₦airaland Forum

Mandynews:
Here is popular Ogbogologo modern market Asaba Delta state. It is under lock and keys as at 9.20am.

Today is thursday. Market opens by 10am

Congratulations your excellency.

Fayose, long time no see.

Decommision him. He has no business in the army.

jkaro:
One governor that has done little or nothing for delta state..
Some state are getting better just like River state but over here we suffering and smiling.
Past Governors of this state done better than this very Okowa of a governor

Okowa is a million times better than that disaster called Uduaghan

My post days ago.

The Chief of Army Staff (COAS), Lieutenant General Tukur Yusufu Buratai has on Tuesday, the 14th of May, 2019 emphatically stated that Nigerian Army personnel, under his leadership, despite occasional hitches, - will never be deterred in the ongoing just war against terrorism in Nigeria.
General Buratai stated this at the Maimalari Military Cantonment Cemetery, Maiduguri Borno State while laying to rest the remains of the patriotic officer and two soldiers who paid the supreme sacrifice while on clearance operations along Mauli-Borgozo axis on Monday, the 13th of May, 2019.
The late Lieutenant Colonel Yusuf Ibrahim Aminu was the Commanding Officer (CO), of 154 Task Force Battalion Borgozo. He was on a clearance operation along Mauli- Borgozo when his vehicle climbed on a buried Improvised Explosive Device which detonated resulting in losing his life and that of 2 other soldiers while others were wounded in action.
Commiserating with the family of the deceased, the COAS used the opportunity to again commend the efforts of the entire troops of Operation Lafiya Dole in the war on terror and charged them to remain steadfast, more committed and professional for the sake of Nigeria.
The sacrifices of all the deceased officers and soldiers of the NA is no doubt painful to all, but that will further ginger the serving gallant troops to do more to ensure that the nation remains secure and peaceful.
Present at the solemn occasion were the Chief of Training and Operations 'Army', Major General Lamidi Adeosun, Theatre Commander OPERATION LAFIYA DOLE, Major General Benson Akinroluyo, Corp Commander Engineers, Major General John Malu, Acting General Officer Commanding 7 Division, Brig Gen Abdulmalik Bulama Biu, Corps Commander Supply and Transport, Major General Victor Offiong, Principal Staff Officers from Army Headquarters, Theatre Command and HQ 7 Division amongst others.
SAGIR MUSA
Colonel
Acting Director Army Public Relations
14 May 2019

andysmith123:
politicians are taking our money abrode,to spend and we are bringing it back home through yahoo,and u are coplaining,abeg LIKE if u support yahoo,SHARE if you dont support yahoo

You are bringing the money back home to who? The level of illiteracy in this country is worrying. The most foolish things you would never think about is the idea people promote. From slavery to politicians now.

hammer6F:
Sultan is all of there fada...

Nobody dares the Sultan.

Sultan was deposed by Abacha in the 90's

Is there anybody or organization taking record of soldiers dying at the hands of Boko Haram Terrorists. There seems to be news of fallen heroes every week on Nairaland and this is becoming very alarming. Nigerian soldiers dying anyhow on Nigerian soil. Ironically the president is an ex- General. RIP

Long live the undying ALUTA spirit of the Great University of Benin.

AkataYeriYeri:
You have been noticed. Happy now?

Happy for what when a nobody notices me, what is there to be happy about?

AkataYeriYeri:
Pained? Ehya . Don’t cry to coma o

I don't have the time for pettiness.

AkataYeriYeri:
Thanks to Muhammadu Buhari for Completing the rail

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Thanks to GEJ for thinking about it

We have effectively ceded parts out territories to criminal elements. Funny enough the president is an ex-general.

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Oga no go disgrace yourself there o. Wild N Out na 4 people wey sabi spit bars b4 Nick and Justina dem go roast you

Before you blame Buhari, first swear for the useless, dumb and greedy political leaders we have in the South-south.

modestbrowser:
This should be free.
Jesus Christ never sold anything.
Not even a needle.
They should give this to the homeless

Jesus Christ did not come to this world to sell anything. It doesn't mean all Christians should be charity workers. Jesus Christ did not also say it is evil for Christians to engage in commercial activities.

Best Service chief by far. well done CAS

CreepyBlackpool:
Christianity is the largest religion on earth.


