₦airaland Forum

afroniger:
https://www.dailytrust.com.ng/8-out-of-10-nigerians-wants-the-national-assembly-to-reconvene-265946.html

when those 452 individuals not minding double voting equal 200mln people

durubennie:
more photos

so its on this nonsense people dey pay between 400k ~1mln+ for.

hmmmmm its oright o

jakeporeshenko:
Maybe small caliber rounds, but I doubt it has any substantial armor like dedicated attack helicopters.

you mean 5.56/7.62 mm?

jakeporeshenko:
NNSBS showcasing their various heliborne insertion and extraction skills

can this bird take fire

TundeBricklayer:
Lagos, Rivers, Abuja And Anambra Top Commercial Bank Branches In Nigeria - photos


PART A - CBN Financial Statistics

this is very old 2008/2009

this is 2018 please

krattoss:
what's ur take on the alleged mutiny @ the maiduguri Airport?

which kind question be this,better mind yourself.


oga expensive abeg forget that question b4 dem start find you

jakeporeshenko:
PF ARA/Thunder

undergoing field test

Opportun1t1es:
amazing
I love pretty cars

Meanwhile, a top Nigerian company is supporting businesses with N 3.5million, pleaseapply here now !

the requirements are too much

iblawi:
Where you got it wrong is that the boy could have the idea but bringing the idea to reality was with nigerian army engineers. We've not even talked of funding, tools and resources needed to build the helicopter.

That boy couldn't have had the skill to biuld this aircraft but his idea would have made Nigerian Army THINK BIG.

Most researchers are based in schools but their ideas only become a reality when a company is ready to fund the project. The project automatically becomes that of the company/organization/institution that funded it except in situation where there is some kind of agreement.

This is the reason many Nigerian prof./schools are referred to paper warriors. They can hardly transform their ideas to reality because there are no companies to fund them.

so ashamed to hear you spit something like that.

do you know how many innovators are leaving this country due to lack of government support

mangojuice:
No sir. that's an FN rifle. popular during World war2

chisos world war 2
hmmmmmmm
una no go kill person

ModsareChevres:
That rifle is pathetic. Even hunters shouldn't be found with it. RIP

that's a FN FAL.
for you to call that great rifle pathetic I just wonder how your life is?

Mcoutureankara:
BY DIAMONDZ BLOG


Thief breaks his skull, dies while fleeing, his PVC retrieved .
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A suspected thief identified as Daniel Ekwerekwu, an indigene of Aguleri, Anambra state, has died after breaking his skull during a fall while trying to escape arrest, this morning, in Lagos
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He had gone to Okungade street, Mende-Maryland, Ikeja, to vandalize a car and steal its parts. However, at about 6:04a.m, one of the owners of the cars being vandalised woke up to prepare for church service only to see Ekwerekwu vandalizing his car. .
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He raised alarm which attracted a police patrol team as well as neighbours. They chased after the suspect, who ran into a building. He tried to scale the fence but unfortunately for him, his hands slipped off the wall and he landed on a cemented floor, breaking his skull as a result.
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When the police searched his trousers pocket, they recovered a voter's card bearing his name and picture. He was taken to Mainland Hospital, Yaba where he was confirmed dead. The body was thereafter deposited at the hospital's morgue.


Source;

http://diamondzblog.com.ng/2018/08/12/thief-breaks-his-skull-dies-while-fleeing-his-pvc-retrieved/


L

thank god he was not skull mining

HungerBAD:
How can you want to be racist in another persons country?the man must be senseless.

go ask Nigeria's working for Indians Chinese and the Lebanese both at home and factory

just saying it high time pix posted are watermarked.

plenty pix thief everywhere

just saying it high time pix posted are watermarked.

plenty pix thief everywhere.

SSGN:
Nigeria’s military capabilities continued to stand still or erode as threats proliferates in the region For decades, the perception of Nigeria’s strength and resolve, exemplified in its peacekeeping and military intervention in several ECOWAS member states, has served as a deterrent to adventurous bad actors and tyrannical dictators.

Regrettably, both that perception and, as a consequence, its deterrent effect are eroding. The result is an increasingly dangerous West Africa threatening a significantly weaker Nigeria. If a decade of a bitter war of attrition against Boko Haram does not serve as a catalyst for Nigeria to build up a military befitting if Africa’s richest country, then unless foreign boots are marching on the gates of Abuja, you wont see a significant change in Nigeria’s puzzling defense posture, that quite frankly stretches the capacity of the human mind to comprehend.

