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DubaiLandLord:
The Chief of Defence Staff, General Lucky Irabor, on Thursday met with major-generals, Air vice Marshals and the rear admirals who are members of the Regular Course 36 and senior to the new Chief of Army Staff, Major General Farouk Yahaya.

The meeting was convened with a view to tactically easing out no fewer than 70 major generals, AVMs and rear admirals out of the service, The PUNCH can authoritatively report.

The President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), had skipped 29 major-generals and appointed Yahaya who is a member of Regular Course 37, a move which has been generating controversy in the last two weeks.

Irabor subsequently asked members of Course 36 to proceed on courses of their choice and to no longer report at their duty posts.

The Thursday meeting was sequel to a letter marked DH/ABJ/401/38/ADM dated June 4, 2021 which was marked ‘restricted’ but was obtained by our correspondent.

The letter was signed by Rear Admiral AB Adamu on behalf of the CDS.

It read in part, “Ref A (NOTAL) under the cover of Ref B (NOTAL) approved the commencement of annual leave in respect of Maj Gen JB Olawunmi (N/8795) and 28 others who are members of 36RC in the NA. The snr offrs (senior officers) were to proceed on the annual leave wef 1-30 June. However, I am directed to invite all serving members of 36 RC in the AFN (Maj Gen and equivalent) to a meeting with the CDS as follows. Thursday, June 10, 21; DHQ Conference Hall; 11.00hrs prompt.”

It was learnt that Irabor, based on approval from the Federal Ministry of Defence, asked all the members of regular course 36 across the three services to proceed on courses of their choice for the next one year.

A general, who spoke to our correspondent on the condition of anonymity, said, “Gen Irabor made it clear to everyone that because all course 36 members of the army who are seniors of the current Chief of Army Staff, are being eased out, it would be wrong to retain their course mates in other services.

“To this end, all air vice marshals in the air force and all rear admirals in the navy that are members of Course 36 have been affected. They will not be allowed to continue to report at their respective services or at DHQ. The intention is to get all to resign without forcing them to do so.”

The source said some of the generals would go to the National Institute of Policy and Strategic Studies while others would go to the Administrative Staff College of Nigeria on course.

When asked why the military was taking the action, the general added, “The military now has a tradition whereby when a new chief of any of the branches is appointed, all those who senior him, including those who are in other arms of the military, are eased. This was how members of the Regular Course 35 were all eased out in February.”

https://punchng.com/cds-meets-military-chiefs-prepares-70-generals-for-exit/

This whole nonsense because of Buhari's ineptitude. Wonder who is advising him in the presidency and the defense ministry but I bet this must be from a child at Aso Rock.

Now he has done that the defense ministry gives the go ahead and the CDS has to become innovative about the place of these highly qualified Generals the president was aloof to see beyond his nose because of bare nepotism. Creating unnecessary discontent.

Tell me what GEN. Yahaya is going to do that GEN. Yusuf can't do. I mean next to GEN. Irabor the present CDS, GEN. Yusuf performed almost as good in the NORTH-EAST Campaign as Theater Commander and went up to the MNJTF based in N'djamena, Chad. There is no gainsaying it this president is inept and ascetic.

Let us help them think outside the box. There is no reason to retire these fine gentlemen officers trained at great cost to the state. The model proposed by President Obasanjo during his presidency can come to fruition now which is there's no reason we can't have more than one 4 star General or more 3 star Generals. The point should be about corps and command.

You can set up a West African Command with a Full General or Lt. Gen or its equivalent from either Service posted there reporting to Defence HQ and not to the Service HQ just like you have the MNJTF. There's already a West African template though ad hoc mostly which can be activated on full standby with a full mechanized brigade and support services of the NAF and NN bringing it up to division size.

Same command can be replicated for all the regions of Africa. In peace time they can gather intelligence, do recce, military diplomacy, courses, training and re-training among services and partner nations. That way you keep the Generals happy and busy. After all there's already medals for these in the Armed Forces of Nigeria. Get into action and apply these officers.

Continuing this tradition of retiring fine officers to make way for the political choice of a sitting president is counter-productive.

LAUNCHING OF NIGERIAN NAVY NEWEST LANDING SHIP TANK (LST 100). A MILESTONE.

https://www.facebook.com/nigeriannavyhq/videos/930589811062886/

Well there's your president. Make your judgment. He might appear upright but I see nothing new going to happen in the remaining two years of his presidency something I've said six months into his administration when I since abandoned ship. And I've not being proven wrong. Was it former President Obasanjo who said to be a successful president you need to be more than just a good person. And he proved it.

