₦airaland Forum

AroOkigbo:
How many people died in the twin blast yesterday? And how come you didn't say anything about the continued killing in Benue and Taraba. In your poor thinking, we all should keep quiet till the number of those killed equals that during the last administration. Continue to support evil till it gets to you or your loved one.
Did you say in less dan 2 yrs "we will have"? You know little about that private project. And again if you think, NNPC is doing better, then google will give you an idea of the ever increasing consumption of foreign fuel. ..coupled with greater payments on subsidy.
And don't ever talk of unemployment. ..you have no points there. Many Nigerians including you have become jobless under Buhari.
BMC is not a good job. ..quit and do something reasonable with your life!

AroOkigbo:
Nigeria is better now? How much do you buy fuel now? How many of your family and loved ones are getting jobs or doing better in their chosen businesses? Has Nigeria become a safer place to live in going by world ranking? Are more and more businesses booming and companies declaring greater profits? Are our academic institutions turning out better graduates? Have we recorded such number of suicides as in recent times? The list is endless.
Keep deceiving yourself in the name of supporting poor governance.
Some Nigerians truly deserve what they get!

StaffofOrayan:
LMAO
Useless youths everywhere you turn
Suffering and smiling

http://venturesafrica.com/nigeria-set-to-become-the-extreme-poverty-capital-by-2018/
http://sunnewsonline.com/nigerias-worrisome-poverty-level/

rickyrex:
is he the president

StaffofOrayan:
Lame
Think about Nigeria when next you go buy foodstuff
Dumbed down youths
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9jaArea:
Stop paying too much attention to sensational headlines. If an entire community was bombarded, do you think there will be no noise coming out of Benue?

Nbote:
Conducting Airstikes on communities with civilians? Anyway let's wait till we get d full picture before I comment.. Dis is all shades of wrong.. I don't pity benue ppl anymore

sexyanyabubakar:
www.nairaland.com/attachments/7277347_buhariinkitchen49_jpeg83214c9b4223cab05b105e000dc341ef

Jeezuzpick:
The thunder that will faya you, ehhhhn......

EXCLUSIVE: Dasuki got Jonathan’s approvals to collect $2.1bn from NNPC in 9 months

Sambo Dasuki, former national security adviser, received an extra-budgetary allocation of $2.1 billion from the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) within nine months after approvals by former President Goodluck Jonathan, TheCable can report.

Dasuki is currently being investigated by the federal government over the billions of dollars released for the procurement of arms for counter-terrorism operations under Jonathan

Documents seen by TheCable showed the breakdown of NNPC’s disbursements to the office of the NSA as follows: $1 billion on March 27, 2014; $200 million on April 9, 2014; $600 million on May 5, 2014; and, same day, $200 million following a request for $250 million.

The documents also showed that on January 12, 2015, he got $100 million, bringing the total amount his office received from the NNPC to $2.1 billion within the nine months.

All these were outside the statutory budgetary allocations to security during the same period, in addition to another $1 billion loan secured by the Jonathan administration to fight Boko Haram.

https://www.thecable.ng/exclusive-dasuki-got-jonathans-approvals-collect-2-1bn-nnpc-9-months

silastemplar:
did Reno say this in the last administration?

Nigerians lambast Jonathan for singing, dancing at campaign rally while nation mourns bomb blast victims


https://static.pulse.ng/img/incoming/origs3378621/8595567265-w644-h429/jonathan-dancing-kano.jpg



Nigerians have reacted with outrage over President Goodluck Jonathan’s visit to Kano to welcome former governor of the state, Ibrahim Shekarau, to the Peoples Democratic Party, a day after a car bomb killed dozens of Nigeria and injured several others in a suburb of Abuja.

The government said 75 people died while 124 others were injured although body count by witnesses and a PREMIUM TIMES reporter suggest over 200 Nigerians were killed.

Insensitive, irresponsible, terrible, and wicked are some of the words that have been used to describe the president’s political visit to Kano.

“Let’s face it, is it even proper, as a father, for the president to be dancing at a rally and clinking glasses at a chief’s party just the day after?” said Betty Abah, journalist and activist. “What really would happen if he sends representatives while he pretends he’s meeting security chiefs? Even if he doesn’t care, is this even good for his image? What message is he sending out? He did same during the Centenary celebrations. How do you explain this crass insensitivity?”


https://www.premiumtimesng.com/news/158836-nigerians-lambast-jonathan-for-singing-dancing-at-campaign-rally-while-nation-mourns-bomb-blast-victims.html

murmee:
Reno is the spokesperson of the very powerful group of people that keep Boko active just to give this administration a bad name. Their Goal is the 2019 Presidential election. There are saboteurs even among the military that are supposed to be fighting Boko Haram.

dermmy:
Reno the most reacted Nigerian

AroOkigbo:
Are you for real?
Is Reno now the president and chief of staff?
Better tell buubu to wake up. ..Nigerians are dying unnecessarily!

“We’re Eager to Come Home and Invest’ – Nigerians in Diaspora



Nigerian professionals living in the U.S. have expressed their eagerness to return back to Nigeria and begin investing in the economy to fast-track its development.

Speaking at the inauguration of the Nigerian-American Business Forum held in Florida, they said they were determined to use their wealth of experiences to develop and grow their fatherland.


http://africanleadership.co.uk/eager-come-home-invest-nigerians-diaspora/

darqly:
Whoever made the crop duster comparison must've really touched a raw nerve, seeing as you're attributing it to Everyone! Like I said, calm down, then share your view. My only reference to the Tucanos was their purchase, which was handled poorly by FG.

sarrki:
Listen to your self

Read through what you drafted

Does it makes sense?

