₦airaland Forum

Henry120:
The recent slaughter of the enemy in yobe shows the enemy is all media and no substance.

Overrunning an FOB in the desert is nothing.

Fatalities are par for the cause. Any other mitary wouldn't be bragging about such, but would instead be looking to brag about a victory.

What is not par for the cause is that a military base be taken over and female soldiers snatched. Any insurgent will brag about that.

Henry120:
How do you deal with a flow of arms from libya in the freaking desert?

Nigeria's COIN effort has been very progressive. Initial gains made by the enemy is steadily been rolled back, and effectively.

How did you claim you were dealing with it when you and Co bragged you had the best COIN efforts on the continent? The flow of arms is nothing new.

And you don't deal with the flow of arms from Libya in a freakin desert. You deal with the EFFECTS of the flow of arms in Nigeria. That's COIN.

And no, you aren't progressive if you go from COIN to semi-conventional. You're failing and are just putting out fires.

It's more like the enemy is rolling back your own gains. They started with nothing. But you started with an entire country and army.

Henry120:
Nope.

Semi-conventional because of the destabilisation in libya and huge ransom payments made by the french government. So no matter how many targets we take out, there is still a steady inflow of arms into the region.

Again, a failure by the government to recapitalise assets sooner and a politicisation of the conflict in the region.

The overriding point is, a continued destabilisation in spells a lot of worry for the Nigerian government down south.

There has been a steady flow of arms into the region since the days of Liberia. It's not a new thing. Even when you were boasting about COIN, there was a steady flow of arms into the region. No one buys your story.

Your COIN failed. It's as simple as that. Now you're in a semi-conventional war situation. And I bet this would be full conventional if your soldiers weren't always running from the enemy.

And anyway, you aren't much of a COIN expert if you can't deal with the issue of the flow of arms. Dealing with such issues is one of the main activities of a COIN campaign.

mzilakazi:
I know the history of Mandela like the tips of my fingers. I have also read his books and diary. I have even met with him many a times and nowhere in his history it was ever mentioned that Mandela ever spend six months in Nigeria hiding in Amechi's house. That old man is crazy and he is hallucinating. However, I will reduce everything he had ever said as lies because during that time he claims Mandela was at his home, Mandela was in Britain.

Brotherman you mean the same Britain that housed the likes of Oliver Tambo and practically allowed the ANC to operate from exile?

You mean that Britain?

overhypedsteve:
lol.you really did not answer my question.

Yes, that's why this post of yours is rich in substance. Yeah, dude. You have nothing else to give other than this lameness.

GreenandGold:
[size=19pt]Nigeria, your donations were nothing but a 419 scam. Your money ended up in private dictator accounts in Switzerland [/size]

Lol 419 baba.

And in anycase SA has set up shop in Nigeria and given them things they could only dream about.

And if there's any Biafran in the house (and there's plenty), they better remember who supported them, which I think is one of the reasons why Nigeria dreams that it had a significant role to play against apartheid.

Thiza:
Comments by Nigerians lack direction, facts, correct opinions and researched information.....Basically its hot air with no substantive base and lack acuuracy....ITS SOUND MORE LIKE A HEADLESS CHICKEN TRYING TO IMPRESS.....NIGERIAN MILITARY IS IN SERIOUS CRISIS...CANNOT PROTECT ITS BORDERS....CANNOT PROVIDE SECURITY FOR ITS POPULATION.....ITS IMAGE LIES IN TATTARS....SOLDIERS ARE NOW EXPERT IN SPRINTING TO NEIGHBOURING COUNTRIES SUCH AS CHAD AND LAST TIME WAS CAMEROON.
Soldiers regulary mutinied against the military leadership.....and the HIGH COMMAND FOR THE LAST 3 YEARS HAS BEEN TELLING THE ENTIRE WORLD ABOUT ITS MODERNASATION PROGRAMME AND ACQUIRING OF THE LATEST MILITARY HARDWARE......BUY HOWEVER WHY NO CHANGE IN THE BATTLE FILED @AUGUSTUS BOOSTED ABOUT THE BEST COIN STRATEGY AS THE BEST IN AFRICA BUT THE SITUATION ON THE GROUND PROVES OTHERWISE
INTELLIGENT AND SOBER ANALYSIS CAN SEE THROUGH THAT THE EMPEROR IS WEARING NO CLOTHES INSPITE OF BOOSTING ABOUT THE INVISIBLE SILK DRESS...HE CLAIMS TO WEARING..........MEANWHILE TROOPS ARE RAPIDLY BECOMING EXPERTS IN CROSS BORDER MARATHON