But for some reason christians always seem to believe the entire world is against them


Funny how no one ever talks about the christian crusades

It's all political and part of the liberal agenda. To demonize Christianity because that is the religion of White Evangelicals who are massive Trump supporters and pander to Muslims promoting them as the downtrodden, the oppressed people of the world to get sympathy votes from them. It's the same thing they do when it come to racial politics. White vs Black

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A Twitter user @FulanNasrullah has summarized the ten-year long Boko Haram War in a series of tweets. Read and be enlightened.

2009-2019, ten years. That's how long the war in Northeast Nigeria and the Lake Chad region has raged. In that time I have been involved in various capacities on various sides in how this war has evolved. Today my involvement is solely to study it, and aid civilians
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In that ten years a lot has changed, a lot has remained the same. My first takeaway is, ISWAP/Boko Haram etc are ONLY as strong as Nigeria allows them to be. Today tje war is at a stalemate, neither side is able to force a victory. Statements of bravado aside
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In that ten years insurgent groups have overrun nearly the whole of three states, and have in strength overrun two state capitals (Damaturu and Gombe), and multiple other cities and towns.
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In that ten years the insurgents have been pushed back to hold only isolated swathes of terrain, and have come back to control large areas of rural Northern Borno and Northern Yobe. In that ten years over 100,000 people have died from war, and millions displaced
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From my involvement in various capacities on various sides, i do know and understand a lot more than the average Joe about how this war is progressing and has progressed, day after day, year after year.
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And my second take away is: This war has been 10years of the Nigerian Government, intelligence services, and Armed Forces largely LEARNING LITTLE, KNOWING NOTHING, AND DOING THE SAME THING over and over again and expecting a different result.

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This is not to shit on individual soldiers, DIA/SSS/ONSA/NIA operatives and airmen, who in their personal capacities do a great lot of good. Rather it is to indict the system that has failed, and continues failing, in institutionally improving even the slightest bit 7/

I will begin with the basics of modern warfare. Training, logistics, medical, communications, intelligence.
Anyone who knows anything and is being sincere, knows that failures to improve in these areas is causing more avoidable deaths than Boko Haram or ISWAP are causing. 8/

Not an infantry person, my mode of service was way different as those who know, know.But 10yrs and soldiers in the outposts in contested territory CANNOT still properly prepare perimetre defences?? Improperly prepared defences kill soldiers that otherwise wouldn't have died 9/

Preparing proper fixed perimetre defences is not rocket science. Training soldiers to be able to do some form of initial battlefield first aid isn't either.But this training is not institutionalised and soldiers die, when they bleed out, or ISWAP overruns their trenches 10/

Logistics.First aid kits, are a scarce commodity.10yrs and food delivery is still not sorted out.Vehicle maintenance is still an issue. Weather complaint clothing is still a problem.Soldiers getting their benefits on time is still a problem Ammo availability is still an issue 11/

10yrs and we still have situations where 7.62mm ammo stock levels in the Northeast are terribly low and the Army has to do emergency purchases/airlifts from Belarus. The Nigerian soldier is brave, will do his job once told to,but the system fails him everyday for ten years 12/

10yrs and basic medevac is a problem. Soldiers I know bled out and died on the battlefield because there was no fucking medevac to get them to a hospital. 10yrs and we still throw bodies of dead on the floor in the mortuary at UMTH. 13/

10yrs and we still don't have a trauma support centre to handle soldiers post surgery recoveryi n the Northeast. Still don't have any form of psychological support for soldiers who have seen hell in combat in the Northeast. We are not Niger or Chad for crying out loud! 14/

There was a battalion CO at Kumshe. Those who know, know him. When he was deployed in theatre he was cheerful. 3yrs+ of holding the line against Boko Haram drained him of his soul. 15/

When he left for a course in Pakistan, he was a broken shell. Yet no psycho support for him or his men. When the first 21 Chibok girls were released, this CO singlehandedly saved the handover from turning into a bloodbath, when Abuja bungled comms with units in the bush 16/

Communications. 10yrs and units out in the bush are still lacking proper radios spread in a manner that actually helps in tactical coordination. 17/

10yrs and intelligence collection /dissemination is still a mess. 10yrs of this war,yet SSS won't talk to DMI and DIA and NIA are still beefing over silly things.10yrs and special forces raids are largely still movement-to-contact affairs because the SOF guys have no intel 18/

