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Differences between the Personal Equipments of Army (Infantry) Soldiers in Northern Sinai (on the left) and Central Sinai (on the Right) .

Two officers from the Egyptian Army SOF (Thunderbolts) & Black Cobra Newly-Formed MoI counter-terrorism unit are training together on sniper missions

Appears that they are using the Russian OSV-96 anti-material rifle, SSG-3000 & M-24 Remington sniper rifles.

Again, the Newly Formed specialized Egyptian Counter-Terrorism unit “Black Cobra” attached to (CSF) taking a part in counter narcotics operation

Black Cobra Personnel appeared equipped with CZ Scorpion EVO-3 & UMB submachine guns mounted on it Optix Mk6 reflex weapon sights.

fachfouch:
OH-58 kiowa
Tunisian air force

Damn...... I don't know the Tunisian airforce operates large numbers of OH-58 kiowa.

Nice pictures.

Guys please let's leave these Biafran discussion. Thanks...

rugged7:
You are a blatant and well known LIAR and BIGOT.

LOL....

Only an Afonja of your ilk will write this rubbish and with this level of confidence laced with delusions of grandeur...

Afterall, wasn't it your God-Awolowo who engineered "starvation is a weapon of war" that led to the deaths of 3 million biafrans?

In the same breath you accuse Ndigbo of wallowing in self pity and at the same time you accuse them of being arrogant.

You accuse them of not being involved in politics when we know that your illiterate president rigged the elections. In Lagos where they were heavily involved, your people hired thugs to assault and kill them.

Igbo acumen & methodology for business is well known and is studied in elite business schools here in western countries.

Igbo man no send you, from 20 pounds at the end of the war, he now has the highest health,educational and developmental indices of all 6 geopolitical zones- despite a concerted conspiracy to deny them infrastructure.

The evil Nigeria has committed is living with it now. A country that is on fire and falling apart .

I advise you to pay attention to your killing fields.

Ndigbo will always flourish, no matter what evil you people plan.

He who God has blessed, no man can curse.

Echi ga kan nma. Oga Nniru and one love.

Igbo Amaka

Dude I'll appreciate you not derailing the thread: bringing such topic would cause tribal or ethnic violence. Please you can take your discussion or movement else where or create a thread for it. You are violating the rules for this thread.

@rugged7

Please I'll appreciate you create a thread for such discussion: its totally way out of line discussing such matters here.
You are derailing the thread, thanks....

President Muhammadu Buhari received Security Briefing from Service Chiefs today, at the State House, Abuja.

PRESS RELEASE

TROOPS SUSTAINS CLEARANCE OPERATIONS, 2 terrorists annihilated & others wounded

Troops of 26 Task Force Brigade Garrison of 7 Division Nigerian Army, Operation LAFIYA DOLE deployed in Gwoza had on Sunday the 26th of May 2019, while on fighting patrol along road Gwaza - Dure had an encounter with some Boko Haram terrorists who were trying to cross over into Sambisa forest.

Consequently, troops pounded heavily on the Terrorists(BHTs) in the newly launched Operation "Halaka Dodo" organised by the Division for all its Brigades and Battalions in a renewed vigour to completely neutralise the insurgents. The operation led to the successful annihilation of two terrorists.

The operation is simultaneously ongoing by other Brigades and Battalions of the Division, and was a deliberate attempt by the Division to exterminate and deny the crouching terrorists freedom of action within its Area of Responsibility.

The following items were recovered: some quantities of assorted drugs and medicine meant for supply to their fellow criminals in the forest.

The situation within the general area is cool and calm with more projections as the operation continues.

The General Officer Commanding 7 Division Nigerian Army, Brigadier General Abdulmalik Bulama Biu, commended the troops of 26 Brigade for their gallantry, he assured of the Chief of Army Staff's unrelenting effort in ensuring that their welfare and that of their families is guaranteed.