Death by "cross border marathon". Lmao

overhypedsteve:
other relevant partners? Please could you give reasons why you think the efforts of other partners toppled that of Nigeria?
And why you think a help given should be weighed under such a scale. What help did the US give you? Or the brits that enacted the acts of union of 1910 that actually gave birth to apartheid. What help did your Chinese partners provide you with and why didn't mandela hide in CHINA or Russia for 6 month from the apartheid regime. Nigeria never cared about your apartheid regime, we do not fear the whites we never did. There was never a time in nigerian history where the white race was regarded as superior not even during colonialism and that was why the indirect rule concept came into being. Nigerians wanted to be ruled by their own person even during colonialism.
Our Flag represents our people, culture and values and as such should not be mocked.

You're flag represents your people, who are cowards. So there's nothing wrong with calling a spade a spade.

Tell me which nigerian gave his life or freedom to fight apartheid.

And then I will show you countries like tanzania who housed a whole movement and gave more than your dreamy donations that your leaders chowed.

Countries like Zambia etc that faced apartheid bombs and lost people. Countries like Cuba (who, by the way we are giving economic aid to today) that laid down their own freedoms and youthful lives for apartheid. People that left their own countries like Joe Slovo, to physically and actually fight apartheid. Countries like russia that trained countless soldiers. Man, the list is long.

Not only did nigeria fear whites, you also fear boko haram today. You have no history of any freedom wars in nigeria. Southern africa has countless. Your own "independence" was simply given to you. No anti-colonial wars to be written about. On the contrary, you sold other Africans into slavery. The same country today that voted AGAINST palestine's being recognised as a state. Now you want to pretend that you are freedom heros? You are not.

Ruled by their own people? That's why you had a civil war and have separatists in the form of Boko Haram and Biafrans? Yeah, right.

Nigeria's "contribution" was a drop in the ocean, but nigeria is the loudest in demanding undeserved recognition.

Again, even if you saved the whole world, you're still cowards today and the flag represents you as such.

overhypedsteve:
1.the men behind that flag is responsible for the freedom you now enjoy. http://www.vanguardngr.com/2012/05/nigerian-civil-servants-donated-salaries-to-liberation-struggles-in-s-africa-obasanjo/
http://royaltimes.net/nigeria-in-the-history-of-mandela-south-africa-%E2%80%A2nigerians-upset-at-lack-of-recognition-at-mandelas-memorial-service/ http://africanactivist.msu.edu/organization.php?name=National+Committee+Against+Apartheid
2. The men behind that flag hid your hero (mandela) for six month(your heroic mandela came to hide behind cowards).
3. The men behind that flag liberated Liberia, sierra Leone and sacrificed self in Sudan.
4. The men behind that flag stayed on in a country suffering from an epidemic(liberia) to maintain order and even made the ultimate sacrifice.
5.the men behind that flag deployed weapons and trained men to fight for the liberation of angola against a white supremacist south african regime.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuban_intervention_in_Angola
6.The men behind that flag have built for themselves a country stronger larger and richer than any country that Africa can boast of.

and now faced with the evils of insurgency and isolation from friends and partners, the men behind that flag have fought is still fighting and by God we will win back sanity in every inch of our land.
never you mock the flag that your fathers have bowed to. not even Nelson Mandela would call the nigerian flag a flag of cowards

