the operation and participants of AWCN, a riverine patrol demonstration at the Nigerian Army School of Military Engineering and briefing by Sector 3 Commander at Giza in Keana Local Government Area of of Nasarawa State.

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JUST IN: BHTs Resort to Arson. Frustrated by the current military deployments which has made most towns and villages impenetrable in the North East, the BHTs, have resorted to arson of make shift houses in remote settlements.

Just before Midnight on 14 November 2018, a pocket of BHTs sneaked into Mammanti village along Damboa Road in Borno State, fired some shots to scare the inhabitants and set some houses ablaze.

Troops from 251 Task Force Battalion were quickly mobilized to engage the BHTs who fled in disarray. However, 2 civilians were wounded and have been evacuated to a nearby hospital for treatment. Exploitation of the area is ongoing. Pictures are attached.

BabaOwen:
thank you.

Try to go through that thread and see the stuff someone claiming to work 4 the NIA wrote about the organization.

https://www.nairaland.com/4845734/does-nigeria-intelligence-agency-such/2#72996420

Our intelligence & security agencies might not be as efficient as FBI, CIA & MI6. But on thong I know for sure is the guy never worked for NIA as he claimed.

You swear an oath to keep the agency activities confidential/secrete either ex or still in service, you can't just come online and start ranting rubbish. It's unprofessional and not real.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sfAs1xb_YMU

PRESS RELEASE
NAF LAUNCHES OPERATION GREEN SWEEP AGAINST BOKO HARAM TERRORISTS, RECORDS SUCCESSFUL STRIKES AT SHARAMA IN BORNO STATE

The Nigerian Air Force (NAF), through the Air Task Force (ATF) of Operation LAFIYA DOLE, has commenced OPERATION GREEN SWEEP against Boko Haram Terrorists (BHT) in the Northeast. The Operation, which commenced on Wednesday, 14 November 2018, is an Air Interdiction Operation targeting selected BHT locations within the fringes of Lake Chad as well as areas around the Alagarno Forest near Sambisa in Borno State, with a view to further degrading the remnants of the terrorists, curtailing their freedom of action and denying them bases from which they could launch attacks.

In the morning of Day One of the Operation, air strikes by NAF aircraft resulted in the destruction of a BHT hideout and neutralization of several terrorists at Sharama on the Lake Chad Green Fringes in Northern Borno. The attack was conducted following series of Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (ISR) missions, that showed the presence of significant number of BHT fighters in buildings under trees spread across the settlement. Consequently, the ATF dispatched 2 NAF Alpha Jet aircraft to attack the camp, leading to destruction of some of the structures and equipment as well as the killing of several BHTs.

IBIKUNLE DARAMOLA
Air Commodore
Director of Public Relations and Information
Nigerian Air Force

#COIN

Stormed across these on YouTube: I can't believe that Channels TV covers such news. Am impressed



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PFq6EaCexmE

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JUST IN: The COAS Lt Gen TY Buratai has approved the immediate deployment of Troops of 123 Special Forces Battalion to consolidate Operation LAFIYA DOLE. The battle ready troops are equipped with special military and logistics stores. Pictures are attached.

Xbee007:
The NAF Women of War is a great documentary and an eye opener too. Who would have thought women were actively flying ISR missions in the NE?

I hope KO Sani, the young lady undergoing training in USA, will fly on the Super Tucano.

Hope the documentary was interesting.

I don't have the means of watching here, hope I will be uploaded to the NAF social media platforms.

Exclusive: Egyptian Paratrooper from HAHO/HALO Team armed with SIG SG-552 rifle & fitted with new tactical gear.

He Also appears with a Joint Terminal Attack Controller JTAC badge, JTAC directs combat aircraft onto ground targets for close air support of ground close combat.

celebratung the role played by female Police officers in their different capacities across the service and impress upon other women in the wider society to take up opportunities available in the National Police Service whenever they arise.

On a working visit to West Pokot, Samburu and Uasin-Gishu Counties.

CELEBRATING WOMEN IN POLICING

Inspector of Police Caroline Kibuchi was the Captain in-Charge of the MI-17 Police Helicopter while fellow compatriot Inspector Justine Ouya was the Flight Engineer last weekend on a mission that took the Inspector General & other dignitaries ..

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The family
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SU-30
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FALSE CiRCULATION OF TRAVEL TIME RESTRICTION INTO MAIDUGURI

The attention of 7 Division Nigerian Army has been drawn to a circultion on social media of a purported travel time restriction on travellers to Maiduguri.

The statement is completely false and clearly a mischief intended to misinform, cause disaffection.and breach the peace. At no time was any such statement issued by anyone on any travel time restriction.

Once more for the avoidance of doubt the general public is please informed that there is no travel time restriction of any kind emanating from 7 Division or signed by anyone. The good people of Borno and other law abiding visitors are enjoined to go about their lawful businesses and continue to avail the security agencies with timely information to counter insurgency and other sundry crime.

