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Nigerian Army Quizzes General Over Missing N400 Million In Botched VIP Escort




http://saharareporters.com/2019/07/22/nigerian-army-quizzes-general-over-missing-n400-million-botched-vip-escort

krattoss:
warlords now operating air crafts...hmm

Lord save us

Welcome to Africa...

bidexiii:
A Libyan aircraft makes an emergency landing at a rural road in Tunisia. Details are not yet fully available.

Sources from Libya Air Force under GNA denies link to the Libyan L-39 Albatross jet which made an emergency landing at a rural road in #Tunisia today, adding the jet trainer aircraft belongs to warlord Khalifa Haftar’s air force.

A Libyan aircraft makes an emergency landing at a rural road in Tunisia. Details are not yet fully available.

Nigeria: Salute to our troops



https://www.vanguardngr.com/2019/07/nigeria-salute-to-our-troops/amp/

In Pictures: Nigerian Army trains Customs in weapons handling




https://www.today.ng/multimedia/photo/pictures-nigerian-army-trains-customs-weapons-handling-237462/amp

Thank you Prof. The executive governor of Borno state. For reaching out to confirm what is happening at the gate and shown concern about the closure of the gate by early hours. I do hope this will serve as way toward improving the security system of the state.

NIGERIAN AIR FORCE TO REWARD AIRMAN WHO RETURNED LOST 37,000 EUROS TO OWNER IN KANO

The Nigerian Air Force (NAF) is set to reward one of its personnel, Aircraftman (ACM) Bashir Umar, who found and returned the sum of 37,000 Euros to Alhaji Ahmad, the owner of the lost money. The incident occured at the Hajj Camp Market in Kano on Tuesday 16 July 2019, when ACM Bashir, who is a member of the NAF Mobile Air Defence Team (MADT) deployed for airport security duties, while on routine patrol with some of his colleagues, found the money in a parcel. Fortunately, there was a phone number on the parcel which the Airman called, and eventually handed over the package to the owner.

Consequently, the Chief of the Air Staff (CAS), Air Marshal Sadique Abubakar, has directed the Chief of Administration at the Headquarters NAF, Air Marshal Kingsley Lar, to immediately come up with modalities to reward the airman so as to encourage other personnel of the Service to continue to embody attitudes and behaviours that reflect NAF’s core values of Integrity, Excellence and Service Delivery.

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

Cannonleo:
air sergeant you are ?

Nope that's not me ?

Toju200:
I wish these guys where given a wicked amount of weaponry like few artillery large numbers of the Ara mrap mk1 to deal ruthlessly with bht....these guys are ready but it's indirectly not their job

Tunisia police Anti-Terrorism Brigade (BAT)unit ,showcasing it's gear and weaponry to the members of the public.

Naf Panther!!!!!

Odunayaw:
Pic 2
We should have gotten good numbers of the BMP2s walahi, Even Eeben liked them, very cheap,rugged, economical and would provided the needed armor and armament

No mind our top brass.

Canadian armored car company that moved its factory to Nigeria,to supply the Nigeria Army directly, has begun exporting armored vehicles to Ghana from Nigeria. The Central Bank of Ghana is now buying bullion vans from Nigeria. It appears foreign companies still prefer Nigeria..

#RANDOM

rka2:
I have always said it is the way the FOBs are set up (location, materials/construction) that is the problem. Heck, I would run if I was based there. A military base should be so well constructed that it would even be harder to get out than in if you get my drift

Our Base are killing ducks for our troops, it's high time we change the way we protect our F.O.B. even western/European soldiers can survive if they protect there bases the way we do...

Odunayaw:
Have said this thing before, we don't have the platforms to respond to every FOB attack, especially those so far-flung in the theatre. Even the Army knows this.

The question we should always be asking is why NA chooses to situate FOBs in seemingly irregular fashion sometimes too far for the nearest unit to help & at times too dangerous to supply. We should be asking why FOBs are built like IDP camps.

Till this questions are asked & answered we'd keep having a seesaw insurgency

True yarn..!

There is stuck, and there is Sahel stuck �
#Barkhane #Niger.
How do you survive this type of terrain, especially the raining season .....

Rare view of #LNA #Soviet-made BRDM-2 amphibious scout vehicle with launching system for Sagger AT-3 anti-tank missiles.

Late yesterday evening the photos from the attack in Kirenawa were also uploaded.
A lot has been said about it so please let me state the obvious - the way the military bases in Borno are set simply doesn't work. It's just some barracks in the middle of nothing.

Russian 2S42 SP mortar has four sets of optical electronic countermeasures installed around it, a ballistic radar at the top.

