₦airaland Forum

ugo4u:
Seems like we're far away from winning this war. It's high time the armed forces especially the Army and Airforce quadruple the number of Officers and men they're currently taking in. There are huge swathes of land unmanned especially in the north east, that's why BH can easily take territories with little or no resistance.

I fully support this.

Also, there is urgent need to starve BH/ISWAP of weapons flow through the Lake Chad axis. Apart from the weapons they steal from us, they actually get huge reinforcement of arms through that area and it needs to stop, or else the war will never be won.

If it is possible diverting a river to flood that place and wipe them out from their hideouts, or poison the entire waterways, or have a serious agreement with Chad to setup a joint anti-proliferation force based on the existing MNJTF, or even invade Chad itself if nothing is working, anything to control that region.

We have lost almost the entire Borno North,and half of Borno Central. Imagine the shock if we wake up one morning to see Shekau or Mamman Nur on the news, reading the victory speech from inside the Borno state government house.

SamuelAnyawu:
Eventually over 6 LGA in Borno are in control of Bokoharam.

I think Monguno and Damasak are the only LGAs standing in Borno North

Seems BH/ISWAP is really after Borno North, out of 10 local government areas,only Monguno has any coherent military presence, the rest have been deserted. Places like Abadam,Marte,Kukawa and so on have zero military presence and little civilian presence. Infact, even Borno South isn't safe(look at Bama). To the extent that in some places, residents have to pay taxes to BH, according to reports.

Something drastic needs to be done. It all boils down to the Lake Chad corridor where these people ferry smuggled weapons through; if what it would take to stop this catastrophic flow of ammunitions is an all out invasion of Chad and annexation of the Hadjer lamis-massakory region, I think we should start considering it.

This is getting serious, we need to restrategize and like Ugo said, increase the quota for recruits. We desperately need to control that Lake Chad region, beef up intelligence,and avoid incessant losses of arms to these people. From what I have observed so far from reports and all, it seems these BH guys are well versed in the art of ambushes; they will send a contingent to attack a military base and while the attack is ongoing, another contingent is lying in wait fo the inevitable back-up to come to the aid of the distressed soldiers(maybe from a neighboring military formation), they then proceed to bombard the rescue team, loot arms, kill soldiers and join their colleagues in finishing off the soldiers at the base. They have been employing this unholy tactic for a while now. To imagine that some people are still dreaming of those disgraceful crop-dusters that aren't landing until 2022.

If they completely overrun Born North and Borno Central(which they are about to succeed in doing), stealing our weapons and getting huge reinforcement of arms through the LC corridor, then a major offensive to capture Maiduguri is inevitable.

Baba Buratai needs to be sacked abeg, clearly, the man has lost initiative. Is this how all our gallant men will die finish at the hands of BH?. Not long ago, we lost so many soldiers in one fell swoop that the entire theatre command of Operations Lafiya Dole had to be restructured.

QuantumR:
True talk, that therma 3 guy, adebayo and his colleague slapped hell out of some guys one morning like dat.

Yeah, that's how it works. Those guys can be very arrogant and insecure, they are the biggest threat to SSC/DSSC guys and one needs to be wary of them, even after hanging the pips.

Damfostopper:
flogging kini?..... is that allow?...... will flogging also provoke hidden health issues?

Well, from the stories I heard about the screening, sometimes when soldiers are drunk or excited,they can put you through hell(but not necessarily injure you), sometime cadets can even come and pounce on you if they are able to sufficiently tease out provocation from you.

The army carries out training with military malice. The believe is that every soldier must be the strongest and most versatile species.

QuantumR:
Lol... the funny part was that a woman was d one who examined me...

Tough luck, chances are that if it was a man, he'd have let you off the hook.

ugo4u:
The normal size of the testicle is just about the size of a palm kernel.
If your own be like coconut, guava, pawpaw or even water melon.. OYO things.

Upon reading this, I actually fondled my balls while mentally comparing them with palm kernels

Good news is, they aren't anywhere as large as guavas, bad news is, they are slightly larger than palm kernels more like the size of that ball at the tip of roll-on perfumes.

But army sef funny o ...I never knew all these things can be checked. Quite interesting indeed.

QuantumR:
The size of my balls is above average....