President Buhari won't change. Forget it.

Credit to him the money for weapons and for some new infrastructure was not stolen. The country is where we are because GEJ and the PDP stole unprecedented amounts of money.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1lKTSdpc0go

When Baba was in charge and Bush visited


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6tXmjT3mV7g

bidexiii:
The official launch of the #DeepBlueProject by His Excellency President Muhammadu Buhari is few hours away. Keep a date with us @imo_hq #TeamNIMASA

Are you sure Bubu will show up himself?
We might see him being represented by the Defence Minister going by recent events.

iblawi:
Old SU30s. They weren't even bought new. Not well equipped.

And to state the Ugandan SU-30s has no precision ground attack capability, no thrust vector control and many other factors like but not limited to Air Power Doctrine and the requisite human resources barely existent in both Air Forces and most Air Forces in Africa.

Much can be said about the Angolan and Ugandan Air Forces but a couple of the guys here deserve no response they are just trolling and mischievous. You can't educate a jaded mind. The facts are self evident and public.

Bubu's nomadic government no dey hear

To think this Buhari supported restructuring in broad daylight and most of us supported him to the hilt against all odds only to get there with his APC hypocrites and reneged on every promise they made including paying 5k NGN to every unemployed youth, massacred our Federal Character system that kept this country together for decades plus many other over reach indifferent actions is something that will not be quickly forgotten even after he leaves office. In a restructured Nigeria a Fulani man may struggle to ever see that Aso Rock again.

"Bubu has messed up Nigeria's pluralism leading to agitation everywhere in Naija yet expecting to kill every fly which is impossible"

Bubu thinks government is to sit down borrow money and share revenue without any innovative programmes of how to fundamentally better the country and its citizens economically, socially and politically.

Yes it is true he has modestly modernized the Armed Forces with new weaponry, started or completed some infrastructure projects but much of the country is still physically broken down and the fundamentals of a viable society is completely missing including security which does not come by just buying weapons, changing security chiefs and demanding security but by giving justice to society by galvanizing them into a national dialogue to address their grievances. It is not by sending our beloved army to quell insurrections that could be wisely avoided in the first place.

Clearly a child must be running this country as it is but it is great a few good men are willing to show Bubu they are not all like him even if they are his kinsman. This Buhari has failed us.

Everytime I remember the 2015 campaigns I have a bitter regret. A regret of a life time.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oy7yPnzrUkM

A sensible conversation with a brilliant mind

As an addendum Nigeria's brand new JF-17 THUNDER fourth generation plus Multi-role Fighter Jet is not an improvement on what obtained before in the NAF but an addition of a totally whole new generation of air combat capabilities presently non-existent anywhere else in sub-saharan Africa except in Nigeria.

Meanwhile despite all challenges Nigeria keeps making progress. You may call it a paradox but God willing one day a true national leader will emerge and the people will come together.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fa0UVXzPMWI

Thumbs up to these wonderful Nigerian innovators. We can replicate this in leadership.

Meanwhile despite all challenges Nigeria keeps making progress. You may call it a paradox but God willing one day a true national leader will emerge and the people will come together.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fa0UVXzPMWI

Thumbs up to these wonderful Nigerian innovators. We can replicate this in leadership.

In the armed services this week the new Army Chief Major General Yahaya (COAS) is making the rounds to both the NAF HQ and NN HQ.

I actually thought Buhari in his nepotistic style in choosing an army chief over looking Major General Ahanotu would go for Major General Yusuf who also has good combat credentials.

Well there you have it a sitting president is granted by the present constitution the prerogative of choosing the service chiefs.

If you genuinely mean well for Nigeria instead of stoking the flames divert that energy into setting a fertile ground for winning in 2023 then gear up and vote in a nationalistic leader.

We can only hail and support the new COAS

A good read for military and civil intelligentsia

#PressRelease #DHQUpdate

INTERNAL SECURITY: AFRICAN BAR ASSOCIATION PLEDGES SUPPORT FOR MILITARY OPERATIONS

The African Bar Association (ABA), have thrown its weight behind the various internal security operations being conducted by the Armed Forces of Nigeria (AFN), aimed at restoring peace and normalcy across troubled parts of the country.

The ABA President, Mr Hannibal Uwaifo made the disclosure today, when he led some executive members of the association on a courtesy visit to the Chief of Defence Staff (CDS), General Lucky Irabor, at the Defence Headquarters (DHQ), Abuja.