How is it that Nigeria, arguably the most conflict prone country on earth continues to maintain a military that bears the hallmark of a militia than a national army, despite her vast wealth. Nigeria’s GDP currently stands at $530 billion, or $ 1.030 trillion when measured in Purchasing Power Parity. When informal sectors of the economy are added that number will probably go higher. Contrary to popular belief, oil accounts for less than %20 of Nigeria’s GDP.

When you factor in Nigeria’s 40 billion in proven oil reserve, valued at over $4 trillion, you realize Nigeria is by far the wealthiest country in the modern history of Africa.To put things into perspective, Lagos state, Nigeria’s smallest state by land area has a GDP in excess of $150 billion. This is bigger than the combined economies of Kenya and Ethiopia, East Africa’s two largest economies.

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Lagos Nigeria.
With 200 million people, diplomatic clout and an unrivaled cultural influence, and perpetual internal and external security challenges one would expect Nigeria’s security services to be among the continents best, and indeed until recently Nigeria did have one of the continents best equipped military.

Today Nigeria’s military power is just “marginal” and trending toward “weak,”. This assertions are based on the military’s capability or modernity, capacity for operations, and readiness to handle assigned missions successfully. Why has Nigeria’s security imperatives taken a back sit in the governments list of priorities?

Nigeria is a regional power with regional interests. Its military is meant first and foremost to defend Nigeria from attack. Beyond that, it is meant to protect Nigeria’s interests abroad and ensure the peace and stability in the region, while retaining the ability to engage in more than one major contingency at a time.

Nigeria must be able not only to defend itself and its interests, but also to deter enemies and opportunists from taking action that would challenge Nigeria’s interests, a capability that includes preventing the destabilization of a region and guarding against threats to the peace and security of Nigeria’s friends.

However, Nigeria. does not have the right force to meet a a major regional contingency requirement and is not ready to carry out its duties effectively. Consequently, as we have seen during the past few years, Nigeria risks seeing its interests increasingly challenged and the regional economic and political order it has led.

With a combined armed forces personnel of about 200,000 men, Nigeria has arguably the largest black army in the world. However, simply counting the number of people, tanks, that Nigeria possesses would be insufficient because it would lack context. For example, only a third of its units are prepared for war.

The Nigerian government fail to understand that military power begins with the people and equipment used to conduct war: the weapons, tanks, ships, airplanes, and supporting tools such as communications systems that make it possible either for one group to impose its will on another or to prevent such an outcome from happening.

STRATEGIC MISTAKES

After the return to democratic rule,(after 40 years of military dictatorship) Nigeria’s new civilian political leaders deemed it rational to weaken and cripple the Nigerian military in the hope of averting future coup plots has proven to be the biggest strategic blunder for Nigeria. The result of this myopic strategy has been disastrous :

Today once again Nigeria’s leadership is making another strategic blunder in its military posture. Nigeria is sacrificing long-term readiness to meet short-term needs. The Nigerian Air Force, meant to be the nation’s air expeditionary armed force, is the weakest link in the Nigerian armed forces.

This is attributed to its limited and aging air platforms. The service has fallen from two active-duty fighter squadrons in 1993 to less than one Squadron currently. Also of concern is the old age of its fleet.

Unlike most countries Nigeria has historically relied on fighter aircraft’s to defend the nations airspace rather than SAM batteries, as fighter jets offers more versatility flexibility. Today Nigeria maintains of fleet of about nine F-7Ni interceptors for air superiority, and of this number only six are assessed as full-spectrum mission-capable at any given time.

The lack of ability to fly and maintain aircraft, especially in a high-tempo/threat combat environment, means that its usable inventory of such aircraft is actually much smaller. Yet Nigeria spends hundreds of millions of dollars on air crafts useful only against non state actors, actors that have no air power. The $600 million spent on acquiring 10 Super Tucano aircraft, while Nigeria lacks the necessary aircraft’s to protect the nations airspace epitomizes Nigeria’s short sighted strategic policy.

Granted, looking at the capabilities of Nigeria’s potential foes, spending money buying modern expensive platform is totally unnecessary. The F-7N and even Alpha jets is good enough to meet Nigeria’s security imperatives.

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An F-7Ni fighter jets assigned to the 73 Strike Group, Yola undergoing maintenance.
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An F-7Ni fighter jets assigned to the 73 Strike Group, Yola undergoing maintenance.
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An F-7Ni fighter jets assigned to the 73 Strike Group, Yola undergoing maintenance.

Older equipment can be updated with new components to keep it relevant, and commanders can employ fewer units more expertly for longer periods of time in an operational theater to accomplish an objective.