SAGIR MUSA
Colonel
Acting Director Army Public Relations
28 May 19

PRESS RELEASE

NIGERIAN ARMY SEEKS PARTNERSHIP WITH RIVERS STATE UNIVERSITY

In line with the year 2019 Nigerian Army Forecast of Events, the Chief of Transformation and Innovation (Army), Major General FO Agugo, has concluded a Sensitization visit to 6 Division NA between the 20th to 25th of May 2019. He used the opportunity to visit some educational/research institutions in the South-South geo-politcal zone, including a visit to Federal University Otuoke in Bayelsa State and the Intellectual Property Technology Transfer Office (IPTTO) of the Rivers State University, Port-Harcourt.

During his visit to the Rivers State University, Maj Gen Agugo briefed the Vice Chancellor Professor BC Didia that the visit is in line with the vision of the Chief of Army Staff (COAS) Lt Gen TY Buratai, especially as it relates to compliance and adherence to local content policy in all aspects of procurement and execution of projects in the NA. Hence, the Department of Tranformation and Innovation went on a scheduled innovation drive visit to interact with intellectuals in the South South geo-politcal zone.

He expressed the COAS desire to ensure that most of NA equipment, rations and products are locally produced and supplied in line with the Local Content Policy of the Federal Government of Nigeria.

Maj Gen Agugo also solicited for the University's cooperation and collaboration in research efforts so that his department could be granted access to technical products the NA could adapt for military purposes.

In his response, the Vice Chancellor Prof Didia welcomed the NA delegates and declared that a formal channel of relationship and communication has therefore been established.

He went further to grant the Director IPTTO of the University, Prof (Mrs) Eme Orlu- authority to share knowledge in any area of interest with the NA representatives.

SAGIR MUSA
Colonel
Acting Director Army Public Relations
29 May 2019

HAPPENED TODAY; Handing/Taking Over Between Outgoing Minister of Defence Mansur Muhammad Dan-Ali and The Permanent Secretary MOD Mrs Nuratu Batagarawa Today Tuesday 28 May 2019.

From today's presidential inauguration, Eagle square Abuja.

Libya- photos showing the dozens of BMC Kirpi MRAPs delivered from #Turkey and unloaded in #Tripoli.

Libya- some more photos of the BMC Kirpi MRAPs delivered from Turkey and unloaded in #Tripoli.

In the last two years, the U.S. provided $323 million in security assistance to support Tunisia's military and police to counter terrorism and promote security sector reform.

The second terrorist who was handed over to the Egyptian General Intelligence is Bahaa Ali who was one of Hesham Ashmawi Guards, also he was accused of carrying out several terrorist attacks in Alexandria.

Egyptian General Intelligence Service (GIS) Special Forces Unit appeared Today for the first time during handing over Hesham Ashmawy

(GIS) personnel appeared armed with SiG SG-552 assault rifles & elite tactical vests from Black Hawk Group.

fachfouch:
Yup ^^

Nice to have you here mate.

LTGEN:
Time and time again .The IAF has proved that the S300 is useless.Till the S300 can prove itself.It will be regarded as a failure.

No matter how potent and lethal a weapon his ? If it's not in capable hands then it's useless as nothing.q

Two Tchadian soldiers including a journalist in the convoy of the Tchadian Army chief of staff Saturday died after their vehicle struck a road side bomb in the northern Lake Chad which have seen several incursions from ISWAP & BokoHaram in recent weeks.
Update: The Tchadian casualties have risen to 5 which include 4 soldiers and a journalist.
23 ISWAP fighters were killed.

fachfouch:
.... Tunisian army

Nice pictures mate.
@fachfouch are you from Tunisia ?

Xbee007:
Buratai has to go, he is a huge failure.

The other day he was seen wasting tax payers' money to launch a book written by a foolish *ss licker titled "Legend of Buratai".

What a joke!

His performance are way below exceptation. But he will be leaving the army far better than the way people like Minimah left it.

SuperSixSeven:
^^^ Can anyone ID this gun mounted on the patrol boat?

