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NaijaPikinGidi: Not sure what your brain would want to say?

Your assumptions are very stupid because soldiers can never farm. We will continue to pledge our contribution in stabilising peace in Africa. The next mission will be in Nigeria, watch this space.

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It is official Nigeria is not the richest country in Africa in terms of minerals.

The link below is for all to see that Nigeria is still lagging after DRC and South Africa.

https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/fields/2111.html

agaugust: every country's crude oil production fluctuates a bit for many reasons including periodic shut downs for full facility maintenance, or export contracts adjustments by monthly schedules.

south africa has almost zero oil and gas industry so let we nigerian teach you...

nigeria produces not only crude oil, we also produce natural gas, OSO condensates, and also bitumen oil sands...angola does not have all those....nigeria even has much more gas than oil. try use google before you post comments, it helps people like you

South Africa has 15 million barels of oil and gas was recently discovered. We do not have oil but have more refineries than your Nigeria. Angola has overtaken you already and they will officially have it on rubber stamp in 2014.

Angola this month of September topples Nigeria as Africas largest oil producer.

http://www.ventures-africa.com/2013/07/angola-to-export-50-million-barrels-of-oil-in-september/

agaugust: you cannot challenge me with ordinary percentages. do you buy food in the shop with percentages ?

try to match the way i did my own clear and indisputable dollar cash calculations

change those things to dollars with source to show each mineral quantity in S.I Units and dollar value per current market rates

now the south african will run away from mathematics

long live nigeria, giant brains of africa...even Egypt cannot challenge that

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Minerals that Nigeria have are not viable and therefore there is no any investor who would ever risk to mine such minerals where the cost of mining will be more than the products per se. Oil is currently the only viable mineral resource in Nigeria and will be completely exhausted in year 2030, about 14 years from now on.

This was obtained from wikipedia

ey producers

As of 2005, strategic minerals and key producers were:

Diamonds: 46% of the world, divided as Botswana 35%; Congo (Kinshasa) 34%; South Africa 17%; Angola, 8%.[7]

Gold: 21% of the world, divided as South Africa 56%; Ghana, 13%; Tanzania, 10%; and Mali, 8%.[8]

Uranium: 16% of the world, divided as Namibia 46%; Niger 44%; South Africa less than 10%.[9]

Bauxite (for aluminium): 9% of the world, divided as Guinea 95%; Ghana 5%.[10]

Steel: 2% of the world, divided as South Africa 54%; Egypt 32%; Libya 7%; Algeria 6%.[8]

Aluminium: 5% of the world, divided as South Africa 48%; Mozambique 32%; Egypt 14%.[10]

Copper (mine/refined): 5%/ of the world, divided as Zambia 65%/77%; South Africa 15%/19%; Congo (Kinshasa) 13%/0%; Egypt 0%/3%.[10]

Platinum/Palladium: 62% of the world,[11] divided as South Africa 97%/96%.[12]

Coal: 5% of the world, divided as South Africa 99%

agaugust: my post proves Nigeria is richer than Congo DRC....anybody with calculated detailed data for Congo DRC can look for the courage to engage me in an accounting warfare on this forum , i am battle ready...

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That's a lie. DRC is the most richest country in terms of minerals in Africa. Nigeria even comes after South Africa

agaugust: a budget is predetermined and periodic recurrent or capital expenditure expended at the expiry of the term. it vanishes away, but cash reserves stay there until you need them, please stop arguing accounting technicalities with me.... you are making a fool of yourself

As a matter of facts we have already collected more than $60 billion. It does not matter whether is a recurent expenditure or not it shows that $60 billion is nothing to SA.

agaugust: show me a law that restricts the use of foreign reserves, my money is my money...fool, try go to part time university

Our PIC (Public Investment Corporation) which is owned by our government to make profits has over $130 billion in savings and has even bought Aliko Dangote's shares in his cement company. Our companies are sucking Nigeria dry and they all repatriate their profits back home.

