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Nigerian Navy Basic Training School Passing Out Parade. Armed And Unarmed Combat.


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CBN to print Gambian CurrencyPublished on June 16, 2021By Ochogwu Sunday

The Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, says it is ready to mint the Gambian Dalasi at the Nigerian Security Printing and Minting PLC (NSPMC) facility when both parties sign the deal.

Mr Godwin Emefiele, the CBN Governor accepted the proposal by the Governor of Central Bank of Gambia, Buah Saidy to mint the country’s currency.

The CBG Governor made the proposal on Tuesday when he led a top delegation of the Gambian apex bank to Godwin Emefiele in Abuja.

According to Buah Saidy, the officials embarked on a two-day visit to Nigeria to learn from the capacity of CBN in a bid to improve on their own structure.

“The reason we are here is that when I took over as the Central Bank Governor, I realised that we have certain weaknesses, and to address those weaknesses, there is no better place than the Central Bank of Nigeria, that is why I brought my team to Abuja,” he said.

Mr. Emefiele who pledged to grant their demands, said, “we are willing to assist in printing your currency. We can be extremely competitive in terms of cost”.

https://dailypost.ng/2021/06/16/cbn-to-print-gambian-currency/

The President arrives Maiduguri with fighter jets screaming overhead - this video of NAF 001 doesn't appear dated but presidential or military protocol in Nigeria is generally more grand and first world in nature than in most countries of Africa and elsewhere.

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

The Presidential Helicopter departs Lagos days earlier. When you are in Lagos you know this is Lagos however the presidential detail stood up

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hzEj74XABXE

The President arriving Police College Lagos

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M7FQH-12C94

The President arrives Maiduguri with fighter jets screaming overhead - this video of NAF 001 doesn't appear dated but presidential or military protocol in Nigeria is generally more grand and first world in nature than in most countries of Africa and elsewhere.

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

The Presidential Helicopter departs Lagos days earlier. When you are in Lagos you know this is Lagos however the presidential detail stood up

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hzEj74XABXE

The President arriving Police College Lagos

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M7FQH-12C94

Defense HQ full brief of military operations


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uFZ-l4BL6Y0

Defense HQ full brief of military operations


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uFZ-l4BL6Y0

Nigerian military security operations briefing


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3LsagwbY3zE

Nigerian military security operations briefing


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3LsagwbY3zE

ADDRESS BY HIS EXCELLENCY MUHAMMADU BUHARI PRESIDENT AND COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF OF THE ARMED FORCES OF THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF NIGERIA DURING HIS OFFICIAL VISIT TO PERSONNEL OF THE ARMED FORCES AND OTHER SECURITY AGENCIES IN OPERATION HADIN KAI, 17 JUNE 2021

I am delighted to be with you this afternoon, to address you on this special occasion of my official visit to Borno State. I want to seize this opportunity to put it on record that our nation will forever be indebted to you, for your patriotic commitment to the defence of our fatherland against insurgency and criminality.

2. I therefore commend you and remember all the personnel who have paid the supreme sacrifice in ensuring that Nigeria remains an indivisible and secure entity.

3. As I send my heartfelt condolences to the families of our fallen heroes and pray for the souls of the departed, I want to assure you that this administration will spare no effort or resources to ensure that the widows and children of our fallen heroes who paid the supreme price in defence of our beloved country, are well cared for.

4. Furthermore, we will continue to ensure that our wounded comrades get the best medical attention towards their full recovery.

5. While acknowledging your collective efforts at decimating and degrading the terrorists and reaffirming the inviolable sovereignty of our nation, I also wish to extol your steadfastness and untiring efforts in the face of the difficulties you experience in the Theatres of Operation.

6. Your collective efforts have resulted in the relative peace being enjoyed in the region today. Under my watch, the Armed Forces of Nigeria have been provided a firm strategy and clear sense of direction to safeguard the sovereignty and territorial integrity of the country.

7. We should not allow our adversaries the opportunity or breathing space to challenge or undermine our national interests and core values. The defence and security agencies should rest assured of the Federal Government's unalloyed commitment to winning the battle against terror and criminality.

8. I am particularly happy to note the increasing understanding and cooperation within the military, as well as the inter-agency cooperation in the fight against the terrorists and other criminal elements in the North East.

9. The outcome of this synergy is evidenced by the successes recorded in the ongoing Operation TURA TAKAIBANGO which has so far degraded the insurgents’ capabilities in the Timbuktu Triangle, Sambisa Forest and the Lake Chad Region. I am therefore pleased to acknowledge that the military and other security agencies including civilian stakeholders are adhering to the true spirit of Operation HADIN KAI which implies “jointness, synergy and cooperation.”

