₦airaland Forum

Didn't know they would put those two high up mid-ship. I wonder what they will put on the aft-deck.

kabe1:
In addition to Seaward Defence Boat 3, the Nigerian Navy has on order from China 2 x 45meters vessels.

Is it going to be called NNS OJI?

https://www.nairaland.com/6887587/buhari-arrives-naval-base-lagos

South Africa's case is a case of people who don't know how to bake cookies being given the entire cookie Jar�. Seriously,some people down there don't know how to run a government. It's not just the military suffering. Some people there think it's corruption,but corruption alone can't destroy such an economy that fast (28yrs). Sheer incompetence has a role to play. People are just being silent so as not to be called racists.

Lurker4Long:
In the interest of intellectual honesty, here's the full defenceweb article, without the selective edits:

SAAF Gripens grounded

The South African Air Force’s (SAAF’s) Gripen fleet is temporarily grounded, with no aircraft serviceable, due to a lack of funding and maintenance and support contracts not being renewed in time, but it is likely that the Gripens will be flying again in the new year.

In a statement resulting from multiple media enquiries, the Department of Defence (DoD) said the South African National Defence Force’s (SANDF’s) Air Defence capability has been negatively impacted by protracted discussions relating to maintenance contracts.

African government's south of the Sahara have a penchant to sleep during peace rather than prepping for war. Pathetic.
It happened to Nigeria to some degree as
well. I would rather cut recruitment to slash the wage bill and up procurement and training for a small nucleus of very professional fighting men and women during peace time than have a half baked military of many tens of thousands. That way you maintain discipline,capability and capacity during peace in preparation for war.
Funny thing is,democracy has always been the best friend of the Nigerian military procurement wise despite the historic poor relationship.

Toju200:
who con decorate am like marriage something na

na our people work be dat.we no dey take second for dat Kain work.

bidexiii:
President Muhammed Buhari doing some window shopping in U.A.E.


It's been long guys, missed you folks

However,the president should not be seen window shopping the vehicle while proforce is window selling elsewhere. Not a good advert for our defence industry.

bidexiii:
President Muhammed Buhari doing some window shopping in U.A.E.


It's been long guys, missed you folks

He's alive, he is alive!!!

Navy arrests 35 vandals, impounds 408 drums of oil
By Inemesit Akpan-Nsoh, Uyo
02 December 2021 | 4:00 am
Nigerian Navy, Forward Operating Base (FOB), Ibaka, in Mbo local government council, has arrested 35 suspected vandals of petroleum pipelines and impounded 408 drums of suspected illegally refined Automotive Gas Oil (AGO) in Akwa Ibom.

This was disclosed to journalists by the Commanding Officer, FOB, Navy Capt. Mohammed Abu, while handing over the suspects and exhibits to the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) in Ibaka Mbo local government council.

He said Nigeria Navy Ship Thunder, on November 26, while on routine patrol intercepted the suspects and impounded three wooden boats used in conveying the AGO.


“I will be handing over the suspects and exhibits of wooden boats that were intercepted by the NNS Thunder on the November 26, at high sea having infracted economic policy of the country.

“The Chief of Naval Staff, Vice Admiral Auwul Gambo, has given a clear directive to Nigerian Navy to free the waterways of illegalities and other maritime crimes.

“I am handing them over to you as the prosecuting agency to carry out further investigation and prosecute them accordingly and revert to the Nigerian Navy on the outcome,” he said.

The commanding officer said the arrest of the suspected vandals has sent messages to others that the Nigerian Navy would not relent in ensuring all economic sabotage in the Nigeria maritime environment would not be tolerated.

“This arrest is to send a message to those vandals of our crude oil pipelines that the CNS has zero tolerance for crude oil theft and our ships are out there looking for them and we will arrest them until they are out of our maritime domain,” he added.

He warned smugglers and vandals of petroleum products to stay out of the business, as the base would not relent in its patrol to rid criminal elements out of Nigeria’s waterways.

The commanding officer debunked recent media publications that sea robbers had grounded economic activities in Ibaka.