The ABA President maintained that the association is in full support of AFN operations, adding that the association will be constructive in scrutinizing and criticising the operational activities of the AFN, rather than indicating the media with undeserved statements that denigrate the Armed Forces while discharging its legitimate duties.

Mr Hannibal Uwaifo who highlighted the activities of ABA since its establishment, noted that the association has continued to promote and ensure peace, stability and democratic governance in Africa, while mediating on conflicts and disputes within the region.
He commended the Armed Forces African Bar Association (AFABA) for being the flagship of ABA's activities.

He noted that the AFABA, which oversees the affairs of military lawyers in Africa have recorded tremendous successes, while its members exhibit discipline and diligence during ABA seminars and conferences.

On the operational activities being conducted by troops in the various theatres, the ABA President averred that the Association is indeed proud of the AFN, just as he noted that the fight against insurgency and banditry have not been completely won.

The ABA President intimated the CDS of the Association's intent to partner with the DHQ to co-host a military law conference in Abuja. The proposed conference according to him, will work out modalities for formulation of privacy laws and law regime in order to ensure security of military data in accordance with international privacy laws.

Mr Uwaifo used the opportunity of the visit to extend his condolences to the AFN on the unfortunate air MISHAP that claimed the lives of the late Chief of Army Staff (COAS), Lieutenant General Ibrahim Attahiru and ten other personnel, describing it as very painful.

The CDS, Gen Irabor thanked the leadership of ABA for the collaborative efforts in seeking to project the operational successes of the AFN. Public understanding of the pains and sacrifices of the AFN, the CDS noted would to a large extent boost the morale of troops in surmounting the security threats across the country. The CDS added that the gesture by the ABA would add to the numerous voices galvanizing support for the AFN with a view to countering negative narratives and misinterpretation of military operations.

The Defence Chief, while commending the ABA for promoting human rights, peace and stability within the African continent, assured that the AFN would continue to conduct its counter-insurgency and anti-banditry operations within stipulated rules of engagement, as well as guide against human rights abuses. The CDS also pledged DHQ readiness to partner with ABA in the proposed Military Law Conference.

ONYEMA NWACHUKWU
Brigadier General
Acting Director Defence Information
2 June 2021

Meanwhile a GI's video of this NAF Helicopter Gunship doing major damage today to ISWAP terrorists and their sympathizers in Damboa.

https://twitter.com/Abbakar1030/status/1400161068203364356?s=19

Looks like an old video though

Meanwhile a GI's video of this NAF Helicopter Gunship doing major damage today to ISWAP terrorists and their sympathizers in Damboa

https://twitter.com/Abbakar1030/status/1400161068203364356?s=19

Looks like an old video though

Nigerian Air Force JF-17 THUNDER Fighter Jet

Beautiful Jet Soon To Roast Its Enemies

The enemy would not even know what hit him

Nigerian Air Force JF-17 THUNDER Fighter Jet

Beautiful Jet Soon To Roast Its Enemies

The enemy would not even know what hit him

Meanwhile something is going on at the Navy with the visit of the CDS General Leo Irabor, an engineer professor and director of public procurement research at FUTO, Owerri and also the visit of the CNS to the DG BPP in Abuja.

youghs:
I thought all the F7s have been shipped to china

Not all are in China

Meanwhile something is going on at the Navy with the visit of the CDS General Leo Irabor, an engineer professor and director of public procurement research at FUTO, Owerri and also the visit of the CNS to the DG BPP in Abuja.

bidexiii:
It's unfortunate that the JF-17 came in when PR is at its lowest peak by the newly appointed chiefs.
If it was the former chief this thread would have been flooded by the jf-17 pictures and its various munitions. By now we would have been getting images/videos from the Aselpod targeting pod

Exactly, we miss Air Marshal Sadique Abubakar but I still anticipate they would give us cool cockpit and airborne videos of the JF-17 in various stages of flight at some point though I don't think we might see anything of its munitions just yet. The new chief is media shy.

A NAF JF-17 Thunder multi-role fighter Jet and two NAF F-7Ni Interceptors in the background at the hub of command for tactical air warfare

A NAF JF-17 Thunder multi-role fighter Jet and two NAF F-7Ni Interceptors in the background at the hub of command for tactical air warfare

EricBraven:
The country haven't started yet but they are already looting the little they contributed

Its all about the money. If no IPOB the i.diot Kanu has no money to profligate on pleasures

[quote author=bidexiii post=102273134]For your own sake see videos of soldiers moving into the East. Enough word is okay for the wise ! Go and ask the North East people if you allow your region to be turned into war zone it's your people that will suffer.