10. By pooling together, the collective resources and comparative advantages of the Armed Forces and other security agencies, we hope the enemy will now feel the ferocity of our firepower and the weight of our resolve.

11. Side by side with the efforts of the Armed Forces and security agencies, this Administration is developing a strategy for post-war reconstruction and peace-building. Concerted efforts are being made to fast-track re-construction and development programmes in the affected communities in the North East.

12. I am hopeful that this will lead to the speedy resettlement of displaced persons, as well as the restoration of bubbling community life as the people return to their homes.

13. Alongside investment in development and reconstruction, we will sustain our investment in the Armed Forces in a manner that balances the "carrot and stick".

14. Several interventions by this government have led to the procurement and delivery of large consignments of critical combat enablers, including high calibre weapons and ammunition.

15. Many have been injected into the Theatre and soon other equipment that have just arrived the country would also be deployed to the Theatre of operations. Much more equipment will be procured for the Armed Forces to cater for both the short and long-term requirements.

16. I would like, at this point to also commend the hierarchy of our Armed Forces for their strategic foresight in ensuring that some of our critical military equipment are fabricated locally.

17. The repairs and maintenance of some of these vital weapons are now being carried out in the country thereby saving the nation a lot of foreign exchange and also creating jobs for our teeming population.

18. As personnel of our Armed Forces and security agencies, you must understand that these items of equipment must be put to good use against the terrorists and other criminal elements. There is no room for complacency, and no need to be less than 100 per cent alert at all times.

19. As your Commander-in-Chief, I want to assure you that this government will continue to work towards the provision of timely funding and procurement of equipment for the Armed Forces and other security agencies. This is intended to boost the prosecution of the ongoing war to a logical conclusion and also to serve our collective interests and well-being.

20. In addition, your welfare is of utmost importance and concern to this government. I am glad that the gradual rotation of the troops in the field has commenced, as I directed. I am sure that this will minimize and possibly eliminate battle fatigue, as well as enhance troops’ morale.

21. I now wish to thank you for your unalloyed loyalty and selfless sacrifices towards the defence of our country. Your courage and gallantry will continue to inspire others, as they echo into the future.

22. While I commend your resilience, let me remind you that there is still a lot of work to be done, to completely restore peace to the North East, stem the activities of armed bandits in the North West and North Central, as well as deal with other security challenges across the country.

23. You must therefore remain steadfast and see this war to a conclusive end. In doing so, you must rely on interagency cooperation, strengthen your cohesion with the troops of neighboring Republics of Cameroon, Chad and Niger in our collective fight against the terrorists, under the auspices of the Multinational Joint Task Force. This will consolidate our efforts and facilitate the speedy return of peace and stability to the region.

24.​ Once again I salute your courage and wish you the best, as you continue to make Nigeria proud.

God bless you all and God bless the Federal Republic of Nigeria.

Interesting and insightful presentation to the National Assembly, Abuja of command and experience in combat theater and with serving senior course mates by the new Chief of Army Staff (COAS) Major General Farouk Yahaya.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Og-50RnrLKY

Interesting and insightful presentation to the National Assembly, Abuja of command and experience in combat theater and with serving senior course mates by the new Chief of Army Staff (COAS) Major General Farouk Yahaya.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Og-50RnrLKY

US military guns keep vanishing, some used in street crimes

Pulling a pistol from his waistband, the young man spun his human shield toward police.

“Don’t do it!” a pursuing officer pleaded. The young man complied, releasing the bystander and tossing the gun, which skittered across the city street and then into the hands of police.

They soon learned that the 9mm Beretta had a rap sheet. Bullet casings linked it to four shootings, all of them in Albany, New York.

And there was something else. The pistol was U.S. Army property, a weapon intended for use against America’s enemies, not on its streets.

The Army couldn’t say how its Beretta M9 got to New York’s capital. Until the June 2018 police foot chase, the Army didn’t even realize someone had stolen the gun. Inventory records checked by investigators said the M9 was 600 miles away -- safe inside Fort Bragg, North Carolina.

“It’s incredibly alarming,” said Albany County District Attorney David Soares. “It raises the other question as to what else is seeping into a community that could pose a clear and present danger.”

The armed services and the Pentagon are not eager for the public to know the answer.

A photo illustration of semi-automatic weapons inside a U.S. Marine Corps arms room at Camp Foster. (AP Illustration)
A photo illustration of semi-automatic weapons inside a U.S. Marine Corps arms room at Camp Foster. (AP Illustration)
In the first public accounting of its kind in decades, an Associated Press investigation has found that at least 1,900 U.S. military firearms were lost or stolen during the 2010s, with some resurfacing in violent crimes. Because some armed services have suppressed the release of basic information, AP’s total is a certain undercount.