agaugust: you can fly come to abuja and remove $53 from nigeria's $60 billion cash reserves and carry it to soweto so that the account will reduce to your wish of $7 billion.

envy will just k.ill you....debtor nation of pretoria


nigerian cash reserves account 1 has $50 billion, account 2 has $10 billion dedicated, new account 3 has more billions of dollars sovereign wealth.

http://www.vanguardngr.com/2013/05/external-reserves-now-50b-says-okonjo-iweala/

https://silverbirdtv.com/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/field/image/CBN%20to%20introduce%20cashless%20policy%20in%205%20states.png

Our budget yearly exceed that $60 billion dollar. You cannot even afford to built powerstations but here you are making noise. Is this not hypocrisy? Shame!!

agaugust: i wont waste my time do repeat that post of many pages ago, between pages 200 to 350, i posted a very long and detailed analysis to prove that nigeria is the richest country in africa by mineral resources, your south african man @Sithwell had to swallow his rainbow pride after he read that post

only a fool will be challenging a first class accountancy graduate on technical financial calculations

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What makes any country rich is the GDP per capita. That is the basics of Economics. If your economics teaches you otherwise then I am afraid.

Foreign debt and foreign reserves is not indications of showing if countries are rich or not. Spain, Netherland, turkey have very small foreign reserves but still those countries are by far richer than Nigeria. South African government is richer than Nigeria because it has got more avenues to collect tax than its Nigerian counterpart.

South Africa is industrialised and has Gold, Platinum, Uranium, coal, Manganese and many more.

Moreover, with your Accounting degrees et al, DRC remains the richest country in Africa in terms of minerals and definitely not Nigeria.

agaugust: a prolonged war will hurt south african economy too bad, you already have an unhealthy foreign dollar debt of $40 billion and no plan to repay it soon....reason your government says it will not send any more troops into Congo war unless UN pays more money to fund south africa....even a small war you cannot fight without fear of getting more broke.

nigeria has foreign dollar debt of only $7 billion, and foreign dollar cash reserve of over $60 billion in two CBN accounts, nigeria is also the richest country in africa in terms of mineral reserves running into many tens of trillion of dollars ....giant of africa

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Foreign debt is not something to be paid off in cash. It has to be paid on installments and that is what SA is doing. We still have enough money to even loan other countries, such as Zimbabwe, Lesotho, Swaziland, etc. We have recently bailed out Zimbabwe to the tune of $100 million.
http://www.timeslive.co.za/thetimes/2013/04/16/sa-bails-out-zimbabwe-to-tune-of-r900m

America (US) is even worse because their foreign debt is egual to the GDP, yet the US continue to help the unfortunate in the likes of Nigeria to this day.

Nigeria cannot have more than $7 billion foreign because they do not qualify for much bigger debt due to their limited avenues for collection. The government makes not more than $25billion in tax collection.

agaugust: i meant to say mirage III and mirage F1, sure i had posted many times before on Cheetah and i quoted mirage III and mirage F1, thats not a big deal information, its free to find on google search, my kid brother in grade 6 can find that information, so you said nothing special.....and i am adding to it for you...mirage III was the first cheetah not mirage F1

reason why i dont find it hard to kick your A..Z..Z around like a football

Your problem is that you do not listen and you always project yourself as Mr know it all. People with such attitude do not get to anywhere. You have made a mistake or should I say you wittingly cheated people. You mistakenly compared the most advanced Mirage 2000 to MIG-23 with the hope that you will mislead people into believing that the archaic MIG-23 could defeat Mirage 2000. The MIG-23 and Mirage F1 were of the same generation. You bounced!!!

Now, Shame has led you to twist facts and bring the unnecessary topic of your kid in the picture.

agaugust: Mirage 2000 jet could not match ancient Mig-23 jet, so israel upgraded it for south africa to match the Mig-23...how will that Cheetah jet now match F-16 and F-15 ? let Egypt fly its F-16 against Equador's Cheetah , then lets see who gets shot down to hades

dumbo, you really must be dumb @andrewza

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You see why I do not even want to engage in military debate with you. Mirage 2000 is more advanced and is a 4th gen. Our very own was mirage F1.