10yrs and the intelligence services continue to write reports that are largely summations of openly available rumours, or bits of stuff people like myself and @A_Salkida write or say in conversation. 10yrs and the hundreds of islands in the Lake are still unmapped and unknown 19/

10yrs, and 3yrs since New ISWAP was formed, and the intelligence services cannot with any confidence based on knowledge and certainty say how ISWAP is organised or who runs what within ISWAP. Nor can they with certainty say what the health state of Shekau is 20/

10yrs and the intelligence situation is so terrible that soldiers are fighting ISWAP/Boko Haram units and know nothing about which unit they are engaging , what resources are available to that unit, and what the order of battle for that unit is. 21/

10yrs and we kill/capture relatively important people and we don't know. We still don't know which island on the Lake is ISWAP's headquarters. Nor do we know with certainty who is the Wali of ISWAP. 22/

Close air support, mobile fire support, aerial reconnaissance is still a hot mess. This is not to shit on the Chief of Air Staff @CAS_AMSadique, who has been hands down the best service chief in the past 20yrs, bar none. But it is to shit on the process which is just shit /23

Fast attack jets delegated to CAS missions and ill suited to the task, still have to fly from Maiduguri. Attack helicopters which are better suited, also have to fly from Maiduguri to support troops in the Lake area. oftentimes arriving too late to make any difference 24/

Anyways I have been asked by someone i respect to stop this thread. So i will end here.

However, 10years of this war and Nigeria has still not sorted out or improved or in anyway reorganised our way of war to actually win or degrade insurgent capabilities into irrelevance 25/

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1119575572492038145.html

https://mobile.twitter.com/FulanNasrullah

Mynd44

You fit put food for ground eat from there.

Road Accidents is probably among the top 5 biggest killers of Nigerians. This is enough to declare a state of emergency on our roads. FRSC, FERMA, NURTW, RTEAN, Ministry of Works & Ministry of Transport, what the hell are these guys doing to find a solution to this issue.

Powerful

I think say this girl being dey school. Tomorrow we go hear say she don knack For at class

Democracy sometimes can be very funny. 341 people ultimately decided the outcome of the election of over 1m participants and made the choice of over 500k people irrelevant. Lol. Congratulations are in order for Gov. Aminu Waziri Tambuwal. You are truly loved by your people

nineone:
how many children does Ezechime have? How many clans claim Ezechime ancestry? If you claim to have a recent book by one of the descendants king, do you have that of the rest which are majority? Which Ezechime clan is more populous and powerful than Onicha Ado, Isele Uku? These people said Ezechime is an Edo man. These other kingdoms like Obior, Onicha Olona, Onicha Ugbo, Onicha Uku etc, can you name the ones that claim Ezechime being an Igbo man? So you have one book and you ignore the other books and facts and oral history of all the other kingdoms which happen to be the majority? Like I said earlier, I'm not interested in this Ezechime argument because my Ika has nothing to do with Ezechime. Rather, Ezechime is a descendant of Agbor according to Agbor oral tradition. If he was actually from Agbor or sojourned in Agbor is debatable and I'm not ready for that argument. My purpose of responding to your comment was your false claims that majority of Anioma are descendants of Ezechime. Do you know the meaning of Majority? Ezechime descendants in Anioma are less than 2%. Among the hundreds of clans in Anioma, about 5 are Ezechime descendants. Among those Ezechime descendants, some quarters are not descendants of Ezechime.

One thing is very common among you guys from the East. You like to claim knowledge in something you're ignorant about. And your confirmation bias is just too potent that it always becloud your sense of judgment thereby betraying your claims

First of all, I'm not from the East. What I have observed and read is that almost all the communities in the Nine local governments of Delta North share great similarities with the Igbos across the Niger in terms of language, dressing, food , rites and customs, marriages etc more than they do with the Edo Nation. Also Anioma does not just end in Delta. There are Anioma communities in Rivers, Anambra, Edo. The Igbankes in Edo state have Benin names but their language is nothing like the Benin language. It is actually closely related to the other Anioma communities than to Benin language.

nineone:
Ezechime's descendants said he's from Benin but where he's from is not my business. But what do you mean by MOST people in the Anioma group tracing their ancestry yo Ezechime? Why are you guys so ignorant? Do you even know anything about Anioma?

Ezechima was not a Bini man. If you have counter proof , state it here. I can refer you to book written by an Anioma King for clarification.