ITbomb: Sahara Reporters will never carry this one.
Nigerian troops have recaptured Damboa in Borno State from the hands of terrorists.
The Defense Head Quarter (DHQ) yesterday (9/8/2014) released photos of the movement of the brave military soldiers in the Local Government Area of Damboa.
DHQ in its press statement said, “While anticipating further updates from Nigerian military in their war against terror, attached are recent pictures from the operation and movements of troops in Damboa in Borno State.”
This morning, I had a glass of the fresh coconut milk I made last night. Sooo good.
https://i.imgur.com/rf2th3F.jpg The thicker milk from the first straining, I used for the rice. The more diluted second and third straining, I kept aside to drink.
INGREDIENTS • 2 cups of rice • 2 cups of fresh coconut milk • 1 cup of chicken or beef stock • 2 tablespoons of dry ground crayfish • 1/2 an onion (finely diced) • 2 tablespoons of vegetable/canola oil • 2 seasoning cubes (knorr or maggi) • Salt, to taste • 1/4 of a scotch bonnet pepper/atarodo • Dried meat/fish (optional)
DIRECTIONS
1. Wash rice thoroughly and then parboil for 10 minutes. After parboiling the rice, wash it with some cold water; drain and set aside. https://imgur.com/kNgl4x4.jpg
2. On medium heat, heat the oil in a medium sized pot; then add the diced onions and pepper. Saute the onions and pepper for about 2 minutes (the onions should still retain their colour and not turn brown). https://imgur.com/dihfMYB.jpg
3. Add the beef or chicken stock, coconut milk, crayfish, dried meat/fish, and seasoning cubes to the sauteed onions and pepper and bring to a boil. https://imgur.com/oV3ECz8.jpg
4. Once the sauce starts boiling, add the parboiled rice; cover the pot and cook on medium-low heat for 20 minutes or until the rice is well cooked. (Check your rice occasionally to ensure it does not burn) https://imgur.com/wOehl2p.jpg
5. Serve with any side dish and meat of your choice.
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(I served with fried plantain and homemade fruit juice. I remembered to put meat this time )
My mom really liked it. My dad, who never gives undeserved praise for food, gave me a thumbs up, LOL.
So, Nairaland, what's your coconut rice recipe?
u try .well me I do garnish it with carrots green peppers and den with green peas or beans
onoerime: It is no more a news that the Chinese companies in Nigeria are indirectly enslaving nigerians but I am wondering why the federal government of Nigeria has kept mute to this barbaric acts of these people. I shall carefully pin points some of their misdeeds maybe the appropriates bodies could read and come to the aids of nigerians. SALARY SCALES... I want to use China civil engineering construction cooperation (Ccecc ) as an example. Labours- between.#15000 and #21000 workmen_ between #27000 and #31000 STAFF- between #45000 and #50000
WORKING PERIODS- 7.30am-6.00PM @30 days that means no rest days. PENALTIES... penalties for offense committed could range between #5000-#20000 and could be deducted once from your salary. JOB SECURITY- insecured. Apart from salaries paid, no extensive employee packages. No health insurance, no paid time off from work, no retirement plans for workers, workers are fired at will, what pains me most is a Chinese man beating up a Nigerian because of a slight offense. Sometimes a whole salary could be seized just because of an offense. Why, why, why, these Chinese men are highly respected in Nigeria yet nigerians are enslaved home and abroad. The labour unions will come and do investigations but nothing happens thereafter. LAMATA pretends as if they hear or know nothing hmmmm. Can nigerians go to other countries and allowed to act this way?
its time we use Vietnam style beat dem and chase dem out of here
agaugust: [size=14pt]Sirius Black.....take these seriously :
1. We may lose many battles, but we will not lose this war. I have studied war history worldwide from World War I 1914 up to Afghanistan war 2014. Nigerian army has NEVER lost any war in it's 150 year history, from World War I 1914 against the Germans as a British colony to Niger Delta Militants War 2010 circa.
