₦airaland Forum

agaugust: France has permanent army units in all its former colonies in west africa since 1960s and so they should respond first. do you think before you post ? did you ever read foreign news while you grew up, apart from the usual m.urder and r.ape stories shown daily on south african TV news ?

And this means Naai-geria's Mali mission has NOT failed - how?

Oh wow - Naai-geria, the playground of terrorists has "the best military in Africa"

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jul/19/nigerian-gunmen-kidnap-british-man-lagos

Gunmen have reportedly kidnapped a British man in Nigeria after shooting the driver of the vehicle he was in. The attack in Lagos happened on Tuesday evening soon after the four wheel drive left the international airport, where the man had just arrived, Reuters said, attributing the information to two security sources.

The Nigerian driver survived the attack, they said. The British high commission said it was "working closely with others to secure the release of the hostage".

The son of a state legislator and four Chinese nationals in two different states have all been reported kidnapped this month. Some cases are not reported because of fears for hostages' safety. Most are released after ransoms have been paid, though people have been injured and killed if they resist.

The incompetence of the Naai-gerian navy:

http://www.groupe-eyssautier.com/fr/actualites/revue-de-presse/nigerian-navy-cannot-protect-offshore-resources.html



NIGERIAN NAVY CANNOT PROTECT OFFSHORE RESOURCES, SAYS BERGEN - 16/04/2013

International efforts suffer from a lack of co-ordination

THE Nigerian Navy lacks the capacity to protect the country’s offshore environment effectively, while European Union and International Maritime Organization security initiatives do not have sufficient support from littoral states, according to Bergen Risk Solutions .

In its latest report on the Gulf of Guinea, Bergen says the Nigerian Navy has too few major surface units capable of sustained operations.

Bergen notes that the continued acquisition of new, small patrol boats will increase the navy’s capability to confront piracy and maritime crime. However, it adds that progress will be slow.

Nigeria also established a Maritime Police Command. This will be split into Western Maritime Command with headquarters in Lagos, the Eastern Maritime Command with headquarters in Port Harcourt , Rivers State and the Marine Command with headquarters also situated in Lagos.

Bergen said Africom and other international initiatives, especially French measures, could also generate a significant improvement in security and stability in the Gulf of Guinea, including Nigeria.

However, it added that it was unlikely that these initiatives will have a significant impact on security for the foreseeable future, apart from in delivering training and security information capabilities to the Nigerian and other Gulf of Guinea navies.

The European Union’s Critical Maritime Routes in the Gulf of Guinea Programme, intended to boost security and the safety of maritime routes across seven African countries in the Gulf of Guinea, was announced on January 11.

Crimgo’s objective is to assist governments across West and Central Africa to improve security and safety of the main shipping routes by providing training for coastguards and establishing a network to share information between countries and agencies across the region.

The IMO’s Maritime Trade Information Sharing Centre, also supported by the Oil Companies International Marine Forum, should be launched shortly and has been cast in the mould of the Maritime Security Centre-Horn of Africa. However Bergen’s report is sceptical that the centre will be ready to launch on the expected date.

“It is yet hard to see how these programmes will enhance security in any practical and meaningful way in the Gulf of Guinea as they are hampered with bureaucracy, lack of co-ordination, funding and will to implement among the states it is supposed to benefit,” the report said.

Meanwhile, the trial of the crew of the security vessel Myre Seadiver and their employer — Russia’s Moran Security Group — started on Wednesday.

The vessel was seized on October 19 on suspicion of arms smuggling after several guns and 8,500 rounds of ammunition were found on board.

The Nigerian Navy handed the crew over to the police for further investigation and possible prosecution on January 7. The 15 crew were released on bail on February 25. Bail was set at $500,000 for the release of the vessel.

Bergen said the trial would raise a whole range of issues that are of interest to a shipping community.

The firm believes the case will also be followed closely by the maritime security industry “as more and more companies — local as well as foreign — try to penetrate a potential lucrative market as attacks spread in the region and the threat of Somali piracy is fading”.

Allegations and counter-allegations of what had been permitted prior to the vessel’s port call will be tested during the trial, the report said.

Moran Security Group has described the treatment of crew on Myre Seadiver at the hands of the Nigerian Navy as “a complete outrage”. It said its agent had received full clearance from the appropriate authorities.

