₦airaland Forum

A .50caliber bullet beside a ruler

I do not and will not support the killing of innocent women and children. I believe boko haram insurgents should be brought to justice, but whichever way that Justice is delivered is entirely left to them. If they surrender they should not be harmed but if they choose to fight, we'll read about the outcome in the papers. But innocents should not be harmed and collateral damage should be reduced to the barest minimum

Those trucks are mounted with .50 caliber heavy machine guns. Those guns are so lethal they are said to be able to cut humans in half.

The Nigerian Army may have deployed desert warfare adapted Toyota landcruiser gun trucks to aid in the combating of insurgents and give chase to those that flee into the deserts.

Nigerian forces have been attacking Islamist camps
in the northeast in the biggest offensive since
Boko Haram began its insurgency four years ago.
Fighter jets and attack helicopters have been used.
A military source said at least 30 rebels had been
killed. Ground operations are due to be carried out.
It follows an upsurge of violence against
government and Christian targets by Boko Haram
militants who want an Islamic state.

Earlier this week President Goodluck Jonathan declared a state of emergency across three northeastern border regions, where 2,000 people have died in the four-year insurgency.
Some observers back tough action against the rebels. “These people have gone beyond the pale of reason and for me and for the majority of Nigerians enough is enough, and I think the president has also reached that state of mind,” said Derin Ologbenla, a political scientist at the University of Lagos. He added that he thought the state of emergency should be extended to more states where Boko Haram was operating. “The president has been very patient with them to come out and make their claims or let us know their grievances and they have not really come out to let us know their grievances. What they have done is just to
show brutal force,” he said.

Last week insurgents killed dozens of police, soldiers
and prison staff as they stormed at jail in Borno state
and freed 100 inmates.

The army offensive follows growing evidence that Boko
Haram now controls parts of the northeast. It is the
military’s most serious operation since 2009, when 800
people were killed.

However the US has warned against a “cycle of
violence”, a view echoed by human rights groups such
as Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch who
have documented abuses by Nigerian forces.

joeyfire: I hope the army chiefs know that they shouldn't stop at destroying the bases and let these animals escape. They need to track the militants to their hiding places in urban areas and crush them there

the attacks on their camps is a tactic to bring them out in the open so that our special forces and counter insurgency chaps and pick them off one by one. its like peppering a rat hole with a little smoke so that when it comes out, those waiting on the outside can kill it

buklan4real@yah:
U neva ready. choose one frm d small gurls u dey carry arund, train her d way u want her to behave
train her in a wife material way nd surly she is urs.

no mind am, wetin u dey do when u wait till u dey 39 years na him u come begin dey complain. God know say on or before my 29th birthday me I go Don settle down. but on a serious note, no single person is perfect and you can never have all the qualities you want in one particular woman. if u have one that has just 20% of the quality u want in a woman, stick with her then work on the building her and the relationship to your own standard and taste

eGuerrilla: ^^^
This is where the real challenge lies, in my opinion. There is no easy route to success here, and Nigerians are going to have to get used to seeing troops returning home in body bags, once the theater of war is extended to urban towns.

believe me when I tell you that it is not going to pose much of a challenge to our boys cos of the extensive ctcoin activities that they have been involved in within the last year. I will drop a bombshell on you guys on or before Sunday as soon as I am communicated with the information. just watch the politics forum

J12: Who is funding these Boko guys that they are able to purchase these expensive weapons?

some Nigerian politicians and international backers

sheyie2007: I'm glad our military is handling the situation and not the US

why should the united States military interfere in the affairs of a sovereign nation like Nigeria

**** BREAKING NEWS***
NIGERIA AIRFORCE JET HIT BY AA FIRE,
AS 30 MILITANTS ARE CONFIRMED
DEAD

At least 30 militants have been
killed during air raids on their
training camps in north-eastern
Nigeria, officials say.
An army spokesman said jets and
helicopter gunships had been
used to attack several camps.
He told the BBC that a plane had
been hit by anti-aircraft fire but
had managed to return to base.
States of emergency were
declared this week in three
north-eastern states hit by Boko
Haram’s Islamist insurgency.
Nigerian forces are trying to
regain control in the states of
Adamawa, Yobe and Borno.
Meanwhile, explosions and
gunfire have been heard
overnight in Katsina state.
Residents have told the BBC’s
Hausa service that banks, police
stations and prisons were
destroyed in the town of Daura,
near the border with Niger.
They said they had seen the
bodies of five members of the
security forces and three
militants, but there has been no
official confirmation of casualties.
Mobile phone networks were not
functioning in many parts of
north-east Nigeria on Thursday.
A security official told the AP
news agency that the mobile
phone service had been shut
down during the military
operation.