How can a person tell if his balls are normal or "above average". I guess I will start peeping at random balls and asking politely if I can grab and weigh them I can just imagine the collateral damage that would ensue

Maybe it's polyorchidism anyway, some people have more than two testicles and may not know it.

jess2019:
My son will be 9 in October but his behaviour bothers me so much. He acts like a day dreamer. He has turned me into a shouting and miserable mum as I had to beat him after I've exhausted other punishment options. To make this short, I'm going to summarise his behaviour.

He still cannot get himself ready for school in the morning. Either he doesnt cream his body or forgets to comb his hair or doesnt brush his teeth. He forgets to brush his teeth almost everyday. This made me to make a list of step by step sticker. I sticked this on their bathroom mirror and on his bedroom wall. Yet I have to keep reminding him everyday. For example, last week on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday he forgot to brush his teeth and hair. I have to constantly be reminding him every morning. He is the only one that brushes teeth after getting ready. I trained them to brush teeth first before shower but he keeps forgetting.

I have to remind him to do his homework, and put it back in his school bag to return to school on Mondays. The book will still not make it to the school even after constant reminder. We've lost countless of lunch bags. One ended up on school roof. If you give him any form to submit back to his teacher. He will forget in his bag so I now give it to his sister to give to his teacher.

He removes his clothes, shoes, pants, belts etc and leave them on the floor, I bought two laundry baskets for him. One in his room, another in their bathroom, yet all his belongings end up on the floor that you can hardly find a space to put a foot. I dont expect him to be perfect but atleast to try so that his 70% clothes make it to the basket or shoes to their racks. He also has a book shelf and desk yet they also end up on the floor.

He plays so much that sometimes he leaves shops with items in his hands. So I have to always watch out for him. Living in a western country where black boys are stereotyped I fear for him. He can stare at the ceiling for hrs when getting ready for school or spend long time in the shower yet not using soap on his body. This usually makes us late unless I step in to help or keep shouting.

If you ask him to do any house chores, he will not do it instead waiting for us to forget so he can get away with it. When grounded not to watch TV, he will still do it once he knows am inside my room or busy with a baby.

Yesterday we revised all his lesson assignments (5 work books). I specifically asked him to put them in his lesson bag. I pointed at the bag. Now I drop him at the lesson only for him to say oh I think I came with old lesson books. I dont know how he ended up with old books in his bag. It could be he planned it as a way to avoid the lesson. If not I wonder how he will remember it himself as soon as I drop him and his sister as this is unlike him.

I've taken him to a doctor incase there is any diagnosis so I can give him all the help he needs but they said it's just his behaviour because according to the doctor he is smart academically. He is 18months ahead of his year level. So they ruled ADHD out.

I cannot even see anything wrong with the boy, which leaves me to questioning your own sanity. You are probably the one with the problem, not the child,and I will advise medical intervention.

For heaven's sake, a child of nine will definitely start developing delinquent behavior that gradually phases away with time, it's normal for children either in Europe or Nigeria. You haven't even started seeing the worst of it,when he enters his teenage years proper, maybe you will end up either committing suicide or killing him.

Just keep giving him proper parental guidance, no need for the whole hullabaloo. It would be worse if you run away from your parental duties and ship him off to Nigeria, where he will feel alone, unaccepted,and probably maltreated. He will end up hating you for the rest of his life. You shouldn't expect a saint, children will always exude recalcitrant behaviors at certain ages, it doesn't mean they are possessed or insane (he forgets to brush his teeth, doesn't bag his dirty clothes, bla bla bla...do you even know what it means to be a parent?, Wtf is the problem with his behavior?, How well were you behaved when you were that age?).

Anyway, I can't tell you how to raise your child. If you like, send him Mars, you will bear the consequences in the future,good or bad.

jpphilips:
I agree with covering grounds based on number, but how do you mean the "right equipments"?
What is wrong about equipments ISWAp risk their scarce resources, men & exposure to acquire from us?

We don't have the required aircrafts for sustained bombardment, we don't have the required APC/MRAPS to enable an all-out land offensive(else we lose men like toilet paper), we are still digging trenches at this stage of the war, many cases of tired old AK47s jamming/overheated/exploding during battle; basically, we are sitting ducks, relegated to defending pockets of cleared zones. How then will ISWAP not continue to harass and overrun our bases in overwhelming numbers, seizing useless tanks and artillery?.

bidexiii:
Somalia: A cameraman embedded with the Somali National Army Abdinasir Abdulle Ga’al, 24, was killed in the second Al-Shabaab VBIED explosion on Wednesday at Awdhegle. He missed his graduation ceremony on August 7 so that he can document the capture of Awdhegle by SNA.