1. Ancient history does not mean that this is not the flag of cowards. It is.
2. Nigeria was scared sh1tless of the apartheid government and did FAR LESS than other significant partners in africa, Cuba and russia - even china.
3. Your "donation" went to the southern African Region, in addition to the pockets of your own leaders.
4. No nigerian gave his life or freedom to free south africans, but other countries did.
5. No one in SA even takes the nigerian contribution seriously, other than individuals like Mandela and Mbeki who had to say what has to be said at the time. But when Mandela died, no one even thought of getting a nigerian to speak because they really would have nothing to speak about.
6. Again your ancient history doesn't mean that nigerians soldiers aren't cowards. We've even stopped counting how many times they have displayed their cowardice.
7. You won't win "by God", bra. In the same way Shekau won't win by Allah. You will win by not channeling funds meant to the army to the pockets of your leaders - in the same way that money meant for SA would have been channeled to the pockets of your leaders.
8. And then you wonder why Boko Haram is still here and SA fails to recognise your "contribution".

mzilakazi:
What the hell were they doing there knowing well they have that tree in the centre of a garden that is wanted by all men? What a grab for Boko haram to warm up their beds. I can feel for those female soldiers, by the time they will be found, they will never sleep with their boyfriends and husbands again. The boko boys will punch them left, right and centre until that thing loses its elasticity.

Found?

Dude, where are the girls? These soldiers will be giving birth to little Shekaus in about 9 months.

mzilakazi:
BOKO HARAM SHOULD BE ARRESTED FOR ABUSE/CRIME TO HUMANITY BY THE INTERNATIONAL COURT OF HAGUE. THEY DO NOT ONLY ABUSE THE CITIZENS OF NORTHEASTERN NIGERIA BUT ALSO MUTILATE NIGERIAN SOLDIERS LIKE HELL. MANY SOLDIERS EVEN DROWNED TRYING TO CROSS LAKE CHAD BECAUSE THEY CANT EVEN SWIM.

Yes, the ICC must step in here and protect those who can't protect themselves.
The Nigerian soldiers need protection.

It was

#showUsTheTucano

#BringBackOurGirls+TheRest

Now to kick off 2015, it's

#WhereIsColonelKuti?

Where is your commander in Baga, Nigerians? He's MIA.

And then Nigeria's female soldiers have been kidnapped; and will be BH's s*x slaves. Shame on the nigerian military. Shame on you!


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18 Female Soldiers Feared Kidnapped In Baga

The Boko Haram sect may have kidnapped 18 female soldiers in Baga, Borno State, military sources told SaharaReporters.

According to the sources, out of 26 female soldiers posted to the military base of the Multinational Joint Task Force, only eight have so far been accounted for.

The commander of the troops in the area, Colonel Kuti, has also not been found since the insurgents attacked the town on Saturday.

Nigerian army residents in Baga told the agency that the Boko Haram invaded the town and killed at least 55 people, including soldiers attached to MNJTF.

Both residents and security sources said the insurgent attack lasted close to 18 hours before the Islamist terrorists overpowered the troops and seized the military base.

a fisherman who fled from the town, Bukar Kaka said no fewer than 50 villagers, including five soldiers, were killed while others sustained wounds in the attacks. He said he saw soldiers fleeing. A military source disclosed that some fleeing sources were headed for Monguno barracks near Maiduguri, the State capital.

The fisherman said Boko Haram militants sacked the troops from the barracks, with the soldiers fleeing into various locations.

Anyway, all the local governments in Borno North have been captured by BH.

http://leadership.ng/news/399884/boko-haram-now-occupies-borno-north


How on earth will you have elections in these areas? It's a mess! No way will your election be deemed free and fair.


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‘Boko Haram Now Occupies Borno North’
Abdullahi Umar, AGENCY REPORTS
— Jan 6, 2015 | 1 Comment
The Boko Haram insurgents have captured all local government councils in Borno north, according to Hausa service of the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) monitored in Abuja yesterday.

The report indicates that the local councils are now under the sect’s control.

Boko Haram militants stormed a key multinational military base in Baga, Borno State killing undisclosed number of people and seizing weapons and vehicles as soldiers and the residents fled the area for safety.

A senator representing the constituency, Sen. Maina Ma’aji Lawan confirmed to the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) that the insurgents’ attacked Baga and surrounding towns.

