₦airaland Forum

ActivateKruger:
One of the most daring bank heists I've heard of is one that happened in my home town in 2003. It's was 16 cars and they offloaded almost $2 million from a bank vault overnight. And guess what? It happened less than 100 metres from the city police station.

Hahaha, cops don't expect crimes to happen close to their station

Dejavu! Didn't I see this in a movie b4. 500k bank heist



Burglars accessed KCB Thika Branch on Sunday, November 19 and removed five containers of 50-real notes, with an estimated value of Sh50 million. They disabled the bank's internal alarms and sensors and the burglary remained undiscovered until Monday, November 20.
Three months before the incident, the criminals rented a commercial property in Thika town and dug 120 meters beneath blocks of houses to a position beneath the bank.
The gang had renovated the property and put up a sign indicating it was a landscaping company selling both natural and artificial grass as well as other plants. Neighbours described how they had seen van-loads of soil being removed daily, but understood this to be a normal activity of the business. The tunnel, being roughly 70 cm (2.3 ft) square and running 4 meters (13 ft) beneath the surface, was well-constructed. It was lined with wood and plastic and had its own lighting and air conditioning systems.
The gang broke through 1.1 meters (3.6 ft) of steel-reinforced concrete to enter the bank vault and completed their mission.
http://www.businessdailyafrica.com/news/Sh50-million-stolen-KCB-Thika-daring-heist/539546-4194798-io5v60z/index.html

Tanzania too had its own ideas

http://www.ntz.info/gen/n01799.html
A battle for control over the Nile has broken out between Egypt, which regards the world's longest river as its lifeblood, and the countries of sub-Saharan Africa, which complain that they are denied a fair share of its water. In the latest escalation in the dispute, which some observers believe could lead to a new conflict in east Africa, Tanzania has announced plans to build a 105-mile pipeline drawing water from Lake Victoria, which feeds the Nile. The project flouts a treaty giving Egypt a right of veto over any work which might threaten the flow of the river. TheNile Water Agreementof1929, granting Egypt the lion's share of the Nile waters, has been criticised by east African countries as a colonial relic. Under the treaty, Egypt is guaranteed access to 55.5bn cubic metres of water, out of a total of 84bn cubic metres. The Egyptian water minister, Mahmoud Abu-Zeid, recently described Kenya's intention to withdraw from the agreement as an "act of war". Boutros Boutros-Ghali, the former secretary-general of the UN, has predicted that the next war in the region will be over water. The Nile treaty, which Britain signed on behalf of its east African colonies, forbids any projects that could threaten the volume of water reaching Egypt. The agreement also gives Cairo the right to inspect the entire length of the Nile.

If egypt ever ends up in a conflict with ethiopia, the rest of the nile basin countries including Uganda,Kenya,Tanzania will most likely provide moral and/or material support to Ethiopia... Which by extension will mean the rest of Africa will be on the side of re-negotiating the nile treaty one way or the other...
Kenya back in 2003 through parliament stoped recognising the nile treaty, Uganda too, the rest of the nile basin countries did the same...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/3313893.stm

If foreign powers were to actively support Egypt (to uphold a treaty signed during colonial period, this would rekindle old resentment -it would be like they are still trying to colonise us) this would lead to a wider backlash from the continent which would probably mean those foreign powers will have to choose between Egypt and the rest of Africa

newafricaken254:
1.AMISOM Force Commander, Lt. Gen. Osman Noor Soubagleh (center) lays the wreath in commemoration of the fallen soldiers at Sector II Headquarters during his visit to Dhobley on November 06, 2017. AMISOM Photo

2. AMISOM Force Commander, Lt. Gen. Osman Noor Soubagleh signs the visitor’s book at Sector II Headquarters during his visit to Dhobley on November 05, 2017. AMISOM Photo

3. Corporal Martha Maroa, receives her recognition medal from AMISOM Sector II Commander Brig. William Shume at during a visit by AMISOM Force Commander, Lt. Gen. Osman Noor Soubagleh to Dhobley on November 06, 2017. AMISOM Photo

What are those pics? Are they crime scene photos or IED pre-blast scenes for studying or something? Or are they just random sector II photos for nostalgia

When UK's Foreign secretary (AKA Trump's twin from another mother) visited Kenya a while back.

