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Angelanest:
A security personnel, Usman Chindo has revealed what he and other members of the Joint Task Force, JTF, passed through after they came under heavy attack from the Boko Haram insurgents some time ago. He revealed how they were gripped with fear during the fire fight before it ended.

Read his story below which he shared online few hours ago;

The car horn almost killed him with fear, you can practically see how delighted he was that that sound wasn't an IED going off.

In a combat zone, such fear are daily routine, as I watched the clip, I recall the various death calls I had. In 2013 when Potiskum was hotter than Maiduguri, we were ambushed by BH during a routine patrol. It was a DEMOLITION AMBUSH, I won't go into full detail because it's a long story, but needless to say i was freakin balls. I was sooo scared i was going to die. it all worked out though. As component of the JTF, we are used to having fire superiority. We are always in control, but being ambushed is a whole new level of chaos.

At this point I can't describe the events in any linear, causal, or logical way.Things just happened. I have flashes of memories: but after 30 minutes of multiple burst fire, explosion and screaming I could remember seeing :-

Our vigilante guide whispering "Wayo Allah . . . Wayo Allah" as he bled out

A MOPOL personal from the SE visibly shaken was screaming "waitin now, waitin now. Make dem divide this useless country"

The Oic was still yelling "TAKE COVER!" as the sound of retrieving BH fighters can be heard on the (estimated) enemy position about 50 meters away

And then it was just over. We were left to lick our wounds.This ambush stood out to me as the worst scare I have experienced.

Source; https://www.nationalhelm.co/2018/04/soldier-reveals-what-happened-when-they-came-under-boko-haram-ambush.html

It's time to lock down the Nigerian boarder like the Mexican fence, the sss is weak

joeyfire:
It is such a privilege to be here in a conference in honour of Professor Chinua Achebe, an inspiration and teacher to all of us.
I have a long connection to Nigeria. Not only was I, an Ambassador there, I have travelled to and from Nigeria for a number of years and have a deep and abiding vital emotional attachment to the Nigerian people, their magnificence, their courage, artistic brilliance, their irony, sense of humour in the face of challenges, etc.

And, I hope that we keep that in mind when I say some things that I think are counter to what we normally say about Nigeria. And, I say that with all due respect to Eric Silla, who is doing a magnificent work at State Department and to our good friends from the legislature; because I have a feeling that we both Nigerians and Americans may be doing Nigeria and Nigerians no favour by stressing Nigeria's strategic importance.


I know all the arguments: It is a major oil-producer, it is the most populous country in Africa, it has made major contributions to Africa in peace-keeping, and, of course, negatively if Nigeria were to fall apart, the ripple effects would be tremendous, etc. But, I wonder if all this emphasis on Nigeria's importance creates a tendency to inflate Nigeria's opinion of its own invulnerability.

Among much of the elite today, I have the feeling that there is a belief that Nigeria is too big to fail, too important to be ignored, and that Nigerians can go on ignoring some of the most fundamental challenges they have,many of which we have talked about: a disgraceful lack of infrastructure, the growing problems of unemployment, the failure to deal with the underlying problems in the Niger-Delta, the failure to consolidate democracy; and somehow feel will remain important to everybody because of all those reasons that are strategically important.
And I am not sure that that is helpful.

Let me sort of deconstruct those elements of Nigeria's importance, and ask whether they are as relevant as they have been.

One in five Africans is a Nigerian, so…

We often hear that one in five Africans is a Nigerian. What does it mean? Do we ever say one in five Asians is a Chinese? Chinese power comes not just for the fact that it has a lot of people but it has harnessed the entrepreneurial talent and economic capacity and all the other talents of China to make her a major economic force and political force.

What does it mean that one in five Africans is Nigeria? It does not mean anything to a Namibian or a South African. It is a kind of conceit. What makes it important is what is happening to the people of Nigeria. Are their talents being tapped? Are they becoming an economic force? Is all that potential being used?

And the answer is Not really

And oil. Yes, Nigeria is a major oil producer, but Brazil is now launching a 10-year programme that is going to make it one of the major oil producers in the world.

And every other country in Africa is now beginning to produce oil.
And Angola is rivaling Nigeria in oil production, and the United States has just discovered a huge gas reserve which is going to replace some of our dependence on imported energy.

So if you look ahead ten years, is Nigeria really going to be that relevant as a major oil producer, or just another of the many oil producers while the world moves on to alternative sources of energy and other sources of supply?