He added that military troops and youth volunteers, popularly known as ‘civilian JTF,’ had attempted to repel the onslaught, but were overpowered by the invaders.

“This is indeed a sad moment for my people who were plunged into bloodshed by the insurgents. “Security forces with active support of the youth have been working hard to protect the area from several attacks in the past. But due to the large number of the terrorists and dangerous weapons they used in the latest onslaught these patriotic persons were unable to resist them,” Mr. Lawan said.

Confirming that the military had abandoned the base, he said people’s frustration knew “no bounds” over the fact that the military had not fought back.

“There is definitely something wrong that makes our military abandon their posts each time there is an attack from Boko Haram,” the senator said.

“The soldiers were trying to repel the attack but that wasn’t going to happen because a lot of the soldiers were without their guns and some were running into the town,” the senator added.

Local councils in Borno north include Marte, Magumeri, Mobbar, Gubio, Guzamala, Abadam, Kukawa, Kag, Nganzai and Monguno.

The fleeing residents told the BBC that some military officers later joined civilians fleeing into the bush and across nearby Lake Chad in canoes.

“The canoes were overloaded and some people were drowned,” they said.

Henry120:
It is no longer strictly speaking COIN. In some areas, it is now a semi-conventional war.

Seiges are intended to cut off the enemy from supplies, while attack strategies are worked out.

The enemy unfortunately is well deep-rooted, and far flong FOB's can be allowed to fall.

Semi-conventional because your COIN failed.
The enemy forced you into semi-conventional warfare.

We remember Augububu's boasts about being the best COIN outfit on the continent; and his ridiculing BH for "being cowards who kill women, who fail to face up to the military"

Now you're talking about semi-conventional warfare.

mzilakazi:
Boko haram extend its grip in Nigeria and please people not in Chad as @agaugust insinuated.
http://www.wsj.com/articles/boko-haram-overruns-villages-and-army-base-in-northeast-nigeria-1420467667

Here's the map...

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jan/05/boko-haram-key-military-base-nigeria-chad-border

It's Nigeria, alright.

agaugust:
Boko Haram killed hundreds of Nigerian soldiers in Baga? Show neutral source to prove that.

Okay, Seleka killed 100 SANDF soldiers in Bangui
.

Neutral source being what? Why don't you list "neutral sources" here for us. Beegeagle?

Not again.

agaugust:
16 hours? Where?

5am -12noon = 7 hours, and battlefield was across lake chad.

Your comment is garbage

Your calculation and denial are based in which evidence? The battle lasted 16 hours my man. It started in the AMs. Not at noon.

And 7 hours is still long enough for a military fighting at home, with a state of emergency, in its own base, to sort itself out.

Your men failed and ran as a result.

And what happened to your "sharpshooters that never waste bullets"? (Your words). Sharpshooters ran out of ammunition. Sharpshooters ran? Sharpshooters had no reinforcement? In their own base? No man. The sharpshooters were simply overpowered and they took off.

agaugust:
Always? How many times has Nigerian soldiers defeated Boko Harem in battle and we see dead bodies to prove it?

You see only the events you personally choose to see.

Who cares anyway? Book Haram will soon abandon that town when T-72 appears. Boko Haran has failed to do what ISIS did.

And how many times have nigerian soldiers run from Boko Haram?

My friend, it is the nigerian military that continues to fail to fulfil the mandate given when the state of emergency was declared.

Each Day of Boko Haram's existence is a victory for them and continued failure by your military.

mzilakazi:
RELIGIOUS TERROR
Boko Haram fighters overpower
multinational force in attack at
Nigeria-Chad border
BAUCHI, Nigeria – Boko Haram Islamic
extremists have overpowered a multinational
military force and seized its key base on
Nigeria's border with Chad, according to
residents who took to canoes to escape.
Scores of soldiers and civilians were killed, while
others drowned in Lake Chad, Nigerians taking
refuge in a Chadian village said in cell phone
calls Sunday night. They said insurgents fired
rocket-propelled grenades and automatic
assault rifles and hurled explosives.
"They came in their hundreds driving several
Hilux patrol vehicles, trucks and some were on
motorcycles and immediately began to throw
explosives and bombs," fisherman Audu Labbo
told The Associated Press.
He and others reached by phone Sunday night
said the troops from Nigeria and its neighbors
Chad, Cameroon and Niger fought on Saturday
until they ran out of ammunition. Details on the
attack were slow getting out of the remote area.
Some soldiers removed their uniforms and threw
away their rifles, Labbo said.