Video -

Na them invited Us .. Them go hear weeeeeeeen.... pic.twitter.com/g1YiWJVeyd

— June12 Mandate (@Gen_Buhar) June 1, 2021

complete misadventure by that boy Kanu and misguided Igbos. A venture that has no chance of success. The military goes in and in classic FIBUA and counterinsurgency/CT operations completely changes the aesthetics of the region and mind you they now have a lot of experience with the Kanuris up north that make up Boko Haram. Anywhere soldiers go whether the US Army or the Nigerian Army or generally any modern army it never is the same and it takes many many years to rid the invaded areas of the after effect of militarization. Much of what we still suffer today in Nigeria is as a result of the civil war. In this case their fathers told them very little of the war and why not because it was all horror. Now the poor people will suffer and eventually turn on the agitators themselves and the agitators will also turn on them. A waste.

bidexiii:
Video of UGM in Umuahia Abia State.


https://fb.watch/5PWtmrJn20/


I pity this people honestly, they should go and ask the people from the the North East, Borno people to be precise.

Unfortunate..! More youthful targets to waste

Video of captured IPOB/ESN/UGM terrorist
https://www.vanguardngr.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/VID-20210531-WA0011.mp4

I said I would well here here a Pakistani pilot
Watch from 1:40mins on the JF-17 & F-16


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4vO71be8ai4

I said I would well here here a Pakistani pilot
Watch from 1:40mins on the JF-17 & F-16


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ep5pxP7K-Y

A must watch

Very informative documentary..."modern day combat is like an orchestra...". "When you start a war you cannot control the events". And one lesson for Nigeria from one of the experts "you either co-exist or you don't exist at all".

And I'll add for the current administration in Nigeria dialogue with society and the elders of the land for a new workable constitution for justice and while you invest in modern arms to annihilate criminal groups also seek ways to douse the tension and bring healing to the land which will reduce the overstretch of the military and stop the opening of new fronts of war because in reality you can't kill everybody.

War is bad. May peace come to our world.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e3Y6tC1VArY

A must watch

Very informative documentary..."modern day combat is like an orchestra". "When you start a war you cannot control the events". And one lesson for Nigeria from one of the experts "you either co-exist or you don't exist at all".

And I'll add for the current administration in Nigeria dialogue with society and the elders of the land for a new workable constitution for justice and while you invest in modern arms to annihilate criminal groups also seek ways to douse the tension and bring healing to the land which will reduce the overstretch of the military and stop the opening of new fronts of war because in reality you can't kill everybody.

War is bad. May peace come to our world.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e3Y6tC1VArY

Crushing our enemies into permanent dementia and irredeemable oblivion


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bx_Q-SR-Sh8

TechJuice

TECHNOLOGY

Rafale cannot be compared with JF-17
Thunder according to retired Air Vice Marshal
Shaheryar Ehsan

Written by Shaheryar Ehsan

A former Air Vice Marshal revealed that the Rafale could be compared to the F-16 but it has no one-on-one comparison with the JF-17 Thunder. The revelation comes on the heels of the announcement that Pakistan is entering mass production of the most advanced JF-17 Thunder Block III which has the KLJ-7A AESA radar which can track 15 targets and engage 4 targets simultaneously along with a helmet-mounted display (HMD) and possibly an internal infrared search and tracking (IRST) system.

The debate has intensified after India got the Rafale jets from France recently. However, according to AVM (retd) Shahzad Chaudhry, the real game-changer in the region will be the J-20 stealth fighter. As per his analysis, the only other jet which is capable to go toe-to-toe with the J-20 is the F-35. Any country in the subcontinent who gets either of these first would be able to get air superiority.

In a statement, he said:

For the airspace that we have to defend, F-16s, JF-17s and other platforms emerge in an integrated shape as a formidable force and it was demonstrated in February 2019

The AVM also said that the induction of JF-17 Block II and the mass production of Block III was a significant advancement in the country’s air defence arsenal.

Earlier, the Chinese Ambassador also commented that Pakistan had become self-sufficient in developing JF-17 Thunder:

Pakistan has become self-sufficient in developing JF-17 Thunder and an advance fighter aircraft producing country in the world. JF-17 Thunder has finally become the backbone of Pakistan’s defence. Pakistan and China’s close collaboration will bring more success in the future.

Nemesis4you:
Hmm guess your meds not working

How long it has been the case

Now i understand

I'm referring you to another doctor, you evidently require a stronger dose which I'm not won't to give you. You made a mess.

You can ventilate by your new doctor

Arrant nonsense