saengine: Please explain how the design is obsolete. I dare you. Tell us what design elements Rooivalk has that are "obsolete". And i presume these same design elements WILL NOT be found in any Nigerian helicopters. Be a man....explain yourself....i dare you.
lezz: Good, I think you're almost sober. But still hurting from my last whooping. You're almost there but not yet.
Meaning, you have given up all attempts to have your moemish tag reversed. You have accepted the id1ocy of your posts as from yesterday at least; and that the Nigerian military is inferior and you cannot argue otherwise. And that emotions and racism will not change this.
EVarn: i can,but i wont waste my time on a cockroach like you..cockroach
For as long as the thread exists, readers will not see you against a cockroach. They will see your emotions against facts that you failed to challenge. You cannot, my man. You have no response and will never have one.
lezz: Zulu boy is still hurting. I won't give you the mercy death you are secretly begging for.
You should live with your sins.
Anyone can post "Zulu boy is hurting". But not everyone. No, no one can deny the following:
1. Nigeria has a pathetic military 2. Nigeria's weapons aren't wanted 3. Chad is saving nigeria 4. Nigeria tried to by SA weapons. 5. Nigeria's money was seized trying to but SA weapons.
Facts are facts. You have no choice but to post emoticons, alternatively anger, alternatively racism. That's your only choice.
Capturing lost towns won't be the end of BH, they might restart a deadly urban terror campaign similar to shebaab.
BH captured towns cause they had space to breath.
Their capturing territory was never their style or objective anyway. They only did it to copy ISIS and because the Nigerian military was sleeping at the wheel.
EVarn: As nigerian troops enter gwoza,the Nigerian Intelligence Agency and Department of State Security have reportedly deployed field operatives in the quest to hunt and capture abubakar shekau,grand sheik of the violent jihadist movement,boko haram.
Oh so they didn't kill him, like ten times already?
Amazing what's revealed in an attempt to "celebrate"
EVarn: Garta and other neighbouring villages have been liberated by nigerian troops,boko haram fighters who tried escaping into azur forest were heavily pounded with 105mm gun. in another report,nigerian special forces are closing in on gwoza.
Oh, so Garta and neighbouring villages had been under boko haram in the first place?
lezz: what's your secret? What's your secret for being so devoid of pride,shame and diginy?
Common sense says a country where over 80% of its population only came into contact with civilization and decency in 1994 will still be won't to savagery and barbarism.
Patchesagain, tells me Zulu and Xhosa boys and girls have 93% literacy level. You must have escaped from the queue at the synagogue.
Tell me, how is the educational integration going ? You gave a link but I want you to read on this excerpt : SA’s shocking literacy stats
October 22 2013 at 07:52am By Leanne Jansen Comment on this story
AP File photo: Experts have blamed poor litercay levels on pupils being taught to parrot rather than read independently. Durban - The literacy level of South African Grade 5 pupils is a “national catastrophe”.
The consequence of pupils being taught to “parrot” rather than read independently was that, after five years of school, 13 percent of Grade 5s (11-year-olds) were illiterate and most were able to score no more than four out of 20 on a comprehension exercise, new data from the national education evaluation and development unit, has revealed.
Speaking in Durban on Monday, Nick Taylor, the head of the unit which reports directly to Basic Education Minister Angie Motshekga, said that, from the classroom research conducted in urban and rural areas, it had become “quite clear that most of our teachers can’t teach reading”.
This was despite several years and billions of rand worth of teacher training later.
Earlier this year, Taylor’s unit released the first national evaluation of how pupils in grades 1, 2 and 3 (the foundation phase) in urban schools were taught, marking a shift off the emphasis on Grade 12.
The upshot of the report was that pupils were not taught to solve numeracy problems or read independently because most teachers did not know how to teach these skills.
This year the unit has extended its work to later grades, focusing on reading in rural schools. Its final report will be handed to Motshekga early next year.
“As far as I’m concerned this is a national catastrophe,” Taylor told a meeting of the National Professional Teachers’ Organisation of South Africa (Naptosa), at which he was the guest speaker, and which was attended by principals, school governing body members and politicians.
Taylor said it was “deeply disturbing” that in the classrooms visited by the unit this year, just 5 percent of Grade 5 pupils could read at the required rate of 80 to 90 words a minute.
In the urban Grade 2 classrooms the unit studied last year, it found that while the average eight-year-old was meant to be reading 58 words a minute by the end of the second term, and 71 words a minute by the end of the fourth term, this was not the case.
Instead, when the reading fluency of the top three pupils in each class was observed, researchers found that most were reading between 20 and 29 words a minute.
Teachers could no longer afford to shut their heads of departments (HODs) out of their classrooms, because if the situation was to be remedied, reading had to be declared a “national priority” and professional development needed to take place at school.