You are please requested to disseminate this information to the general public through your medium

Thank you for your usual cooperation.

KINGSLEY MFON SAMUEL
Colonel
Deputy Director,
Army Public Relations,

Sizzorkay:
Let's agree to disagree my brother.
Wish them all well

'Gun-toting child soldier' demonstrates terrifying moves 'he was taught by terror group Boko Haram'
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/gun-toting-child-soldier-demonstrates-7988355.

These is just a tip of the iceberg
I have seen captured videos of what you call kids decapitating grown-up men.

This is the military you don't underestimate your enemy

NNSBSC ON DECK

Sizzorkay:
Oh c'mon, sure all i see is a pic, i don't know what's going on there, so your idea is to compound the trauma they've been through just because they've already been traumatized? lol, okay Doc.
Leaving it alone, just thought there's gotta be a better way, what are the kids gonna do? Walk back to BH from whatever shelter the Govt puts them? anyways, it's a sad state of affairs, those were our fellow citizens, look at their condition. It's heartbreaking .

Am laughing in spanish right here.....
You call them kids, you underestimate them and you are dead already.

Sizzorkay:
I was talking about those traumatized kids chief, not the adults

Both the kids and the mother are traumatised already neither an you trust other of them.

You have to do the needful, such a complex war.

PRESS RELEASE

UPDATE ON OPERATION CROCODILE SMILE III IN 6 DIVISION AREA OF RESPONSIBILITY

In continuation of Operation CROCODILE SMILE III in 6 Division Area of Responsibility (AOR), troops of the Division have intensified patrols both on land and in the creeks as well as the water ways to deny criminal elements freedom of action. In one of such patrols conducted by troops of 2 Brigade under 6 Division, a crack patrol team of the Brigade on 8th November 2018 located and destroyed illegally refined products Dump Site within Eket and Ibeno Local Government Areas (LGA) in Akwa Ibom State. A total of 500 drums and 2 surface tanks were destroyed in the course of the operation.

In similar operations conducted by troops of 16 Brigade on 9th November 2018, 6 illegal oil bunkering sites were discovered and destroyed at KM 45 Bille, Degema LGA of Rivers State. Additionally, 4 large reservoirs containing stolen crude oil and 7 Cotonou boats used in the illicit act were also destroyed. Further patrols within Awonikiri in Bille Degema LGA of Rivers State conducted on 10th November 2018 by the troops led to the discovery of a hideout for militants/sea pirates. Items recovered in the camp include: 2 gas cookers, a DSTV Dish and 2 Samsung Plasma Television sets, a battery charger, 2 generating sets, 2 ladders, a Sesco mobile Handset, 24 rounds of 9 mm calibre bullets, a pair of camouflage uniform, a camouflage face cap and a camouflage T-Shirt.

In the same vein, troops of Sector 1, Joint Task Force Operation Delta Safe (JTF OPDS) continued their robust anti-illegal oil bunkering patrols on 8th November 2018 in Yokri near Funkoro Forest of Burutu LGA Delta State where they discovered and destroyed 3 illegal refining camps with 4 large dug out pits and 12 surface tanks. Same day, the troops also discovered 3 illegal refining sites at Obodo Asisan, Ogbesedua and Ogbokoko all in Warri South LGA which were hitherto destroyed in previous operations but being reactivated currently. Nevertheless, the troops successfully destroyed all the 3 illegal refining camps including 10 cooking tanks, 2 Cotonou boats and 2 pumping machines. 2 suspects, Oghenemaga Egubare and Maxwell Umar were also arrested at the illegal oil bunkering camp vicinity and handed over to sister security agency for investigation and possible prosecution. In another development, troops of 19 Battalion under Sector 1 JTF OPDS conducted an Educational Outreach at Ethiope Model Primary School and Malachi Primary School Sapele where free Exercise Books were distributed to the pupils.

Activities of Operation CROCODILE SMILE III in 6 Division AOR continue with day and night patrols by troops of the Division with the aim of curtailing all criminal activities within the Niger Delta region and presenting a genuine platform for development of the region.

You are kindly requested to disseminate above information to the general public through your reputable medium. Thank you for your usual cooperation

AMINU ILIYASU
Colonel
Deputy Director Army Public Relations

Watch out tomorrow night, 14 November 2018, for a compelling documentary titled “Nigerian Air Force Women of War” which will be aired on NTA (available on DSTV Channel 251 or via the NTA App) from 8.05 to 8.30pm. The documentary highlights gender inclusiveness in the Nigerian Air Force and chronicles the increasing involvement of women in combat and core combat support functions in the Service, especially within the last 3 years. Kindly help spread the information. Thank you for your continued interest in the Nigerian Air Force.

IBIKUNLE DARAMOLA
Air Commodore
Director of Public Relations and Information
Nigerian Air Force





https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ckh3oMSlg_s




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