Government records covering the Army, Marine Corps, Navy and Air Force show pistols, machine guns, shotguns and automatic assault rifles have vanished from armories, supply warehouses, Navy warships, firing ranges and other places where they were used, stored or transported. These weapons of war disappeared because of unlocked doors, sleeping troops, a surveillance system that didn’t record, break-ins and other security lapses that, until now, have not been publicly reported.

While AP’s focus was firearms, military explosives also were lost or stolen, including armor-piercing grenades that ended up in an Atlanta backyard.

Weapon theft or loss spanned the military’s global footprint, touching installations from coast to coast, as well as overseas. In Afghanistan, someone cut the padlock on an Army container and stole 65 Beretta M9s -- the same type of gun recovered in Albany. The theft went undetected for at least two weeks, when empty pistol boxes were discovered in the compound. The weapons were not recovered.


Even elite units are not immune. A former member of a Marines special operations unit was busted with two stolen guns. A Navy SEAL lost his pistol during a fight in a restaurant in Lebanon.

The Pentagon used to share annual updates about stolen weapons with Congress, but the requirement to do so ended years ago and public accountability has slipped. The Army and Air Force, for example, couldn’t readily tell AP how many weapons were lost or stolen from 2010 through 2019. So the AP built its own database, using extensive federal Freedom of Information Act requests to review hundreds of military criminal case files or property loss reports, as well as internal military analysis and data from registries of small arms.

Sometimes, weapons disappear without a paper trail. Military investigators regularly close cases without finding the firearms or person responsible because shoddy records lead to dead ends.

The military’s weapons are especially vulnerable to corrupt insiders responsible for securing them. They know how to exploit weak points within armories or the military’s enormous supply chains. Often from lower ranks, they may see a chance to make a buck from a military that can afford it.

“It’s about the money, right?” said Brig. Gen. Duane Miller, who as deputy provost marshal general is the Army’s No. 2 law enforcement official.

Theft or loss happens more than the Army has publicly acknowledged. During an initial interview, Miller significantly understated the extent to which weapons disappear, citing records that report only a few hundred missing rifles and handguns. But an internal analysis AP obtained, done by the Army’s Office of the Provost Marshal General, tallied 1,303 firearms.

In a second interview, Miller said he wasn’t aware of the memos, which had been distributed throughout the Army, until AP pointed them out following the first interview. “If I had the information in front of me,” Miller said, “I would share it with you.” Other Army officials said the internal analysis might overstate some losses.

The AP’s investigation began a decade ago. From the start, the Army has given conflicting information on a subject with the potential to embarrass -- and that’s when it has provided information at all. A former insider described how Army officials resisted releasing details of missing guns when AP first inquired, and indeed that information was never provided.

Top officials within the Army, Marines and Secretary of Defense’s office said that weapon accountability is a high priority, and when the military knows a weapon is missing it does trigger a concerted response to recover it. The officials also said missing weapons are not a widespread problem and noted that the number is a tiny fraction of the military’s stockpile.

“We have a very large inventory of several million of these weapons,” Pentagon spokesman John Kirby said in an interview. “We take this very seriously and we think we do a very good job. That doesn’t mean that there aren’t losses. It doesn’t mean that there aren’t mistakes made.”

Kirby said those mistakes are few, though, and last year the military could account for 99.999% of its firearms. “Though the numbers are small, one is too many,” he said.

In the absence of a regular reporting requirement, the Pentagon is responsible for informing Congress of any “significant” incidents of missing weapons. That hasn’t happened since at least 2017. While a missing portable missile such as a Stinger would qualify for notifying lawmakers, a stolen machine gun would not, according to a senior Department of Defense official whom the Pentagon provided for an interview on condition the official not be named.

While AP’s analysis covered the 2010s, incidents persist.

In May, an Army trainee who fled Fort Jackson in South Carolina with an M4 rifle hijacked a school bus full of children, pointing his unloaded assault weapon at the driver before eventually letting everyone go.


Surveillance video from a school bus hijacking involving an Army recruit in South Carolina. (AP Video/Courtesy of Richland County Sheriff's Office)

Last October, police in San Diego were startled to find a military grenade launcher on the front seat of a car they pulled over for expired license plates. The driver and his passenger were middle-aged men with criminal records.

After publicizing the arrest, police got a call from a Marine Corps base up the Pacific coast. The Marines wanted to know if the grenade launcher was one they needed to find. They read off a serial number.

