PrinxArthur1: Keep dr00ling

Try another song, why don't you? Like a Babatunde chant. Owolololololol! Olodo! Olodo! Olodo!

PrinxArthur1: S0uth Africans fear what they
don't Understand,hate what they
can't conquer, dumb a55 homo phuckers!

Nas wants his song back. You haven't advanced from the picture of your as*quarters.

PrinxArthur1: dumb @55,learned id10t

Let's see: a picture, followed by meaningless angry protests. Truth hurts.

Na hurt you fo body.

PrinxArthur1: dumb he@d plss make sense for once in ur life!!!

I made so much sense butthurt visited your entire household. Not even a single pro-intelligence argument can be made about those as*quarters.

PrinxArthur1: National intelligence Agency Headquarters.

Only there's not much intelligence in the as*quarters. We could count the non-ways, but we all know the story.

No need for long stories and debates. We all can see whose military is useless.

http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2014/08/24/boko-haram-caliphate-nige_n_5704653.html?utm_hp_ref=uk&ir=UK

Boko Haram Just Declared A 'Caliphate' In Nigeria, The Second One This Summer

Nigeria's Boko Haram have become the second Islamist militant group in just two months to declare a "caliphate", in a video message from its leader.

The news agency AFP obtained a video shot in the northeast Nigerian town of Gwoza, in Borno state, which shows leader Abubakar Shekau declaing a new caliphate, an Islamic state, in the city.

"Thanks be to Allah who gave victory to our brethren in Gwoza and made it part of the Islamic caliphate," Abubakar Shekau said in the 52-minute video, according to AFP. "By the grace of Allah we will not leave the town. We have come to stay."

Gwoza is now "nothing to do with Nigeria" he said. The group, designated a terror organisation by the US, control large chunks of territory in Borno state and some in the neighbouring Yobe state.

"By the grace of Allah we will not leave the town. We have come to stay," said Shekau, who has been designated a global terrorist by the United States and sanctioned by the UN Security Council.

The United Nations humanitarian office (OCHA) earlier this month confirmed reports that Gwoza was under rebel control.

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Adetayo100: i have no idea it worked that way but few Nigerian sill prefer buying original to counterfeit game disk

Well, if it's a big enough market, then there's no reason why Nigeria shouldn't be included.

Adetayo100: Nigeria should be there, we are the African champions and made the round of 16 at the world cup

It's not about that. It's about whether Nigeria buys lots of games (original and not counterfeit). if you are nation of gamers,you should be there. If not, you don't need to be there. It's business.

What does one say?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-28884665

Boko Haram crisis: Nigeria militants 'seize police academy'

Northern Nigeria's riot police training academy has been overrun by Boko Haram Islamist militants, a witness in Borno state has told the BBC.

Shots were heard after the militants arrived in three armoured vehicles and on dozens of motorcycles, he said.

A police spokesman confirmed the attack while a senior security source said it had not been possible to communicate with the academy since Wednesday.

The Liman Kara college is near Gwoza town, seized by Boko Haram this month.

Thousands have been killed across north-eastern Nigeria since Boko Haram launched its violent campaign for an Islamic state in 2009.
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Rubbish military here. Rubbish country. Rubbish demo-crazy.

Soldiers harass Nigerian daily over report on military


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Soldiers on Thursday stormed the offices of the Daily Trust in the northeastern city of Maiduguri after a story published by the paper on Wednesday alleged that Nigerian soldiers had refused orders to fight Boko Haram militants until they received better weapons, according to news reports. Mannir Dan-Ali, the paper's editor-in-chief, told CPJ that the story, titled "Boko Haram Crisis: Soldiers revolt over inadequate weapons," was based on interviews with soldiers. The BBC had also reported on the soldiers' mutiny, which military officials said they were investigating.

The soldiers detained two managers of the paper, Jamilu Aliyu and Aminu Ado, at army headquarters, where they were told to stop criticizing the military in the paper, Dan-Ali told CPJ. The two were released after an hour.