Taylor said that teachers were putting far too little emphasis on the ultimate goal, which was independent reading – children were simply “singing in unison”.
Despite teachers’ poor subject knowledge, the large majority of them were considered qualified.
In 1990, 53 percent of teachers held a teaching qualification. By last year, that figure stood at 96 percent. But there was a gap between qualifications and competence.
“While it was true that resourcing, policy and school leadership are all very important, once children are in classrooms, learning depends heavily on the teacher.”
Taylor said that the growth in the number of teachers who held teaching qualifications had been fuelled by the Advanced Certificate in Education courses, which were offered part-time by universities. But the courses had failed to address poor subject knowledge.
Turning to his recommendations, Taylor said that teachers’ unions would be key to turning the situation around.
They needed to help dispel the belief that for teachers to be monitored by their school management team was “about judging”.
The notion that school managers should not visit classrooms was both “rife” and “disastrous”.
“When teachers go into their classrooms, they close the door and that is their kingdom.”
Taylor said that as far as teacher training was concerned, afternoon workshops were “a waste of time”, and that district-based subject advisers were overwhelmed, being responsible for up to 300 schools.
“I want to promote the idea of in-school professional development. The HOD is the person on site who knows her teachers, who can help her teachers on a daily basis,” Taylor said.
Basil Manuel, the president of Naptosa, told the meeting it was “unacceptable” that HODs were not visiting classrooms and not evaluating teachers for fear of upsetting certain teachers.
It was the core responsibility of an HOD to manage the curriculum and monitor its delivery, Manuel said.
The Mercury
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A Loooong piece of irrelevance and ignorance that can be dealt with via one word:
"Mapungubwe"
Again, research before opening your mouth"
Again, where does the above deal with the primary issue that Nigeria has an embarrasment for a military?
lezz: I can smell your desperation and anxiety across this platform. This sewer rat is hurting so bad. die-vluit is losing it. Your opinion doesn't count. You come at me with so much haste and fury. I won't want to slay you in this state. I shall humble you when you are sober and at your best. For now, fade away, scum.
Desperation is when all your posts are full of the following:
1. Relevance to the thread; and 2. Evidence and support for the statements made.
That's "desperate" and thats you.
Now, where does this long tirade of yours deny the following:
1. Nigeria has a pathetic military 2. Nigeria's weapons aren't wanted 3. Chad is saving nigeria 4. Nigeria tried to by SA weapons. 5. Nigeria's money was seized trying to but SA weapons.
AugustineAgain: How much weapons can $15 million buy? It wont buy a Rooivalk.
Deliveries have shown only ambulances and SAMIL trucks all NOT armed.
Nigerian military disclosed the list of South African deal to you? When? Even the T-72 tank deals are not disclosed officially, we discovered by photos only, and photos now show SAMIL trucks.....South Africa does not have the kind of weapons we want, Mi-35 Hinds, T-72 tanks, BTR-4 IFV.....you don't have what we need critically, ambulance and trucks is all you have to sell at cheap give away prices, that's why we bought them.
$15 million is chicken money, we are paying Russia $1 Billion for real weapons. Mumu .
Before we go too far, how does your post address the main point, which is that no one wants your weapons. And that you wanted South African weapons. And that you had your money seized while trying to get them?
Whenever you are ready.
And if the 15m had not been seized how much would've been spent?
AugustineAgain: Nope, I never said Nigerian army recaptures, I said we capture, meaning Boko Haram was there contesting the towns.
Capture is NOT = Re-capture.....the towns were infiltrated by Bokos, we captured them and asserted 100% undiluted un-shared control.
SANDF can not do that in Bangui or in Kruger park where you share South African territory with ordinary Rhino poachers .
You cannot capture something that had not escaped your grasp in the first place. So be very ashamed. That picture of your soldiers posing with shekau's flag is a picture of shame. Celebrating mediocrity.
We know you post about environmental issues in a military thread when you can't handle the pain.
AugustineAgain: We did NOT buy any South African weapons with that money, it was for vehicles that were not armed, South Africa did NOT eat our money, you promised to return it, but hunger will not allow you to lose the business, the vehicles are now being delivered....German engine SAMIL Trucks now in Nigerian army. 50 million Southies have no courage to touch Nigerian money, unlike the courageous Dangote R.aped South African economy and swallowed your ONE BILLION RAND and nothing your country could do aboot it, we own and colonize you http://richnigerianpharmacists.com/south-african-tiger-brand-loses-82-billion-to-dangote-business-lessons/ .
Military vehicles? For use by your army?
What difference does it make? And no, you wanted buy weapons, as confirmed by your very own officials.
