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Soludo is right. He is a village boy and no one would attack him in his home town.

Most likely ESN/IPOB separatists taking revenge on the police. They probably were seen as an easy target and the hit easy in terms of merging with the crowd.

jteku:
NIGERIAN AIR FORCE ALPHA-JET LOOSES RADAR CONTACT

A Nigerian Air Force (NAF) Alpha-Jet has lost contact with radar in Borno State, while on interdiction mission in support of ground troops. The mission was part of the ongoing counterinsurgency operations in the North East. The loss of radar contact occurred at about 5:08 pm on 31 March 2021.

Details of the whereabout of the aircraft or likely cause of contact loss are still sketchy but will be relayed to the general public as soon as they become clear. Meanwhile, search and rescue efforts are ongoing.

EDWARD GABKWET
Air Commodore
Director of Public Relations and Information
Nigerian Air Force
1 April 2021

I noticed some early model Alpha jets still flying recently.
That's about 35 year old aircrafts.

What remains is for Boko Haram to send a team disguised as civillians to the place with a video camera. They will tape a few minutes of footage then melt away.
After posting it on such social media, some mentally challenged youth will agree that they "brought down" the jet.

Daverytimes:
Anyone ever got an idea what vehicle to the right is?

It is not an operational vehicle. Ongoing modification / experiment at NAVMC. It is looks like an SP and APC rolled into one.

BigSarah:
The point of kneeling isn't a sign of love or affection but rather submission, that's what all holy books preaches...
Only inferior people submits, so fill in.

Submission isn’t love, you can submit to who you don’t love that’s my point, that your girlfriend or wife is submissive to you doesn’t mean it’s because she loves you..Feminist or not

We are back to what love is. This woman President is not talking about love in the sense that some silly teenager sees love.
Look at the picture, she is not some dumb bimbo.

Most kids/grandkids love their parents/grannies and submission is one of their ways of showing it.
Same way that this woman is merely saying i love my husband and submission is one of the ways I show it.

Badabada:
This is what you get when you live in a society where system works.

Stop posting rubbish. The system did not work. That is the whole point. Systems breakdown and redundancies have to be built in but none was built in here.

Tactical nuclear weapons still contaminate a large area. They will cause terminal illness to soldiers and civilians operating in the are.
They are highly monitored and controlled.

There are very large conventional bombs including thermobaric bombs that will affect a large area without causing nuclear fall out. We have read that NAF has an inventory of the large bombs.

It these large bombs have been used, i am sure many hostages would still have been killed with the bandits.

JOSCOFELIX:
from what i heard it was a misslie nuclear strike. army are shooting those who want to run through kaduna,kastina. ever the airstrike in lake chad nuclear strike

This comment is why some people keep away from Nairaland. The ignorance level is astonishing sometimes.

It is all in the realm of human psychology. Only failures want Nigeria to break up. Any forward looking, ambitious, visionary person has plans for a project, business or new area of discovery that somehow assumes the indivisibility of Nigeria in the future.

A hopeless and lazy person obviously does not.
Such a person wants to go back to Nigeria of 1960, a year where he most likely was not born yet but has heard one sided views about how better things were.
They were not.
1960 eventually led to 1966 and the Civil War. Politicians were still corrupt and there was still poverty.

Some administrative changes may be necessary in Nigeria but mostly the people need to change themselves from selfish clannishness to a more brotherly approach to life

NwaNimo1:
Boko Haram terrorists have reportedly seized no fewer than 15 armoured personnel carriers and tanks purchased for Nigerian Army in 2020 under the former Chief of Army Staff, Lt Gen Tukur Buratai.

The armours were bought from the $1 billion fund released by the Federal Government.

According to SaharaReporters, at least four countries supplied the APCs to the Nigerian Army in 2020 which were China, South Korea, United Arab Emirates and South Africa.

It was gathered that about 21 armoured carriers were ordered between 2018 and 2019 when the $1 billion fund from the Excess Crude Account was approved and released to the military to aid the counter-insurgency war in the North-East.

The news platform noted that Buratai deployed some of the funds to obtain the APCs from the four countries – although the arms ended up being stolen or destroyed by the Boko Haram terrorists the same year.

On Wednesday, the breakdown of the 21 APCs ordered between 2018 and 2020 showed that, “Nigeria ordered six VT-4 and ZTL-09 armoured tanks from China in 2019 and the six were supplied in 2020. Nigeria ordered three Marauder APCs from South Africa in 2018 and the three were supplied in 2019. Nigeria ordered five KLTV-181 armoured carriers from South Korea in 2020 and the five came in 2020.”

“Finally, Nigeria ordered eight Phantom-2 armoured carriers from the United Arab Emirates in 2020 and the eight were supplied in 2020.”

Sources in the army said about 15 of the APCs have been stolen by the insurgents.