Augustine Again: keep wasting your time. simple mathematics proved your wrong. america lands Jayhawk on NNS Thunder, nigerian Mi-35 Hind is smaller than Jayhawk by a whole 8 feet. keep embarrassing south african navy and people here with your inability to believe simple mathematics of addition and subtraction that your 6 year old son can teach you at home


anyway, its so sad my @agaugust post is the one that was hidden at the near bottom of page 739 about 3 hours ago. that is why i am now writing as @Augustine Again. i dont know why i was banned, my post was very long and had many images and sources, maybe too much data got me banned and my very long post was hidden

i posted a very long post with sources from nigerian ministry of defence, nigerian newspapapers, nigerian chief of air force, and beegeagle, showing the new list of nigerian air force aircraft to be specially deployed for maritime operations.

the list has

Alpha Jets newly upgraded maritime versions

ATR-42 Surveyor aircraft

Augusta AW 109 LUH now armed with weapons as military version with confirmation from ministry of defence

Mi-35 Hind helicopter gunship

I dont want to repeat those sources so i dont get banned again, and all the details about new nigerian air force ground equipment and new nigerian army APC that arrived and not yet made public

i dont know why i get banned for posting some new details about nigerian weapons and how they are being deployed or used.

sometimes beegeagle too posts some of these same things and nobody banned him or blocked his website/blog

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To cut the story shot, can you link us to the source where have you downloaded the picture. Mathematically speaking it is possible, but when we speak about the safety it does not make sense because the structure of the ship has got to be atleast 6m away from the stationery Helicopter. Gunships often move 2-4m before take off because of the thrusting force. So, what about this space?

zaandrew: There is all so a kivu brigade under the comand of a indian. The Hinds came from them. The 2 genrals the brazlin and the FARDC genrail are all part of the High command. Then the colonials carry out the missions.

The hinds were not FIB.

So now you cliaming the tanzians are teach south africa. Yet the FARDC that are leading the attack are trained by south africa. And we never ran away from seleka. We fought them till they begged for a cease fire.

I am not army, I am navy I all so work on a ship. And fighter pilot is not a parabat, 6SAI or a recce.

By the way, do they want all 78000 SA force to be deployed. UN will not have money to pay us.

agaugust: the Tanzanian General will simulate and draw his war plans and a few others including the Brazilian General will only contribute opinions, if the Tanzanian sees reasons to accept their input, he will, but if not , he wont....the UN mandate is on the Tanzanian to defeat the rebels on battlefield...not on paper drawings...he will fight the way he knows.

Tanzania has great war history of defeating Libya and Uganda two powerful countries with one single blow in a full scale war. GREAT FACT !!

Brazil has zero war history in modern times and Brazil has never fired one bullet in any war ! FACTUAL FACT !!!

UN knows why they chose Tanzania to lead war instead of inexperienced and incompetent Brazil or South Africa. MORE FACT !!


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I think you must attend any military academy so that you will understand how the war strategies whether offensive or defensive get to be planned. No general will not come with his already prepared documents from his back yard, all parties will have their contribution as far as planning is concerned. The intelligence play a very crucial role because they have information about the enermy, their strength, kind of weapons they use, their location, their language, etc.

With regard to the inexperienced SA and Brazil that one I am not going to entertain because we both know where Tanzania stands with regard to combat history. The Tanzanian general might have been appointed on the grounds that he is Kiswahili speaker, has extensive knowledge about Jungle warfare and understand the culture of Congo better than anyone. The eastern part of Congo are Kiswahili speakers and do not understand any English language, majority speak French, hence in negotiations with rebels the Tanzanian general will become an excellent asset.

With regard to the command of special forces, generals do not bother much about them because those ones are operators. Every special force member can operate on his own without commands from anyone, they usually come in contact with the enermy without being noticed and they have their own intelligence and plans which must be integrated to the strategy.