It wasn’t a match.

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CRIME GUNS

Stolen military guns have been sold to street gang members, recovered on felons and used in violent crimes.

The AP identified eight instances in which five different stolen military firearms were used in a civilian shooting or other violent crime, and others in which felons were caught possessing weapons. To find these cases, AP combed investigative and court records, as well as published reports. Federal restrictions on sharing firearms information publicly mean the case total is certainly an undercount.

The military requires itself to inform civilian law enforcement when a gun is lost or stolen, and the services help in subsequent investigations. The Pentagon does not track crime guns, and spokesman Kirby said his office was unaware of any stolen firearms used in civilian crimes.

The closest AP could find to an independent tally was done by the FBI’s Criminal Justice Information Services. It said 22 guns issued by the U.S. military were used in a felony during the 2010s. That total could include surplus weapons the military sells to the public or loans to civilian law enforcement.

Those FBI records also appear to be undercount. They say that no military-issue gun was used in a felony in 2018, but at least one was.

Back in June 2018, Albany police were searching for 21-year-old Alvin Damon. They’d placed him at a shooting which involved the Beretta M9, a workhorse weapon for the military that is similar to a model Beretta produces for the civilian market.

Surveillance video obtained by AP shows another man firing the gun four times at a group of people off camera, taking cover behind a building between shots. Two men walking with him scattered, one dropping his hat in the street. No one was injured.

Two months later, Detective Daniel Seeber spotted Damon on a stoop near the Prince Deli corner store. Damon took off running and, not far into the chase, grabbed a bystander who had just emerged from the deli with juice and a bag of chips.


Surveillance footage of a shooting with an Army Beretta M9 pistol on the streets of Albany, New York. (AP Video/Courtesy of Albany County District Attorney's Office)

After Detective Seeber defused the standoff, officers collected the pistol. A check by New York State Police returned leads to four Albany shootings, including one just the day before in which a bullet lodged in a living room wall. In another, someone was shot in the ankle.

At the request of Albany police, the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives traced the gun’s story. The ATF contacted Army’s Criminal Investigation Command, and a review of Army inventory systems showed the M9 had been listed as “in-transit” between two Fort Bragg units for two years before police recovered it.

And the Army still doesn’t know who stole the gun, or when.

The case wasn’t the first in which police recovered a stolen service pistol before troops at Fort Bragg realized it was missing. AP found a second instance, involving a pistol that was among 21 M9s stolen from an arms room.

Military police learned of the theft in 2010. By then, one of the M9s was sitting in an evidence room in the Hoke County Sheriff’s Department, picked up in a North Carolina backyard not far from Bragg. Another M9 was later seized in Durham after it was used in a parking lot shooting.

Another steady North Carolina source of weapons has been Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune, where authorities often have an open missing weapons investigation. Detectives in Baltimore found a Beretta M9 stolen from a Lejeune armory during a cocaine bust. The Naval Criminal Investigative Service found in the 2011 case that inventory and security procedures were rarely followed. Three guns were stolen; no one was charged.

FROM THE STOLEN WEAPONS FILES:
– Stolen Army assault rifles keep showing up in California
– Military stumped by stolen box of armor-piercing grenades
– With Massachusetts armory theft, military guns went public
Deputies in South Carolina were called in 2017 after a man started wildly shooting an M9 pistol into the air during an argument with his girlfriend. The boyfriend, a convicted felon, then started shooting toward a neighbor’s house. The pistol came from a National Guard armory that a thief entered through an unlocked door, hauling off six automatic weapons, a grenade launcher and five M9s.

Meanwhile, authorities in central California are still finding AK-74 assault rifles that were among 26 stolen from Fort Irwin a decade ago. Military police officers stole the guns from the Army base, selling some to the Fresno Bulldogs street gang.

At least nine of the AKs have not been recovered.

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INSIDER THREAT

The people with easiest access to military firearms are those who handle and secure them.

In the Army, they are often junior soldiers assigned to armories or arms rooms, according to Col. Kenneth Williams, director of supply under the Army’s G-4 Logistics branch.

“This is a young guy or gal,” Williams said. “This is a person normally on their first tour of duty. So you can see that we put great responsibility on our soldiers immediately when they come in.”


Armorers have access both to firearms and the spare parts kept for repairs. These upper receivers, lower receivers and trigger assemblies can be used to make new guns or enhance existing ones.

“We’ve seen issues like that in the past where an armorer might build an M16” automatic assault rifle from military parts, said Mark Ridley, a former deputy director of the Naval Criminal Investigative Service. “You have to be really concerned with certain armorers and how they build small arms and small weapons.”