Receiving the suspects on behalf of NSCDC, the Head of anti-vandals unit, Adamu Jafaaru, said the agency would carry out thorough investigation on the suspects and all those culpable would be arraigned in court soon.

https://guardian.ng/news/navy-arrests-35-vandals-impounds-408-drums-of-oil/

Take over Nigeria’s largest ship from Navy, Senate tells Buhari
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1 December 2021
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The Senate on Wednesday, called on the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari ( retd.), to, as a matter of urgency, take over and resuscitate NNS ARADU, which is the largest ship on the fleet of the Nigerian Navy.

Federal Government would require the sum of $200m to either refit it or $700m to replace the Nigerian Navy Flagship ARADU that is presently grounded.

The red chamber also called for a stakeholders’ roundtable forum which would include, the Nigerian Ports Authority, the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency, the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, Nigerian Customs and Excise, and the Nigerian Immigration Services.

The Senate said the forum would fashion out a funding regime to facilitate the refitting and refurbishing of the Navy flagship in servicing Nigeria’s maritime domain.

The upper chamber passed the resolution sequel to a motion considered at plenary.

The motion was sponsored by Senator George Sekibo (Rivers East), and co-sponsored by 14 other lawmakers.

Sekibo, said that the Nigerian Navy flagship, NNS ARADU, is one of the first of the MEKO 360 general-purpose frigates built by one of the biggest shipbuilders in Germany and commissioned on February 22, 1982.


He said NNS ARADU is also the largest ship in the Nigerian Navy fleet with a length of 125.6-metres (412 ft l inch) and as a general-purpose frigate.

He added that the capabilities of the Frigate ensured the Nigerian Navy continued to reach out to blue waters with the appropriate ships in terms of firepower, extended operational range and enhanced surveillance capability.


The lawmaker noted that since NNS ARADU entered the Nigerian Navy service, “she has taken part in major naval exercises, fleet reviews and diplomatic cruises.”

Sekibo said, “She played a prominent part in ‘Operation Seadog’ in 1985 and Operation Odion in 1987.

“She has also undertaken extensive diplomatic visits to countries like Gabon, Congo, Zaire, Equatorial Guinea and many European countries;

“She participated in joint exercises with visiting ships of the German, Indian, French and the Brazilian navies.”

He recalled that in 1987, barely five years after the commissioning, NNS ARADU ran aground twice and was involved in a major collision and underwent a significant local refit in 1991 at the Nigerian Navy Dockyard, Wilmot Point, Lagos.


Sekibo further stated that in 1997, the ship sailed to Monrovia, Liberia “where she participated in ECOMOG Operation for over six months and steamed back to Lagos with her engines despite losing one generator.”

https://punchng.com/take-over-nigerias-largest-ship-from-navy-senate-tells-buhari/?amp

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Vanguard News


Troops annihilate several BH/ISWAP terrorists, foil invasion of Gajiram
November 29, 2021
Boko Haram
By Kingsley Omonobi

Land and Air Components troops of Joint Task Force, North East (NE), Operation Hadin Kai (OPHK) on Sunday night annihilated several Boko Haram (BH) and Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP) terrorists in an encounter at Forward Operating Base, Gajiram Nganzai Local Government Area of Borno State.


The vigilant troops of Sector 3 Operation Hadin Kai supported by the Nigerian Air Force component, brought devastating volume of fire on the terrorists, while attempting to infiltrate the Forward Operating Base using Gun trucks and several other weapons.

A statement by Brig Gen Onyema Nwachukwu, Director Army Public Relations said the terrorists, having suffered several human and equipment casualties as at the time of this report, retreated in disarray.


“The gallant troops, who are currently exploiting the withdrawal route of the fleeing terrorists, have so far recovered 10 AK 47 riffles, one Anti Aircraft Gun, one Shilka barrel, one 60mm Mortar tube and 61 rounds of PKT riffle ammunition amongst others.

“Several charred remains of the terrorists were also uncovered along the route.



“Sadly, two gallant soldiers paid the supreme price during the encounter.