CraigB: In that case then, you'll enjoy Monusco's flickr page below.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/monusco/

Thanks CraigB.

agaugust: bros please eat the humble pie....the whole of south africa is now saluting Tanzania

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OMG!! I cannot believe that you are the legacy of the think tanks like Chinua Achebe and Wole Soyinka. The Nobel man Ngugi Wa thiongo is highly needed to turn you into a think tank.

With this embarrassment.

Chinua Achebe must be turning in his grave.

I miss GOMA and KINDU, the lake kivu which is just at the back of SA base. Our Airforce base was a bit far from SA base. The Nyiragongo volcano mountain and all those untidy makets. Those Piki Piki(Motor Bikes) which are used as taxis. I miss all my Rafiki(friends) there and the language (Kiswahili) is what I miss the most. Mimi Nina kumbuka Congo sana. Mina taka Ku enda Congo mi seme na watu Wa Goma. Lol!! That's a kiswahili.

agaugust: [size=16pt]south africa's DENEL equipped army must obey orders from their Tanzanian boss..FACT ![/size]

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https://www.army.mil.za/news/news%202009/jul/IMG_3705.JPG
https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7287/8737193325_152219f480_z.jpg

If that is how your attitude is channelled, then I pity Nigeria because it has gone through thousands of missions under the command of Generals other than Nigerian born.

Losers always resort to childish games to sooth themselves from shame. I won't doubt to serve under a foreign general. India, Ukraine, etc in Congo are still under the command of a Brazilian. So, what is your point? Just for once try to be objective and earn the respect you deserve. Your fellow countrymen are losing the respect for you by bits, so pull up your socks and start reasoning, or should we say that is the end of you. Come on Agaugust, I hope you can do much better.

agaugust: decision to attack M23 rebels.....UN civilian/political leadership

rules of engagement of M23 rebels.....UN civilian/political leadership/military advisers

order to attack M23 rebels.......Brazilian Commander MONUSCO

strategic battlefield plan to attack M23 rebels......Tanzanian commander

tactical battlefield plan to attack M23 rebels.....Tanzanian commander

responsibility for combat victory over M23 rebels....Tanzanian commander

execution of overall war plans......Tanzanian commander

order to battalion commanders to engage M23 rebels....Tanzanian commander

responsibility to engage and defeat M23 rebels.....FIB soldiers under Tanzanian commander

responsibility to obey all battle orders and respect Tanzanian chain of command....inferior South African army moving behind superior Tanzanian army that will do will do most of the fighting.

that is how UN intervention works. FACT !!! go start your research from UN KOREAN WARINTERVENTION and end with MONUSCO

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Nations_Command

The Tanzanian general does not do strategising and planing alone. He will do that with other contigent commanders from SA, Tanzania, Malawi and military advisers(intelligence) in the presence of the man on top "Brazilian".

agaugust: MONUSCO is a joint deployment back-up reserve force in case FIB is overwhelmed in an emergency.

MONUSCO does not launch unprovoked offensive against rebels due to its limited mandate.

FIB is MONUSCO, they all wear MONUSCO beret and trademark.

agaugust: Augustine is right again, the Tanzanian commands FIB directly, he only consults the MONUSCO Brazilian, their mandates are different, if it was the same mandate of offensive/attacking combat engagement, MONUSCO will ne on the battle frontline with the Indians and Pakistanis armies leading the war.

MONUSCO is a joint deployment back-up reserve force in case FIB is overwhelmed in an emergency.

MONUSCO does not launch unprovoked offensive against rebels due to its limited mandate.

FIB is mandated to attack without any provocation from the rebels and Tanzania the conqueror of mighty Libya, is now teaching South Africa the basics of real life offensive/attacking combat that does not permit running away from Seleka type of local rebels.

by the way, why are you @fighter pilot and @andrewza sitting down at home entangled with your wives under a blanket while your fellow south african soldiers are at war in Congo DRC....are you both plastic toy soldiers ?

image of @andrewza and @fighter pilot....both toy soldiers of nairaland ?