Kenya police marine patrol additional boats

Bad Ass squad - Uganda Amisom

golfsierra:
Recce officers arrive at a scene where three gangsters, suspected to have killed two policemen at Kayole in Nairobi on Friday, were hiding at Kenol town in Murang’a County on October 28, 2017. They were gunned down after a five hour gun drama. PHOTO | MARTIN MWAURA | NATION MEDIA GROUP

I love how they arrive in their khaki/blue jeans looking all calm and collected, they make it look so easy its almost like nothing to them, and then then they leave the scene immediately after leaving regular cops to clean up their mess.
Perhaps its time Training manual for regular cops were upgraded, especially concerning urban/CQB battles, and also a couple equipment upgrades like amour, and breaching tolls for the flying squad, and if their are hostages involved in any shootout, the police need to immediately secure the perimeter, disengage and call recce HRT cause the history of regular cops handling real hostage situation is bleak

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Kdf donating desks and blackboards among other stuff to a school in Southern somalia.

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Kdf donating essecial medicines to a recent mogadishu bomb victims and also evacuated about 40 victims critically injured to Nairobi.

Fearlez:
So South Africa , Egypt, Nigeria have economies dependent on minerals? South Africa has the most diversified economy on the continent, followed by Egypt. Nigeria's economy is reliant on agriculture, bank and financial sector, manufacturing, entertainment and oil. Government earnings however rely heavily on oil exportation as the government doesn't have the will or need for internal taxes. What happened to you during your formative years is that you were watching animal cartoons featuring British tourists who bribed your father to issue illegal pass. You only taste of education is night classes. If Nigeria is a failed state with over $594 billion dollar economy , the only Africa country in history to achieve this, what do we then call a country like Kenya with a laughable $56 billion far inferior to Lagos stat You and your countrymen are the slaves that should have been exported out of Africa as disposable human filth whose economic value is below the sum total of a subsistent piggery farm.

Yes all those in top 10 except for you know who... Even SA, I mean where would SA be now if not for mineral, e.g 70% of SA electricity comes from coal, same coal is the one utilised in smelting of iron for manufaruring.... A good thing about SA is that they used the extractive industry to build other sectors of the economy like mechanised agriculture,tech,auto-industry,processing.... Unlike Nigeria, I would categorise Nigeria with the likes of Sudan... Not egypt or SA, you guys are nowhere near them even with that $500B...BTW its now gone down to $400B , so what can $400B do for a country of 180m, that can put you on history as the third most terrorised nation after Iraq and Afghanistan https://www.premiumtimesng.com/news/headlines/193626-nigeria-now-third-most-terrorized-country-in-the-world-report.html?_e_pi_=7%2CPAGE_ID10%2C9460686044
Even this lawless Somalia is ranked behind Nigeria like seriously

Fearlez:
Your IQ is even smaller than your mother's mutilated clitóris.

You pined Nigeria's GDP on oil exportation and when I debunked your claims by pointing to you that Nigeria's GDP isn't dependent on oil, you started deflection by mentioning Government budget and all.

People like you who bother google servers with copy and paste on Nairaland shouldn't be allowed to air their opinion in public.

Your mental muscle isn't strong enough to filter facts from debris because none of your parents thought hard enough to invest in your education.

One lion in a Kenyan reserve has generated more national economic input than all the male members of your lineage.

Trying to wiggle your way out of this intellectual sandpit you dug yourself is going to be as difficult as trying to grow the Kenyan economy into the top 5 of Africa's biggest economy power house.