Militants have previously attacked
mobile phone masts in the area
in an effort to disrupt
communications.
Residents staying inside
Some of the camps hit by air
raids were in the Sambisa Game
Reserve, about 70km (45 miles)
south of the Borno state capital,
Maiduguri, where the militants
first emerged in 2009, said
Nigerian military spokesman Brig
Gen Chris Olukolade.
He told the BBC that 30 militants
had been killed since the latest
offensive began on Wednesday.
There is no independent
confirmation of the number of
deaths.
The aim is to “destroy [Boko
Haram] bases, apprehend as
many of them as possible and
bring them to justice”, Brig Gen
Olukolade said.
“It is not just Sambisa, every
camp is under attack,” the
Reuters news agency quoted him
as saying.
In January, the military said it had
deployed helicopter gunships to
destroy Boko Haram camps in
the reserve, not far from Bama,
where 55 people were killed in
militant attacks last week.
Brig Gen Olukolade said the plane
damaged by anti-aircraft fire had
returned to base safely, while the
“terrorist base” was
subsequently “completely
destroyed”.
This is the first time Boko Haram
has been reported to have used
such heavy weaponry against
aircraft.

A Maiduguri resident told the BBC
that the city was unusually quiet
on Friday, with most people
staying inside.
Brig Gen Olukolade said “several
thousand” troops had been sent
to the three north-eastern states
to tackle Boko Haram.

The three semi-desert states,
which border Niger, Chad and
Cameroon, are roughly the size of
England or the US state of Illinois
but have a population of just 10
million.

The BBC’s Will Ross in Abuja says
targeting Boko Haram’s rural
bases or training camps should
pose no great challenge for the
military; the hardest part of this
campaign will be in urban areas
like Maiduguri, where the
militants are living among the
civilian population.

The president said the army
would take “all necessary action”
to “put an end to the impunity of
insurgents and terrorists”, saying
they had taken down the
Nigerian flag and replaced it with
a foreign emblem in some parts
of the country.

Human rights organisations have
criticised some of the Nigerian
military’s previous operations
because of the resulting civilian
casualties.

Boko Haram, whose name means
“Western education is forbidden”
in the local Hausa language, is
fighting to overthrow the
government and create an
Islamic state in the north.
Although they often attack
Christians and government
targets, they have also killed
many Muslim civilians.
http://m.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-22570071
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mods front page please

The Defence headquarters
also,yesterday, ordered the deployment
of
more troops to take care of new
hideouts (bunkers) and escape routes
recently discovered. This followed
intelligence reports that the Boko
Haram terrorists and insurgents are
now looking for how to escape the
expected bombardments on their bases.
It was further gathered that the new
deployments would see units and
military formations from the southern
flank of the country being airlifted by
Air Force Hercules C-130 and the G222
medium range carriers to parts of the
North as back up on standby.
This is as a result of the fact that over
half of the standing troops of the
Infantry, Artillery and Armoured Corps
in the Northern flank have continued
to flood the three terror-prone states
whose land mass and mountainous
terrain is expected to pose challenges.
A military source said: “These
miscreants underestimated the
capabilities of the Nigerian Armed
Forces. What they are seeing now and
running into their hideouts is just
deployments and movement. Wait until
we begin continuous bombardments,
then they will realize that democracy
doesn’t mean you take the country for
a ride”.
The Director of Defence Information,
Brig. General Chris Olukolade, when
contacted, confirmed that more troops
are being deployed from other
divisions of the Nigerian Army in the
southern region. According to him,
more logistics are also being provided
by the military authorities to back up
the deployment.
Olukolade said that no amount of
deployment of troops to the troubled
areas would be too much until the
terrorists are wiped out from the
northern flank. He said that
deployments have already commenced
to all the border towns of the three
states and that very soon the dividend
of the operation will begin to manifest.
Gen. Olukolade declined to disclose the
number of troops so far deployed but
said that a sizeable number are
already on ground and if need be,more
will be sent to the area. “As I am
talking to you now, we are not only
sending troops but they are heavily
backed up with equipment that can
stand the test of time when confronting
the insurgency”, he added.

Mynd_44: For now, she needs just enough to make sure she does not lie about being a virgin

There too much fuss going on about being a virgin or not. I personally feel its over rated cos at the end of the day we all get fuccked

shizzle11: Good thinking @bolded, should apply also to men not just women.

Yes I said sometimes it depends on the man and him being ready, Consider the scenario below:

She was 2years older than him, both fresh out of NYSC the same year. They had barely dated for a year cos they met in camp. No sooner had they passed out than she brought up the topic of marriage. Now this seriously pissed this guy off that he had to avoid seeing her cos he felt she was trying to pressurise him and he was having non of it Meanwhile this guy was still an applicant still searching for a job, the question of marriage was no where close to his priority at that moment, (first things first you know).