How influencial is Nigeria?

And what about its influence and contributions to the continent? As our representative from the parliament talked about, there is a great history of those contributions. But that is history.

Is Nigeria really playing a major role today in the crisis in Niger on its border, or in Guinea, or in Darfur, or, after making many promises, any contributions to Somalia?

The answer is no. Today Nigeria is not making a major impact on its region, or on the African Union or on the big problems of Africa.
What about its economic influence?

Well, as we have talked about earlier, there is a de-industrialisation going on in Nigeria” lack of infrastructure and power means that with imported goods under globalisation, Nigerian factories are closing and more people are becoming unemployed. Nigeria is becoming a kind of society that imports and exports and lives off the oil, which does not make it a significant economic entity.

Now, of course, on the negative side, the collapse of Nigeria would be enormous, but is that a point to make Nigeria strategically important?
Years ago, I worked for an Assistant Secretary of State who had the longest tenure in that job in the 1980s; and I remember in one meeting a Minister from a country not very friendly to the United States, came in and was berating the Assistant Secretary on all the evils of the United States and all its dire plots and in-things in Africa.

He was going on and on and finally the Assistant Secretary cut him off and said, You know, the biggest danger for your relationship with the United States is not our opposition but that we will find you irrelevant.”

Nigeria-America relationship

The point is that Nigeria can become much less relevant to the United States. We have already seen evidence of it when President Obama went to Ghana and not to Nigeria. He was sending a message that Ghana symbolised more of the significant trends, issues and importance that one wants to put on Africa than Nigeria.

And when I was asked by journalists why President Obama did not go to Nigeria, I said, what would he gain from going? Would Nigeria be a good model for democracy? Would it be a model for good governance? Would he obtain new commitments on Darfur or Somalia or strengthen the African Union or in Niger or elsewhere?

No he would not, so he did not go.

And when Secretary Clinton did go, indeed, she also went to Angola. Who would have thought years ago that Angola would be the most stable country in the Gulf of Guinea and establish a binominal commission in Angola?

So the handwriting may already be on the wall, and that is a sad commentary.
What it means is that Nigeria's most important strategic importance in the end could be that it has failed.

That is a sad, sad conclusion. It does not have to happen, but I think that we ought to stop talking about what a great country it is, and how terribly important it is to us and talk about what it would take for Nigeria to be that important and great.

It takes an enormous amount of commitment. You do not need saints, you do not need leaders like Nelson Mandela in every state, because you are not going to get them.

South Korean example

I served in South Korea in the middle of the 1960s and it was at the time when South Korea was poor and considered hopeless. But she was turning around, later to become, to every person's amazement, then the eleventh largest economy in the world. I remember the economist in my mission saying,it did not bother him that the leading elite in the government of South Korea were taking 15 to 20 per cent off the top of every project, as long as every project was a good one.

That was the difference. The leadership at the time was determined to solve the fundamental economic issues of South Korea and turn her economy around.

It has not happened in Nigeria today. You don't need saints. It needs leaders who say, You know we could be becoming irrelevant, and we got to do something about it.

Princeton Lyman - Former US Ambassador to Nigeria

https://www.vanguardngr.com/2010/01/nigeria-becoming-irrelevant-in-the-world/amp/?__twitter_impression=true

Bubu? Why?

joeyfire:
It is such a privilege to be here in a conference in honour of Professor Chinua Achebe, an inspiration and teacher to all of us.
I have a long connection to Nigeria. Not only was I, an Ambassador there, I have travelled to and from Nigeria for a number of years and have a deep and abiding vital emotional attachment to the Nigerian people, their magnificence, their courage, artistic brilliance, their irony, sense of humour in the face of challenges, etc.

And, I hope that we keep that in mind when I say some things that I think are counter to what we normally say about Nigeria. And, I say that with all due respect to Eric Silla, who is doing a magnificent work at State Department and to our good friends from the legislature; because I have a feeling that we both Nigerians and Americans may be doing Nigeria and Nigerians no favour by stressing Nigeria's strategic importance.


I know all the arguments: It is a major oil-producer, it is the most populous country in Africa, it has made major contributions to Africa in peace-keeping, and, of course, negatively if Nigeria were to fall apart, the ripple effects would be tremendous, etc. But, I wonder if all this emphasis on Nigeria's importance creates a tendency to inflate Nigeria's opinion of its own invulnerability.