2. Great armies can lose some battles, but recover and win the war as a whole. Nigeria will win this war, either by offensive force, by negotiation, or by unilateral surrender / unilateral cessation of hostilities Boko Haram.
3. What happened to you yesterday is what makes a battle hardened soldier, close shave with death. Congratulations on your baptism our dear warrior. You have now become a world class combatant.
4. A soldier in war zone should always be ready to meet his maker and be in a good spiritual state to see the kingdom of God just in case...
5. Many Nigerians are praying for you Sirius Black to survive this war and return to your family. Then later years you will publish all those photos and stories you are piling up in your archives. Just continue. Good job !
5. Nigeria CANNOT win this war without losing one or more battalion of soldiers. We lost about 1,000 soldiers under ECOMOG in about 10 years of war. US/NATO/AFGHAN NATIONAL ARMY/COALITION ALLIES lost about 4,000 soldiers in Afghanistan withing about 10 year of war against the Taliban. War is war ! War is a game of death and all players are taking a risk. The Boko Haram fighters are dying too by the dozens !
6. Boko Haram is more than a physical force, they are driven by an end time spirit and spiritual dark forces. This is why many churches and mosques are praying daily for all you gallant soldiers of Nigeria. Boko Harm is more desperate....a spiritual force drives them on. The only way to disconnect them from the spiritual force is to k.ill them....no other cure. Not all Bokos are cash hungry mercenaries, many are occultists.
6. Avoid posting war comments on this thread. Do other things on other threads on nairaland for leisure, this thread is being monitored for compliance with the COAS order. Don't let them see you as a cyst in the system.
7. Try contact the owner of Beegeagle's Blog and use personal emails to email, to communicate all the things you want to say about this war with him, he has the wisdom and experience in this military on the web freelance journalism and he knows how the military force works from inside. He will handle all your information properly, positively, and effectively in national interest.
Signed :
Augustine....aka @agaugust
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why should he not post war comments here. if d military choose to lie we have no choice
Ikwerreboy: My brother you have said it all. Jonathan is wise. I dnt see the igbos as wise pple but! senseless grup of pple. Is only a fool dat will acept the so called biafra republic. When ojukwu met ibibio elders asking dem to join dem nd fight 4 biafra republic. Ibibio elders asked ojukwu dat if eventually dey win the fight on wat bases will they live together as one. Ojukwu said we will all live as husband and wife. Then the ibibio elders ask ojukwu who wil b d husband and who will be the wife. Ojukwu the igbos will be the husband while we(cross rivers,akwa ibom,rivers,delta,bayelsa, and edo) wud b the wife. The ibibio elders immediately ask ojukwu to leave and told oda niger deltans not to acept d biafra of a tin dat it wil b better we remain as Nigerians dan join the biafrans dat dey are too selfish nd greedy dey hv no gud plans 4 us but rada hv our resources, sea port,fertile land e.t.c on d bak of der mind. I Have told my ikwerre brothers to pls stop marrying dese igbos any more.(like in my family we dnt get married to dem) but yet sum(wich i knw sum hv started hving a retink nd hv decided not to get married to dem any more. Outside nigeria dey no want igbo. Inside Nigeria yoruba, huasa and Niger deltans no want ana. hmmmmmmm i tink the igbos are caused. because it is sumtin wot tinking abt. To igbos go ask your dad/grandfathers why most pple in d world including nigeria dose not like you igbos.
man of lost identity ask our son if he has d balls to go against d Igbo and he will meet his waterloo on Feb 14 2015.and how is d Niger Delta now polluted waters and land .ikwerre na person name self.abeg just name one important man from our place apart from your governor.
komekn: It seems you’re stuck in the past, I don’t think I made it clear when I used the comparative analogy of sports cars and how the term has evolved to include a host of other vehicles , such as sports sedans, coups and even SUV’s.