Bergen said the claims of corruption should also be explored during the trial. A correspondent of the intelligence firm said: “The whole affair is clearly an extortion attempt that has gone wrong and escalated out of control. My personal view is that senior Nigerian Navy officers are almost certainly involved.”

While Bergen said it could not substantiate the allegation made by its correspondent, but added that given previous cases of greed and a casual approach to the law in the Nigerian security forces, extortion could not be ruled out.

The report also highlighted the issue that the case brings the use of flags of convenience into question. Myre Seadiver is flagged in the Cook Islands.

Bergen’s report quoted the Russian web edition of Forbes Magazine : “[The case] will try whether or not Russia can protect its citizens working in a private military company with registration in Belize on ships flying the flag of the Cook Islands.”

agaugust: every president of france is the president on mali, and every president of mali is the vice president of his own country.

can your brain decode that ?

If it needs to be decoded, it's rubb*sh.

What books do you read?

agaugust: mali is a UN member, let UN go rule them there and spent UN money.

You knew this when you deployed in Mali. No one forced you to be part of the mission. You wanted to be big boys.

What has changed?

A few pages ago, you were bragging to us about your Mali mission. Not much to brag about now, is there?

Ag shame

agaugust: you belong to no professional class, you are just one of the economic burdens on the south african welfare system. you contribute nothing of value to that country. you suck the black man's natural/mineral resources there and give nothing back.

i responded to that post because of the racist undertone it carries, the usual hatred half-educated whites like you have against black university graduates. you were born a racist, and will live as a racist. its your prison of agony, live there.

you know why i dont generaly respond to your posts ? your head is full of vanity and frivolity. the nigerians who reply you have turned you into a mere football they kick around this forum, they make you show your s.kulls content...vanity, emptiness, and those nigerians keep making a mockery of you on a daily basis.

i dont need to keep talking to you, the nigerians who have been doing that have made enough ridicule of you to make your white race ashamed of what they gave birth to.

.

Says a man who was exposed in the full glare of all forumites and went away to hide for two weeks straight!


Funny guy. The only ball is Agaugust. [b]You tried to be the king of the thread and your aspirations amounted to what? [/b]A said Hausa man who's become a cheerleader ?

You failed to prove me racist and South Africans black and white refused to support your claims. You will continue to be on the losing side.

You voluntarily announced that you'd ignore me - and I get surprised whenever you address me . Typical Naai-gerian empty threats.

As for the rest of your rant about me and my professional qualifications - It'd be fool*sh to argue a point no one can prove. You volunteered your qualifications when no one asked you to.

1. Accountant
2. MBA
3. Reseacher in the military
4. Resident in the US.

1-4 all false

You're the only person that's volunteered their qualifications on this forum. You hoped people would buy it and respect you more. You failed.

NaijaPikinGidi: A CraigB patent! But an accurate statement of fact of CraigB's desperate and shameful twisting of the untwistable!

Unsubstantiated, therefore

*ignore button.

NaijaPikinGidi: Twisting the untwistable!

Repetitive, unsubstantiated statement.

*ignore button.

patriot4: From bully boys to wimps: the decline of SA's military
http://mg.co.za/article/2012-05-04-lack-of-funds-leaves-sa-vulnerable

Still, we aren't the ones withdrawing from Mali today. Naai-geria is.

Shaming Africa and disappointing the world. SMH

NaijaPikinGidi: Did Nigeria ask SANDF Signals Squadron to stay behind in Mali?

Ok, you will be given a second chance. Huh?

patriot4: in fvcking your mamma

Oh what a nice little chappy. You've happened to lose or misplace your cool now? All because your troops let you and your ego down?

Ag shame...

NaijaPikinGidi: Nigeria has another success

NaijaPikinGidi: Your empty brain is your saddest problem! But desperation is not your best solution! How about more cut and paste tales by CraigB to satisfy your cranial emptiness?

Gotta love it when a Naai-gerian rants. Does your ranting mean that you'll send your troops back to Mali?

patriot4: somewhere in the sahara, or in cameroon or in CAR in where seleka chased your SANDFc arround.

You do much better at posting videos than you do at opening your mouth. Failure in Mali. Failure in Agaugust's neighbourhood in the North. Where will you succeed?

More like: "Parrot4 in disarray"

patriot4: JTF claims Boko Haram is now in disarray.

Where is the leader?

NaijaPikinGidi: COMPLETED. Troops cut back by same principle!