RIP gallant soldier.

ugo4u:
You may hate the war, but never hate the ones that fight. For they do not choose when or where to fight. All they chose was to protect who they love and even the people they don't know.
Capt. Anthony Tekemeka(61rc) of all men you died in the most glorious way. You died a hero.

RIP gallant soldier.
Was he the Captain that was killed alongside the Colonel in the Borno ambush?

AskiaHarem:
South African Hell March!

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Local soldier is under the influence of the holy ghost
I no fit laugh abeg

kenpaul0:
Blame the President and his Army Chief for that

The blame would rest more on the CoAS than on the President. It is the CoAS that should analyse the situation, identify the needed platforms, formulate strategies and present the needs of the army to the FEC. The President is not at the warfront, hence, he can only work on the information made available to him.

Not that I am absolving the President of all blame, I believe that if people aren't giving you proper results,sack them. But when it comes to operational and administrative issues, it's the responsibility of the CoAS.

jpphilips:
So annoying when you see ISWAP gun trucks and Artillery in NA colours, damn!! Even the new Innoson patrol truck has been gifted already? who knows, by next week, we see them driving around in the new proforce MRAP recently acquired, I just wish Nigeria as a matter of policy should end equipping regulars and focus resources on special forces.
We lose more men and resources recovering/destroying our equipments than we spend to defeat terror, what kinda war is that?

What then would the regulars fight with?... special forces cannot cover ground.

Maybe if we invested in the right equipments,we wouldn't be losing the ones we have.

jln115:
OK so it's fine if you make it a Nigeria vs"insertcountry" thing and meltdown this thread BUT other people should just move own because you say so please bro.... Get of your pedestal!!!

BTW please point out where I ever made this a Nigeria vs South African thing??It was in fact your own countrymen that mentioned SA not me!!!

Don't be ridiculous, the whole incident was a joke, nobody took it seriously (except you apparently), even the wizzzmike character has long since fled into the wilderness.

Nobody mentioned SA (you are welcome to point where your country was directly mentioned), we merely corrected some misguided notions being bandied around, using traditional methods. Surely, even you are literate enough to have noticed.

So like earlier proposed, why don't we just forget all the whole episode and move on?.

Toju200:
bro it has ooooo I wish I could post pictures but I can't I would have shown you abeg EVarn help me out with some pics plsssss

Unfortunately, I don't have pictures of it.

jln115:
A mock-up.

Looks more operational than the one in a museum down south, wouldn't you agree??

ugo4u:
It's false, extremely false!!!. As long as you pass your courses and age is on ur side you can reach the peak of ur career though there is a little politics played at the top most atimes it's struggle for appointments involving RC not necessarily ur career growth
The current Air chief is a DSSC officer.

My sources told me that politics in the army is quite heavy(than other arms of the service), that SSC guys are deliberately suppressed to pave way for more RC promotions.

eclipsehemmy:
Let me help answer this question.... We have short service commissioned officers who are major generals... We had one COAS in the past... The thing is truthfully conversion to RC is by slot and not so much.... Not everybody would get conversion.... Without conversion 15years in service is certain and that's major or Lt Col.... It all boils down to you and how you chase your success in the military.... Just know RC boys have an edge in everything tho.... That's the plain truth.

Thanks, so it's all about determination to achieve a successful career.

jln115:
I've praised the great strides the Nigerian defense industry has made in such a short time!!! And as I've stated I'm truly impressed!!!

BUT!! in the sake of objectivity.......The bottom is not even close to a proof of concept or prototype!

So what will you call that picture??

ugo4u:
Pls go ahead that way more experienced folks here could chip in one or two things.

So some relatives of mine in the Airforce were telling me about how it is almost impossible for a short service combatant in the army to get promoted, they said even if I get selected, I'd be lucky to even retire with Major or Lt. Colonel. I want to know how true it is, because I am aware that they could be speaking from bias of interforce rivalry.

ugo4u:
Why not ask it here so others too can learn?

I would like to, but it's more of administrative issues of the force, not really about the registration process(I already know about that). So I don't want to derail too much for people who are here for the main registration sort.