This trend of evolved vehicles is replicated in military circles as well, in this regard you’ve just completely misrepresented the concept of MRAP, APC & IFV. Things have moved on now 15 years ago or more the definitions you present would be largely concise. However, NOT ANYMORE things are much more fluid and not rigid.
You have not taken cognisance of the evolving and modular nature of the modern armoured military vehicles responding to the changing threats and new innovations in weaponry and tactics. This somewhat new approach has given birth to the descriptive terminology MRAV (Multi-Role Armoured Vehicle) which is more apt to describe the multi functionalism of modern armoured vehicles as well as the MRAP.
If a Picture is Worth a Thousand Words, then Is a Video Worth a Million? Nuff said that should really be the end of the discussion.
I chose the Patria modular platform because of its resilient armour(can stand RPG7's & 30mm cannons), amphibious capability (great for Chad basin )and multiple adapted weapon stations, 30mm Cannons, 40mm grenade launchers and or 12.7mm MG, etc , highly accurate night and day. Target acquisition software means you can take on multiple targets at once.
The deal breaker is price and ease of procurement we can get used ones from Finland, Croatia and the Netherlands with a bit of direct negotiations for less than $500k a unit. New ones you would be talking about $1m or thereabouts dependent on numbers. However we don’t have time to wait for them to be manufactured so I am talking 48 hrs after purchase 150 units airlifted into combat zone.
That would essentially end the entire threat of Boko technical’s literally overnight.
my broad did u say RPG and 30mm well sorry Mr not even a tank can withstand does weapons and for d patria which southafrica call badger ifv will b destroyed within minutes. ever heard of net guard or net amour DAT d best to use if u want to defeat a RPG and for d 30mm u need to out run and out smart ur opponent
johnstin: I have no choice than to break my silence at this juncture and drop a comment.
Your lucid writing style and composure in the face of unwarranted provocative remarks is enviable.
I'm equally impressed with your sagacity. You are indeed very versed in military tactics. I pray you emerge as the COAS in the future.
My contribution to this awesome thread: Ak47s should be phased out in the Army for two reasons- the 30 rounds a typical Ak-47 magazine can accomodate isn't ideal for long gun battles and the relatively short effective engagement range of about 250 meters the assault rifle has, makes it inappropriate for long range engagement.
Rifles like Hk416, M16A or better still, new variants of the AK, should replace the old school Ak-47 rifles.
GOD bless and protect you and the other troops on the frontlines.
Majority of us here are enjoying the thread, so more bullets to ur assault rifle. Pls keep on firing more pictures onto the thread.
Thank you.
well.if d army can get d Ak 12.dat rifle is just to sexy
egbaguy: u are d fool here.....do u knw whatz called guerilla warfare? They are in borno cos dey find fortress there due to sambissa forest. They knw d nooks and crannies of d place. They knw where dey can take frm sambissa to yobe,adamawa,bauchi,kano etc. Borno is dir HQ.
and u at d biggest fool.if I might ask u wot is guerilla warfare. cos if u tell me dat BH attacking unarmed civilians is guerrilla warfare den u at sick.it's online in dis con3 u would c novices play master of d game.
oladapolif: This Asaru is a national disgrace and especially to him state, tweeting rubbish.. i wonder why him get twitter account, if only technology don advance to dey check brain...
and u are wot .a national hero.pls go luk for work
So untill it hit home before she realised this was real...doesn't she reside in the North?The whole world is aware of this insurgency and she's claiming ignorance.
The saying 'only the one who wears a shoe knows where it pinches' is really true.
Our USELESS president wont ever emulate this because the first lady still wants to loot more and build more gigantic hotels so that the Gej generations wont lack again............
Also fvcking BH bombing innocent peeps....We will vote for Shecow if he can BOMB GEJ's children or any close family so he can feel what the innocent citizens are feeling........
SHECOW for President........
and ur fada is a useful man. must u abuse d President.well I blame him if he wer to b Obama u will b in Guantanamo bay cooling of our head.d president his wife might b slow but der are trying der best.