A senior security officer in Maiduguri, the capital
of Borno state, confirmed that the military base
at Baga is under the control of the insurgents.
He said the multinational force fled because it
received no reinforcements despite holding out
for several hours. The officer spoke on condition
of anonymity because he is not authorized to
give information to reporters.
There are fears the extremists could use Baga
as a base to attack Maiduguri, some 125 miles
to the southwest.
Labbo said the insurgents' bombs and grenades
set aflame several buildings that burned to the
ground -- businesses, government offices,
homes and part of the military base.
Boko Haram has been regionalizing the conflict
with recent attacks on Chadian villages and a
military base.
Thousands of people have died and some 1.6
million have been driven from their homes in the
5-year-old Islamic extremist uprising.
http://www.foxnews.com/world/2015/01/05/boko-haram-fighters-overpower-multinational-force-in-attack-at-nigeria-chad/
One thing that Nigerian soldiers are nototious about is removing the uniform and throw away rifles. Seems that even their authorities are comfortable with that kind of reckless behavior by soldiers.

"Key base", says the article.

Dudes.

There's no coward like the Nigerian soldier.

That's all.

mzilakazi:
So embarrassing indeed!!

Reports say that the battle lasted a WHOLE 16 hours. Sadly for the nigerian military, they came short and had to make a run for it.

mzilakazi:
That's a green lie. Uprade was made in SA.


That's a proudly SA upgrades, it is only SA that put on a nose (weapon system) like that on Hinds. That design is proudly SA intellectual property.




http://www.airvectors.net/avhind_2.html

Lol
Hashtag "wrecked"

"The soldiers were trying to repel the attack but that wasn't going to happen because a lot of the soldiers were without their guns and some were running into the town. When you see soldiers running away into the town - what are you to do, other than to just run away as well?"
Maina Maaji Lawan, senator for Borno North, told BBC World Service civilians had run "helter skelter" - "some into the forest, some into the desert".
Communications with the town were cut off and exact information about casualty numbers could not be confirmed, he said.
"We are very dispirited," the senator added.
Confirming that the military had abandoned the base, he said people's frustration knew "no bounds" over the apparent fact that the military had not fought back.
"There is definitely something wrong that makes our military abandon their posts each time there is an attack from Boko Haram," the senator said.

http://m.bbc.com/news/world-africa-30672391

Boko Haram seizes Nigerian army base
Last updated: 9 hours ago
Scores of troops killed in raid by fighters using military vehicles in Baga after about 40 young males were kidnapped.


Boko Haram fighters have overrun an army base in the remote northeast Nigerian town of Baga, killing scores of soldiers in the attack, security sources have said.

Baga is known for hosting the headquarters of a multinational force comprising troops from Niger, Nigeria, Chad and Cameroon, although only Nigerian troops are actually stationed there.

Troops eventually fled the remote station on the semi-desert shores of Lake Chad after it was attacked on Saturday by Boko Haram fighters using military vehicles, two sources said.

Earlier on Friday, suspected members of the armed group raided the northeast village of Malari, kindapping about 40 boys and young men.

The fighters came to the remote village of Malari and urged people to come out and listen to a sermon, farmer Bulama Malam told reporters on Saturday.

"After telling us that they wanted to preach to us, they began to select young men aged between 12 and 25,'' Malam said. "I was lucky to escape because they only selected very young and able-bodied men."

He spoke in Maiduguri, the capital of northeast Borno state, to which he escaped on foot.

Nigeria''s longstanding conflict with Boko Haram has killed over 10,000 people this year, according to a count by the Council on Foreign Relations in November.