But if you are ok with it, I can go ahead?

ugo4u:
ugo4u

I sent you an email, please check. I would like to have your WhatsApp number via mail, I want to ask some questions.

eclipsehemmy:
if you are registering ssc go on and apply........ It says applicants finishing service by October are eligible to apply

What will the applicants finishing service October post in place of the NYSC certificate?, sorry I'm not able to read the editorial.

jln115:
Bro just........NO, No it wasn't!!

Care to tell us what it was then?

You see, to build an actual helicopter that doesn't fall out of the sky like Satan or leak grease all over the place, you need to go through various stages of development; from design, to concept development, to sourcing parts etc. Some of us are more interested in building an aircraft that governments can buy without cringing everytime it's airborne .There is no need to rush such processes, afterall, those who rushed to build theirs later had to use it for decoration in a military museum.

jln115:
Now now.......If you are going to dish it out....then you mustn't cry when you get some back ...........even if you are bashing Ghana

Ah, you see, we must avoid an impasse. The waters you are testing is very delicate indeed.

Who is bashing Ghana?, certainly not me. The Ghanaians are our sisters, and we share a deep bond. We are merely deeply concerned about the untold trauma Kantanka is putting them through every year with those vulgar display of metal coffins

jln115:
Hey hey no need to be nasty

I think we all remember that helicopter contraption we saw at one of the Nigerian army open days a couple of years ago!!

Seriously man,are you comparing a helicopter prototype with that pre-teen art and craft project up there?.

Come on man, we don't want to go down that lane. Some of us have long memories indeed, long enough to remember the SANDF's fascinating maneovers against seleka thugs,and such other... incidents

Why don't we instead focus on burying those misguided videos of certain soldiers marching like mummies straight out of the crypts of Tutankhamen? Let us all just calm down and not allow these strange occurrences tear us apart

Dammysmart:
hahaha hahaha oga easy nah, captain kwa?? Its Lieutenant please no let ogas dem come bash you for here o

I must be mistaken then.

zamanii:
So a quick research I did showed that upon successful completion of training, dssc applicants will be conferred with the rank of lieutenant and their salary is 180k. Someone tell me this is not the whole story

DSSC are conferred with the rank of Captain, not Lieutenant.

BabaOwen:
Just because they are trained to kill does not mean they shouldn't use their brain. Soldiers in countries like France, Belgium, US, Spain, South Africa etc also get deployed in their cities, they don't go around killing people about.

Taraba state was not under a state of emergency, the soldiers should have tried to shoot the bus tyres instead of just spraying bullets on the bus. And the soldiers had the time to prepare. They just spray bullets on the bus not giving a dam if the kidnappers or kidnapped person is hit. And look at the way the dead bodies and men that were dying were treated, is that the way the Nigerian army are also trained?

There is nothing professional about the Nigerian army, there is a little difference between them and armed bandits/boko haram. The police even said they identified their selves to the soldiers at all the checkpoints on their way to arrest the mallam, so I see no reason they couldn't use their common sense. If a colonel commands them to shoot at their family members will they do so?

I understand your point. Like I said earlier, professionalism is a problem in our security forces, most of these recruits are uneducated anyway.

But apart from that, in the military,when you are given an order, you don't ask questions, except you are ready to explain yourself to the martial tribunal. According to the reports, the Captain called those soldiers and told them that some men in a white bus had kidnapped someone, he ordered them to open fire on the "kidnappers". Naturally, the soldiers did as they were told, ID card or not. At least,that is what we heard.

I don't think anyone approves of the way the policemen were treated, even after death. It's callous and inhuman. Let's just hope justice is served to all the parties involved.

GeneralFarouq:

You know u can be prosecuted for that

Even the judge would take one look at those photos and immediately dismiss the case, plus award me a million dollars reward for withstanding the severe trauma those photos wrought on my psyche.

Sizzorkay:
First time seeing the 1st pic lol, what the fvk were they thinking with that? like seriously, na laugh go kill me today lol,
Was that a missile rack / Jet pack? like no, seriously, what the fvk is that
They should put a sign on that b!@tch that says " Beware of lightning" lol

That is what happens when you watch too much DC and Marvel comic movies

Who knows, they may end up cloning a Thor or Darksade, wouldn't it be cool to have super villains defending Ghana's honour?