But at some point, however, sheer numbers of updated, modern equipment and trained, fully manned units are going to be needed to win in battle against a credible opponent when the crisis is profound enough to threaten a vital interest. Nigeria’s number of combat capable aircrafts is beyond laughable and stretches the capacity of the brain to comprehend. How can a country like Nigeria rely on less then TEN fighter jet/interceptors for to protect the nations airspace.

The picture gets gloomier when considering the fact that some percentage of the aircraft’s will always be unavailable because of long-term maintenance overhaul, employment in myriad engagement and small-crisis response tasks that continue even during major conflicts; and the need to keep some portion of the force uncommitted to serve as a strategic reserve.

This means at a given time the Nigerian air force can put at a maximum less than five F-7N fighter jets for high speed intercepts and interdiction.The absurdity of this situation is sad to say the least. An Air force built to field only about 10 fighter jets would also be an Air force that could find itself entirely committed to war, leaving nothing back as a strategic reserve, to replace combat losses, or to handle other Nigeria’s security interests, as we can see from domestic events.

From Boko Haram to the potential rise of another Islamic Shia sects, to militancy in the Niger Delta to clashes in central Nigeria between herdsmen and farmers.Unfortunately this is how the Air Force thinks about meeting operational demands and is at the heart of the current spat between the Nigerian Army and Air force about the roles and contributions of the various Army components.

A capability gap that led to the Army’s request for an independent Air Component, a move that infuriated the Air Force. In turn the Air Force is busy building its own army. It currently has two Special Forces units and is in the process of creating another one.

NAVY

While the Navy is maintaining a modest capability, it has little ability to surge to meet wartime demands. Virtually all of the Navy’s recent acquisitions are platforms designed solely for low intensity operations against non state actors. None of Nigeria’s capital warships carry anti-ship missiles.

Nigeria’s anti-submarine capability it once had in the 80’s is long gone. The Lynx anti-submarine helicopter is no more in service with the navy. NNS Aradu, NNS Ayam and NNS Expe, the only ships with missiles and torpedoes are rusting away in the dry docks of Lagos due to lack of funding for maintenance.


Nigerian Navy patrol craft. Nigeria fields one of the continents largest number of coastal patrol boats.

Nigerian Navy patrol craft. Nigeria fields one of the continents largest number of coastal patrol boats.
Yet the navy continues to spend money on coastal patrol crafts, vessels armed with 32 mm calibre guns, while neglecting the assets needed to protect Nigeria’s EEZ and vital osshore oil infrastructures from state actors with capable navies.

The inability of the Nigerian military to police her territory due to inadequate assets, especially in the air domain makes Nigeria vulnerable to attacks of any kinds. Nigeria’s approach to security emboldens the enemy to take actions against Nigeria with little or no fear of retribution. Weakness encourages aggression.

Nigeria is appears is unwilling to pay the cost of acquiring the total number of platforms Nigeria needs to defend and police her territory. The vast majority of the acquisition goal of the military has been is adjusted downward (if not canceled), and the military finally fields fewer platforms (at a higher cost per unit) than it originally needs to be successful in combat.

CONCLUSION

The consequences of Nigeria’s negligence risks recreating a “hollow force”, where units exists on paper but are staffed at reduced levels, minimally trained, and woefully ill-equipped. To avoid this, the services have traded quantity/capacity and modernization to ensure that what they do have is “ready” for employment.

The Nigerian military, while still quite capable no where near where it used to be. Its deference factor bu virtue of size and resources is gone. Today it is overstretched to near breaking point. It’s gonna require sufficient resources to remedy this situation.

https://defensenigeria./2018/08/12/nigerias-military-weakness-is-terrifying/

you are really funny.

Libya has the largest proven oil and underground water reserve in Africa.

DR Congo has the largest proven solid minerals in Africa.

do your research well

iko123:
A facebook user,Mazi Enuma is comparing members of RCCG governing council with President Buhari's appointment. According to him, " Was is it really by spiritual or carnal appointment that all RCCG governing council came from the west. This is not different from Buhari's appointment fomular".

http://www.currentgist.com.ng/2018/08/a-facebook-user-compares-rccg-governing.html?m=1

don't start what you can't finish

12Monkeys:
Guy, I am pro Biafran and a staunch supporter of Igbos here to the point I have been categorised as Igbo.

Let us be honest, Azikiwe and Ojukwu did not help their cause by being paternalistic and condescending towards the other nationals in the old eastern region.

had the capital been in calabar would have been great .
but call azikiwe a foolish man u just spoil the article

12Monkeys:
That singular act mitigated against the old Eastern region's developmental strides and also caused great suspicion among non-Igboid peoples towards Igbo domineering stance. Enugu as capital will later come to haunt the Biafran cause.