Stupid bozo!

empty words of a losser..

Explain how a cool $100B is missing from nigeria gdp after oil prices went down.

The failed state of Nigeria
https://www.vanguardngr.com/2017/01/petroleum-sector-drove-nigeria-economic-recession/?_e_pi_=7%2CPAGE_ID10%2C2057287242

And BTW all the top 10 biggest economies in Africa are all mineral dependent with the exception of Kenya and Ethiopia, that should teach you something.

A deep in all prices caused all the sectores of Nigerian economy to coke to a halt , the giant of Africa, addicted to the black oil substance can't do sh!t without it, remove oil from Nigeria and suddenly nothing is left

Fearlez:
Now this pinheaded idiot is shifting possition like a cheap whóre trying out madingo for the first time.

So it's no longer our GDP is reliant on oil , now it's export and government budget

Let me ask you, does Government budget hamper our economy? Does the fact that we export less than we export shrink the economy? Nope. You're a desperate sod.

You lied and was caught and you're proving to be a dishonourable fool by trying to shift the goal posts.

You will do well to cease making yourself look stupider than you were when you began this futile attempt to compare yourself to a country inherently greater than you and your lots.

Bloody usurper!

small people with small brains like you overcompensate by insults ridicule inoder to make themselves feel more than they are...

As I said b4, without oil Nigeria is Fu€ked, No oil means no govt budget, No govt budget means no effective govt, no effective govt means less govt control, affecting the entire production level of a country, If oil doesn't contribute much to Nigeria GDP (directly and indirectly) can you explain to me how Nigeria a country 180mil with supposedly various sectors of the economy whent into economic recession when world oil prices went down

kdf

Mhh mhh mhh

jakeporeshenko:
KDF, Jordanian joint exercise Swift eagle

the last one happened in Kenya not that long ago

Fearlez:
when I told you your father prioritised one lion in your reserves more than he valued your education, you thought I was dissing.

Oil doesn't even add up to 17% to our GDP.

Agriculture and manufacturing in Nigeria generate more GDP numbers than oil!

Go check the facts. You're a wasted effort of parental fúck.

30% of your budget comes from oil, 95% of all exports revenues is from oil and gas, which basically means without oil Nigeria is basically fu€ked ...
And by the way with all that money, and average Kenyan is better educated than an avg nigerian, so much for the 'giant of Africa' , like seriously the number of uneducated nigerians is more than the entire population of Kenya

Fearlez:
feel sorry for yourself and country for having nature fling you into the bottomless rung of irrelevance and poverty. Your Banks are not a force to be reckoned with . That's why you're championing mobile money when the rest of the world is breaking grounds with mobile banking and internet banking. That's where Nigeria, South Africa, Egypt and Morocco are up to. Enjoy the chase.

Hahaha 'your banks are not force to be reckoned" hahahah seriously, such superficial people like you amaze me...97% of nigerians still shop informally, Comparing yourself with SA and Egypt. Did you know Nigeria has been ranked among top 10 fragile(failed states) states for the last decade... Nigeria is always used as an example in most African countries when people talk of how not to run a country if you have minerals.. BTW We have reached 91% banking penetration with our $70B economy while your $400B economy is still suffering 4th world problems like basic healthcare, illiteracy, water and sanitation.... What a ridiculous country

Fearlez:
[s][/s] Please, I don't banter with Kenyans who rely on British wild life tourism to feed and maintain their disgraceful $70 billion dollar economy. If you say only 38% Nigerians own bank accounts, for a country whose banks and firms are dominating west and east African subregions, then your father should have sent you to Kenyan wildlife as a night ranger instead of wasting funds in our education. Please go to Africa's biggest 100 banks and tell me where Kenyan banks are. Egypt South Africa Nigeria Algeria dominate the banking sphere in Africa. You and your country are shameless rebellious usurpers with no pedigree or clout. Worthless idiot.