According to a source close to the program who declined to be named, the Navy has leased an EMB-314 Super Tucano for the job. Made by the Brazilian aerospace company Embraer, it is now being tested on desert ranges in California and the services top test facility at Patuxent River Naval Air Station, Md. The Navy loaded it up with sensors and weapons systems that would make an F-16 pilot blush, the source said.

With top end electro-optical and infrared sensors, laser and GPS-guided bombs, rockets, twin .50 cal. machine guns, encrypted radios and even the capability to tie in UAV surveillance feeds the Super Tucano outfitted for the SEALs is a ground-pounders angel from above.

https://www.military.com/defensetech/2009/07/21/secret-program-works-to-field-seal-plane

darqly:
If you'd not been too hasty to show patriotic fervour, you'd have known that my inference to SA renting out hardware and mercenaries is clearly black market operations, not officially authorised.
Secondly, you can show your LOVE for Nigeria without being a jerk-off, they're not mutually exclusive. You counter every contrary opinion here with abuse where you can just share a more superior argument.

U.S. Navy SEALs often identify the very best technology and then trailblaze with it.

The SEALS spotted the potential of the Tucano and fought hard for it to be adopted to provide better close air support, transforming it into the Super Tucano.

The birth of the A-29B Super Tucano and an aircraft that would prove the SEALS right time and again downrange. It performed so well that the Super Tucano stable grew.

The Super Tucano is a great example of how Navy SEAL teams quietly revolutionize how tech is used to provide critical advantages. Thanks to their early adoption, innovations sometimes eventually make their way into hands of wider American forces equipping them with better advantages too.


http://www.foxnews.com/tech/2017/09/01/seals-tucano-planes-and-more-than-3300-pounds-weapons.html

darqly:
I have no problem with NAF upgrading, it's long overdue and current chief of air staff is progressive. The question is why the zero sum game pronouncements? Why are we keen to overtake anyone, when we're not anywhere close to full combat capability? Let them run their race, let's run ours. Ethiopian airlines didn't set out to overtake Nigeria airways, have they not left the continent behind? Just an analogy.

Jkay187:
The Tucano is a old 3rd world crop duster sold to 3rd world nations with insurgency problems its becoming a useless platform when you look at the proliferation of manpads.

You can try to fool these boys here with your nonsense but not me. SAAF has a big advantage when it comes to air power including attack capabilities currently. Nigeria don't even have a credible conventional strike capability nor even a AD system in it's arsenal to take on Uganda currently.

The day Nigeria can field a world class made in Nigeria AAM missile in its AF that's the day I will take you seriously.

darqly:
Countries that have improved significantly in various spheres did so by first mapping out a path or strategy. The improvement or success is just a byproduct. What's our air power strategy? Common tucano that we purchased caused international outrage, our NAF pilots have cataracts or are mercenaries cos they bomb friendly or civilian targets REGULARLY. Our fighter jets don't get shot down by insurgents but they still manage to crash regularly. SA can rent you F-16s for the right price, with pilots to boot. Let's focus on our locally made pencils first, they're cheaper, safer and they don't crash.

docadams:
Oooooh! All this childish response.

SSGN:
Dreaming? I dont think so bro. The expansion of the Nigerian Air force is is expanding fast. The NAF has been left to rot for over two decades. Expansion and modernization will be a gradual process, but we are getting there already.

Largest attack helicopter gunship fleet in Sub Sahara Africa and 3rd largest overall after Egypt and Algeria. These are not average run of mil helicopters. Nearly half of Nigeria's helicopter gunship fleet will be the Mi-35M helicopter gunships. This is one of the most advanced attack helicopters in the world with night mission capability.

Biggest fleet of heavy lift transport planes. We talking about Five Hercules C-130 aircraft. Its complimented by a similar number of G-222 meduim transport aircraft.
planes
Largest and most advanced of ISR/ISTAR platforms in Africa currently. Two ATR-42 Maritime patrol. Four King Air 350i surveillance aircraft and of course drones. Nigeria operates a fleet of four CH-3 Rainbow attack drones. These drones are armed with the Ar-1 antitank missiles. A Chinese adaptation to the American Hellfire missile, but still capable.

The one area the Nigerian Air Force is lacking is in strike aircraft. Qualitatively and numerically Nigeria is pretty much deficient in this area. But this is more or less by design not be a lack of capacity. Should the NAF decide to upgrade its fleet of strike aircrafts there will be no sweat. If the three JF-17 Thunder slated for delivery proves to be a highly capable aircraft during testing and evaluation i see Nigeria acquiring a Squadron or more. Until then Nigeria has to make do with the assets on ground.

The Nigerian Air Force (NAF) announced on 30 April that it had received two new Mil Mi-35M attack helicopters.

The new helicopters arrived at Makurdi Air Base aboard an An-124-100 transport aircraft and will join the two that were delivered in December 2016.

Russian officials have said that Nigeria has ordered 12 Mi-35Ms.


http://www.janes.com/article/79769/nigeria-receives-two-more-mi-35m-helicopters

Chelseafan99:
HAHA, Nigeria and armed drones. Where Nigeria see armed drone? Op thinks we are all gullible. Rubbish !!

abeggnow:
when you know nothing about the military, why dont u keep quiet. Nigeria has been increasing its airforce capacity while SA gas been reducing hers due to fifference in treat levels.