Your money is gone already. JZ of Nkandla is counting it in his fire pool as we speak.
AugustineAgain: Yesterday, Cameroonian army confirmed 200 troops dead including Cameroonian BIR Elite Special Forces in the past few months.
Chadian army confirmed their dead at about 20 in one day at Gamboru village fight alone.
Sri Lankan army swallowed several defeats from Tamil rebels but still won the war at the end.
War is all about the finale, the end, who wins at last and kills the enemy.
Nigeria is winning this war at last and Boko Haram is loosing.....your favourite map of Boko Haram controlling territory the size of Belgium has not been posted here by you in the last 30 days....shame will not let you do it....Southie s.cumbag
PHOTO : NIGERIAN ARMY CAPTURES BOKO HARAM TOWNS AND POSES WITH SHEKAU'S CALIPHATE FLAG .
So, you confirm that BH captured nigerian towns.
Be ashamed!
And the war will actually not be won. It will simply change form. Hurtful but true.
AugustineAgain: We never offered them for sale, we have a large army 3 times bigger than yours and we need much equipment manufactured locally in Nigerian defence industries by our own DICON, AFIT, BADEH AERO, NACE, PROFORCE, INKAS, NIGERDOCK etc.
You cannot offer them for sale.
You've had your money seized trying to desperately buy south african weapons.
Yours is to buy and consume. Not to make and sell.
andrewza: no doubt it is drone. But a drone strike? South africa had the option to buy armed seeker 400s and choose to get unarmed version. We have gripen for strike missions
This video is fake. Why would the readings on the left of the screen be cut out and the NAF colours be edited in?
AugustineAgain: I wanted to post this video, not that one.
Here, NAF missile drone strike with PGM......SAAF has ZERO combat experience of air to ground missiles, NAF is Africa's first air force to use missile armed drones in real battlefield, and we are you new masters, we take over from the white-man Boer
Msauza: 1. The former white apartheid government must be blamed for their failure to develop townships and instead modernising only their suburbs to the European standard.
2. Yes we envy Nigerians because we can be drug peddlers in their own country, messing up the future of their school children with drugs, dirtying their places and flats meant for accommodation and defrauding their citizens with 419 schemes. Thank you.
Henry120: There's a scrounge of terrorism/ terrorists activities sweeping the planet. From the U.S to britain- Sweden to Nigeria- Egypt- Algeria to Turkey and China, Nations and Responsible governments are increasingly involved in defeating this barbarism.
In Nigeria, we've made a solemn promise to make our country un-habitable for terrorists and have vowed to chase these terrorists to the gates of Hell.
The question was a simple one: in which contested airspace has nigeria used its fighters?
Yes a promise unfulfilled for 5 years straight. And then Chad came along.
EVarn: Because nigeria has a fledging defense industry,we neither produce tanks nor do we manufacture supersonic combat jets. though we build APCs,surveillance drones,mine detecting robots,body armour,rifles,touch sensitive mines,time and trigger bombs,patrol and combat vessels,with remedial capacity to begin manufacturing IFV,AFV,low orbit satellites,light armoured tanks,OPVs,and MRAPs but all these are barely of enticable capabilities enough to attract powerful militaries like the US. As for SA,well,south africa is known to have a lackadiasical disposition toward weapon procurement.many of SA's military gadget are worn,outdated and poorly maintained,with no light at the end of the tunnel for its rapidly shrinking and poorly secured defense industry. Nigeria could care less if SA procures weapons from us.
Because your weapons aren't wanted. Simple.
You want South African weapons. You've even had your millions seized trying to get them.
EVarn: Because nigeria has a fledging defense industry,we neither produce tanks nor do we manufacture supersonic combat jets. though we build APCs,surveillance drones,mine detecting robots,body armour,rifles,touch sensitive mines,time and trigger bombs,patrol and combat vessels,with remedial capacity to begin manufacturing IFV,AFV,low orbit satellites,light armoured tanks,OPVs,and MRAPs but all these are barely of enticable capabilities enough to attract powerful militaries like the US. As for SA,well,south africa is known to have a lackadiasical disposition toward weapon procurement.many of SA's military gadget are worn,outdated and poorly maintained,with no light at the end of the tunnel for its rapidly shrinking and poorly secured defense industry. Nigeria could care less if SA procures weapons from us.
EVarn: "Declining" means growing less powerful as the years go by,eventually leading to a collapse. "Growing" means becoming more powerful,formidable and sophisticated as the years go by,eventually leading to a ultimate establishment.
A puppy is also growing but it's still a puppy.
A 40 year old giant is still a giant but he's ageing.
Foreign Affairs › Re: Who Has The Strongest Military In Africa? by DieVluit: 6:36am On Mar 02, 2015
Zulu boy is still hurting.