Feel sorry for you, really.. Continue boasting of your big banks owned by the 2% until kingdom come while the majority of your people still informal. That $70B you keep taking about is hard earned money while yours is all about waiting for oil prices to increase to earn a gdp, when oil prices go down everything else in the economy comes to a halt, you will never witness such an overdependence of an industry in a more sophisticated economy like kenya

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Fearlez:
[s][/s] Who's this Lazarus from a 70 billion dollar economy waking up to a dead thread? You're a 21st century noncompliant citizen. Let me upload your medevial life into the modern era. Kenya, unlike the rest of the world primarily use mobile money as opposed to full internet banking or mobile banking which is popular around the world. What you are championing is people carrying money in their phones which is actually for petty market women and artisans. But then your economy is just a miserable $70 billion in worth. That's not even enough to build reliable banks with international clout and good structure. Now , will you disappear like the belch of a debaucherous drunk?

You are indeed very ignorant about Kenya. First off all , ingnoring the stats that a nigerian has an avg of 3 bank accounts bcause of trust issues, last I checked there were 31 million bank accounts in Kenya representing 73% of the population.... While Nigeria has close to 70million account holders representing a mere 38% of the population... What this means is you are less likely to have access to an ATM in Nigeria than in kenya because the ATMs will be more sparsely distributed...I.e Kenya has more ATM/Banks per capita than nigeria. It also means the banking system in Kenya is saturated, finding POS or regular shops that accept credit cards is more ubiquitous, cause recently banks in kenya have fought hard, there are now more bank account holders than active mpesa accounts http://www.cgap.org/blog/kenya-bank-accounts-again-more-popular-m-pesa-%E2%80%93-why

You seem to miss the point here, people are taking about access to banking while you keep chest thumping about having 'big banks in Nigeria that are among top 50 in africa', having a big bank is not a measure of progress, this article here says 2% of account holders in nigeria own 90% of bank deposits, mst of the accounts belong to oil businesses, So congratulations on making it to the top 50 biggest banks in Africa by assets https://www.vanguardngr.com/2016/06/2-nigerians-90-bank-deposits-ndic/?_e_pi_=7%2CPAGE_ID10%2C5981823710





On the other hand , if you want the biggest banks by customer base leading and promoting in fanatical inclusivity regardless of rich and poor, you know where to find them http://www.africanbusinesscentral.com/2014/07/10/fact-of-the-day-kenyas-equity-bank-is-africas-largest-bank-by-customer-base-2/

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Kenya GSU-recce Police -Boarding a train

Kenya army 9th riffles batt

newafricaken254:
kenya defence force Engineers Brigade soldiers secure a Somalia national Army defensive position against Vehicle-Borne Improvised Explosive Devices

The power of one machine

Oldies ---A Kenyan UN soldiers studies a map as others watch over the international border between the so-called 'Serb republic' and the breakaway Serb-held Krajina region of Croatia 06 April 1995 on mount Dinara.

Uganda

https://qz.com/477727/a-ugandan-college-project-is-going-to-become-africas-first-homegrown-hybrid-car/?_e_pi_=7%2CPAGE_ID10%2C8191535808

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Danielnino00:
The gold u won in javelin was at the u-18 championship wasn't it??

As far a we know,long race is the only sports Kenyans are good at

Nigeria on the other hand has represented Africa at all age grade,gender grade and any type of football tournament and won laurels. .We have won medals at athletics too (u can check) . We aren't that bad at tennis either. We have produced some of the world best boxers and wrestlers .

Kenyans only know long distance races

Kenya is number 3 in africa in cricket...
Rugby 7s we are number 6 in the world. And number 2 in Africa after SA
Women volleyball we have won the last 4 consecutive African championships..

Athletics...well that one you know...

The only thing we have not been able to manage is football... But that will end soon, our local clubs have heavy pocketed sponsors these days, playing high quality friendlies in spain and with the likes of everton...hoping that will be translated to the national team