#BREAKING: Production of T129 ATAK helicopters for #Turkey's Gendarmerie General Command & #Pakistan Army Aviation is now stopped in #Turkish Aerospace Industries (#HAI) facility due to the fact that Rolls Royce has stopped delivering LHTEC CTS800-4A turboshaft engines for T129.

can someone assist in Identifying this Cameroonian BIR towed Anti-aircraft gun ?

A final shipment of 101 MRAP has been delivered to the Egyptian army within a foreign military sales case to transfer 930 MRAP vehicles to Egypt

Also Egypt has submitted another request for an additional 1,000 MRAPs within the U.S Excess Defense Articles Grant Programe.

Odunayaw:
If you're speaking specifically about that incident, I don't just see why 6 men would transit or patrol(which I don't think was the case) in a MRAP

I thought I was the only one thinking what the mission of the six men was....? Definitely it was not a patrol mission.
All the same we should take the lives of our men seriously, either on transit or patrol missions MRAPS or APCS should be the minimum vehicle that should be used. We should start acquiring ARA II MRAPs in large numbers.

U.S. Army Africa Commanding General Maj. Gen. Roger Cloutier and Ethiopian National Defense Force Brig. Gen. Habtamu Tilahun opened the #JustifiedAccord2019 field training exercise at Hurso Training Center near Dire Dawa, #Ethiopia, during a ceremony July 16. #Allied2Win #JA19 #Partnership #Readiness #Peacekeeping #Security

U.S. Africa Command (AFRICOM) U.S. Embassy Addis Ababa U.S. Army U.S. Mission to the African Union United Nations

Botswana Defense Force service members were evaluated during their culminating training exercise after more than 170 Army and Air Guardsmen from North Carolina, Alabama, and New Jersey trained in partnership with them during Upward Minuteman 2019, a U.S. Africa Command exercise promoting the U.S. National Guard’s State Partnership Programs on the African Continent.

Toju200:
this clearly states that (1) We need and should use APCs and MRAP for patrol not this soft skin vehicles...who would survive an Ambush in that before that vehicle was well targeted and blown apart by a tank or warhead or something Other combat capable soft skin vehicles should be used in long range fight to serve as an additional fire power like the IVM G12, Hilux,ipv e.t.c(2) During patrol perhaps soft skin vehicles are part of the convoy Armoured vehicles should be at the for front and behind these vehicles armoured vehicles with better turret view should be alert like the ARA the size of the ARA 1Has it's advantage...

If these soldiers where in MRAPS there wouldn't be death casualties. They would have just returned fire and just passed through the ambush area. After all I.E.D/V.B.I.E.D was not used in the ambush.

Odunayaw:
Were the soldiers on patrol or just transit

Either transit or patrol. These soldiers are working in hostile areas, MRAPs should be the minimum we should be using.

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PRESS RELEASE

TROOPS AT FOB JAKANA NEUTRALISE BOKO HARAM TERRORISTS
- Recover Gun truck, Arms, RPG tubes and Ammunition

Troops of 212 Battalion deployed at Forward Operating Base (FOB) Jakana, on Wednesday 17Th July, 2019 dealt with and neutralised unconfirmed number of Boko Haram/ISWAP Terrorists when they woefully attempted to infiltrate their base in dire need for logistics.
The terrorists came at about 1845 hours in 7 Gun Trucks and fought fiercely to infiltrate the camp, but the attack was thwarted with heavy fire and bombardment by the gallant and patriotic troops who were vigilant and battle ready.

The terrorists couldn't bear the fire power any longer after loosing significant number of both equipment and personnel in an exchange of fire. They lost initiative and withdrew in disarray along the Benisheikh - Damaturu axis, - abandoning a damaged utility Gun truck which was earmarked to convey looted items.
Troops immediately followed in hot pursuit and the following items were captured:

a. 1 x Anti Aircraft Gun

b. 2 x Rocket Propelled Grenade (RPG) Tubes

c. 2 x AK 47 Rifles

d. 15 x Machine Gun rounds

e. 12 x AK 47 NATO rounds.

Sadly, a Colonel and a Captain as well as 3 soldiers on transit from Maiduguri to Damaturu run into an ambush staged by the routed/fleeing terrorists from the Jakana axis which led to their unfortunate death.

The Chief of Army Staff (COAS), Lieutenant General Tukur Yusuf Buratai while commiserating with the families of the fallen heroes reiterated that "Personnel of the Nigerian Army will never be deterred in the ongoing noble and patriotic fight against terrorism and insurgency in the North East". He further commended the efforts of the entire troops in the theatre and charged them to remain focus, highly committed and professional in the discharge of their constitutional roles.

The sacrifices of the fallen heroes in the ongoing fight against terrorism and insurgency is no doubt painful to all, but that will further spur us to do more to ensure that our country remain secured, peaceful and free from terrorists activities for the overall interest of the nation.

Ado Isa
Colonel
Deputy Director Public Relations
Operation LAFIYA DOLE
19 July 2019