Neighbouring countries threatened

It is the gravest threat to Nigeria, Africa's biggest economy, and a headache for President Goodluck Jonathan ahead of an election on Feb. 14 where he is being challenged by opposition leader Muhammadu Buhari, a former military ruler seen as tough on security.

After beginning their fight for an Islamic state five years ago in the northeastern city of Maiduguri, the group has radiated outwards into porous border areas, threatening Nigeria's neighbours around the Lake Chad Basin.

In northern Cameroon, at least 15 people died in an attack by suspected Boko Haram militants on a bus, officials said on Saturday.

Cameroon's army has been trying to dislodge the fighters from its Far North region with the help of air strikes.

Nigerian Interior Minister Hassoumi Massaoudou said late last month that his country was ready to negotiate with Boko Haram, but did not even know who in the group to talk to.

Baga came into the international spotlight early in 2013, when dozens of people, mostly civilians, were killed in fighting between the multinational force and Boko Haram. Many were burned alive in their thatched houses.

http://m.aljazeera.com/story/20151421315330265

Boko Haram seizes army base in northeast Nigeria
about 11 hours ago / Reuters
100
MAIDUGURI, Nigeria – Islamist militants have overrun an army base in the remote northeast Nigerian town of Baga, two security sources said on Sunday.

Baga is notionally the headquarters of a multinational force comprising troops from Niger, Nigeria, Chad and Cameroon, although only Nigerian troops are actually stationed there.

Troops eventually fled the remote station on the semi-desert shores of Lake Chad after it was attacked on Saturday by Boko Haram fighters in military vehicles, both sources said. The military did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

The insurgency has killed over 10,000 people this year, according to a count by the Council on Foreign Relations in November.

It is the gravest threat to Nigeria, Africa’s biggest economy, and a headache for President Goodluck Jonathan ahead of an election on 14 February where he is being challenged by opposition leader Muhammadu Buhari, a former military ruler seen as tough on security.

After beginning their fight for an Islamic state five years ago in the northeastern city of Maiduguri, the militants have radiated outwards into porous border areas, threatening Nigeria’s neighbours around the Lake Chad Basin.

In northern Cameroon, at least 15 people died in an attack by suspected Boko Haram militants on a bus, officials said on Saturday.

Cameroon's army has been trying to dislodge the Islamists from its Far North region with the help of air strikes.

Nigerian Interior Minister Hassoumi Massaoudou said late last month that his country was ready to negotiate with Boko Haram, but did not even know who in the group to talk to.

Baga came into the international spotlight early in 2013, when dozens of people, mostly civilians, were killed in fighting between the multinational force and Boko Haram. Many were burned alive in their thatched houses.

The militants have also kidnapped hundreds of mostly young people in the past year. On Wednesday, gunmen abducted 40 boys and young men from the remote village of Malari, in a raid that residents and a security source blamed on Boko Haram.

The parents of 200 Nigerian schoolgirls kidnapped by Boko Haram in April have said they said will ask the United Nations for help after losing faith in their own government.

Henry120:
Boko-haram controls no land in Nigeria.

That's just a bare denial against multiple reports to the contrary. Only a fool would take a bare denial over multiple reports. You'll have to do better than that if you're to be believed.

Henry120:
How can global firepower rank South-Africa above Nigeria with your 3 C-130's and 9 Gripen pilots after 16 years.
That ranking is flawed.

Simple. Because a military is far more than planes. The only thing flawed about the rankings is that Nigeria is not ranked lower.

“Ounce for ounce, Boko Haram is equal to if not better than the Nigerian military,” said one American official here, who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss operational reports.




http://mobile.nytimes.com/2015/01/01/world/with-schoolgirls-still-missing-fragile-us-nigeria-ties-falter.html?_r=1&referrer=

sirjerry:
And according to the UNITED NATION you still lead nigeria in AIDS related death.

There's no such. Nigeria leads in AIDS related deaths. Own it my broer.

Hahaha "thread gained worldwide recognition". Funniest thing I ever read

Anyway, all the best for 2015, people.

mzilakazi:
Chief, you are wasting your time. Your money is still inside our pockets and now is already on its way to our coffers to add to our national budget next year.

Forfeited to the motherflippin state, black.