In 2014, NCIS began investigating the theft of weapons parts from Special Boat Team Twelve, a Navy unit based in Coronado, California. Four M4 trigger assemblies that could make a civilian AR-15 fully automatic were missing. Investigators found an armory inventory manager was manipulating electronic records by moving items or claiming they had been transferred. The parts were never recovered and the case was closed after federal prosecutors declined to file charges.

Weapons accountability is part of military routine. Armorers are supposed to check weapons when they open each day. Sight counts, a visual total of weapons on hand, are drilled into troops whether they are in the field, on patrol or in the arms room. But as long as there have been armories, people have been stealing from them.

Weapons enter the public three main ways: direct sales from thieves to buyers, through pawn shops and surplus stores, and online.

Investigators have found sensitive and restricted parts for military weapons on sites including eBay, which said in a statement it has “zero tolerance” for stolen military gear on its site.

At Fort Campbell, Kentucky, soldiers stole machine gun parts and other items that ended up with online buyers in Russia, China, Mexico and elsewhere. The civilian ringleader, who was found with a warehouse of items, was convicted. Authorities said he made hundreds of thousands of dollars.

Often though, recovering a weapon can prove hard.

A photo illustration of an arms room at Malmstrom Air Force Base. (AP Illustration)
A photo illustration of an arms room at Malmstrom Air Force Base. (AP Illustration)
When an M203 grenade launcher couldn’t be found during a 2019 inventory at a Marine Corps supply base in Albany, Georgia, investigators sought surveillance camera footage. It didn’t exist. The warehouse manager said the system couldn’t be played back at the time.

An analysis of 45 firearms-only investigations in the Navy and Marines found that in 55% of cases, no suspect could be found and weapons remained missing. In those unresolved cases, investigators found records were destroyed or falsified, armories lacked basic security and inventories weren’t completed for weeks or months.

“Gun-decking” is Navy slang for faking work. In the case of the USS Comstock, gun-decking led to the disappearance of three pistols.

A photo illustration of U.S. service members in Afghanistan. (AP Illustration)
A photo illustration of U.S. service members in Afghanistan. (AP Illustration)
Investigators found numerous security lapses in the 2012 case, including one sailor asleep in the armory. The missing pistols weren’t properly logged in the ship’s inventory when they were received several days before. Investigators couldn’t pinpoint what day they disappeared because sailors gun-decked inventory reports by not doing actual counts.

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ROOM FOR DISCREPANCY

Military officials shied from discussing how many guns they have, much less how many are missing.

AP learned that the Army, the largest of the armed services, is responsible for about 3.1 million small arms. Across all four branches, the U.S. military has an estimated 4.5 million firearms, according to the nonprofit organization Small Arms Survey.

In its accounting, whenever possible AP eliminated cases in which firearms were lost in combat, during accidents such as aircraft crashes and similar incidents where a weapon’s fate was known.

Unlike the Army and Air Force, which could not answer basic questions about missing weapons, the Marines and Navy were able to produce data covering the 2010s.

The Navy data showed that 211 firearms were reported lost or stolen. In addition, 63 firearms previously considered missing were recovered.

According to AP’s analysis of data from the Marines, 204 firearms were lost or stolen, with 14 later recovered.


To account for missing weapons, the Pentagon relies on incident reports from the services, which it keeps for only three years.

Pentagon officials said that approximately 100 firearms were unaccounted for in both 2019 and 2018. A majority of those were attributable to accidents or combat losses, they said. Even though AP’s total excluded accidents and combat losses whenever known, it was higher than what the services reported to the Pentagon.

The officials said they could only discuss how many weapons were missing dating to 2018. The reason: They aren’t required to keep earlier records. Without providing documentation, the Pentagon said the number of missing weapons was down significantly in 2020, when the pandemic curtailed many military operations.

The Air Force was the only service branch not to release data. It first responded to several Freedom of Information Act requests by saying no records existed. Air Force representatives then said they would not provide details until yet another FOIA request, filed 1.5 years ago, was fully processed.

The Army sought to suppress information on missing weapons and gave misleading numbers that contradict internal memos.

A photo illustration of a gun in a U.S. Air Force arms room. (AP Illustration)
A photo illustration of a gun in a U.S. Air Force arms room. (AP Illustration)
The AP began asking the Army for details on missing weapons in 2011 and filed a formal request a year later for records of guns listed as missing, lost, stolen or recovered in the Department of Defense Small Arms and Light Weapons Registry. Charles Royal, the former Army civilian employee who was in charge of the registry, said that he prepared records for release that higher ups eventually blocked in 2013.