Secondly, liked i mentioned, it was said that the Mi 24 (Note: NOT Mi 35) was SHOT DOWN , instead of it crashed like the DHQ Said Common people, an Air force helicopter crashed during a training mission in a CONFLICT ZONE while people know BH have AA Guns , no one does training over conflict zones especially if the belligerents in the conflict posses the weapon to shoot down your plane /helios
This also confirms my suspicion, BH have the upper edge, the Army has been providing false information am sure most Nigerians don't believes ANY of the PR statements they issue and i think they lie about the casualties they suffer, i think they lower it in the PR statements (lies)
I hate fools .boko haram have d edge and are still confide to Bornu only
inteli: Nigeria has deployed 50 volunteers of the Technical Aid Corps (TAC) to the Islamic University of Uganda where they will lecture until 2016. Addressing the volunteers at the pre-departure ceremony in Abuja, the Director General of TAC, Prof. Pius Osunyikanmi said the delegation is part of about 1,500 volunteers to be deployed to 15 countries this year.
“One major aspects of Nigeria’s foreign policy is the Technical Aid Corps with the objective of providing technical know-how and manpower assistance to African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) countries. TAC was given birth to with the view to leveraging on the abundant human and material resources in the country using it as a platform to providing technical know-how to needy ACP countries.
“We have a total of 50 of you that will be departing for a single University in Uganda. You will be going there to render services as University lecturers. You are the second batch that will be posted in the last one month. Other batches going to Namibia, Rwanda, Burundi, and others will follow in due course. In all, we would be deploying about 1,500 within the next three months”, Osunyikanmi said.
He explained that President Goodluck Jonathan gave a charge that the recruitment process should be 100 per cent merit-driven and the Directorate’s frontiers should be expanded to cover more countries.
Osunyikanmi assured the Volunteers that Nigeria would stand by them adding, “Uganda is desirous of your services and you cannot afford to give less than what they desire of you. Discipline should be your watchword; you are carrying the Nigerian flag and you must be able to do Nigeria proud.
Ensure that you market and project Nigeria in its proper perspective. Let them know that indeed Nigeria is a country that is peaceful, progressive and developing. Let everybody who cares know that Nigeria is stable, progressive and that we are on an irreversible course in our journey to development”, he said.
The Corps is a federal department under the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and was established in 1987 to leverage on the abundant human and material resources in the country using it as a platform to providing technical know-how to needy countries in Africa, the Caribbean and the Pacific States. Prof. Osunyikanmi urged the volunteers to be disciplined and be good ambassadors of Nigeria.
EzebubeEbube: Onitsha use to be a safe haven for criminals,accompanied with an unsightly and dirty environment which has limited the value of the state for a long time. Gov. Obiano value for the security of lives,property and clean environment is a gesture that's worth admiration. I was in Onitsha yesterday and I was amazed at the level of transformation in that city. Thanks to @GovWillieMObiano and also to @AnambraAmaka for campaigning for a clean environment. @AnambraAmaka is a group campaigning for a clean environment in Anambra state, you can follow them on twitter and facebook. God bless our dear state.
dis pix at kul.but y are d good gestures not extended to nnewi
prophetone: This is a welcome development. The north should be brainstorming on how to develop it's huge mineral deposits, sheer erosion-free land mass and human capital for sustainability and economic prosperity post separation. This is no time to allow the incursion of baby factories, kidnapping, granny ra.pe, ritualists, drug trafficking or armed robbery to mention a few, through the squatters in arewa land.
u ar very myopic.wen a man marry a minor in d name of religion is called religious rape,wen u kidnap xtain and force into marry is called religious kidnapping.and mallam u Fulani brodas ar now having check points allover Nigeria DAT is called religious armed robbery. and were do u c d largest drug addicts in d north. and wen u talk of baby factories it's mor in d north.cos all dos almanjiris at all product of baby factories .1man having more Dan 40 and not even knowing dem.backward human beings pls develop ur land cos even Niger republic will not accept u fools
Veronique Cools, a 25-year-old Belgian convert to Islam, has helped over 1,000 people accept Islam in the past 8 years.