Calabar as capital would have not seen to Western cameroon wanting to seccede. That singular act would have not serve as inspiration for the Ijaws fighting to leave eastern Nigerian.

What was exactly Azikiwe"s motive in making a remote and inhospitable coal town as capital beats my imagination.

Azikiwe was more interested in Lagos politics and economy and suffered huge myopia in not seeing the great potential cities like Calabar or even Port-Harcourt would have had as capital of eastern Nigeria which if he had foresight would have rivaled Lagos by now.

Even up till this day, Enugu remains a harsh place to reside and do business for the simple sake of climate, vegetation and access to water.

Enugu's limited growth today is because it is a mecca to all igbos because back when it was a coal city there were hardly any Igbo settlements there so for this said reason Igbos from across the SE can easily settle there without fear of being rejected as not being from there.

The major property holders and business interests in Enugu are not limited to Igbos from Enugu but from Anambra and Abia.

I have always believed Zik chose the economically and politically impractical Enugu so that he can be closer to his beloved Zungeru.

Lagos was Zik's base and as a non business oriented person he never saw the potential of other coastal cities in the East because he had no singular clue and this was also compounded by his fanatical obsession over national harmony.

Cross River and Calabar remain the most viable state and capital respectively till this day and with a serious minded governor, the state can easily overtake Lagos within the next 10yrs even under crushing opposition from ethno religious obstacles put in place by Abuja.

So if Zik could not see the potential of repositioning the eastern region back in the days, I wonder how that fool would have had a clue in the messed up political situation we find ourselves today with an overbearing Federal govt.

This same Zik supported the Sarduna's plan to balkanize the old western region by supporting the creation of the defunct mid-western region. Little did he also know that the same Sarduna was plotting with Awolowo to carve the Calabar-Ogoja-Rivers regions from the old eastern region.

Why the same stupid Zik did not support Awolowo in carving out a middle belt region out of the north beats me till this day. FYI, the mantra "one north" coined and reiterated by Ahmadu Bello was a rallying call to resist Northern balkanization. It is even safe to state that Awolowo and Sarduna were behind the plebiscite that saw western Cameron leave Nigeria and the subsequent Ijaw uprising for independence.

Azikiwe to me is a fool. If he had not been a typified Joe Igbokwe (Lagos lover) and an Nzeagwu (North lover), there won't have been so much animosity and suspicion of the Igbos by the other nationals of the old eastern region.

hmmmm!


so for your mind you dey make sense

BigSarah:
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wot is it saying

doziex:
Confusion has returned again to the battle space. The bhts have the initiative, and they will soon hit maidugri hard.
Acting president Osibanjo should fire buratai before Bihari gets back.

NA and it's leadership need to stop playing around with the lives of their troops, and the lives of the Nigerian people.
I think this lack of seriousness or politicking, is why CAS seems to want to do his own thing with the air force, and expose the army for the frauds they,or are becoming.

When is the last time you heard that bhts overran a Chadian base or even a Cameroonian base. Rarely, I bet it has something to do with their obsession with big long range anti aircraft artillery. Cameroon has brand new Chinese APCs from which they could direct accurate, computer targeted mortar fire on the enemy, while forcing the enemy to duck and cover from their AAAs. chad can employ BMW-21 marls and their AAA to thwart any bhts moves against them.
If you have observed how the Chadians role, they are constantly on the move,with their stores, RPGs tied to their trucks in bundles.
So the don't repeatedly leave them behind when they have to maneuver like NA does.

Having ranger units trained in Pakistan or Belarus, doesn't mean that the command is committed to counterinsurgency warfare. Who has trained the generals, so the AFSF can be utilized appropriately.

They are supposed to be harassing bhts from behind their lines, than being formed into glorified assault infantry.

Again, counterinsurgency is about continuous cycles of Find, Fix, Flank, Finish. Let the CJTF arm themselves properly and protect their own villages and convoys.
They are better at it anyways.

I can see a collaboration between the military and the opposition party.