“You’re dealing with millions of weapons,” Royal said in a recent interview. “But we’re supposed to have 100% recon, right. OK, we’re not allowed a discrepancy on that. But there’s so much room for discrepancy.”

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Xbee007:
Yesso, let us continue to celebrate terrorists. As if the group Al Nonsense was part of has not killed over 50k civilian. Terrorists are terrorists!

These are sick people. We should first throw them to the terrorists to find out exactly what terrorists mean. I bet they would be crying for that same Nigerian Army to come save them

Btw false flag operations are paying off

GeneralFarouq:
The unconditional realese of hostages is definitely for public policy.
They seek for public support, Some of these hostages may have been brainwashed into aiding terrorist activities ...
It safer to consider the worst case scenario

The ISWAP terrorist leader is feeling the heat and this is only suggestive of an olive branch to slow down military operations or signs of a moderate form of Islamafascists jihad if anything like that which we don't know of.

But what do you say to people celebrating the release of captives by terrorists under whatever guise when such an organization is still holding on to a girl child like Leah Shaibu forcibly turned into a "woman and mother" against her will because of her faith. I can bet the Nigerian Army can not be equated with such atrocities as an official strategy of warfare. This tells you the kind of people we are dealing with here on Nairaland complete hypocrites.

The only thing the Nigerian Army or indeed any Army will do is to escalate violence equal to or above that perpetuated by any belligerent organization or enemy for a desired political objective in favor of the state albeit professionally. You don't go to a gunfight with cutlass and expect to be pampered. You meet violence with violence, it is simply the nature of warfare. If you carry a gun you ask to die.

The level of brigandage in Nigeria today by various groups in most cases have exceeded bare knuckle police action. Nigeria is where America was in the 1800s for reasons of birth pangs and honest President Abraham Lincoln the 16th president of the United States met violence with violence shelling in some cases whole states with warships from the coasts to bring back some level of sanity. Something I highly recommend under the present circumstances else their would be no Nigeria. And anyone castigating the restrained measures of the Nigerian military doing the utmost it can to restore order is an enemy and should be treated as such. Enough is enough.

First ISWAP should release Leah Shaibu and others like her and then we can talk TERMS of SURRENDER and nothing else will suffice otherwise the fighting and bombings will continue until every terrorist life within that radius they hibernate is wiped out totally.

But what does it tell us when grown men here whose reasoning is be-clouded by absolute hatred for Nigeria begin to equate civilised society however flawed with terrorists that are unforgiving, a complete neurotic breakdown.

Aljazeera English News Coverage of Nigeria's DEEP BLUE PROJECT of The Gulf of Guinea


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t8Y6JsvLitY

Aljazeera English News Coverage of Nigeria's DEEP BLUE PROJECT of The Gulf of Guinea


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t8Y6JsvLitY

Truthshots23:
The usual temper tantrums and repetations from a broken mind. You really have nothing to say.

Whatever helps you sleep at night.

I'm sure only a broken mind distorts facts and I don't. Not to worry I'm good, very good.

But let me help you somewhat assuming you are won't to, stop speaking in condescending manner to people here. True not everybody is of same educational level and social status but being here speaks a lot about them. Some want to learn, others want to contribute and yes others want to be an outright a.s.sh.ol.e but it might just be being here helps them let off steam especially if they have no girlfriend you see, or wife, it just could be anything.

Lastly though not the least having jumped and passed you many times is that what you think you have there are many others who have it and even better and yet make no noise about it. That way they create new opportunities to be even better. There are real professionals here I mean soldiers and other disciplines and maybe even spooks who can go to more countries on multiple passports on a whim and might be watching you too. Learn to hide in public.

So take it easy. Drink water. Relax and live.

About Buhari whether I like him or not is a personal choice. I don't like his political and economic policies and my missive has been clear on that passionately for years but there are those who like him for whatever reasons and it is civil to respect that. The most we can do is to have an intellectual conversation and somehow make them see the light and many have and many haven't, rather stuck to their guns so what do we do - it's called democracy.

In two years time we have a chance if we do the right things to have a true national leader.

Buhari isn't a national leader and all the problems we have right now with agitations can be traced right back to him because of his fulanisation of most strategic postings.

Now has he eaten our money for weapons and some infrastructural development? no he hasn't and the evidence speaks for itself.

Did they eat some of it? Maybe some of it but certainly not all of it. We can see the evidence.

Was that the case with GEJ and the PDP? No! You may disagree but rather we have evidence they stole brazenly in broad day light money meant for weapons and equipment. We all know that and because you are his kinsman shouldnt make you deny the facts. It speaks a whole lot of who you are and that's up to you.