The military released a statement that said the Daily Trust should retract the story and, in the future, contact the military for any story on the army or national security. "Failure to do so would henceforth attract sanctions," the statement said. There were no specific sanctions mentioned. Dan-Ali told CPJ the paper stood by its story and would not publish a retraction. [...]

http://www.cpj.org/2014/08/soldiers-harass-nigerian-daily-over-report-on-mili.php

The kak military of Naai-geria at it again...


http://www.nation.com.pk/international/22-Aug-2014/boko-haram-takes-over-another-nigeria-town

Boko Haram takes over another Nigeria town

KANO, Nigeria - Boko Haram has seized control of a town in northeastern Nigeria, the latest to fall into militant hands in the crisis-hit region and an indication of the group’s increasing territorial ambitions.
The insurgents have tended to use hit-and-run attacks in the past. The recent seizure of towns suggests a significant shift in strategy, more in keeping with their stated goal of carving out a strict Islamic state in northeastern Nigeria. Residents who fled the assault on the fallen town of Buni Yadi in Yobe state said attacks began late last month and the insurgents have since taken over the main government building.
The militants have reportedly raised their flag and carried out summary executions, including of two people who were caught smoking cigarettes. Abdullahi Bego, the spokesman for Yobe’s Governor Ibrahim Geidam, could not confirm the executions. But he told AFP: ‘As I speak there are no military in Buni Yadi and locals say that Boko Haram come and go as they please.
‘So many people from Buni Yadi have fled to the state capital Damaturu,’ he added. There was no immediate comment from the military in the Yobe state capital Damaturu or Abuja. But residents said the rebels, who massacred dozens of students at a boarding school in Buni Yadi in February and kidnapped more than 200 schoolgirls from neighbouring Borno state in April, had set up roadblocks.
They were also robbing people as they tried to flee. ‘I left Buni Yadi yesterday (Wednesday) because it was no longer safe for me and my family,’ said trader Surajo Muhammad. The gunmen ‘shot dead two men for smoking and they also killed a known drug peddler’, he added. Tijjani Bukar, who also fled, reported the same executions. ‘I couldn’t stay any longer because I came to realise these people have come to stay,’ he said. ‘I thought they would be there for a few days but from our understanding they have turned the town into their (territory).’
The United Nations has confirmed that Boko Haram had seized control of the towns of Damboa and Gwoza in Borno state in recent weeks. There are indications that Damboa was retaken by the military in an offensive earlier this month. ‘The capture and holding of territory presents a significant evolution in Boko Haram’s modus operandi,’ said Ryan Cummings, chief Africa analyst at the South Africa-based crisis management group Red 24.

He told AFP that trend became evident in April, with many districts in the northeast threatened by an Islamist takeover and Nigeria’s embattled military struggling to reverse the rebel gains. A group of soldiers in Borno staged a mutiny this week after being ordered to retake Gwoza on the grounds that they had not been provided adequate weapons to fight the well-armed militants.
Cummings said Boko Haram’s recent advances indicated the group was ‘slowly but surely out achieving its primary goal - the creation of a caliphate in northern-eastern Nigeria governed under sharia law.’ Yobe, Borno and Adamawa states have been under a state of emergency since May last year and reliable information on the conflict has proved difficult to obtain. Few humanitarian workers are on the ground and the military has sought to restrict the flow of information.
Jacob Zenn, a fellow at the US-based Jamestown Foundation, said the insurgents have systematically destroyed roads and bridges in the northeast, ‘making it difficult for the Nigerian military to send reinforcements’. Boko Haram is blamed for killing more than 10,000 people since its uprising began in 2009 and their violence has forced more than 600,000 people from their homes, according to the UN.
Cummings said the situation may deteriorate further. ‘With the Nigerian military struggling to defend, let alone recapture Boko Haram-held territory, it can be said with little contention that the sect will seek to assimilate further territory,’ he added in an email exchange. One possibility was an advance on Borno’s capital, Maiduguri, he said.

agaugust:

Nigeria has about 150,000 soldiers and we are over-stretched spreading all over our land mass to fight Boko Haram.