“The Chief of Army Staff, Lt Gen Faruk Yahaya has urged the troops to aggressively maintain the momentum of the pursuit, until the remnants of the fleeing terrorists are destroyed.”
https://www.vanguardngr.com/2021/11/troops-annihilate-several-bh-iswap-terrorists-foil-invasion-of-gajiram/

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.theeastafrican.co.ke/tea/business/uganda-to-spend-97pc-of-domestic-revenue-on-debt-repayments-3286354%3fview=htmlamp

kabe1:
None of which is the case with Uganda.

Very well then

kabe1:
You already concluded it was a "Chinese debt honey trap".

On the US, your comment is false. The US cannot print money whenever it feels like, that's not how fiscal and monetary policy works.

Never head of QE, quantitative easing? Fancy way of printing cash out of thin air without actually printing physical cash. Devalues a currency. Everybody suffers but the most productive nation remains and you lose the value of your credit. It's a stick the U.S. could use.
Very large low interest rate debts to financially unproductive and reckless states with money of which very little stays in the state I would classify as a debt trap.

Borrowing money to a successful business man is good business for both. Borrowing to a drunkard and serial gambler with large assets is to set up a trap for him.

kabe1:
This report has since been debunked by both the Ugandan government and the Chinese government.

Chinese loans are no traps. The US government also owes china more than 1 Trillion dollars in loans.

Hence the statement "If true".
Concerning the U.S. It's a completely different story if you print the money in the world's most powerful and productive country. The pieces are on your table.
You can't really owe somebody money you print,and you can sanction that money back into your coffers trump style.

If true,another reason to be wary of the China debt honey trap.

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China To Take Over Uganda’s Lone International Airport Over Failure To Repay Loan
The Ugandan government has lost its most important airport to Chinese loan…....

By
Abdulyassar Abdulhamid
Fri, 26 Nov 2021 13:40:58 GMT

The Ugandan government is on the verge of losing its major airport to China for failing to repay a loan.

The government has failed to reverse a loan agreement with the Chinese which had repayment conditions of attaching its only airport.

Entebbe International Airport and other Ugandan assets were attached and agreed to be taken over by Chinese lenders upon arbitration of the loan.

According reports, President Yoweri Museveni had sent a delegation to Beijing hoping to renegotiate the toxic clauses.

The visit was unsuccessful as China authorities refused to allow any alteration in the original terms of the deal.

The Uganda government, represented by the finance ministry and the Civil Aviation Authority at the time, had on 17 November 2015, signed an agreement with Export-Import Bank of China (Exim Bank) to borrow U$207 million at two per cent upon disbursement; with a maturity period of 20 years including a seven-year grace period.

The deal signed with the Chinese lenders virtually means Uganda “surrendered” its most prominent airport to China.

The Uganda Civil Aviation Authority (UCAA) said some provisions in the Financing Agreement expose Entebbe International Airport and other Ugandan assets to be attached and taken over by Chinese lenders upon arbitration in Beijing.

The rejection of Uganda’s plea to renegotiate the toxic clauses of the 2015 loan has left Museveni’s administration in limbo.

According to the Daily Monitor of Uganda, the Ugandan government waived international immunity in the agreements it signed to secure the loans, exposing Entebbe International Airport to take over without international protection.

Last week, Uganda’s Finance Minister Matia Kasaija apologised to parliament for the “mishandling of the $207 million loan” from the China Exim Bank to expand Entebbe International Airport.

“I apologise that we shouldn’t have accepted some of the clauses,” Kasaija told members of the committee in response to questions asked by the legislators.

There were also questions over the interest rate that was set by the China Exim Bank for the funds placed in an off-shore Standard Bank account that was used as collateral for the project.

Built in 1972, Entebbe International Airport handles over 1,9 million passengers per year.

Editor’s note: This story has been modified to reflect that China is on the verge of taking over the airport

Danish frigate kills four pirates in Gulf of Guinea
Written by Reuters -25th Nov 2021341

A Danish frigate has killed four pirates in waters south of Nigeria in an operation to protect shipping in the Gulf of Guinea, the Danish military said on Thursday.

The Esbern Snare, deployed last month to the Gulf of Guinea amid heightened security risks from pirates, on Wednesday spotted a fast-moving vessel carrying eight suspected pirates near a number of commercial ships, the Danish military said.

The incident took place in international waters, 25 to 30 nautical miles south of Nigeria’s territorial boundary, a spokesman said.