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Truthshots23:
the likes of you are always quick to make unfounded accusations, I am opposing bigottery, not operating bigottery. I sm not going to self mute in order to look "neutral" when a northern fulani president is operating full bigottery. Not opposing a bigot from an other ethnic group doesn't make you anti-tribalised, it makes you sn idiot.

Also I have been reading your comments, that is what I was talking about. You are extremely timid in criticizing buhari and extremely audacious and light with facts while criticizing buhari's predecessor.

What really strikes is that many of you guys really respect dictatorship and spit on democracy. You don't even seem to realize when you do it.

You are a self-effaced ethnocentric bigot and the evidence speaks for itself. You might add I.diot to that. Don't quote me again except you have something akin to intellectual quotient.

As it is you don't. Besides you couldn't have been reading my mention and make such myopic, cynical and uninformed submission.

You just want to be heard. Sorry not here.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wos1T6Oi38A

Truthshots23:
1) I was wondering what side you were on, but I saw you blaming GEJ for buhari winning election and proceeding to congratulate buhari for not squandering money for procurement. ( that is still to be proven, buratai savings scheme and malami magic appearance of money in his account are still fresh in my memory)

2) your benefice of the doubt works in mysterious ways since it is blind towards obvious bigottery from buhari, you don't find it strange that all the "qualified" people appointed by buhari are (sunni muslim and northen)

3) you don't even want to know the cv of the competition of the current chief of army staff. The guy got a position which should have gone to one of his superiors, yet you want "benefits of the doubt".

4) I think you are wrong to always trust what is being published by the nigerian government as CV, perharps you have never heard of these two words: lie, propaganda.

5) it is weird that you treat buhari like a new born baby who should be forgiven whatever, but his predecessor is guilty in your eyes untill proven innocent.
If you are not a hypocrite, then you should realise that you fell for the propaganda against the previous president and supported a man who embodies all the allegations made against the previous president.

You simply like to hear yourself speak which represents one full of himself and bigoted.

Go back to all of my mention, get a better sense of what I posit then you may come back for some better perspective and discourse.

I botch my own plot. You save your invectives.

kabe1:
From been referred to the Group of Eight industrialized nations , to Group of Seven Industrialized nations and now to the Group of Seven Largest democracies.

Semantics , just call it group of American lackeys against China, and be done with it.

You keep mentioning South-Africa, for all that is holy, your country has been in and out of recession for the last 4 years.

You're funny, there's first a different meeting held by the G-7 nations, before invited guests like South-Africa are called in for a different session.

You should be more worried about challenges present in South-Africa than mastubating over a G-7 conference with no real direct impact on the lives of ordinary South-Africans.

You hit all nails in the right places.

Gone are the days we used to masturbate over the G7. Kinda surprised you responded. The world has changed with different centers of economic and military power notably China.

All this photo ops mean nothing and I've always viewed them as condescending for years. I mean you hold a meeting then invite Africans to eat of the crumbs that falls from the masters table for which over the years nothing to show for it. Hope we get the kind of president in Nigeria that stops all of this nonsense.

Meanwhile China don't care nor Russia about the G7 or whatever. It is them for them them.

Enough of all this beggar thy neighbor policy. The train has since moved from the station and if we get our acts together with the right partners we may soon be doing the inviting.

DEMOCRACY DAY PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS

Gentlemen, the President and C-In-C of the Armed Forces of the Federal Republic of Nigeria President Muhammadu Buhari GCFR


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m_B6hUO__QQ

DEMOCRACY DAY PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS

Gentlemen, the President and C-In-C of the Armed Forces of the Federal Republic of Nigeria President Muhammadu Buhari GCFR


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m_B6hUO__QQ

Excellent video and reporting by ARISE NEWS on the launch of the new Nigerian Navy LANDING SHIP TANK LST 100. What a good defense reporter can do. Ferdinand did a very good job. Arise News can be our own global network they very much are looking like it more and more. Channels Television can borrow a cue.

T'is not only just so beautiful but a strategic military and power projection asset for the Navy. Things like this breed national pride.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UvYZbKq2WDw

Excellent video and reporting by ARISE NEWS on the launch of the new Nigerian Navy LANDING SHIP TANK LST 100. What a good defense reporter can do. Ferdinand did a very good job. Arise News can be our own global network they very much are looking like it more and more. Channels Television can borrow a cue.

T'is not only just so beautiful but a strategic military and power projection asset for the Navy. Things like this breed national pride.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UvYZbKq2WDw

Curriculum Vitae and Service Profile of Nigeria's new Chief of Army Staff (COAS). A must watch for military, security & defence intellengstia.