Thats a Singaporean technologies kinetics: "STK 50MG"

#COIN

#NPF

10 SECURITY RELATED NEWS YOU NEED TO KNOW TODAY 27 MAY, 2019.

1. MILITARY LOSES N4.8BN WEAPONS IN NORTH-EAST SINCE JANUARY.
The Nigerian Air Force and the Nigerian Army, which are two active forces in the counter-insurgency war in the North-East, have lost over N4.8bn in weaponry in the region between January and May, 2019. This sum is obtained from estimates of the crashed NAF Mi-35M helicopter, gun trucks, machine guns and other weapons stolen from army bases, according to military sources. On January 2, the air force’s Mi-35M attack helicopter crashed in the North-East while on a Boko Haram interdiction mission, killing five crew members comprising two pilots and three NAF personnel in Damasak, Borno State. According to a document, Mi-35M orders and deliveries, the crashed helicopter is estimated at over $12million or N4.6bn. The records noted that Nigeria placed a contract for six Mi-35M combat helicopters in August 2014 and received the first batch of two helicopters in December 2016. The second batch of two helicopters was delivered in April 2018. But one of them crashed in Damasak on January 2nd. The records noted, “The Brazilian Air Force signed a $150m contract with Rosoboron export for 12 Mi-35M helicopters in November 2008. The first three helicopters were delivered in December 2009.

2. NIGERIAN ARMY DENIES KILLING OF 25 SOLDIERS IN BORNO.
The Nigerian Army has denied media reports that 25 soldiers were killed in an attack coordinated by Boko Haram insurgents in Borno. The Director, Army Public Relations, Col. Sagir Musa, made the denial in a Short Message (SMS) in Maiduguri on Sunday. Some reports claimed 25 soldiers were killed on Saturday when the insurgents attacked a military convoy evacuating civilians on Damboa-Biu Road. Musa dismissed the report as “rumour and fake”. “Contrary to rumour and fake news circulating, there was no attack on any of our troops’ locations at Sabon Gari or any other locations in Borno State. “I have spoken with the Special Force Commander in Damboa and he confirmed to me that there was nothing of such in Damboa or any of his locations as at Friday) and Saturday,” he said. (NAN)

3. NAF DESTROYS BANDITS CAMP AT DOUMBOUROU FOREST, ZAMFARA.
The Nigerian Air Force (NAF) says the Air Component of Operation HADARIN DAJI has destroyed bandits’ camp and neutralised dozens of bandits in airstrikes it conducted at Doumbourou Forest in Zamfara. Air Commodore Ibikunle Daramola, NAF Director of Public Relations and Information, who announced this in a statement on Sunday in Abuja, said the operation was conducted on Saturday. Daramola said the NAF, working in consonance with other security agencies, would sustain its operations to flush the bandits out of the north west of the country.

4. AIR FORCE INFLICTS HEAVY CASUALTIES ON ISWAP TERRORISTS IN BORNO.
THE Nigerian Air Force, Saturday morning,said it inflicted hearvy casualties on terrorists of Islamic State of West Africa,ISWAP extraction in Borno State, yesterday, Friday. The Air Force said the several of the terrorists were killed just as their structures and logistics were destroyed during the air raid at Tumbun Hamma,in the northern part of the state. The service,in a statement by its spokesman,Air Commodore Ibikunle Daramola,said the attack was preceded by series of Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (ISR) missions which confirmed heavy presence of terrorists in several structures, along with their logistics items, spread across the small settlement. The statement read in full:”The Air Task Force (ATF) of Operation Lafiya Dole, has inflicted heavy casualties on Islamic State of West Africa (ISWAP) elements in devastating air strikes conducted at Tumbun Hamma on the fringes of Lake Chad yesterday, 24 May 2019.

