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Chad to the rescue. The cowards of Nigeria are being saved by Chad.

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-31113513

NaijaPikinGidi:
Except you have proof ... then just shut up and listen to the facts from the man on the ground and in the field! If helicopters transporting Chadian troops along the common border is what excites your empty skull, then enjoy the view of the harmless helicopters!! These are normal as per MNJTF protocols! Question is: Where are the hardpoints and guns on the Chadian helicopters you are punting?
FYI: MNJTF troops are permitted to cross borders for troop insertion and to deal with immediate threats or terrorist movements. Pity you!

I read your ENTIRE post and nowhere do I see you denying that Chadian troops have entered Nigeria and are bombing positions in Nigeria. Just a long post with nothing in it.

I don't see the denial, my friend. Where is it?

NaijaPikinGidi:
Where is your SAPS and SANDF hiding when more people in South Africa die every year than BH have killed in 5 - 6 years? Where are your security forces when your hungry and poverty-stricken SOWETO "mercenaries" have been raiding foreigners' investments across South Africa. Botswana to the rescue!

The SAPS has nothing to do with the SANDF.

What investments? Non-taxpaying spazas that suck the blood out of the fiscus?

Again, the SAPS has nothing to do with the SANDF.

Botswana to the rescue where and how?

And our mercenaries are in Nigeria as we speak - invited by Jonodaft, the Oga at the top himself.

NaijaPikinGidi:
In your wet dreams?

The same wet dreams that have led Nigerians to post "final offensive" for half a decade.

arantess:
Border town of gamboru....ok

There is no point in your post.

Thanks.

NaijaPikinGidi:
Block head! Show us the hardpoints or pods in the helicopters in your photos? Keep trying hard! You are smitten with grief and envy at the Nigerian-led MNJTF exploits!

In other words, there can be no denial from you that Chad has entered your territory and is bombing targets.

Just irrational screams and demands.

arantess:
http:///J6SU1zcKzY
CANDLE NATION!!!....THIS IS YOUR WORLD CLASS INSTITUTION?
All apparently not well at the Infantry School
Written by Kim Helfrich, Tuesday, 03 February 2015
Alklegations of abuse at Infantry SchoolAllegations of assault and verbal abuse have again surfaced at the SA Army’s Infantry School at Oudtshoorn.
The base in the Klein Karoo town does not have the best of reputations as a military training institution and has been singled out by Sandu (SA National Defence Union) as “notorious for its bad leadership and high troop casualty count”.

It has in recent times apparently seen recruits, including women, humiliated, while a recruit was found dead, apparently of hypothermia. A punitive training session last year saw a board of enquiry set up to investigate whether officers or instructors went too far after several recruits reportedly had to undergo medical treatment following the session.
Also last year, an apparent confrontation between police and soldiers outside a shebeen led to another official enquiry. The incident allegedly was sparked by intimidation by a senior Army officer to have arrested soldiers released from police custody.
Now Sandu, in the form of its national secretary Pikkie Greeff, said it is “gravely concerned about increasing reports of recruits being physically assaulted and verbally abused” at the Oudtshoorn military base.
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SANDF ill-discipline sticks its head out in Kruger
SANDF investigating Oudtshoorn incident
No-one to blame for Infantry School deaths – SA Army
Another death at Infantry School
Complaints reaching the military trade union include instructors jumping on the backs and chests of male and female recruits, refusing medical attention to recruits with open wounds and[b] racist verbal abuse.
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“Other complaints are that certain recruits have been refused the right to tender their resignations and are forced to remain at the base against their will. At the same time they are forced to take part in training and subjected to more abuse,” he said.
Greeff said the union has no problem with tough military training but “outright thuggery, verbal and physical abuse and criminal conduct by instructors is condemned in the strongest terms”.
He maintains the SA National Defence Force (SANDF) has done “very little” to address the Oudtshoorn situation. This is despite recommendations apparently made by the Military Ombud.
Brigadier General Xolani Mabanga, Director: Corporate Communication, said: “The SANDF is not in a position to respond to allegations made by Sandu in its statement without any verification of the allegations and/or facts”.
He indicated the defence force had seen and read Sandu’s statement.

What makes institutions word class is not the absolute absence of ill-discipline, but it is what is done about it when it crops up.

In Nigeria, things get swept under the carpet, but in South Africa they get dealt with.

Picture related.

