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I actually saw three patrol boats being hauled by trucks in Ore, Ondo State on Monday.

I wanted to take pictures, but the military escorts weren't smiling.

I don't really know the type of boats, but they looked like they were fresh out of the yard.

Good evening everyone, I just began my application today, so I want to be sure, in the section for "other qualifications", do I leave it blank since I have no other qualification aside from B.Sc., or do I add my secondary school qualifications (SSCE) there?

SamuelAnyawu:
I have heard about the super camp operation here. But can you give more details what this super camp actually means? As regards to Soldiers leaving at Evening. It became an issue kinda yesterday when a community on Maiduguri-Monguno road demanded that Chadian soldiers should be deployed to their community to sleep over. Last Night we saw over 20 vehicle movement of Chadian forces moving towards that location to sleep over. It is now looking as if Communities feel more safe in the hands of Chadian forces. Sincerely the Government needs to act fast on this Insurgency issue.

May God keep the Road safe as i embark on my trip today

Basically, the scattered FoBs are merged into various single well-defended "super camps", from which regular patrols and intermittent onslaughts are coordinated against the enemy. This way, attacks on military bases will drastically reduce(though the defenses would be continously tested by BH fighters) and attack formations can be efficiently carried out.

The problem I see is that the lack of MRAPS and APCs will hinder a lot of attacks operations, opening our soldiers to ambushes and attacks. All BH/ISWAP needs to do is to lure contingents of troops out of the super camps(by attacking nearby occupied villages or raising black flags over unoccupied communities) and then ambush the attacking convoy with high volume violence.

Another thing is that we need to get people away from communities where they still reside and move them to IDP camps, because patrols alone cannot protect them. We can then leave the humanitarian crisis that would be escalated by further dislodgement of people into IDP camps to the new Ministry of humanitarian affairs.

SamuelAnyawu:
Ok
I never meant to insult the Military bro because i got so much respect for them. If you go through most of my posts here you will understand better. I am only pissed up with the Police to remain in a location the soldiers left. What the soldiers now do at that Axis is to stay beside the road and return back to Monguno before 5pm. While those at Gajiganna return back to Maiduguri

Your reports are usually more balanced and accurate than the ones we see on mainstream media and army press releases.

Someone recently told me about the way troops now only do patrols on those highways, returning back to base before nightfall. Which at the end of the day, doesn't really solve anything because once the soldiers are gone, those BH guys would start their macabre vigil.

But if we can pull off the new super-camp strategy of the operation Lafiya Dole command, we may be able to herd the BH fighters into a kill zone, even though it's more of a defensive strategy.

Sleekyzee99:
but then he doesn't look troublesome... He looks calm and collected... Are u sure he is the popular Mr Adebayo that people have been shouting his name since?

I think it comes with the uniform. I have an uncle in the Airforce that looks just as innocent as this guy, always smiling and laughing, but his demeanor can switch in a nanosecond if he feels you are taking him for granted or disobeying his instructions .

Good. Nigeria is not like South Africa that doesn't even have anything worth being called a police force.

How will they see enough money to embezzle if they start acquiring IFVs and MRAPVs in large numbers?. Let us be reasonable please, defense funds must be judiciously looted to sustain the frontward prostrusion of their bloated bellies.

seankafor:
how about this?

Okay, I know this isn't the thread for this issue, but since it was brought up, I can't resist chipping in my own opinion and leaving it at that.

The current spate of attacks against foreign Africans in RSA is as a result of decades of heinously criminal activities such as drug peddling, human trafficking, fraud and so on, perpetrated by Nigerians and other Africans in RSA. Due to negligence and poor policing on the part of the South Africans, the people decide occasionally to take matters into their own hands and deal with those they perceive as criminals. These attacks are not specifically targeted at Nigerians as we like to think, it affects many African people including Zimbabweans, Ghanaians, Ethiopians etc, and I don't like to use the term "xenophobia" to describe what is going on there.

We see a lot of these people dealing in drugs and criminality, the same way they do here in Nigeria and all over the world, bringing in their relatives one by one to join in the hellish enterprise. When it is chrismas period,they go to their villages to flaunt the ill gotten wealth and acquire chieftaincy titles.