5. SECRET MANUAL OF BOKO HARAM GUERRILLAS.
If one ever wonders how Boko Haram and ISWAP guerrillas pick soft targets and avoid head-on clashes with the gallant Nigerian soldiers, a hitherto secret manual of war by the terrorist group has shed some light. The manual suggests the terrorists tactics is deliberate: they are fighting according to instructions from Abu Bakr Al Baghdadi, the group’s elusive leader. Reuters quoting Islamic State al-Naba online newspaper, said Baghdadi has encouraged his followers to adopt guerrilla tactics and published detailed instructions on how to carry out hit-and-run operations. According to the report, the guidelines make clear the group is adopting it as standard operating procedure, especially as they have lost territories in all their theatres of war, in Iraq and Syria and also in North East Nigeria, where a degraded Boko Haram metamorphosed into ISWAP. The operating procedure in a nutshell is a style of fighting that avoids direct confrontation and that seeks to weaken the state military by attrition. In a rare video published by IS’s Al Furqan network in April, the group’s leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi encouraged followers to fight on and weaken the enemy by attrition, stressing that waging war is more important than winning. Hassan Abu Hanieh, a Jordanian expert on Islamists, said IS has used guerrilla tactics to temporarily seize towns in order to attract media coverage but also as part of a new strategic approach.

6. THREE ARRESTED FOR ALLEGED KIDNAPPING, IMPERSONATION BY POLICE IN ANAMBRA.
In its new proactive measure, the Police in Anambra State has arrested a serving Nigerian soldier and three others in military uniforms for allegedly kidnapping a young man, one Uchenna Ezeonu, in Ekwulobia, Aguata Local Government of the state. The soldier, L/Cpl Ojiegbe Obinna according to the Police is serving at 101 Special Forces Battalion, Nigerian Army, Maiduguri, Borno State and committed the alleged offense in full military uniform. He and the other two in military vests, Obasi Peter and Benjamin Nicholas were said to have abducted Uchenna Ezeonu of Omeke village Ekwulobia and whisked him away to an unknown destination. They were, however, arrested in the bush along Uyo- Eke market road with another suspect Okoye Ugochukwu by men of Operation Puff Adder in conjunction with Joint Patrol teams. Confirming the arrest yesterday, the State Police Public Relations Officer, Haruna Mohammed (SP) said their victim, Ezeonu was rescued unhurt.

7. NHRC, UNHCR TRAIN MILITARY, CJTF, VIGILANTE HUNTERS ON HUMAN RIGHTS, CIVIC PROTECTION
The National Human Rights Commission(NHRC) and United Nations High Commissioner For Refugees (UNHCR) Friday organized a training workshop for Military personnel, Civilian Joint Taskforce ( CJTF ) members and vigilante Hunters fighting Boko haram insurgency in Borno state on humanitarian principles and civilian protection in counter- insurgency operations. Addressing newsmen , the Executive Secretary NHRC, Mr Tony Ojukwu said the programme, which has its theme: “Mainstreaming Human Rights; Humanitarian Principles and Civilian Protection in Counter Insurgency Operations in the Northeast”, is to checkmate human right violations in the execution of the war against Boko Haram insurgency. He added that the exercise was imperative to expose the participants to human right laws, rules of engagement and enhance civic protection in the implementation of the counter insurgency campaign.

8. 2,295 TEACHERS KILLED, 1,500 SCHOOLS DESTROYED IN NINE YEARS BY BOKO HARAM IN NIGERIA
Boko Haram has killed an estimated 2,295 teachers and displaced 19,000 people in northeastern Nigeria since it launched an insurgency in 2009 to establish an Islamic emirate, the African nation’s minister of education revealed this week. The English translation for the name Boko Haram is “Western education is forbidden.” Since 2014 alone, Boko Haram has destroyed 1,500 schools, resulting in 1,280 casualties among teachers and students, the Nation reported on Friday. Nigeria’s Legit.ng media outlet quotes Education Minister Mallam Adamu Adamu as saying.