No longer a protest withdrawal now?

Oh, great!

"Completed" as reported by whom? All4Naija?

NaijaPikinGidi: High level military matters are not for children! Go play in the sand boy! Now go!

Two "empty" posts in a row. I think you'd do well to post "white genocide" vids like your friend Parrot4. Substance does not dwell in All4Naija's neighbourhood. Clearly.

NaijaPikinGidi: It is a Nigerian prerogative to decide our level of involvement in the new UN MINUSMA PKO which is what we have announced. We have cut back our troops and will leave our Signals squadron behind to help the UN PKO.

Common course!

Beside the point.

You joined the UN mission. People relied on you at the table nations. You shouldn't have exercised your prerogative to join the mission in the first place. You were never ready. You had fires to put out back home. Now you are running back home and leaving nations with the job of having to replace your departed troops.

You failed to finish what you started.

NaijaPikinGidi: Desperate attempts to twist facts?

We take it there will be a pointing out of the twisted facts.

We wait, but we all know there'll be no such.

More lies.

This time from the Naai-gerian navy.

Naai-geria was never ready to save Mali

A military that kills its own people! The Mali mission was always going to fail.


http://www.channelstv.com/home/2013/06/14/students-accuse-nigerian-navy-of-lying/


[b]Students Accuse Nigerian Navy Of Lying[/b]

The Federal College of Fisheries and Marine Technologies has accused a Naval Rating officer with the Nigerian Navy of shooting two students of the college and denied that some students paraded by the Navy on Thursday for impersonating naval officers are students of the college.

The Navy paraded some students whom it accused of impersonating Naval officers, claiming they are students of the Federal College of Fisheries and Marine Technologies but the students and school authority are accusing the Navy of a cover up for the alleged shooting of two of their colleagues.

Some Naval Ratings were alleged to have shot at some of the students following an argument.

Human Rights Abuses and cover ups.

Naai-geria's murderous military.

http://www.voanews.com/content/military-cover-up-in-nigeria-violence-says-rights-group/1657536.html

drag_on: bye.

Yes! Run. That's what the truth does

http://www.osundefender.org/?p=110459


Hezbollah, Boko Haram and the lies of Nigerian Army
By Leonard Madu.