While I condemn the destruction of lives and properties by South Africans, I also recognize that these events are as a result of genuine grievances that occasionally dissolve into mob action. We must therefore, call on both the governments of Nigeria and South Africa to form a bi-national cooperation on eradication of these violent activities and their causes. RSA must also strengthen it's laws and policing system to enable the criminals who are causing these issues to be fished out and prosecuted.

This issue is reminiscent of the fulani herdsmen crisis. The same Nigerians who are calling for the annihilation of all fulani people due to the actions of a few marauders among them, will be at the forefront of emotional outbursts and caustic vibrations against the actions of these South African mobs. Now, Nigerians(and other Africans) are being treated in South Africa the exact same way many Nigerians want fulani herdsmen to be treated in Nigeria. Should we say Nigerians are xenophobic?.

It's all about cause and effect. Nobody is mad. Everyone is reacting against a perceived slight. Nigerians feel the Fulanis are destroying the country and we want them all gone, South Africans feel African migrants are detroying their country and they want them all gone.

In short, we should all calm down. Look at the fact and call on the governments to address these issues affecting our countries. Nigerians should not give in to reckless actions such as looting of South African owned businesses and such, we should instead focus on building a better country for ourselves.

deboysben:
And I do pass through this road on daily basis

God... your love for me is too much .

Blessed be thy name

RIP to the dead

So the people that died did not know God abi?

Xbee007:
The Nigerian Army had already downplayed the incident on their Twitter handle claiming several terrorists were also killed with many injured.

Seriously, I don't get why NA keeps behaving like some bunch of pathological liars.

Same way they lied that they repelled the attack in Gubio, when infact, BH militants were having a field day wrecking mayhem all over the town.

Propaganda should be well crafted, not easily debunkable,and not at the expense of competence.

It is never too late to turn things around , sounds like a loaded message. A warning of sorts, "I am coming back" statement.

ogeiru:
They manufacture 60% of their car parts. He has the biggest plastic factory in west Africa.

Manufacture 60% of car parts how?,where?. Which one does Innoson manufacture, is it the gearboxes or sensors or dashboard or compressors or suspension components or engine or windscreen?.

Like I said, I have been to the plant in Nnewi, and they don't manufacture 60% of anything, they outsource most of the components to foreign suppliers. All they do is assemble, paint and polish.

Omeizadean:
Arrant nonsense. U cant choose life of crime and said u build urself to ur taste. Why then are law enforcement chasing yahoo boys upandan? Openly gay is a crime in this country. Am even ashamed so far so good none this subhumans have been made to face law... I know u re irked cos u must be gay but can u stop defending crime and defend the law of this country instead. Don't hate or kidnappers, yahoo boys, robbers, ritualists, cultists, bad politicians etc if u know u re sympathetic toward gays

Such a reta!rded post. I wonder how debased a person has to be to reason this way.

Boyka007:
I love d last line. Where can I find u so I'd buy u a drink

Hopefully,if we both get shortlisted,you'll get a chance to buy me that drink.

Agent23:
Am telling you the tension they are saying is too much. Making one make a second thought. As long as they will not kill me cold blood I can persist since na me carry my self go there

I understand not everyone is very brave. But if you genuinely love the army, then you should try your best to join. It is good that you are afraid, I'd think you foo!ish if you aren't, and I sincerely don't think we need people who will freely throw away their lives in service, but people who will freely live to serve.

Fear doesn't make you a coward, as long as your biggest fear is cowardice.

Fynline:
NAF airlifts relief to Zimbabwe and Mozambique

Waste of national resources if you ask me. South Africa should be saddled with managing such crisis in it's region. Our people need these relief materials more in the North East.

And worst of it, these gestures are not properly leveraged or politically motivated, we just dash out stuffs like father chrismas to countries of absolutely no political value to us.

PS: Are these recent?

giles14:
its from scratch but if you have doubts why not write to the management for exclusive tour.

There is nothing to get emotional about. Innoson does not manufacture anything from the scratch. Most of what they do is coupling. Infact,their tricycle line is more advanced in terms of indigenous technical input than their automobile line.

I have been to their plant in Nnewi north, so it's not just hearsay.