When reports that you're overstretched came out 2 years ago, you denied them. Now, because it's suits you, you're happy to admit it. What a joke. Augub argues based on where the wind is blowing.

agaugust:

Ebola is no longer a big threat. Cure has been found, the two USA missionaries have been discharged from hospital 100% cured by new drugs.

#Ebola Is Defeated
.

http://www.ctvnews.ca/health/nigeria-confirms-2-new-ebola-cases-1.1971156

Nigeria confirms 2 new Ebola cases

BUJA, Nigeria - Nigerian Health Minister Onyebuchi Chukwu says the country has confirmed two new Ebola cases, the first two to have spread beyond those who had direct contact with the ill traveler from Liberia who brought the disease to Nigeria.

Chukwu said Friday in Abuja, Nigeria's capital, that the two new cases are spouses of patients who had direct contact with Liberian-American Patrick Sawyer, who flew into the country last month with the virus and infected 11 others before he died. The two are spouses of caregivers who treated Sawyer, both of whom later died.

These two new cases bring the total number of confirmed infections in Nigeria, including the traveler, to 14. Chukwu says five patients have died, five have recovered and four are being treated in Lagos.

agaugust:

Ebola is no longer a big threat. Cure has been found, the two USA missionaries have been discharged from hospital 100% cured by new drugs.

#Ebola Is Defeated
.

Uneducated simpleton. An experimental drug, which the US manufacturer has "run out of". People have been known to survive ebola, but there's no known cure. Sit down.

The results of a military strategy well executed. Prosperity for country and region.

While Naai-geria runs after its own tail, in the form of Boko Haram.

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SA go-ahead for Grand Inga hydropower project
22 August 2014

The Cabinet has approved the ratification of the treaty on the Grand Inga hydropower project between South Africa and the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), paving the way for the next phase of what could eventually become the largest hydroelectric project in the world, with the potential to power half the continent.

Minister in the Presidency for Planning, Monitoring and Evaluation Jeff Radebe made the announcement in Pretoria on Thursday following the Cabinet's latest fortnightly meeting, which took place in Cape Town on Wednesday.

The Grand Inga project will seek to harness the power potential of the Congo River, sub-Saharan Africa's greatest waterway. Once all seven of its planned phases are complete, it is expected to generate a massive 40 000 megawatts (MW) of renewable power.

Two existing dams, Inga 1 and 2, have been in operation since 1972 and 1982 respectively, together generating nearly 1 800 MW. The next phase of the Grand Inga project, Inga 3, is expected to cost in the region of US$12-billion and produce around 4 800 MW of electricity.

Subsequent phases, adding up to an eventual total capacity of 40 000 MW, will allow countries in southern Africa, north-east Africa and parts of west Africa to benefit from production at the site.

The Grand Inga treaty, signed by South Africa and the DRC in October, will now be tabled in Parliament. The treaty provides the framework for the facilitation of power generation from the Grand Inga project and its delivery to the border between the DRC and Zambia.

According to Radebe, the ratification of the treaty paves the way for the development of Inga 3, which will provide 2 500 MW of electricity to South Africa and contribute to regional integration, energy security and economic growth in an environmentally sustainable manner.

"The project has the potential to supply clean and affordable imported hydroelectric power to meet the needs of the DRC, South Africa and surrounding countries," Radebe said.

"The project holds the potential to fast-track SADC development, alleviate energy poverty, stimulate economic growth and facilitate infrastructure development.

"This represents one of the most ambitious projects ever undertaken on the African continent, and one which will long be a resounding symbol of the rise of Africa and her people."

Henry120:

There is a large market to fill in nigeria. Notwithstanding, we export our vessels and have been sub-contracted to build Armoured vehicles for west-african customers.