His thoughts was on making some money first (and rightly so) before thinking towards that direction, unfortunately his girl friend who was nearing 30 was having a warped idea of marriage even without him being settled.

That cost her the relationship!


Now you can understand why I said this

any guy who is 24 years and above, a graduate and has completed his youth service, who does not have marriage on his mind is not a serious guy and any lady dating such a man is on a very long thing. even if he's still searching for a job, at that age range and with what he has accomplished he should have it at the back of his mind that he is of marriable (please permit me to use the word, it does not exist but sound right as used in this context) age. research has shown that even as far back as the stone age, the intrinsic reason why men work or want to work is so that they'll be able to attract the best mating partner.

shizzle11: Lol... Ladies doesn't understand that when they're ready doesn't mean the guy is ready even though they're dating. If the guy isn't thinking marriage at that time and you bring it up, it could easily turn him off, cos he'll feel you are putting pressure on him and men don't like to be pressured on matters like that if they're not ready.

I agree with you to a certain extent but its not wrong if a woman who's been in a relationship with a guy for like 3 or 4 years tell her man that she'll want to marry him. Sometimes some men are just to comfortable with the way things are in their relationships that they just relax and refuse to take things to the next level. Anything that is stagnant will ultimately die thats why sharks dont ever stop swimming from the moment they're born till they die. such men need to be jolted out of their revere and what better way to do it than to ask his hand in marriage since he's not man enough to do it. So ladies i suggest u take a cue from the sharks and dont let stagnation set in.

[quote author=shizzle11]Lol... Ladies doesn't understand that when they're ready doesn't mean the guy is ready even though they're dating. If the guy isn't thinking marriage at that time and you bring it up, it could easily turn him off, cos he'll feel you are putting pressure on him and men don't like to be pressured on matters like that if they're not read

Solozzo: ...on the other hand, civilians need mobile phones to inform army about hideouts of BH. Perhaps satellite phone for security informants would be provided

Most people do not know but I can categorically tell you that the decision to declare emergency rule in those states has been concluded even before the president left for south Africa. The military already have their targets within and outside Nigeria and the jamming of communication signals is the signifier that hostilities has commenced. On or before Saturday we would hear reports concerning surgical strikes and bombardment in the north

femilek8: watch it, next year WAEC, JAMB and NECO will record 90% failure!

laugh wan kill me. person wey wan fail go fail no be social media dey cause failure.

Modream :
What a pity, the innocent citizens will also feel this decisive might of the military because of boko haram jihadist.

Though truly the innocent ones will suffer but they also share a blame in this crisis. They have allowed themselves to be used as cannon fodder. If they had been cooperative with the security forces from the get go the situation would not have degenerated to this level of chaos

NEW BIN: wetin be moral truth?

E be like say u dey find excuse to tidy ur cousin. Well make I tell u now, on how u climb am una two go hang there

there's no need for it to support bb10 since bbm is coming to android and iPhone before the end of summer. all those with blackberries should go and sell theirs now that it still has a little value

just download the hangout apk from XDA developers cos its not yet available for download from the play store in Nigeria. its a nice app but to bad non of my friends use droids. it would be nice to have someone to test it with

Marriage is optional, so therefore people do choose whether they want to get married or not

Lagusta: hey boss, do u have a swelling around your neck? do u usually feel too hot or too cold?? do u see your eyes bulging out

hope its not what i'm thinking tho....

No to all your questions

Princessmel: Fixed

Seen

Sorry for not updating you guys in awhile, so last week I got so weak that my body just shut down. I got my blood pressure checked and its normal for someone my age. Since then most days I get 3 - 4 hours of sleep. I'm still worried though

Princessmel: I'm pretty sure I replied to all your emails , I honestly thought u just decided not to reply

No u didn't, I sent u one over the weekend and didn't get a reply, so I thought u were blowing me off. Maybe we both misread the signs

Princessmel: Thanks baby , next time make sure to let your plans known because you never know what the future holds

I never rush anything in life and letting u in on my "plans" as they were at that time would have amounted to rushing and besides you stopped returning my emails

Mel what's up? Its been awhile since I last heard from u on NL. Anyways whatever happened to your sex life when you and your bf were on a hiatus is your personal business and you are not obligated to tell anyone. He's not going to tell you about all the girls he screwed so I suggest you keep mute about it. If things get heated and you guys wind up in a situation where u want to have sex, your still not obligated to tell him, but in that situation telling him would be advisable.

Congrats on getting back together. But I been get plans for u sha