These days, I hear they now mould vehicle frame too,so at least that is an improvement(though I reckon any decent panel beater can do the job). But nothing like "from the scratch".

We can source many of these things from the black market. From what I understand, the US places a lot of restriction on arms sales, getting anything from them takes a lot of time(if they even give you at all). Russian and Chinese platforms are notoriously difficult to integrate. Quick procurements like the one done during the tail end of the GEJ administration is what we need.

If we can go the Eastern Europe ,Portugal or even South Africa, we'll get good black market hauls. While we wait for the G-to-G heavy armaments in the long term, we can source short term solutions at the same time.

SamuelAnyawu:
Yes bro around 11am today too sad sincerely

No wonder former Borno Governor, Kashim Shettima, went to Abuja shedding tears in front of the President over the activities of these criminals in his State. They don't even fear the Monguno-Maiduguri axis again ambushing 3 military vehicles?.

Toju200:
Innoson military truck.... clearly shows we don't assembly we build from scratch.....

Does Innoson build from the scratch?. From what I know, only the frame is moulded locally, other components are imported and incorporated. Basic iron-smithing if you ask me.

I actually checked out the act, and I think you may be correct.

joshingjosh:
Controversy has continued to trail the ownership of six sophisticated armoured vehicles seized by Nigerian security forces in Adamawa State.

Six Mine-Resistant Ambush Protected (MRAP) vehicles brought into Nigeria from Cameroon were intercepted by soldiers manning a checkpoint at Konkol, a border between Nigeria and Cameroon in Maiha Local Government Area of Adamawa State.

Though sources said the fighting equipment were meant to be delivered to the Nigerien authorities, security and civilian authorities in Cameroon and Nigeria have declined to comment on the actual owner of the equipment; or why those in charge of the shipment decided to pass through the Nigerian soil for onward delivery to Niger.

Some sources said the armoured vehicles belonged to Nigerien government; while others said they belonged to the Cameroonian authorities. Others said the vehicles belonged to the United States (US).

However, when the story of the interception became public, the commander of 23 Armoured Brigade, S.G. Mohammed, on Saturday, handed over the vehicles to the Comptroller of Nigerian Customs Service (NCS) in charge of Adamawa and Taraba states, Olumoh Kamaldeen, at a brief ceremony in Konkol.

A press conference called by the Customs service in Adamawa State yesterday in Yola, the capital with a view to giving details on the vehicles, was suddenly shelved, with sources saying everything about the matter had been transferred to Abuja.

Kamaldeen neither answered his calls nor responded to text message from our reporter last night.


More investigations ongoing

But the Daily Trust leant yesterday that the Customs service had launched further investigation into the matter.

The Public Relations Officer (PRO) of NCS, Deputy Comptroller Joseph Attah, confirmed to Daily Trust yesterday that the Comptroller General of Customs (CGC), Col. Hameed Ali (rtd) directed further investigation into the issue.

He said: “It is true that six mine resistant, all-terrain military vehicles were impounded at Konkol, Maiha Local Government Area of Adamawa State. They were impounded by a team comprising the army, DSS, and the Customs. They have been kept in the custody of the army, that is the military; but now the military has handed them over officially to the Customs.”
He also revealed that the drivers conveying the military hardware had been taken into custody.

“From the detail we got from the drivers of these six vehicles who are also with the Customs, they claimed that they were supposed to pass through Nigeria on transit.

“They had to be impounded because there was no paper documentation. If you have to pass through a country on transit, you have to do paper documentation and, in this case, there was no clear documentation,” Attah said.

But a top source in Abuja told the Daily Trust that the vehicles were a gift to the Nigerien military by the US government.

The source recalled that the US had sometimes ago donated similar fighting vehicles to the Nigerian government.

It was further learnt that all documentation between the Nigerian government and US officials to allow the vehicles to travel through Nigeria were done.
According to the source, US officials were surprised about the interception and subsequent impounding of the equipment.

The source blamed the incident on “avoidable gap in communication occasioned by lack of sharing of information among Nigeria security agencies.”
The source expressed confidence that the equipment would be released for delivery to the Nigerien military soon.

Other sources wondered why the Nigerian authorities had not made public its finding in relation to the intercepted equipment.