More Igirigi with toyota corolla tyres coming right up. Poor west African customers.

http://www.defenceweb.co.za/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=35717:airbus-a350-visits-south-africa-on-world-tour&catid=114:civil-aviation&Itemid=247

Airbus A350 visits South Africa on world tour


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“We are pleased to be selected as the first airport on the continent to host the latest addition to the Airbus family,” said Unathi Batyashe-Fillis, head of Corporate Affairs for Airports Company South Africa. “The decision by Airbus to run test flights of their new jetliner at our facilities is testimony to the confidence the company has shown in our infrastructure and our capability as an airport management authority. Such flights are used to test compatibility of the aircraft with existing airport and air traffic management infrastructure, systems and processes.”



[...]

A350 components are made in South Africa and the aircraft has the most South African content out of any Airbus civil aircraft. Wing and fuselage components are manufactured by Aerosud in Centurion while Cobham South Africa in Westlake, near Cape Town, manufactures satellite communication equipment for the A350XWB. Among these made-in-South Africa components are the composites fuselage frame clips which secure the aircraft’s panels to its skeletal frame.


[...]

Airbus collaborates with South Africa’s research and technology community and has launched and funded numerous research initiatives in cooperation with the Department of Trade & Industry’s National Aerospace Centre and the Department of Science & Technology, the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), various universities and specialised laboratories. A key objective for Airbus is to broaden its industrial network to include more public and private sector partners.

Some of these partnerships involve research into advanced manufacturing techniques, such as additive layer manufacturing that involves forming components out of titanium powder using high power lasers.

On the military side, Denel Aerostructures and Aerosud make parts for the A400M Atlas military transport aircraft.

AwodwaGyanOniwe:
Your ogas somnambulist GEJ

Even the vehicles the soldiers were expected to use were old armoured cars that were not up to the job, he added.



A general in the army, who asked not to be named, told the BBC that he was unable to confirm the mutiny, but said "cowardice" was not uncommon in times of war - and any mutineers would be punished.

When the solder was asked if he feared being court-martialled for taking part in the mutiny, he said that a soldier could only be taken to task for refusing to go to war.

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-28855292


The red. We've been saying.

Rubbish military, I say.

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-28855292

Boko Haram crisis: Nigerian soldiers 'mutiny over weapons'

A group of soldiers in north-eastern Nigeria is refusing to fight Islamist Boko Haram militants until they receive better equipment, one of the mutineers has told the BBC.

The soldier, who requested anonymity, said at least 40 of his colleagues would refuse orders to deploy.

A defence ministry spokesman said the incident was being investigated.

A state of emergency that was declared in three north-eastern states last year has failed to curb the insurgency.

"Soldiers are dying like fowl," the soldier, who said he and his colleagues were just outside Maiduguri, told the BBC Hausa service.

"The Nigerian army is not ready to fight Boko Haram," he said, explaining that soldiers were not being given enough weapons and ammunition to take them on.

"Boko Haram are inside the bush, everywhere," he said "They [senior commanders] are sacrificing soldiers," he said.

Defence ministry spokesman Gen Chris Olukolade told the BBC's Focus on Africa programme that he could not confirm the reports of a mutiny but would investigate.

He denied that soldiers were being "sent to die".

"We may not have all it takes but we are improving on it [equipment] regularly," he said.

Boko Haram is fighting to create an Islamic state in Nigeria - and has stepped up its attacks after being pushed out of its bases in Maiduguri, the capital of Borno state, targeting towns and villages in deadly raids

Rubbish military here.

http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/tim-hancock/no-excuse-for-killings-by-nigerian-military-forces_b_5687679.html?utm_hp_ref=uk

No Excuse for Gruesome Unlawful Killings by Nigeria's Military Forces

Ever since the world turned its attention to north east Nigeria earlier this year following the kidnap of the schoolgirls from Chibok and the intense Bring Back Our Girls campaign, Nigeria's authorities have been under intense pressure to restore peace to that region.

Foreign leaders held meetings to discuss how to tackle the actions of Boko Haram and other armed groups who were destabilising the country's north. International media questioned the Nigerian government's competence on whether they were doing enough to stem the tide of killings, kidnaps and other abuses committed in the region.