“Most of the APCs were stolen by the Boko Haram during various operations in 2020. The terrorists knew through informants in the army that new ammunition came and so, they intensified attacks on military bases. The army under Buratai was already distressed, politicised and everyone was an informant,” a top source in the army revealed.

“In December 2020, we lost some of them to the Islamic State West Africa Province’s fighters. We lost the South Korea’s KLTV-181 military tactical-utility vehicle which were designed and manufactured by KIA Motors Corporation,” he further explained.

Recall that the National Security Adviser, Maj-Gen Babagana Monguno (retd,), last week claimed that the fund released for the purchase of arms to fight against security issues affecting the country is missing.

https://www.gistlover.com/how-arms-acquired-under-buratai-from-1billion-fund-were-stolen-by-boko-haram/

It is a complete idiot who wrote this nonsense. Childish exaggerations and unverified information amplified to take the semblance of facts

BLAISECAMPAORE:
Where and who was Yahaya Bello when the APC was being formed in 2014? When PMB, Tinubu and others were forming the party?

He should take a seat and stop punching above his weight class

He is Tinubu's boy o.

mysticwarrior:
not bad but why don't we go for a more powerful and advance jets like the sukhoi su30mki, Boeing F-15EX or JF-17 thunder.

Boko Haram is praying Nigeria will buy these 'jets' so they can hide, travel and rampage villages while these expensive flying machines conquer the skies.

youghs:
Are we expecting UAVs from US?

Yes. Catapult launched UAVs not UCAVs for the Army. Paid for more than a year ago.

MiddleDimension:
how long does it take the JF-17 thunder to land in Nigeria?

Are they flying down or being crated down in a bigger aircraft for assembly here ? .
If they are flying down, ask Nigerian embassies in the countries along the route from Pakistan. Plenty paperwork to do.

Raaven:
they got some weapons from algeria and libya during their war against morocco .


sahraoui army

The region is rich in natural resources. There are some global billionaires and a few nation states behind everything.

FeedMeNews:
https://igberetvnews.com/1384337/112-fg-build-uber-like-national-emergency-ambulance/

All these should be handed over to LGAs after the first year. FG should not be running ambulance services

Litmus:
What will parting with a statement such as, ‘the enemy cannot be defeated’, do to the moral of the fighting men he leaves behind as well as that of the enemy?

Such an utterance seems to me so stupid it borders on questionable with quotes

Buratai's statement was quite understandable to the people he was addressing. He was saying military actions alone won't work. He was accusing politicians and the communities hosting Boko Haram.
He also meant that Boko Haram was winning hearts and minds.
There was a context to his statement before legislators. Sadly, emotions and poor educational background of the social media active commentators who make news every day continues to distort every issue.

If you interpret Buratai's statement to mean Boko Haram will win the war, you need to go for some IQ tests.

jlinkd78:
This is the best opportunity for all d Southerners to unite and even shun d North even if they rescind their decision. Agricultural revolution is needed now in d South and with what I know they will invest in mechanized farming. I stand with Afenifere that this could turn to be blessing in disguise if we manage it well. We must not beg d North to lift this embargo. The immediate pains can't be compared with the lifelong benefits.

One of the problems with Nairaland is youngsters posting the most childishly naive stuff out of inexperience

starnigeria:
No fly zone , what is d relevance of it in taming insecurity in the scheme of things.

we all know the truth and keep on slapping falsehood to it.

kinetic kor, kite nii.

press the serious buttons, Security agent should go on the kill and for the jugular of the terrorist once and for all, within 24hours. This place is arid mix with shrubs. And we are giving false narrative of forest. forest ko ,collateral damage nii. Enough of disgracing us in d midst of civilize nations. We are too big to be classified among no good for nothing like Sudan, Afghanistan, Yemen and Syria. Rather, we should be in the league of South Africa , China and India. At worse, Botswana and Rwanda. Otoooooge!!!

They want to bomb camps and they don't want anybody taking aerial photographs.

JESHAL:
Our voice means a lot, at least we can see how Biden's globalist policies will affect our nation Nigeria whether he would soon force us to accept Transgenderism and queerism is a matter of time, how does he support our economic policies, at least Trump was very conservative and fiscal with monetary policies which boosted America economy, Nigeria can learn a lot from him

Trump almost doubled America's debt which is almost a disgrace to fiscal conservatives in the Republican party. He messed up the management of COVID19. His govt was also techno-phobic and as we speak now the US is behind Europe and China in some key modern technologies because of his timid pandering to a generation of old white people in southern states who have now died aplenty due to COVID19.
I can understand some Nigerians still supporting the guy. We are also a very old fashioned, corrupt and sentiment ridden country.

Skyfornia:
10. A 12-year old girl in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, went missing for a week after she was abducted by seven men who tried to force her to marry one of them.

By the time she was found she was being guarded by three lions, which seemed to have chased off her abductors.

When she was found, it was said that the lions calmly left her side back into the forest with the zero confrontation.

It’s said to be a miracle considering the fact lions eat humans for fun/food often in this region.