Chad coming to save the cowards of Nigeria.

http://newsverge.com/chad-helicopters-bomb-boko-haram-positions-in-nigerian-town/

Chad helicopters bomb Boko Haram positions in Nigerian town
Posted by Editor on February 1, 2015 at 9:00 pm
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Chadian helicopters struck Boko Haram positions in the Nigerian border town of Gamboru for a second straight day on Sunday, an AFP journalist in a neighbouring town said.

Bwahaha, FINAL offensive since 2010.

Anyway, this is Chad's fight.


Chad troops enter Nigeria in offensive against Boko Haram

on February 03, 2015 / in News 12:43 pm / Comments

Chadian ground troops on Tuesday crossed into Nigeria for the first time as part of an offensive against Boko Haram Islamists, an AFP correspondent saw.

Armoured vehicles and infantry crossed a bridge that links the Cameroonian town of Fotokol with Nigerian town of Gamboru, which has been taken back over the weekend from the jihadists who occupied it for several months, according to Nigerian national security spokesman Mike Omeri. Up till now, the Chad military had conducted air strikes against the militants.
- See more at: http://www.vanguardngr.com/2015/02/chad-troops-enter-nigeria-offensive-boko-haram/#sthash.Zcn0cGKM.dpuf

agaugust:
[size=14pt]Giant Of Africa Is Now Angry ![/size]

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The Gulak & Madagali Encirclement Complete, 6000 estimated #BokoHaram fighters Trapped.

Nigerian Defense HQ source says plans with neighbouring countries for d surrender of about 35,000-40,000 #BokoHaram Terrorists is underway

Sambisa forest currently under heavy artillery bombardment by Nigerian army artillery battalions.
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Well done, South African special forces, for showing the Nigerians the way!

rka1:
Why don't you go and tweet and ask Edward? It was on the 27th.
BTW, nobody denied any jets had crashed. Get your facts right.

EVERYONE denied:

1. That it had crashed; and
2. That the beheaded pilot was a NAF man.

http://www.vanguardngr.com/2014/10/confusion-beheading-air-force-pilot-captured-killed/

You get your facts straight. Seeing as you are the one in the mood of posting about retrievals, was the jet retrieved?

rka1:
Edward @DonKlericuzio · Jan 27

The #Nigeria CH3 A1-Air-Ground missile armed UAV that crashed at Dumge village N.E Nigeria has been retrieved

Is it,now? Did thy also "retrieve" the missing jet from last year, which they denied had crashed?

Yes? No? Maybe?

dakingsman:
The Nigerian Police Force and Special Fraud Unit, ikoyi lagos. note, 'this is not an airport'

Without a link we can read ourselves, that thing doesn't exist.

Henry120:
2012 defence review is now the 2015 defence review. Same thing with your 1996 project biro, this is 2015

Let's do the maths.

2050 - 2012 = 35 years.

you still got time.

Oh wow, just as long as the minimum time Nigeria needs to get to SA's level of development!

I like your "math". I like it very much!

Henry120:
Don't be delusional,insurgents are constantly been killed by the Nigerian military.

You should deploy to save your own citizens first. 69 dead yesterday, another 69 would be murdered today, same thing tomorrow.

You don't have an insurgency but by years end, 25,185 south-Africans would have been murdered by December 31st 2015.

Dude you can't talk about people being murdered in SA if water shortages have killed more people than BH in Nigeria.

EVarn:
i'm done arguing with a cheat like you.

Nothing to argue about.

EVarn:
you can decisively discard your sinister promonitions where the sun doesnt shine.the fight against boko haram is more complex than anything the SANDF has ever confronted.

And what could be more complex than fighting a Boko Haram that is being aided and abated by all the angels of the heavens and demons of the most infernal of hells?

They ride unicorns carrying pitchforks and things. Boko Haram has foreign aid no doubt.

EVarn:
and who cajoled you to support the Nigerian military in the first place?

How does the answer to that question change the fact that the Nigerian military's efforts were defeated by cows? Not even sophisticated weapons were needed to thwart the advance of the military. Just cows.

EVarn:
it is indeed a very innovative strategy,infact,i applaud boko haram's chief strategist for thinking up such a simple,yet highly effective assault strategy.however,the NA will easily strafe boko haram into the afterlife through aerial bombardment.that strategy may have worked once,but it wont work again.it would only be a shocking waste of tasty beef.

I give up on the Nigerian military. Defeated by cows of all things. SMH

EVarn:
boko haram has foreign aid,from chad,mali,libya and all countries under the al quaeda influence.perhaps it even has help from france and the US{though i fail to see what the US will gain by distabilizing the north-east},but the use of helicopters is indeed very disturbing,i personnally know that their is no way a foreign aircraft will penetrate our airspace without our airforce and NAMA knowing about it.so what does this mean?,that the government is sabotaging its own efforts?,that is very preposterous indeed.there could be an underlying battle for control of the lake chad basin oil field.