It's certainly the case that Nigeria's government has a duty to protect the country's citizens and must do everything they can to secure the return of the women and girls, and stop the abuses committed by Boko Haram and other militant fighters. But, there can be no excuse for the gruesome unlawful killing of detainees - evidence of which was featured in footage recently released by Amnesty International, and more will be shown on Channel 4's Dispatches this evening (Monday 18).

The footage shows graphic detail of detainees having their throats slit and dumped into mass graves by men who appear to be members of the Nigerian military and the Civilian Joint Task Force (CJTF) - effectively state sponsored militias. The video also showed how in another incident which took place in Bama - south-east of Maidiguri - the Nigerian military and CJTF ordered men alleged to be Boko Haram members to lie down side by side on the ground, and then beat them with sticks and machetes.
It goes without saying that the situation in north east Nigeria is perilous. Boko Haram and other armed groups have committed some of the most horrific crimes in recent years and have intensified their attacks this year. Residents of Bama - for example - have been living in constant fear of attacks by militant fighters. In February this year Boko Haram staged its most deadly assault on the town. Locals report that attack left almost 100 people dead and more than 200 injured. Improvised explosive devices and grenades were used to destroy huge swathes of the town.

One resident told how the fighters went on a spree of "killing, burning and demolishing". Justice must be carried out swiftly and thoroughly by the Nigerian authorities to stem the killing spree of Boko Haram - that is certain. But this can't be achieved by Nigeria's security forces committing despicable crimes of their own.

Following Amnesty's release of this footage, I was surprised that Nigeria's National Security Adviser chose to criticise Amnesty. Retired Major General Sarkin Yaki Bello claimed that Amnesty had placed its "desire for publicity ahead of the justice and accountability that Amnesty claims to seek for victims". This couldn't be further from the truth. In revealing the brutality and barbaric acts committed by some members of Nigeria's own security forces, it is more likely that the culpable will be quickly located and investigated.

It seems to me as though the fury of the Nigerian officials is wrongly targeted. Rather than pour scorn at the feet of Amnesty for revealing some of the horrific abuses committed by its own security forces, shouldn't there be greater concern and anger at the gruesome unlawful killing of the detainees seen in this footage?

We need to see the Nigerian government carry out an independent investigation into these crimes, rather than the military investigating themselves here.

Let's hope that the Nigerian authorities' reaction to this evening's documentary by Channel 4 galvanises them to take the action not against the media outlet but to track down and bring to justice the perpetrators of these heinous crimes. The government knows its actions are being scrutinised by the world. Let's hope they do all they can to investigate and ensure that suspected perpetrators are given prompt but fair justice so they can stand tall under the media spotlight.

agaugust:

Nope, I don't think of myself too highly, I work for team Nigeria on this forum.

Your Soweto republic guys planted a wind, and harvested a hurricane katrina as their reward, blame your countrymen for my hard-line stance, they all want to run Nigeria down....so I fight back. Simple

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Ah, the truth comes out. Augubugub debates with blinkers on because other people "run naai-geria down". Say anything, he does. As long as team naai-geria isn't allowed to come out stinking like it truly does.

OK, we geddit.

Rubbish military. No discussion necessary.

http://en.starafrica.com/news/nigerian-military-to-probe-dereliction-of-duty.html

The Nigerian army has said it would try some 100 soldiers from its 7th Division based in Maiduguri over acts of [size=14pt]disloyalty and cowardice to deal with the Boko Haram insurgency[/size].A special military panel has been set up upon the instructions of the security chiefs to deal with the case, security sources claimed on Saturday.

The soldiers in question were said to have been deployed to engage Boko Haram militants who captured Damboa and Gwoza but withdrew from the fight.

The sources said they are apart from those who had mutinied in May citing inferior military gears to fight the insurgents.

The Nigerian military high command is said to be irked by the behaviour of its soldiers who are being detained.

The army has been struggling to deal with the five-year insurgency with the abduction in April of some 200 schoolgirls in the northeast of the country by Boko Haram still unresolved.