The motorboat, spotted by a helicopter deployed by the frigate, was carrying equipment associated with piracy, including ladders.

After the frigate fired warning shots, the pirates opened fire on Danish navy special forces, who in turn shot and killed four pirates and wounded one, the Danish military said in a statement.

The remaining four pirates were taken on board the frigate, and no Danish personnel were hurt in the incident, the military said.

It was the first time the frigate had opened fire during its current mission to the Gulf of Guinea, the spokesman said.

The Gulf of Guinea has been a piracy hot spot for years, but incidents have decreased since national authorities stepped up security efforts aided by foreign naval ships.

American, British, Italian, Spanish and Portuguese navies have also sent assistance, ships or training forces over the past year to tackle piracy after a record 130 sailors were taken from vessels in the region in 2020.

Piracy and armed robbery incidents dropped to 28 in the first nine months of 2021, compared with 46 in the same period in 2020, according to the International Maritime Bureau.

Separately, Denmark’s Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen and opposition lawmaker Jakob Elleman had both planned to visit the frigate during a visit to Ghana on Wednesday and Thursday.

They were not on board during the incident, which Frederiksen said was likely to have averted attacks on commercial ships in the gulf.

The frigate will operate in the region until April next year.

Lurker4Long:
Not just defence aid. Egypt's economy, stripped of foreign aid, is such rubbish that as we saw earlier, increases in the price of bread were enough to bring down the Mubarak dynasty.

The military practically runs the economy. Is there any business without ties to the military? It's not healthy at all,such a situation stifles innovation as you need ties to succeed. Need a bakery? Call the army.

Explorers:
Anand Prakash Chouksey, 52 (left) and Manju Shah, 48 (right) are both teachers who run an academy together.

Don't let Nigerian teachers see this o. Strike no go get part 2.

kabe1:
Egyptian Navy ships and Fighter Jets conduct exercise in Greece

Wow, exercise in Greece. That's a big statement to Turkey.

Psst.Dont feed the trol.

kabe1:
Nigerian domestically built 45m Seaward Defence Boat 3 ready for launch.

Hurrah! Hurrah!!
SDB4 The dock is yours.!!!

Tomorrow women will say men are irredeemably unfaithful,but they are not watching their fellow women.

komekn:
These events put to question the quality and efficacy of our battlefield strategy and management in the first instance.

Then we begin to wonder about the level and quality of our equipment.

Getting ambushed should not be a surprise because it's expected you are therefore prepared with an offensive strategy to mitigate against your adversary.

NOTHING these days surprises me about the NA. Not too long ago I watched how the NA attached a HMG to a BTR4 APC in the most rudimentary way. It was claimed we couldn't get the ammunition required for the 30mm guns on the RWS. That rendered this once near IFV a mere tin box with HMG.

To be told that a Brigadier General had to ram the enemy's MRAP to stop it. That sounds very desperate Dan, It beggars belief. So we did not have the basic weaponry to stop an MRAP.

A " relatively" old post of mine.
Unfortunately we have lost more precious lives.

Interesting read.


Once a formidable force that commanded the respect of the US, the Ethiopian army has suffered such heavy losses on the front lines that the government has taken the extraordinary step of calling on ordinary citizens to join the war against the Tigrayan rebels.

It marks a dramatic change in the military's fortunes.

A year ago it ousted the Tigray People's Liberation Front (TPLF) as the ruling party in the northern Tigray region - now the group's fighters are taking towns on the way to the capital, Addis Ababa.

"TPLF fighters first bled the army through guerrilla warfare in Tigray by carrying out hit-and-run attacks," US-based Horn of Africa analyst Faisal Roble explains.

"Then they went into combat to finish it off."

However, Achamyeleh Tamiru - an Ethiopian economist and political commentator - believes the TPLF's advances are only "temporary".


"Ethiopians from all walks of life are rising to defend and salvage Ethiopia," he said.

The rebel force is made up of tens of thousands of fighters
The tactics of the TPLF fighters remind former BBC Tigrinya editor Samuel Ghebhrehiwet of his life as a young Eritrean guerrilla who, alongside Tigrayans, fought Ethiopia's Mengistu Haile Mariam regime until it was overthrown in 1991.