Another security officer involved in the operation said the military equipment were intercepted following an information obtained by the DSS that suspicious consignment of heavy weaponry was approaching the Nigerian border.

“The DSS quickly informed its headquarters in Abuja and coordinated with other security agencies. So, we got wind of the situation beforehand,” he said.

According to the source, “As soon as the equipment was ferried across the border, we asked for relevant papers which were not provided. We realized that Niger violated the procedures,” he said.

One of the soldiers that escorted the vehicles from Jamtari village at the Nigeria-Cameroon border to Yola, the capital of Adamawa State said the vehicles were imported to Cameroon from the US and were on transit to an American military base Niger Republic.
The military source added that the heavy-duty trucks carrying the armoured vehicles and the drivers were hired from Nigeria.

Meanwhile, a former councillor in the area who represented Belel ward in Maiha Local Government Council, Dauda Abubakar said residents gathered to watch the controversial weapons after the seizure at the Nigerian border in Jamtari village, adding that the vehicles were then moved to the military base in Konkol where they were kept for about two weeks.

“People were not frightened because the military vehicles did not roll into the area but were being carried on trucks. So, there was no rumour of attack,” he said.
“The trucks were able to cross through the shallow river in to the village because it did not rain for some days. Rainy season makes transportation very difficult in Maiha area. All the bridges have broken down.

Sometimes, it takes six hours to cover a distance of eighty kilometres. Federal government had been promising to fix the bridges since 1999,” he said.
But another source said the equipment were being taken to Niger at the instance of the Cameroonian authorities.

“Beside the issue of Multi National Joint Task Force (MNJF) which has Nigeria, Chad, Cameroon and Niger as participants on one hand, Cameroon and Niger have another relationship that binds them together,” the source said.

“It was based on that relationship that Cameroonian authorities gifted Niger the equipment to help it beef up its fighting capacity.

“And I want to assure you that no protocol was breached, the higher authorities in the three countries are aware of the movement, but the fact is there was gap in communication among Nigeria’s top echelon on one hand and the various security operatives in the boarder including the military and Customs operatives.
“If the military leadership in Adamawa had been alerted from Abuja, nobody would have heard of the movement of the equipment.

“Again, if really the equipment were being illegally transported through the Nigerian soil, the military will not hand them over to the Customs; they will not,” he said.


‘Similar MRAPS procured by Jonathan’

Daily Trust was also told yesterday that similar MRAPS were procured by the government of former President Goodluck Jonathan at the height of the Boko Haram crisis in 2014.

Though not all the MRAPS had been delivered, the few that arrived were used in reclaiming local governments under the control of the Boko Haram ahead of the 2015 general elections.


https://www.dailytrust.com.ng/controversy-over-armoured-vehicles-seized-in-adamawa.html

I highly doubt Cameroon is gifting those MRAPs to Niger, more like they were meant for the US military base in Niger republic. But why not airlift them if that was the case?.

See as the media is already drawing similarities between this incident and Goodluck Jonathan's black market deals. If they were meant for Nigeria, we won't be hearing all this noise.

The questions remains,who owns them and where were they being transported to?

QuietMynd:
Who she is ? Lol
She is a IndecentStar, but she stops acting due to threats from her arabs people

Which one is IndecentStar again?
Nairaland filter sef...

Uncouth:
Chad, Somalia, DRC, Mali, Sudans, Libya, Nigeria....you know what these countries have in common? a large proportion of their countries are effectively controlled by Islamists and bandits. You should be the last people to ever throw shade at any other country

I understand your grouse and equally condemn the unabashed trolling by AskHarem, but please next time,be factual in your claims.

"A large proportion" of Nigeria is NOT "effectively" controlled by any islamist group or bandits. In the case of Nigeria,we only have insurgency in a pocket of one state in the North East(out of 37 states) and even at that, it isn't what I would term effective control. Please research your claims appropriately.

augustab:
Hey I sent you a message

Alright.

S3BViking:
You should be given an award for the most delusional Nigerian that ever lived. All you do is post the same stupid picture day in day out. The entire north East corridor is on fire..You are still posting Toyota 4x4 and Twitter Press release. SMH.