Activists are concerned that Veolia, the company linked with the Flint, Michigan water crisis, is on the shortlist to manage two-thirds of water system in Lagos, Nigeria, where many children die from water-borne diseases.
"I feel Veolia is a snake, and they slithered over to Lagos to try to increase their profit margins," Nayyirah Shariff, director at Flint Rising activist group, told BuzzFeed News. "They have a history of poisoning black communities in the US, and they should not be poisoning the largest African city on the continent."
The campaigner said she was "shocked and extremely angry" when she found out that the French-owned water management company is among the three bidders for the Adiyan II project in the Nigerian capital, Lagos, which is the seventh largest city in the world.

https://www.rt.com/news/435652-flint-water-nigeria-veolia/

oyinpr:
mil mi-34hermit

thought they had all been disposed off

jakeporeshenko:
Who can guess what decommissioned NAF Helo is in the background hint: it’s Soviet made

mil 34

Henry240:
Off-topic
SU-35 cockpit

just so much in love with that bird

let the NA go back to drawing board.
let's retrain our new fresh soldiers on base defense and properly reequip them

jakeporeshenko:
Cameroon army snipers

mass murders.

human abusers

autojosh:
The Lagos - Ibadan railway project also known as L-I railway project is a 156.075 km long section of the Lagos - Kano project. The track will link Apapa port in Lagos to Ibadan in Oyo State with a total of 9 stations Lagos Apapa port, Agege, Agbado, Kajola, Papalanto, Abeokuta, Olodo Omi-Adio and Ibadan.

See the photos below:

Earthworks ongoing. This is somewhere between Kajola and Papalanto.

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Completed bridge close to Papalanto. There will be about 40 bridges of various heights and sizes along the entire route.
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Project headquarters, management office and construction camp at Papalanto

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https://autojosh.com/lagos-ibadan-railway-project/

from Lagos to kastina

doziex:
Y'all know that that 1 billion usd supplemental spending on military hardware is trapped in the senate while APC and PDP perform drama for us in the senate ?

These fools are so unpatriotic, they wouldn't even seize fire, agree to take care of national security issues, then resume politicking.

So in the mean time, not a dime extra would be spent on critically necessary weapons, and BHTS would continue to get the better of our troops.

I saw a posting on the general thread on nairaland, about buratai going apeshit about soldiers running from the enemy and not standing their ground until death. ( I was waiting for it to be reposted on this thread, so I could comment amongst military enthusiasts.)

An angry officer responded to COAS, accusing them of not buying any weapons since colonel dasuki's last purchase of used equipment.

What is so wicked about Nigeria, is that they used less than 100 million usd out off the available 2.1 billion usd and still were able to turn things around.
And just shared and embezzled the rest.
Used cheap ex soviet equipment will win us this war, and save countless men from dying.

That is why BHTS don't overrun the Chadians, cause they have invested in the right stuff.

NA had to leave our troops so strapped, that they always beg for the Cameroonian to come 60 Km into Nigeria with their armored vehicles to assist NA in clearing operations.

What a shame!

when the FG withdrew and paid for the A29 did dey go through the national assembly?.

https://www.vanguardngr.com/2018/04/496m-tucano-jets-matters-arising/

when even they wait to score cheap political gain they called the National assembly.

ayazor:
Immediate past governor of Delta State, Dr. Emmanuel Uduaghan, has frontally addressed rumours of his imminent defection from the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP to the All Progressives Congress, APC saying that he remains. His assertion follows weeks of agitation around the state that Uduaghan would be defecting to the APC and use the party’s ticket to stand for the Delta South seat in the Senate.
Asked to respond to the issue, yesterday, Dr. Uduaghan disclosed that there were high level interventions that have kept him back in the party.
He, however, did not speak on what if any issue that was prompting him out of the party that has until now held a firm grip on the political landscape in Delta. Denying claims that he had concluded moves to defect to the APC, Uduaghan said: “It is not true that I would be defecting either today (Wednesday) or tomorrow, but there has been a lot of interventions going on from the likes of Chief Ibori, the governor (Okowa) and some party leaders.
“In the last few days, they have been talking and I am listening to them. So basically, some elders have intervened on the matter, and I am listening to them.” The chairman of the state chapter of the APC, Prophet Jones Erue on his part described the purported defection move by the former governor as a rumour.
“The party in the state cannot authoritatively say they have heard about him defecting anytime soon as we have not been contacted. “For now, just the way you heard about it as a rumour, that is how we are still hearing it as a rumour.” For the first 16 years that the PDP was in power in Delta State, Dr. Uduaghan was variously as commissioner, secretary to the state government and two terms of four years as governor.

http://www.vondanews.com/ibori-okowa-holding-me-in-pdp-uduaghan/

pls let him decamp make PDP know how many them remain

jakeporeshenko:
This country is obsessed with AA hun trucks

obsessed?

since them no get proper infantry support vehicle ,dis is the next best thing

allexpensive:
The firepower seems too much for that vehicle. With two such guns mounted on the same vehicle, if the two operators fire at the same time then someone will be on the floor.

On exposure, that's not a weapon that should be use in a direct confrontation. Probably just to deliver some fire power on enemy position from a good distance.

agreed but if the enemy should return fire probability of hit is very high