They were "lightly armed, highly agile, living on survival food, and showing deep resilience and determination".

Eritrea went on to win its independence, while the TPLF took power in Ethiopia - though its political dominance came to an end in 2018 following mass protests.

Its leaders retreated to Tigray from where the group fired the shots in the current conflict in early November 2020 by launching an assault on a federal military base with the support of loyalists in the army - including commanders and soldiers - who then defected to its ranks.

Not only was a huge stockpile of weapons seized, but high-ranking officers and soldiers who resisted were killed or captured in their thousands.

"The night-time attack on the base has effectively created a vacuum that literally makes Ethiopia without a federal army," Mr Achamyeleh said.

However, the military - with crucial help from the Eritrean army, and forces and militias from Ethiopia's Amhara region - overcame the setback, launching air strikes and a ground offensive that led to the TPLF being dislodged from power in Tigray in under a month.

But, Mr Samuel said, as they committed widespread atrocities against civilians - including raping, killing and burning crops - Tigrayans from "all sections of society then joined the TPLF to protect their dignity".

"Parents told their children: 'Rather than die at home go and fight.' It became a war between the people of Tigray and the army - not just a war between the TPLF and the army."

Air strikes by Ethiopia's military have caused many casualties in Tigray
According to Mr Roble, former generals who had retired or defected went to Tigray's mountains and caves to form the Tigray Defence Force (TDF) as the TPLF's military wing to ensure that the tens of thousands of new recruits were well organised.

"These generals felt it was their duty to protect the citizens of Tigray. With their inside knowledge of the army they plotted its defeat," Mr Roble said.

With Tigrayan fighters now less than 300km (185 miles) from the capital, it is clear they currently have the upper hand over an army that used to be one of the most powerful in Africa, he says.

"Ethiopia was America's number-one partner in the so-called war on terror in the Horn Africa, especially in Somalia, where it overthrew the Union of Islamic Courts[a precursor of al-Shabab]. America funded the military, armed it, and even supplied its soldiers with ready-to-eat meals," Mr Roble said.

"And the African Union relied on it for peacekeeping missions, but Ethiopia itself is now unstable and its military is a shadow of its former self."

Desertions and demoralisation
Trouble for the TPLF began when Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed took office in April 2018 after huge numbers of people from Ethiopia's two biggest ethnic groups - Oromos and Amharas - staged protests against its 27 years at the helm of government.

Mr Abiy proposed sweeping reforms, causing deep rifts with the TPLF.


"Tigrayans make up only about 6% of the population and when the TPLF was in power, it created a federal system which gave ethnic groups their own regional states," Mr Roble said.

"The TPLF felt Mr Abiy [an Oromo] wanted to centralise power. It caused a massive fall-out between them and eventually led to the war," Mr Roble said.

Alex de Waal, executive director of the US-based World Peace Foundation, said that Mr Abiy also set out to overhaul the military to ensure it was loyal to him, and to address concerns about Tigrayan dominance.

"Tigrayans made up about 18% of the whole army, and about twice that in the officer corps. Their numbers were disproportionate compared to the size of the population. Mr Abiy started reforms to push out Tigrayans, and created an Emirati-trained Republican Guard loyal to him," said Prof De Waal.

"The changes demoralised the army, and it ceased to be a cohesive force. Mr Abiy did not have time to reconstitute it before the war started."

He said of the army's 20 divisions, 10 - made up of about 5,000 soldiers each - had been routed, with at least 10,000 soldiers killed and a similar number captured. The BBC tried to get comment from the Ethiopian National Defence spokesman, but he did not respond.

Human-wave attacks
After recapturing most of Tigray in June, the TPLF launched an offensive in the neighbouring Amhara and Afar regions, while Mr Abiy called on all able-bodied Ethiopians to join the army and militias to help defeat the rebels.

Like Tigrayans, Amharas have been victims of atrocities
"To halt the Tigray advance, the army organised [in Amhara] human-wave attacks by peasants, students and urban youth. They were passionate to defend their land but they only had basic training of a few weeks, and would charge TDF positions," Prof De Waal said.