Wrong yet again. Agaugust you have proved yourself in many occassions that you know nothing about Military. You are not a soldier, reservist, or even a police officer. Your knowledge is just tantamount to an empty tin. In military we do not deal with consultation because we do not run the business and I fail to understand when you say the Tanzanian general command directly. Generals do not command directly and even colonels are hardly seen in war zones. The person who command directly is me, a junior officer. Whenever there's a war I will have to be physically there and command directly.

chris365: dude, MONUSCO wasn't supposed to last this long. Your troops size is about to increase to 2000 and you still believe it's a emporary mission.. Coming from UN? Think again.

Unless the FIB is dissolved and the political problem of DRC is resolved, you just engaged in a long war. DRC is not about to be stable in the next decade cos even your country is benefitting from the instability.

DRC problem will only end politically and not militarily

M23 may fall but their are other rebels and more will surface like M23 did.

Is seems to me that you do not know the difference between peace keeping (MONUSCO) and enforcement (FIB). Enforcement is temporary and in business we would say that it is a project and peace keeping is a process which takes long, that's would be referred to as operations in business. Once everything subsided the enforcement mission will revert back to peace keeping mission. The FIB is not independent from MONUSCO, it remains an inherent feature of it.

agaugust: .

[size=16pt]Confirmed :

Tanzanian Army Commands And Bosses South African Army In Congo DRC War....

....the better force now in charge...Tanzania ! [/size]

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the Brazilian Lt.General commands the ONLY the peace mission of estimated 17,000 soldiers in Congo DRC with limited combat mandate

"United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon announced today the appointment of Lieutenant General Carlos Alberto dos Santos Cruz of Brazil as Force Commander of the United Nations Organization Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (MONUSCO).

He succeeds Lieutenant General Chander Prakash Wadhwa of India, who completed his assignment on 31 March 2013, and to whom the Secretary-General is grateful for his dedicated and effective service during his tenure of more than two years."

http://www.un.org/News/Press/docs/2013/sga1407.doc.htm


the Tanzanian Brig.General DIRECTLY commands the special brigade called FIB of about 3,000 soldiers in Congo DRC with full mandate for full combat and offensive war


http://www.afriquejet.com/news/783-monusco-tanzanian-to-command-monusco-special-brigade.html

http://www.theinternational.org/articles/450-united-nations-authorizes-offensive-opera

both men consult each other as you see example in photo below with an asian discussing with the brazilian, but the Tanzanian man will command and rule over all the South African army officers and men in Congo DRC war....FACT !!!



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Agaugust you were wrong again. The FIB is the sub of MONUSCO which is under the command of a Brazilian.

NaijaPikinGidi: Oh well ... It must be time you retreat to slumberland.

Let me rather keep mum.

NaijaPikinGidi: Now you seem to understand the enforcement logic? Carry out the General's orders first before you make any more noise!

I cannot understand where does this come from and what is hoping to achieve?

Henry120: Interesting!!!! A barcelona fan, whose favourite coach is mourinho. I've never seen such a football fan before. You're probably the one and only fan whose choice is this way.

Then why is it when the coach resigns or sacked, fans will start suggesting names. Some would be saying Keshi, Morihno, etc. Does it tell anything about the taste of those fans when it comes to coaches?

Henry120: The Fact remains whether you like it or not, the tanzanian general is ordering your troops around, like a master to his dog.

Fighter pilot and andrewza, when are you guys getting deployed to DRC? The tanzanian is there waiting to order you guyz around like a flock of sheep.

By the time we get there the enforcement mission would have already been completed. Infact, intervention is almost done and when the next one come it might not be a Tanzanian, it might be Ugandan or Kenyan.

In deployment you will not even get to see Tanzanian general because his role is only to strategise with the various contigent commanders (Colonels) and the head of the mission (MONUSCO). After everything else has been decided on the meeting they will devolve all the responsibility on contigent commanders to engage their contigents. Contigent commanders will further devolve the responsibility to officers within his contigent and officers to NCOs.

There is no any general who will fok people around.