Among much of the elite today, I have the feeling that there is a belief that Nigeria is too big to fail, too important to be ignored, and that Nigerians can go on ignoring some of the most fundamental challenges they have,many of which we have talked about: a disgraceful lack of infrastructure, the growing problems of unemployment, the failure to deal with the underlying problems in the Niger-Delta, the failure to consolidate democracy; and somehow feel will remain important to everybody because of all those reasons that are strategically important.
And I am not sure that that is helpful.

Let me sort of deconstruct those elements of Nigeria's importance, and ask whether they are as relevant as they have been.

One in five Africans is a Nigerian, so…

We often hear that one in five Africans is a Nigerian. What does it mean? Do we ever say one in five Asians is a Chinese? Chinese power comes not just for the fact that it has a lot of people but it has harnessed the entrepreneurial talent and economic capacity and all the other talents of China to make her a major economic force and political force.

What does it mean that one in five Africans is Nigeria? It does not mean anything to a Namibian or a South African. It is a kind of conceit. What makes it important is what is happening to the people of Nigeria. Are their talents being tapped? Are they becoming an economic force? Is all that potential being used?

And the answer is Not really

And oil. Yes, Nigeria is a major oil producer, but Brazil is now launching a 10-year programme that is going to make it one of the major oil producers in the world.

And every other country in Africa is now beginning to produce oil.
And Angola is rivaling Nigeria in oil production, and the United States has just discovered a huge gas reserve which is going to replace some of our dependence on imported energy.

So if you look ahead ten years, is Nigeria really going to be that relevant as a major oil producer, or just another of the many oil producers while the world moves on to alternative sources of energy and other sources of supply?

How influencial is Nigeria?

And what about its influence and contributions to the continent? As our representative from the parliament talked about, there is a great history of those contributions. But that is history.

Is Nigeria really playing a major role today in the crisis in Niger on its border, or in Guinea, or in Darfur, or, after making many promises, any contributions to Somalia?

The answer is no. Today Nigeria is not making a major impact on its region, or on the African Union or on the big problems of Africa.
What about its economic influence?

Well, as we have talked about earlier, there is a de-industrialisation going on in Nigeria” lack of infrastructure and power means that with imported goods under globalisation, Nigerian factories are closing and more people are becoming unemployed. Nigeria is becoming a kind of society that imports and exports and lives off the oil, which does not make it a significant economic entity.

Now, of course, on the negative side, the collapse of Nigeria would be enormous, but is that a point to make Nigeria strategically important?
Years ago, I worked for an Assistant Secretary of State who had the longest tenure in that job in the 1980s; and I remember in one meeting a Minister from a country not very friendly to the United States, came in and was berating the Assistant Secretary on all the evils of the United States and all its dire plots and in-things in Africa.

He was going on and on and finally the Assistant Secretary cut him off and said, You know, the biggest danger for your relationship with the United States is not our opposition but that we will find you irrelevant.”

Nigeria-America relationship

The point is that Nigeria can become much less relevant to the United States. We have already seen evidence of it when President Obama went to Ghana and not to Nigeria. He was sending a message that Ghana symbolised more of the significant trends, issues and importance that one wants to put on Africa than Nigeria.

And when I was asked by journalists why President Obama did not go to Nigeria, I said, what would he gain from going? Would Nigeria be a good model for democracy? Would it be a model for good governance? Would he obtain new commitments on Darfur or Somalia or strengthen the African Union or in Niger or elsewhere?

No he would not, so he did not go.

And when Secretary Clinton did go, indeed, she also went to Angola. Who would have thought years ago that Angola would be the most stable country in the Gulf of Guinea and establish a binominal commission in Angola?

So the handwriting may already be on the wall, and that is a sad commentary.
What it means is that Nigeria's most important strategic importance in the end could be that it has failed.

That is a sad, sad conclusion. It does not have to happen, but I think that we ought to stop talking about what a great country it is, and how terribly important it is to us and talk about what it would take for Nigeria to be that important and great.

It takes an enormous amount of commitment. You do not need saints, you do not need leaders like Nelson Mandela in every state, because you are not going to get them.

South Korean example

I served in South Korea in the middle of the 1960s and it was at the time when South Korea was poor and considered hopeless. But she was turning around, later to become, to every person's amazement, then the eleventh largest economy in the world. I remember the economist in my mission saying,it did not bother him that the leading elite in the government of South Korea were taking 15 to 20 per cent off the top of every project, as long as every project was a good one.