Perhaps it also has help from aliens coming from the constellation of Andromeda.

Hell, I am sure upon closer inspection, we'd find tooth fairies and little sprites in the mix.

EVarn:
BOKO HARAM USED COWS AS SHIELD IN BAGA BATTLE
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http//www.naij.com/374757-escaped-soldiers-disclose-boko-haram-new-tactic.html
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Troops that retreated from baga has alledged that boko haram terrorists have integrated the use of cows as shield into their new isolated assault strategy.apparently,boko haram fighters attacked baga frontier garrison using about 5000 cows that were seized from neighbouring nomadic farmlands as shield.the troops complained that most of their bullets were wasted on the cows that boko haram fighters were hiding behind.

Bwahaha, the efforts of the Nigerian military frustrated by cows.

Not even kids. Never thought I'd see the day.

agaugust:
How does that change the fact that AMSCOR sold your army faulty cannon that turned around and killed SANDF soldiers that were operating it?
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"That" being what? You aren't making sense

agaugust:
SANDF pays DENEL for weapons, you don't get them for free, or else DENEL will go broke and collapse again like it did before and needed government cash donation to revive....DENEL cannot CANNOT afford to give SANDF free weapons, what you don't buy you don't get, what you don't get you don't have.

Me too can say NAF owns AFIT so we will have unlimited number of Amebo drones, NA owns NACE so we have 1 million Igirigi APC anytime we want it. Equation balanced !
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And all Denel's profits go to the ministry of defence. The SANDF's budget comes from the ministry.

It's a zero sum.

Educate yourself. Denel is tied to the SANDF, by law. The SANDF is the sole and primary reason for Denel's existence.

denisfidha:
Jeez, You guys never stop; the owner of this thread should change the topic to "SADF vs NA"

if all of you were Generals in the army, and both SA and 9ja had nuclear capability, this thread would have been really quiet, cause non of you would b existing by now since you are always on each others throat!!1 (Just thinking)

You know, I've always wondered why people spell Naija "9ja", cause that's "Nine-ja"...

(Just thinking)

agaugust:
Mumu, drones crash all over the world, and South Africa too, your government is afraid of drones because they know drones will crash from time to time, drones terrify Southies, so much you are afraid to fly them in your country

http://www.iol.co.za/news/politics/minister-use-of-drones-a-risk-1.1734553#.VMjbX2jF9B0
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How does that change the fact that the Israelis sold you faulty drones?

agaugust:
The American fool should first go and lecture American military that failed in Afghanistan after 11 years war against Taliban, the white-man's super power army has been defeated in Afghanistan, Taliban terrorists still control 50% of the nation and USA is withdrawing it's thosands of troops, thousands of armoured vehicles and hundreds of combat aircraft....Americans you go weep and cry over their colossal military failure and leave the black people's Naija army alone, we are the pride of the black race worldwide.

Hey, let USA send Yankee white army to come to Nigerian military academy and learn how to recover your army vehicles back from the enemy when you lose them, Taliban rag tag terrorists are driving around Afghanistan in captured Obama Humvee vehicles till today, White House, go to Aso Rock for combat lectures !

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None of those happenings are taking place in the US of A. They are all in foreign lands. Nigeria is failing at home and is letting down the whole of Nigeria. Giving up territory, civilian lives and freedoms.

TerryCarr:
i don't think their could ever be a "unity" between north and south. they are different racially, culturally, & mentally. and lets not forget the whole racial slavery thing which is still going on in Sudan & Mauritania the slaves should take not from Haiti, Zanzibar and other revolts blacks did
https://www.latinamericanstudies.org/haiti/haitian-revolution.jpg

African unity based on sentiment is a dream. The biggest and most sensible reason to unite is trade - not race. Money speaks all languages and doesn't discriminate. If Africans have no trade systems bringing them together, then they'll be no unity. Money is a tool that can be used to divide and to unite.

Slavery was about money. (it united whites and separated blacks from whites)
Apartheid was about money. Ditto above.
Colonisation was about money. Ditto above.

The European union is about money. It unites Europeans - not because they are white, but because they have strong trade systems bringing them together.

The African Union lacks clarity and vision. Some thing it's about pan-africanism for the sake of it. That will never work. Because the trade side in Africa is infantile, pan-africanism is just a joke.

EVarn:
if the drone was faulty,it wouldnt have flown in the first place.