Guy,what do you want him to do?, Should he commit suicide because the NE is on fire?. Abeg free the man make e post him pictures. At least we can take consolation in the fact that we have gallant men and women giving their best to prosecute this war, let us appreciate them in our own small way by acknowledging their efforts.

NCANCHAIR:
I have searched and there seem to be no option for Geology. Is the DSSC better than the SSC and with many benefits?

I don't know how similar Geology and Geography are, my friend in school back in the days used to tell me that they are very different fields. For me, the "Geo" in both of them makes them the same. So if geography is the most similar to your field, you can apply for it.

But to avoid any doubt, I'd advise you to go for SSC if you are still between 22-27. There is no special benefits for DSSC candidates other than being commissioned into a higher rank(Lieutenant) than the SSC immediately after training, but as time goes on, the SSC guys will eventually meet up.

And I don't really think you should be too concerned about privileges right now, if you make final list,then be assured that you are most probably going to join up in the North East for at least a year. It is when you have survived battle and found your feet in the army that you will start talking about privileges.

You aren't out of line though, it is best to know everything about what you are getting into before you do, both the privileges and the risks. So it's all good.

Adamsi18:
Good day
I studied agric engineering with second class lower, can I apply under ordinance for dssc I saw food technology?
I haven't applied yet pls advice by next week I apply I don't want to fall a victim again

It is advisable to apply for the requirement closest to your course of study if you don't find you course of study on the list. So yes, I believe you can put in for food technology.

Alternatively,if you have age by your side,just go for SSC.

NCANCHAIR:
I studied Geology. Can I still apply because there seems to be no provision or position that I can. Please I need urgent response

Apply for SSC if there is no requirement for Geology in DSSC. Just go through the DSSC requirements for 2019, if no provision for Geology (I believe there is,check well, also check for related courses such as geography and co), then apply for SSC if age is still on your side.

SamuelAnyawu:
You have really analysed the reality of the Lake Chad Basin so well. Are you a military personnel? Funny enough i travel from Monguno to Maiduguri every weekend by road just to cool off. The risk ain't easy but wetin poor man go do

I am not a military personnel (though I do believe I will throw my hat in the ring with this ongoing recruitment exercise). But I have a number of acquittances in the military that feed me vague reports of what is going on, combined with what we read and watch in the news everyday, you just need to seive all the information to get the rough picture.

I advice you not to take such risks o...at least,not too frequently. Anyway, something must kill a man. I just hope we get our act together and be serious about winning this war soon. Everyone is tired, including us far away in the south.

Toju200:
Western nations around us in Cameroon and Chad are drawing their attention ISiS is already in Africa I mean the OG Dem...the ones day has operated in Syria and Iraq Dem don land for West Africa o.We pray we don't end up like Afghanistan, Syria or Iraq cos eehh the way this war is going....We dont know who is winning or losing today is Army 2morrow ISWAP ambush,Next NAF airstrike....Shebi Niger gave US right to operate MQ 9 reaper drones why aren't they helping out in monitoring their borders to help curb infiltration of arms.. ?

You see, corrupt despotic regimes such as Chad and Cameroon naturally only care about their own pockets, this war is generating billions of dollars in financial and military aid to those countries (even to Nigeria), therefore, it is a matter of expediency. Some countries and individuals don't want to end the war soon due to pernicious interests, after all, the direct effect to them is minimal.

As for the west, they only care about containing the spread of this conflict within the Borno-LC axis. Nobody will help us until we help ourselves.

jpphilips:
Why will BHT waste logistics smuggling weapons through the Chadian corridor when they can walk into any base to get anything they want?

Because despite the amount of arms they capture from us, they end up losing 60%-70% of it to aerial bombardments. So in operational terms, it is not just the weapons they steal from the military that is sustaining them.

It's all a strategy. Stealing the weapons and forcing the Airforce to locate and destroy them is a ploy to not only beef up their own armoury, but also deprive the army of critical arms and dampen the morale of soldiers.

The Elbarnawi faction receives a lot of weapons through that LC corridor from it's Libyan and Malian allies. These people actually travel out of the country through that route to negotiate arms deals with allies, smugglers and black market profiteers.