That was the difference. The leadership at the time was determined to solve the fundamental economic issues of South Korea and turn her economy around.

It has not happened in Nigeria today. You don't need saints. It needs leaders who say, You know we could be becoming irrelevant, and we got to do something about it.

Princeton Lyman - Former US Ambassador to Nigeria

https://www.vanguardngr.com/2010/01/nigeria-becoming-irrelevant-in-the-world/amp/?__twitter_impression=true

Bubu? Why

Nigerianblogs:
The Man Must be very Powerful Down There for she to allow another woman take over,lol.. So Hausa Instagram Blog Hausa Room has just shared an extremely rare incident that happened days ago, A man got married to a second wife, Now thats normal in this part of the world, Wait for this, His first wife was in support all through, To the extent she fed the second wife on the wedding day, Posed for photos, and was even smiling very hard..
Although Hausa Room Posted some words in Hausa but i translated it, and here's what i got.

''God is gracious that you seek the world and the Hereafter. The bride and groom do not hesitate to ask the woman to come in to her home by your work, to make sure you respect her and join her in worshiping God. May God grant you peace. Ameen''

see photos below!


News From Ebiwali---
http://www.ebiwalisgossip.com/2018/04/shocking-nigerian-lady-allows-her-hubby.html

Una think say Na for the man alone? She too go de blow her, abi her hands bend? Our fore fathers wen marry 30 wives did it, where a woman has allowed her husband marry another woman, that means she owns the second wife and she's in charge of her well being mostly as the man provides, am not Muslim but that's the idea. Kinda cute, 3 somes till the end

crunchyg:
Yea we all know that going to church is not a prerequisite of making heaven, but the bible commanded us not to forsake the gathering of the believers. So my question is if the trumpet of God sounds now and maybe you are in your bed sleeping , or in the field playing football or in the hotel enjoying yourself, what excuse will you give to God that made you not to go church today?

I no get money for tithe so I'll still go hell fire probably, according to somebody in Nigeria recently.

Amagite2:
A Lagos-based Nigerian lady, Peace has said people should not let her looks deceive them, that she also sleeps with pastors.

She shared lovely photos of herself on twitter and wrote;

"Lol See Me forming holy.
Don't be deceived, I Bleep pastors as well."

https://www.amagitesblog.com/2018/04/fck-pastors-nigerian-lady-reveals-twitter.html

15 years later...........
Daddy why is mummy dressed like a sl*t here, and she said she sleeps with pastors, are you a pastor?

chinoxstock:
Lol

Thunder fire you and your cows for daura!

chinoxstock:
Lol

Thunder fire you and your cow for daura!

Cosplay:
A lot more secure. Since WhatsApp was acquired all its secure pretences have been lost. I have no confidence in all that end to end encryption they like to tout.

For secure communication, Signal or Telegram.

BBM is another, first set up phone to encryption mode and go to secure chatting on BBM, it is finished, only your BBM device can decrypt that message or forget it, that's why wall Street bankers still create economic damages and no one detects sh*t

Safer than whatsapp and most people never knew

NwaAmaikpe:



This one yaff weak me finish.
She literally blew herself away.

See creativity.
Some guys are just ingenuous in the act of lovemaking.
And yeye Kebiru keeps bragging about his creativity because he rubs aboniki balm on his kini before every battle.

Suuuuuu!
Pepper f#ck, very confusing pleasure

Bubu our mumu don do oooo

Eveezy:
Lol, OK are u done?

...

Miami Drug runner boats ,hard to catch or detect.

SLIMDON88:
Baba has technically defeated Boko-haram now their members are now being arrested here and there, no escape route for terrorist in this regime, Thank you PMB

Lie lie Muhammad is working then

KokoMadiba:
Shun sir,
Respect!

My oga, keep charging sir

If he doesn't have a private jet and 90 hectares of farm with money growing on trees I can't marry him.

5 years later : I don't know what I saw in him self!

sweetilicious:
You are a suspect.

Get in line, my ace will not fold

KokoMadiba:
bros na your mindset o and I believe say u Don talk ur mind
But Bros, this ur response sef show say the matter no consine you even wen e cosine u sef u talk say : " Nigerians and substandard things sef" ....will you now keep kwayet? we are not in games section

Mind you am your average Nigerian soldier , I've been to places you will never survive if given 1 hour, 4 tours in Iraq 3 in Afghanistan, don't game me, I don't live a cowards life I live the life of a marine, I wasn't deployed for fun.