Tell him bra. The cars that break down on the highway get there by magic. They can't drive to that point if they are faulty. Yup!

overhypedsteve:
i will ignore this one. Going into an argument with you is like falling into an abyss, there is just no end to it, you bring up newer issues on the way to frustrate efforts.

You aren't ignoring it if you are quoting it. Besides, the internet won't ignore it. You don't have a choice but to accept what is the truth. It's not like you aren't dealing with it by choice.

Suddenly appealing to higher authority LOL. Talking about freeing Africa when you haven't freed yourself.

You don't have a choice bra. You need to be saved and that's that.

overhypedsteve:
a very welcomed development. I have always called for an African solution to the African problem, we shouldn't always allow the west to do things for us. I still have regrets on the issue of those missing girls cus I know that, that was one issue that sparked inter national outrage, but while other western and eastern countries were busy showing their commitments, both rhetorically and materially, Our brother here in Africa that could have helped us to track their borders and ensure that the girls were not smuggled into their territory they pretended like they didn't know that Nigeria is at war. and when a nation is at war, she needs all the help she can get.
Some f00ls on here would publicly boast that the whole of Africa hate Nigerians and now i ask the persons that have this hate for Nigeria, why do you hate us, what have we done to merit this hate, we ve spent a good part of our short period oif independence ensuring that the whole of Africa is free and peaceful, even with war on our hands we ve our soldiers and police helping to sustain peace in other African countries.
That is who we are, we will never boast of this things cus we know that a help given to a brother will never be forgotten. This is the value that we hold to and this is the reason why even our brothers now boast of the hate they have for us. If the south Africans think they have help to offer, then let them come. Cus aside the e-wars and arguments, I am just an African. I know my imperfections but I also know the strenght that we draw from our unity, I am Nigeria..

LOL, you have no choice but to be humble, right now. This is how a person speaks when they have been humbled.

With civil war, coups, attempted coups, military rule and insurgency, seems you didn't spend enough time ensuring that you are free...and peaceful.

Oh boy!

This is what happens when you make too many babies for your situation.

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-01-26/nigerian-water-shortage-is-bigger-killer-than-boko-haram-cities

Nigerian Water Shortage Is Bigger Killer Than Boko Haram: Cities



(Bloomberg) -- The lack of running water killed more people in Nigeria last year than Boko Haram.

While the terror campaign claimed more than 4,000 lives, the shortage of potable water and poor sanitation led to about 73,000 deaths, according to WaterAid, a London-based nonprofit.

The water deficit isn’t limited to isolated areas in the country’s vast north. In Lagos, about 15 million of the coastal metropolis’ 21 million have limited access to piped water.

Africa’s accelerating urbanization is colliding with governments’ failure to provide the most basic services. Next year alone, Lagos will add more than the population of Boston, worsening its infrastructure shortfall.

“Water is strained, transportation is strained, housing is strained,” Toyin Ayinde, the state commissioner for planning and urban development, said in an interview.

Folks still need about 25 gallons a day, the state-run Lagos Water Corp. reckons.

That’s where Mohamed Adamu comes in. Starting at 5 a.m. every day, he fills 10 jerry cans and walks down rutted streets to deliver clean water to corrugated iron-roofed homes in the Otumara district about a half-hour walk away. Vendors like him are known as “mairuwa” -- or “water owner” in the Hausa language.

“This is just something to do until you get a better business,” said Adamu, 36, who migrated two years ago from northwestern Kebbi state, some 530 miles away. “It’s the type of work you can’t do for long because it’s hard on the body.”
Flight to Lagos

Thousands like him have fled northern Nigeria to escape both the rural poverty there and the Islamist insurgency in Africa’s largest economy. The government says Boko Haram has killed more than 13,000 people since 2009. They killed at least 4,740 last year, more than double the number in 2013, Bath, U.K.-based risk consultancy Verisk Maplecroft estimates.

Just yesterday, at least 65 people were killed in the northeastern city of Maiduguri during a Boko Haram assault on the capital of Borno state, according to a local militia member.

“Everybody is worried about Boko Haram but the average Nigerian continues to see water as a private good not a public good that has to be provided by the government,” said Idayat Hassan, director of the Centre for Democracy and Development, a research institute based in the capital, Abuja.

The water company’s capacity is 210 million gallons a day compared with the 540 million gallons needed by Lagosians. Its potable piped water reaches about 7 million people. That leaves two-thirds of the city struggling to find safe water.