Nigeria does have without doubt most of Africa's best trained and qualified military officers. Definitely arguably the best.

The only strategic posting I see missing there in the current CT/COIN dynamics is as commander MNJTF, N'djamena, Chad. But every strategic level course and posting required for this level of command in the Nigerian Army or military generally Major General Yahaya has met them and that at a young age. An impressive feat.

I mean this guy served in the thick of battle in Liberia in the 90's and also in the fearsome Timbuktu Triangle up north. He has served in staff, instructional and command posts and also under the able current CDS General Leo Irabor. We might just give the president the benefit of the doubt whilst working to find jobs and postings for his seniors in military service.


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

Curriculum Vitae and Service Profile of Nigeria's new Chief of Army Staff (COAS). A must watch for military, security & defence intellengstia.

Nigeria does have without doubt most of Africa's best trained and qualified military officers. Definitely arguably the best.

The only strategic posting I see missing there in the current CT/COIN dynamics is as commander MNJTF, N'djamena, Chad. But every strategic level course and posting required for this level of command in the Nigerian Army or military generally Major General Yahaya has met them and that at a young age. An impressive feat.

I mean this guy served in the thick of battle in Liberia in the 90's and also in the fearsome Timbuktu Triangle up north. He has served in staff, instructional and command posts and also under the able current CDS General Leo Irabor. We might just give the president the benefit of the doubt whilst working to find jobs and postings for his seniors in military service.


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

DEEP BLUE: From NIMASA To You Brand New

Some really excellent projects like this by the administration. Rotimi Amaechi the minister of transport actually laid claim to this idea and reality. It actually shows what we can do and become as a nation if we get the right leaders.

Whyem15:
If we are to spend extra money on defense in this manner, why not focus more on solving internal problems.
I'm thinking along the line of a national guard force. Some of the structures are already in place. Deep blue will be converted to coast guard, manpower will be drawn from customs and immigration for border guards and the various state security outfits will be converted to state units of the national guard.

I have also made same submissions about a National Guard. Any of these Generals can be seconded there. NIMASA as Coast Guard well.

I have also suggested development of a Marine Corp entity with a complete different doctrine of combat following some tactical losses in the North-East which can solely be blamed on the way the army fights its wars.

But all of this will cost money and a lot of it.

The truth is we have to spend more on defense. We still have to give credit to the present administration they have really done more in terms of defense spending. We need more.

About internal problems we actually have a policing problem. The present police force is inadequate, corrupt, mostly ill-trained except some intelligence units. It will take complete restructuring to make it work. The military can't be called in everywhere there's a local matter of cutlass and home made guns between civilians.

Whyem15:
This one is going back from DHQ to army headquarters.
They are probably making ways for some of the "affected" RC 36 members so that not all of them will be retired.

It is a subtle way of telling you to find your way. The CDS is a modern man and the military generally has been looking at the American command structure for many years apparently now they are being innovative with that but you may wear the uniform and rank but have no job. It's not exactly where any man want to be. Its like a footballer warming the bench.

DubaiLandLord:
I've talked about the issue of retiring MG compulsorily because a junior MG was promoted to the rank of LTG more than a year ago on this thread.

I believe a 3 star General out rank a 2 star General so that has settle the issue of who the most senior officer will be. Any MG that is not comfortable can now retire voluntarily.

I even used the US military as an example. In the US army, person wey una join the same year fit later dey serve as a GEN make you still dey LTGEN.

But the word in bold Shey nah inside Nigeria all this West African command, Central Africa command etc go dey or dem go dey other African countries?

All this will cost billions of dollars, abeg make dem spend am on infrastructure for here, we need power supply, good roads, good and cheap health care centers, we need to spend more money on primary and secondary education too not to talk of the tertiary level and a lot of things still dey wey be say we need to do.

It often comes down to courses passed to out rank a course mate. It's a reality the soldiers know however in this case the president used his constitutional powers of prerogative.

I knew the issue of finance will come but the money spent in retiring these officers every few years its humongous. A little addition to it will do the trick. In West Africa there are many options for a command HQ likewise in other regions of Africa. Nigeria actually has more clout than you may think. The Military High Command can actually have some of these combatant commands for a start domiciled at Ship House and Defense HQ. The idea is not to go and start wars. The military is not all about fighting all of the time. Instead of a fire brigade approach like we had in Mali we can be ahead of the game. Countries we never thought of are now filling in the military gaps in most of these African countries that we used to do.

Defense costs money. This is a reality the present administration is slowly waking up to.