Brigadier General Chris Olukolade
A few months ago, the Nigerian Army announced that it had uncovered several caches of sophisticated weapons in the Nigerian city of Kano. It stated that these arms were found in houses owned by Lebanese nationals. These include anti tank guns, rocket propelled grenades, anti aircraft missiles, rifles and thousands of rounds of ammunition. The army announced that these arms were meant for the Boko Haram terrorist group currently fighting the Nigerian government, courtesy of Hezbollah of Lebanon. It announced the arrest of four Lebanese nationals whom it claimed were working for Hezbollah. Army spokesman Captain Ikedechi Iweha stated “all those arrested have undergone Hezbollah training……..the arms and ammunition were to be targeted at facilities of Israel and Western interests in Nigeria”. However, the Lebanese Consul in Kano, Khallel Musliman stated that the house where the arms were found belonged to a Sierra Leonean named Abdu Hassan Tahir. About 75% of the 31,000 Lebanese nationals currently living in Nigeria are Maronite Christians and Sunni Muslims, with the Shiites in the minority. They have been largely peaceful and law abiding.
An astute observer of Islamic politics will notice that the Nigerian army has been careful to avoid mentioning the confessional status of those arrested. The army did not state whether they are Sunni or Shiite Muslims or Christians. This is very important and relevant. If they are Sunni, the possibility of helping Hezbollah smuggle arms is zero. If they are Christians, that will be impossible. If they are Shiite-what interest does a Shiite organization like Hezbollah have in strengthening and supporting a Salafist Sunni organization like Boko Haram. There are about 70 million Sunni Muslims in Nigeria and 5 million Shiites.
An alliance between Shiite Hezbollah and Sunni Boko Haram will be unusual given the antagonism that exists between the two sects. Fast forward. After the death of Mohammed a crises over his succession arose in Islamdom. One group wanted his son inlaw Ali to inherit his mantle and succeed him. Another group wanted the next leader to be elected based on capability. Therefore a schism arose. Those who wanted his son inlaw to succeed him became known as Shiites, While those who wanted the leader to be elected became known as Sunnis. The Shiites believe the Mahdi has already been here and will return from hiding, while the Sunnis believe the Mahdi is yet to emerge into history. The Sunnis have a hierarchical structure of leadership-Grand Ayatollahs, Ayatollahs, Hojatolislams, etc, while the Sunnis don’t. Despite their differences, they also have commonalities-both sects believe in the five pillars of Islam and the Koran. 90% of the world’s Muslims are Sunni, while 10% are Shiite. There are only four majority Shiite nations in the world-Iran, Iraq, Bahrain and Azerbaijan. Lebanon is 40% Shiite. In short, the Sunnis do not recognize the Shiites as legitimate Muslims, but as heretics and syncretics.
A lot of the conflicts in the Middle East and the Islamic world have had the Sunni-Shiite antagonism behind it. Majority of the Arab governments opposed the Shiite Islamic revolution in Iran, because it threatened the Sunni dominated governments in the Gulf. Saudi Arabia sent in troops to suppress the majority Shiite rebellion in Bahrain, because it threatened the minority Sunni regime in that country. Majority of the Arab governments except Syria, supported Saddam Hussein in his war against Iran as a way of containing the spread of Shiism. Hamas, a Sunni organization did not support Hezbollah during their conflict with Israel. Also, Hezbollah a Shiite organization did not support Hamas during their conflict with Israel. The current conflict in Syria is a microcosm of the conflict between the two sects. Bashir Assad and those who currently run Syria are from the Alawite sect, an offshoot of the Shiites and those trying to overthrow the regime are majority Sunni. That is why Saudi Arabia, Turkey, Qatar, United Arab Emirates and the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt are supporting the rebels, while Iran and Hezbollah are supporting President Assad. Currently in Egypt and Pakistan, Shiites are been hunted down and slaughtered by their Sunni compatriots. In Lebanon, they are at each others throat in the city of Sidon. With the above facts in mind, Hezbollah does not have any political, religious or ideological reasons to arm and strengthen the Sunni Boko Haram rebels.
However, should Hezbollah choose to send arms into Nigeria, it can do so through its affiliate in Nigeria- the Islamic Movement in Nigeria. A Shia organization, it was founded in 1980 by Ibrahim Yacoub El Zakzaky, a Shia Muslim cleric who was educated at Ahmadu Bello University. Born in Zaria where the organization has its headquarters, Zakzaky has nine children and has been jailed several times by the successive military regimes. He is a follower of Sayed Qutb, the intellectual face behind the brotherhood and whose ideas form the basis of Al Qaeda’s ideology today. A protege of Iran, Zakzaky is creating a radical socio economic, political and military system that resembles that of Hezbollah in Lebanon. Like Hezbollah, the Islamic Movement in Nigeria has a newspaper Al Mizan, a radio station called Shuhada and a television station in the making. Al Mizan, published in Hausa is reported to be the largest mass circulation newspaper in Nigeria today. But most ominously, it has an army like Hezbollah called the Hurras.
The Hurras are trained and equipped by Iran’s Revolutionary Guards. Their fortified compound in Gyellesu, Zaria is a no go area for even the president of Nigeria. Recently, Kaduna State Governor Muktar Ramallan Yero was prevented from driving into the compound with his police escorts to visit an ailing friend. He was forced to alight from his car and walk into the compound on foot by the Hurras. This behavior infuriated the Sunni youths in Zaria who promptly attacked the compound and tore down the gate. A spokesman for the movement Dr. Abdullahi Danladi states that Governor Yero was refused entry into the compound with his escorts “because of the caliber of people living in Gyellesu for security concerns”. Who lives in that compound that is more important than the governor of the state?. Your guess is as good as mine. In 2007, a fiery anti Shia cleric Umar Danshiya was assassinated in Sokoto by members of the Shia movement. This infuriated the authorities in Sokoto who promptly demolished the Islamic Center belonging to the Islamic Movement.
The Islamic Movement in Nigeria is quietly building a state within a state in Zaria. With a support base of 1,000,000 subscribers and supporters, it is a matter of time before they strike out like Hezbollah in Lebanon. In anticipation of when that time will come, Zakzaky has thoroughly compromised the Nigerian army, police and other security agencies. President Jonathan and army chief Ihejirika were correct when they stated that terrorists have infiltrated Nigeria’s security agencies. In my opinion, they are more dangerous than Boko Haram. Hezbollah does not need individual Lebanese to carry arms to Nigeria when it has a competent surrogate that can handle the job. When it does, those arms will be going to the Shiite Islamic Movement in Nigeria and not Sunni Boko Haram.

drag_on: don't bother me.