Msauza: I DO NOT SEE THE REASON WHY SOUTH AFRICANS SHOULD WASTE THEIR STRENGTH BY DEBATING WITH CITIZENS OF THE THIRD WORLD COUNTRY. I MEAN YOU ARE NOT ON THE SAME CLASS.

YOU LIVE IN A RICH COUNTRY WHILE NIGERIA REMAINS POOR FOREVER. NO WONDÈR THE WORLD BANK HAVE LISTED NIGERIA AS THE POOREST OF THE POOR OF ALL COUNTRIES IN THE WORLD.

To your point --->

http://reformeronline.com/nigerian-firms-others-to-import-coal-from-south-africa-for-power-generation/

RE: NIGERIAN FIRMS, OTHERS TO IMPORT COAL FROM SOUTH AFRICA FOR POWER GENERATION

We find it disturbing and sad that a country like Nigeria, despite being blessed and endowed with so much mineral resources like natural gas and coal, that holds so much economic potential; is still amongst the poorest countries in the world, to the extent that we have practically become a nation that virtually imports everything to satisfy domestic demands.

Apart from the fact that Nigeria has not been able to judiciously utilize its abundant natural gas and coal resources for the benefit of its citizenry and the Nigerian economy, we have become a nation that prefers to import these same natural resources from other countries rather than harness and develop what we abundantly have here.

There are no words to best describe the anomaly when it was recently reported that some industrialists and electricity generating companies have started initiating moves to import coal from South Africa, as a proactive measure against the lingering power supply crisis in the country.

According to reports, this is to enable them to switch over to coal-powered turbines for their respective operators. The move was said to have been informed by the frustrations being experienced by the operators in getting gas to fuel their respective power plants. Leading the coal-import initiative from South Africa is Dangote Cement Plc, which has already placed an initial order of 30,000 tonnes of the commodity from the continent’s second largest economy. Already, the company has slated $250 million for power generating conversion , which would involve establishment of three plants at Dangote Cement’s facilities at Obajana in Kogi State; Gboko in Benue State; and Ibeshe in Ogun State. Also, “some Power Generating Companies (GENCOS) have already started considering converting their plants to coal-fired turbines, with unabated crisis in securing gas to power their respective facilities. Mostly affected by the gas paucity crisis are the GENCO that are located inland, which have not got the close proximity advantage to the gas supplying facilities, which are located in the Niger Delta region”, the report noted.

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It's a brain issue.

South Africa once again helping the helpless.

Augububu - remember what you had to say about coal and power generation ?

All that gas in Naai-geria and no brains to make it work. Rubbish land.

Would you like to cry now or later?


http://dailypost.ng/2014/08/15/power-generation-nigerian-firms-gencos-import-coal-south-africa/#.U-9ZHPfSUu0.twitter


Power generation: Nigerian firms, Gencos to import coal from South Africa

His words, ‘‘Dangote Cement would be investing $250 million in coal-based power plants, due to increasing difficulties in getting gas supply to power our electricity generating plants. All our kilns will be powered by coal, with the new plants located in Obajana, Ibeshe and Gboko.

“Already, we are expecting the first shipment of 30,000 coal from South Africa, to power 60 megawatt power plants, with another 30 megawatt generating facility on standby.”

sirjerry: NO.HE STATED CLEARLY THAT BH ARE CAPTURING TOWN AFTER TOWN I ONLY ASK HIM OF THOSE TOWN NAME.

And if he doesn't name the towns, that means what? That you aren't being shamed by boko haram?

How long is the naai-gerian state of emergency now? Emergency has become the new normal in naai-geria. Boko haram emergency. Ebola emergency. Rubbish land, this.

sirjerry: TOWN AFTER TOWN? SURELY THOSE TOWN HAVE NAME.

Are you also gonna ask if the girls have names?

Talk about selective reading. You get the point.

Durban Metro Police, Augububu. Are you crying yet?

Emergency response - Durban.