“Mairuwa are one of the most common forms of informal water supply,” said Oluseyi Abdulmalik, a communications manager at WaterAid Nigeria. “They’re filling the gap of what government’s utilities should be doing.”
Meeting Demand

Lagos water officials have developed a $3.5 billion plan to more than triple capacity to 745 million gallons a day by 2020 to meet a projected population of 29 million, according to Shayo Holloway, the company’s group managing director.

The third-biggest killer of children under the age of 5 in Africa is diarrhea, a disease that can -- in nine out of 10 cases -- be prevented by access to safe water and sanitation, according to WaterAid. Nigeria accounts for 11 percent of all global under-5 deaths, according Unicef.

Nigeria isn’t the only sub-Saharan African country struggling with shortages; 325 million people on the continent didn’t have access to improved drinking water in 2012, according to a World Health Organization and Unicef joint report last year. Dakar, Accra, Abidjan and Nairobi were cited as other water-stressed cities.
Reselling Barred

Today’s water woes were deepened by a 2009 law that barred past distribution methods. Until then, residents who could afford a direct connection to the main line stored water in tanks and sold it to neighbors on a pay-as-you-use basis. When such reselling was made illegal, police seized vendors’ tanks and disconnected them from the mains.

“The mairuwa took advantage of our stopping to bring water from outside,” said Ogundele Agbede, 80, a retired civil servant who was forced to shut his sideline selling water after more than 30 years.

Vandalism of the water pipes remains frequent and even when the pipes are intact, the flow is as erratic as electricity supply in a country that suffers from daily blackouts.

At the Dustbin Estate slum, where the ground is soft from building over a refuse dump and swamp land in the city’s southern Ajegunle district, pipes paid for by development organizations are often broken. Sanitation in the community is poor. Residents dump bags of trash and feces into an adjacent canal, looked on by grazing goats and emaciated cows.
Vandalized Pipes

“They sabotage this one a lot,” Tolulope Sangosanya, 32, the founder of LOTS Charity Foundation, said pointing to one of four pipelines and the faucets her group installed there. “Sometimes they go and break it in the middle of the night.”

In Otumara, many from Agbede’s association sunk boreholes to secure a new source to continue their trading business.

“Very unfortunately, 90 percent of the boreholes are not drinkable,” Israel Akintimehin, 55, a pastor dressed in a Cleveland Cavaliers basketball vest, said in an interview at his Cherubim and Seraphim Church of Zion. “It’s a very big irony, we’re surrounded by water, yet we do not have good water.”

To contact the reporters on this story: Yinka Ibukun in Lagos at yibukun@bloomberg.net; Chris Kay in Lagos at ckay5@bloomberg.net

To contact the editors responsible for this story: Antony Sguazzin at asguazzin@bloomberg.net James Hertling, Randall Hackley

Effectively, our American friend here is saying that the Nigerian military has no clue what they are doing. And that they need saving.

http://news.yahoo.com/huge-effort-needed-fight-boko-haram-us-commander-000118945.html

Washington (AFP) - Turning the tide against Boko Haram will require a "huge" international effort, a top US military commander warned on Tuesday, taking a swipe at Nigeria's response to the emboldened extremists.

Relations between the Nigerian and US militaries have been strained with Nigeria cancelling training by US advisers of a unit that was supposed to fight the militants, who have captured towns and villages in the country's northeast and vowed to create a hardline Islamic state.

The conflict has left more than 13,000 people dead and one million homeless.

General David Rodriguez, head of US Africa Command, said the Islamists' gains on the battlefield are cause for concern and "the number of people displaced is just staggering."

"I think it's going to take a huge international and multinational effort there to change a trajectory that continues to go in the wrong direction," Rodriguez said at an event organized by the Center for Strategic and International Studies, a Washington think tank.

"The Nigerian leadership and Nigerian military are going to have to really improve their capacities to be able to handle that."

Rodriguez said the Nigerian military's response "was not working very effectively and actually in some places made it worse."

He added: "I hope that they let us help more and more."

Nigeria's ambassador to the United States, Adebowale Ibidapo Adefuye, complained in November that his country is "not satisfied" with US support for the struggle against Boko Haram and that Washington has blocked the sale of some military hardware over human rights concerns.

In a visit Sunday to Lagos, US Secretary of State John Kerry said Washington was "prepared to do more" to help Nigeria counter Boko Haram.

Nigeria has the largest army in west Africa but has come under criticism at home and abroad for failing to stop the advance of Boko Haram.

The United States was working with Nigeria to build a comprehensive strategy "across the board, not just military," that encompassed education, economic development and health care to address the needs of the population in the north, the four-star general said.

Another "big focus" was to bolster the country's intelligence gathering, added Rodriguez.