"Sometimes, the second wave wouldn't even have guns. Thousands of them - possibly even tens of thousands - were killed by the TDF."

"It creates a complicated human rights situation because it blurs the distinction between combatant and civilian. It also increases animosity between people - in this case Amharas and Tigrayans - and makes it more difficult to achieve peace and reconciliation."

Mr Achamyeleh disputes this was a tactic, saying young men had to defend communities under attack from the rebels when no troops were around.

"They could not sit at home idly when the TPLF was going door-to-door to hunt down Amharas, massacring mothers and raping their daughters."

In the latest move to regain the initiative, the federal government declared a state of emergency, giving it the power to conscript "any military age citizen who has weapons" and recalling retired officers to duty.

The Amhara regional government also announced its own measures, ordering the closure of all government offices and asking citizens to make their vehicles available.

Prof De Waal said the moves were unlikely to be effective.

"They can mobilise large numbers but the command-and-control structure of the army has disintegrated. An army is an institution built over years, with common purpose, common doctrines, and common practices."

But Canada-based security expert Ann Fitz-Gerald believes the TPLF fighters have suffered much higher losses, saying it was the TPLF that was using "human waves" as a desperate measure to seize control of strategic routes and to acquire negotiating power.

The military is currently holding its position, Prof Fitz-Gerald says, with local reports suggesting that it has thwarted 12 attempts by the TPLF to take Mille - a town close to the road that leads to the ports of Djibouti - access which is vital for the landlocked country.

Negotiation not capture
The TPLF is also involved in an offensive aimed at putting Addis Ababa - which has a population of more than five million - under siege.

Thousands of Ethiopian soldiers have been captured by the rebels
"The TPLF wants to put the government under pressure to negotiate. I don't think they will enter Addis Ababa. They are very unpopular there," says Mr Samuel.

Prof De Waal says the government faces a "military defeat, but the TPLF cannot claim victory because winning is political.

"They need support and the co-operation of a sufficient number of political actors, which they do not have.

"So there will have to be negotiations, and the TPLF's focus will be on securing the future of Tigray."

The problem is not electricity costs, it's not fuel costs, it's not food prices. It's lack of Jobs.Good paying jobs. If we are all earning over a 2 million a month we won't be complaining.

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During the contact, own MRAP conveying the Brigade Commander deliberately rammed ISWAPs MRAP which led to destruction of ISWAPs MRAP while own MRAP engulfed in fire. However, the Brigade Commander and the MRAP crew were able to get out of the MRAP but the commander had serious chest injury due to the head on collision.
End quote.

Failure to buckle up/ brace before ramming.

robosky02:
All the qualified countries in Africa for the playoff
Were two teams will face each other to produce Africa's final 5 team

1. Egypt,

2. Mali,

3. Morocco,

4. Senegal

5. Ghana


6.DR Congo

7. Nigeria

8. Algeria


9. Tunisia


We are now waiting for. Cameroon or Ivory coast


Cameroon or Ivory Coast:
Cameroon host the Elephants in Douala on Tuesday needing to beat their west African rivals, while a draw will see the Ivory Coast top Group D.

No team from East or Southern Africa.

youghs:
I wonder why Leonardo cannot turn AW109 into something like this

They do,and we have them. The performance is still up for debate.
https://www.africanmilitaryblog.com/2019/05/nigerian-air-force-acquires-two-agusta-a109-power-light-attack-helicopters
Modified.
NAF576,NAF577,NAF578,NAF579.
Unless you mean with that level of complexity.

RiceProducers:
They will solve security matter before 2023 and win again.. or do you want to bet?.
Please name any amount.

If true true,it happens like that again. I don't think I can make comments again.

By now our bases should have about 3-5 soldiers with anti material rifles that can stop technicals at distance abeg.We should be out ranging and out gunning bokoharam/ISWAP.
Sentry work is also very very important. Things like laser trip wires and ground radars should be part of the package of a base.
The North-East is a challenging terrain,I always tell people it is bigger than one imagines. You can fit England(not UK) into Borno,Yobe and Adamawa with space left.
Ground Surveillance is just as important as aerial. You can't have aircraft airborne 24/7.