9. KIDNAPPERS LED BY SOLDIER ARRESTED – POLICE.
The police in Anambra State have arrested suspected members of a four-man kidnap gang. The suspects allegedly wear military uniform to deceive and kidnap unsuspecting members of the public. Three of them, including a lance corporal in the Nigerian army, were wearing military uniform and vests when they were nabbed by the police on Friday after allegedly abducting one Uchenna Ezeonu in Ekwulobia, Anambra State, the police said. The suspects, Obasi Peter, Benjamin Nicholas and Ojiegbe Obinna, were arrested alongside three suspected accomplices. Confirming the arrest, police spokesperson, Haruna Mohammed, said the victim was rescued unhurt.

10. CURRENT SECURITY PROBLEMS THREATENING EXISTENCE OF NIGERIA, SAYS CDS.
THE Chief of Defence Staff, General Gabriel Olonisakin, has raised alarm that the current security problems bedeviling Nigerian was threatening its continued corporate existence, asking the nation’s security services to synergize to arrest the situation. Giving a keynote address at the closing ceremony of the Joint Campaign Planning Course, held at the Defence Intelligence College, Abuja, Olonisakin,who noted that arresting the security problems required collective efforts, however, regretted that there was a gap in synergies among the nation’s security agencies in operations undertaken by the Armed Forces of Nigeria.

NAF DEGRADES BOKO HARAM MEETING VENUE AT BULA KOREGE IN BORNO STATE

The Air Task Force (ATF) for Operation LAFIYA DOLE has decimated a location at Bula Korege on the fringes of Sambisa Forest in Borno State, being used by Boko Haram Terrorists (BHTs) as a meeting venue. The attack was conducted on 25 May 2019 following successive days of Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (ISR) missions, coupled with Human Intelligence reports, that established that some structures within the settlement were being used as a rendezvous by the BHTs from where they assemble to launch attacks against own troops and innocent civilians. Accordingly, the ATF detailed a fighter aircraft to attack the hideout, scoring hits within the target area leading to significant degrading of the BHT structures. Several BHTs were also killed as a result of the strikes.

The NAF, operating in concert with surface forces, will sustain its operations to completely degrade the terrorists in the Northeast.

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


Video link: https://www.facebook.com/1684425015103776/posts/2322173151328956/

ugo4u:
At that level na pure politics. The position is highly political, in Nigeria nobody sends merit oo.
CAS maybe elevated to CDS..

I pray he still retains the post of the CAS.

ugo4u:
As it stands now the Army chief is going, currently serious lobbying has started I won't mention names of senior officers penned down(For Army Chief) most of them are from the north why one major general from the east is also one of the hopefuls. Won't say much

Okay all finger crossed, till then......
But on a more serious note should the post of Military chiefs be by appointment by Mr president, Seniority or how well such chief will deliver. We all want the CAS to stay or be promoted to CDS because of his outstanding achievement. What do you think ?

Two female siblings in military service.

LTGEN:
Expect the Service Chiefs to be retired by
July 2019
Expect the NAF Chief to be either promoted to CDS or to be retired and given a political post
related to defence.

Only the CDS would be retired or no shake up's at all..

NAF AIRCRAFT DESTROYS ARMED BANDITS CAMP, NEUTRALIZES DOZENS AT DOUMBOUROU FOREST IN ZAMFARA STATE

The Air Component of Operation HADARIN DAJI has destroyed an armed bandits’ camp and neutralized dozens of bandits in air strikes conducted at Doumbourou Forest in Zamfara State. The operation was executed yesterday, 25 May 2019, pursuant to human intelligence (HUMINT) reports indicating that some locations within the Forest were being used by the armed bandits as hideouts, including a group of huts belonging to a notorious kingpin named “Dangote”. Accordingly, following confirmatory Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (ISR), an Alpha Jet aircraft was detailed to attack the armed bandits’ camp leading to the destruction of their structures and neutralization of close to two dozen bandits.

The NAF, working in consonance with other security agencies, will sustain its operations to flush the bandits out of the Northwest of the Country.

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

Video link: https://www.facebook.com/1684425015103776/posts/2321571564722448/