Cools, who accepted Islam herself at a very young age after being influenced by her Muslim friends and researching into the religion, turned her home into an Islamic center for Belgian Muslims seeking to learn more about their religion.
Saying that she herself had to overcome many prejudices when looking into Islam, Cools then successfully helped her family overcome them too. Now her close family are also Muslims.
‘Prejudices stem from not being introduced to real Islam properly,’ she said as she was preparing iftar food packets for visiting Muslims to break their Ramadan fasts. ‘A s Muslims we need to explain ourselves to society a lot better.’
The center now has more than 1,000 members, most of them Belgian women, and is open for all of Belgium’s 50,000 Muslims.
silverprince413: A young Nigerian student doing his last year in electronic and electrical engineering at Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, has built a car operating on solar power.
Segun Oyeyiola explains that his car uses both wind and solar energy for the functioning, The Net reports. Moreover, the man developed an application for its installation in the car, which app will inform the driver about the battery level, weather conditions and other essential parameters. In an interview to allAfrica.com Segun spoke about how he came up with the idea and eventually embodied it. He confessed his first motivation was to eradicate the causes of climate change resulting in fuel combustion. "In the course of my research, I found out that our regular cars contribute immensely to climate change… If we could manufacture cars that do not use fuel or reduce the number of cars that use fuel; our world will be a better place for us to live in."
The student had to work and study hard to achieve his aim, which was even harder because of absence of electricity most of the time. Apart from that, the final year student faced other challenges: "Asides the lack of electricity, getting the right materials and text books to study as well as other needed tools was difficult. But the most prominent of them was the lack of funds. I started using my personal funds which I obtained by helping people to do their projects and a little fund my parents also contributed towards the project." He also explained that the resulting model is a prototype, but not the final look of the car. Segun hopes to develop his project into a future car for Nigeria and Africa, as it is created with regard to our climate. The young man points out another important benefit of using his auto – low maintenance cost: "Everyone likes it and they are willing to start driving it around town because of its low cost of maintenance. I developed a simple software that can be installed on our laptops and smart phones to tell us the battery level, the weather condition, the distance we can cover during different weather conditions and GPS location of the car."
Enthusiastic about his project, Segun says he is not sure whether he would like to sell the idea to some entity, he prefers to have the project funded and continue working on upgrading the auto: "I would rather they fund me to put together a team to help me perfect them and make them commercial." In conclusion the 30-year-old urged youths to look for solutions to the global problems and never stop learning something new. "And it’s better to start anything we wanted to do now. Let’s do what will make us happy and that which will not affect our fellow being negatively."
anyaekekehinde: The expansionist agenda during the soviet era in which independent countries like romania were occupied forcefully& forced to be part of the soviet union against their wish(thereby by making romanians second class or third class citizens within the soviet) is the type of FREEDOM that russia offers isnt it (where people that resisted the forcefully occupation were treated like animals and sent to work to till they die in labour camps). Clap for yourself, Mr wiseman. Havard Professor of history -Prof homeboy232. Looooolz
and prof of history. how are d Romanian been tried in liberal france
mencade5: cnn...ukraine army said they dont have weapons to shoot down a plane in a very far height. But we all know russia has the armoury that can do it.
d Ukrainian military had d buk antiaircraft defense system. and we all now know how d plane was shot down
SiriusBlack: Nigeria's allies in the War on Terror...CAMEROONIAN BIR troops at the Nigerian-Cameroonian Border..These peeps always come out tops in gun battles with Boko Haram militants..most likely owing to superior rifles.
I disagree dey com out cos d NA had weaken d book haram.and beside wot is d superior rifle used by d BIR pls I will like to know
Politics › Re: Nigerian Troops Recapture Damboa : Photos by giles14(m): 5:28pm On Aug 10, 2014
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. Still insisting on this 1B loan, who can stop this Gej anyway? I weep for our future