Amusing!

You're the one that responded to my posts, which weren't even directed at you. Now I'm bothering you?



Naai-gerians. SMH

NaijaPikinGidi: why not send a private message or email

Do you have a crush on me or what?

You do have this tendency of wanting attention from BCraig lol

What's wrong, All4Naija? You want to divert attention from your Mali failure to you? What a woman

People are talking about your failed military effort and you want personal attention.

drag_on: just like Nigeria,)

Wrong!

France are not "just like Naai-geria"

France have handed over! To Naai-geeria and colleagues!

Who is Naai-geria handing over to by the way?

You are being replaced, dude. Your departed battalions are. France's mandate is done. The only concern is that you West Africans are incapable. And look what's happened now.

NaijaPikinGidi: Our AFISMA job in Mali is done you fool.

Why are you leaving at least one battalion in Mali then?

Go tell that to Mohammed on the mountain

Incapable clowns.

Capable.

drag_on: The U.S.A were the last responders to ww2,yet history considers them to be the victors.It is not when you join the war,but if you did.

What a rubb*sh assessment. France finished their mission and fulfilled their mandate. Eager beavers Naai-geria volunteered and made noises about it. Now the eager beavers are withdrawing.

The words "completely incapable" have been bandied about.

Now here's the justification for the use of the words. Naai-geria's run back home and the troops are going back to their mommies

Never rely on a Naai-gerian.

drag_on: i guess i'll leave you to lick your wounds,you are being illogical again.Rather than rant,prove that we lost the war in mali by pulling out.We have left it to the U.N.through our west african brothers to maintain the peace in mali.

Read here and stop claiming things that don't exist. Accept that you failed and spare us the dodgy explanations.

How is France's withdrawal below similar to yours?

France's mandate came to an end. Your mandate has not come to an end.

In fact, at least one Naai-gerian Battalion will remain in Mali


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http://www.aljazeera.com/news/africa/2013/04/201349235234509911.html

France has withdrawn its first batch of soldiers from Mali, as it begins to pull out troops sent to battle rebel fighters in the west African nation.

Paris, which sent 4,000 troops to Mali in January to block a feared advance on the capital Bamako from the north, is preparing to hand over to a UN-mandated African force of 6,300 in the coming weeks.

It will gradually pull its soldiers out of the country, where its intervention has driven insurgents from most of their northern strongholds, but plans to leave a permanent 1,000-strong force in the country.

The military's chief of staff said on Tuesday that around 100 soldiers had been withdrawn and sent to Paphos in Cyprus on Monday, where they will spend three days in a hotel before heading back to France.

They belonged to parachute units of the army that had been deployed in the Tessalit region of northeast Mali, where heavy fighting against Islamists took place, said Thierry Burkhard, the chief of staff's spokesman.

The withdrawal comes as a senior Pentagon official warned that troops from the Economic Community of West African States deployed in Mali are "completely incapable" and are not "up to the task" of fighting rebels.

Michael Sheehan, the assistant secretary of defense for special operations, offered his harsh criticism of the West African forces at a congressional hearing in which he praised French troops for rolling back insurgents in Mali.

"Right now, the ECOWAS force isn't capable at all. What you saw there, it is a completely incapable force. That has to change," Sheehan told a Senate armed services subcommittee.

Pockets of resistance

The Malian military - poorly paid, ill-equipped and badly organised - fell apart last year in the face of an uprising by ethnic Tuareg rebels who seized the vast arid north in chaos following a March coup, before losing control to well-armed Islamist fighters.

While French-led troops have inflicted severe losses on the rebels, soldiers are still battling significant pockets of resistance in Gao, as well as in the fabled desert city of Timbuktu.

France this weekend launched one of its largest actions since its intervention: an offensive that swept a valley thought to be a logistics base for al-Qaeda-linked Islamists near Gao.

In this region, the Movement for Oneness and Jihad in West Africa (MUJAO), the most active Islamist rebel group on the ground, still has the support of some of the population.

But according to an intelligence expert, the Islamist rebels' ability to inflict severe damage remains limited.

"In three months, the amount of terrorist activity has been very low, if nearly non-existent," said Eric Denece, head of the French Centre for Intelligence Studies.