Lions never eat humans. Human beings are the last on their scale when it comes to food.

MiddleDimension:
why does Algeria like the SU-30s so much? I really envy your military.

SU 30 is not useful for much in contemporary warfare. Ask Armenians. Warfare has evolved beyond fast, high flying manned platform,

Dangote should stop all these monopolistic, government feeding bottle approach to business.

Why is a refinery owner even thinking about importing petrol?

Refineries are generally not viable in the medium term anyway.

Whyem15:
The bastards will simply adapt and start attacking during school hours. These idiots don't even hide, they move around openly abducting and looting.
All governors were warned as far back as 2018 that the next crisis will be in the several forest reserves across the country that are the responsibility of the states. Very few of them cared. The federal government is also acting as if they are not bothered when the security of life of every citizen is their duty.

This is the most sensible post I have seen on Nigeria's contemporary security issues in some time.

The culture that caused the neglect is the over-appropriation of security resources by urban dwellers where money is shared.
Lagos, Portharcourt, Abuja and a few cities are over-policed for obvious reasons while large tracks of rural areas are not covered.
Most of us dwellers of large cities are well educated professionals but we can't think/analyse things properly so it only sentiments about our individual tribes that motivates are thinking

Tundex911:
Gumi Gumi Gumi


I guess he's the newly elected president of this nation, more active than his counterparts in aso rock...

Smh

Sheikh Abubakar Gumi's son. The northern elite respect him because of his father (a popular vehicle close to Sardauna) and his 'integrity' although I suspect he used to take money from GEJ's government.

The bandits have been created by politicians the same way Niger Delta kidnappers and eco terrorists were created by ND politicians.

James4358:
All this touts fighting over stolen public funds & properties. Why nt leave this okoracha & concentrate on delivering better dividends to imo people. This supreme court governor sef.

Low mentality + low IQ.
It is because of people like you that white people think they are superior.
To make things even more pathetic, I am sure you are one of Nigeria's youth. It is a shame

KingAzubuike:
That plane crash sums up the Nigerian military

Idiotic comment. Planes crash everywhere. It is a result of stepped-up operations.
Nigeria Air Force safety record is one of the best in the third world.

If you can't respect the highly trained young officers doing high risk jobs whose lives we just lost then shut up OR leave your low risk office job to do something interesting for a change

Grgton:
at least they are not used to doing that...it's just the situation they are trying to cope with...

but it's a shame here in Nigeria

It is a shame for Texas. Let me leave your inferiority complex and ignorance gor a minute.
Texas, the richest state in the US is home to a lot of ignorant people like you ..who only know oil and gas business and ranching.
They have a privately run power grid dependently mostly on fossil fuel power generation plants. Also because of rank stupidity their grid has no interconnectivity with other states so they cannot import power.
It was okay for a long while because Texas was mostly a hot state with a lot of crude oil and gas. Now God has shown that humility is important. Being grateful is important. A once in 5000 year cold blast has come and reset their brains.

My own issue is your lack of understanding that most countries get it wrong as well.
It is very stupid and ignorant to think only Nigerians make mistakes or have gotten it wrong. Pls open your eyes in the next three years. You will learn

ono:
Now, actually it matters if he's acquitted - and he will be, And I expect these evil demonRats hordes to start quaking in their boots again. That's because after all this is done, the campaign trail by Donald John Trump to Make America Great again will rumble back to life!

LOL.

Yabhon Flash 40?. That's not a serious company that sold it to Nigeria. I am pretty sure their program management and customer support is poor.
That UAV should have been flying since 2018.
This is the big issue with buying new tech from companies located in 3rd world countries.

The company's governance structure is now unclear and I dont think they have money to support the product.

Nigeria should set up an implementation team and head-hunt ex staff of that company and hire them as consultants to get some value from this platform

What is bad about a 'reset' or whatever?. The current system of the world is so good abi?
Oil wars, tribalism, ethnic nationalism, very rich people and very poor people, people living on below $1 a day.

Does Jesus like this current world system?

I don't know what the great reset is all about but if you use your brains and not just sponge conspiracy theories like a dummy, there is plenty to change about the world.

[quote author=Whyem15 post=98399123]

#pressrelease #DHQUpdate

OPERATION THUNDER STRIKE: AIR COMPONENT NEUTRALIZES SEVERAL ARMED BANDITS IN CHIKWALE FOREST, WEST OF KADUNA-ABUJA HIGHWAYhttps://t.co/sabYRxiNrN pic.twitter.com/RRfK7YW1Jz

— DEFENCE HQ NIGERIA (@DHQNigeria) January 24, 2021

told them to buy more A109M.

Amitez:
Just thinking aloud ooo!

Why are there no gay cocks, no gay goats, no gay snakes, no gay dogs, no gay pigs, etc? Do these animals not have sexual orientations?
Obviously, some humans must be more animalistic than these other animals.

Lions have been recorded to engage in gay practices. Theirs is worse than other animals