KokoMadiba:
bros na your mindset o and I believe say u Don talk ur mind
But Bros, this ur response sef show say the matter no consine you even wen e cosine u sef u talk say : " Nigerians and substandard things sef" ....will you now keep kwayet? we are not in games section

Mind you am your average Nigerian soldier , I've been to places you will never survive if given 1 hour, 4 tours in Iraq 3 in Afghanistan, don't game me, I don't live a cowards life I live the life of a marine, I no deeply for fun.

Jakumo:
Video games differ from reality sir. For short-range combat, and home defense, a pump-action or semi-auto shotgun is a HIGHLY effective weapon. Where a pistol or rifle shooter needs to carefully take aim to ensure his single-projectile shots do not miss a moving target, a man with a shotgun can let fly with multiple blasts, each spraying 50 or more hot, bone-shattering lead pellets, without the need to take careful aim other than sweeping the muzzle of his weapon past the target, whilst rapid-firing with reckless abandon.

Anyone who has hunted with a shotgun is well aware of the massive damage done by 12-gauge cartridges, when flesh and bone bears the explosive brunt at close range. It is not a pretty sight, so in summary, FEAR a shotgun as you would any other firearm. In trained hands, shotguns can be absolutely devastating weapons.

Please read and digest my comment, I am not against shotgun ownership in Nigeria am against the quality, you have completely lost track of my meanings,low quality shotguns are the topic not shotgun being bad or inappropriate, when it comes to home defence that's the best, be advised

Lol glorified bingo,ook for these features, their paws are usually huge

Most of these shotguns here are toys, they are called entry shotguns for knocking down door hinges, these are not combat shotguns, these things can even kill the owner or shooter, in occasions where there is a gun fight you can't fire 50 rounds continuously the barrel would tear or rather explode and shrapnels will hit the shooter in the face, Nigerians and sub standard things self

Tonymic4life:
Hello great nairalanders! By this tym last month or two, everywhere was flooded with the news of sex dolls. Sex doll this! sex doll that! It even made headlines on nairaland 4 few weeks back to back, Buh now, I heardly hear anything about them again. .my question now is; what happened to d sex dolls, are dey all pregnant or r dey on extinction? Or have our ladies chased them out of this planet? Someone should answer biko.

She sex doll go cook and produce kids? Any man who buys a sex doll is a whimp

KingLennon:
But it's still happening in this country. I hope u knw that?

That how men end up giving birth to imbe and psycho when they toy with the laws of nature

Bustincole:
Well das marriage sumtin

1. Her new pet doggy wants to stray.
2. He has refuse to eat her food so she's. waiting till he's hungry.
3. Bandage sex
4. He's a sexual tiger so he doesn't kill someones goat
5. He has the big "Dic" and no other woman, shall share her devine blessing.
6. She just wants to talk.
7. She's just started talking.
8. She's talking.
9 she's still talking.

Most important
10. She isn't yet trough with her complaints and talking 20 hours more to go, as you can see he's getting weak

Bustincole:
Well das marriage sumtin

1. Her new pet doggy wants to stray.
2. He has refuse to eat her food so she's waiting till he's hungry.
3. Bandage sex
4. He's a sexual tiger so he doesn't kill someones goat
5. He has the big "" and no other woman, shall share her devine blessing.

Most important
6. She isn't yet trough with her complaints and talking 20 hours more to go, as you can see he's getting weak

givan:
Violence against women in Nigeria is already out of hand. How do men who among their siblings, are sisters, end up torment other people Sister's?

The government should declare war against violence on women and children before men start avenging harm done to their sisters!!

The women when de beat and assault their husbands nko? Men no de talk o, Na women own loud pass, when woman slap man family go say make e bear am, when man slap am Na to kill am by the law abi?

Joshuamilarge:
women and their problems. even when you want to help them, they read separate meaning to it.

Come take kooooooooo orijin

Kizyte:
Serious?
I'm traveling to South Africa tomorrow and I must attend that church with 10,000 litres of water.

South Africa here we come!

Where all those stupid kidnappers, make yourselves useful and let turn water into crude, petrol to get stress, just crude is ok.

kimjongJezebel:
Buhari is the President with the lowest IQ in the world. Grossly incompetent, extremely unintelligent and very dumb


There will be more last minute, politically motivated and dubious appointments to more sycophants just for his reelection bid

I think the name dumbo is better fitted to him