₦airaland Forum

APCHaram:
The NNPC boss, Baru circumvented both the office of the acting President and Minister of State for Petroleum to award series of gas pipeline projects totalling to the tune of $50bn.

Baru claimed that he did not need the approval of the Minister of State nor the acting President claiming he only reports to the President who doubles as Minister of Petroleum. This despite the fact that Buhari had temporarily relinquished all responsibilities as President in his letter to the Senate seeking medical leave and also where Osinbanjo was to assume role of acting President.

Baru will later claim he got his approval directly from Buhari in his hospital bed in London to award the said contracts which up till date has not been disclosed nor has the NNPC showed any concrete projects so far.

Now let's flash back to 2010... Yar'adua is in his death bed in far away Saudi Arabia. The then minister of Petroleum, Rilwani Lukman claimed that he had gotten Presidential approval and signature to award a shady gas pipeline contract in billions to an obscure Irish firm with zero experience in the gas and oil industry. The contract was hurriedly put in place by the cabal as a juicy pension over their imminent exit from power after it dawned on them that Yar'adua was terminally ill.

This same racket is what the same recycled northern cabal pulled in 2017 fearing a repeat of the Yar'adua saga which saw them lose power.

You don't know the level of corruption that is on going as these northern cabals have since sold the oil in the Niger Delta for the next 50yrs.

The refusal to pay the out of court settlement was directly from the cabal who preyed on Buhari's hatred on Jonathan so as to go to court and seek the lump sum of $9bn!

Tell Malami, why he is yet to probe the shoddy $50bn Baru contract!

nameo:
This is the most silly attempt at propganda and obfuscation I have seen on NL lately.

Mr man, GEJ was not the Prseident nor the acting President when this deal was done in January 2015 by a cabal. When he became President, he rejected the deal and later renegotiated the deal to arou d $850m, before Buhari entered and in usual manner cancelled the renegotiation, went back to court and having failed in court caused Nigeria to own $8.9b as judgement.

The last paragraph is a summary of what Reno said in the article. Resppnd directly to that Or shut the hcek up!!!

APCLyingBastard:
Ironsi was at a dinner party on board a vessel anchored in the Lagos Marina.

They waited for him to disembark but he never did and other events diverted the coup plotters.

Azikiwe was not in the country on the day of the coup.

You must know that the Nigerian Army back then did not have any intelligence unit that could supply them up to date information on their targets and so the coupists just went and barged on the doors of their targets hoping to meet them in bed with their pyjamas.

In hindsight, it was the worst coup ever staged!

The Nigerian Police E-Branch (Espionage) already knew months back that a coup was about to take place.

The coup leaders had been brazenly recruiting officers and men into their folly by interacting with them in mess halls trying to gauge their political leanings and perceptions of the govt.

Kaduna Nzeagwu had been doing military drills in the dead of the night around Ahmadu Bello's residence for weeks prior that the Sarduna had to raise an alarm and report the troop movements to the Police.

There was no way such an amateur coup plot would have succeeded anywhere on earth today!

Unless it was meant to happen.

I am damn sure Nzeagwy's coup just like Dimka's was backed by MI6.

They knew that the coup will definitely result in outright war.

They knew the Coup plotters were die hard Marxists who wanted to usher in a powerful central govt which will inevitably end with northern control from where the recently discovered oil Wells can be exploited at the expense of the relatively more intelligent southerners.

Just like Dimka's coup which was meant to usher in another round of war beteen middle belt and Muslim north, they knew very well that war will break out from where they would supply obsolete WW2 surplus weapons to sell to the Nigerian govt in return of control of the oil Wells.

Nzeagwu was a fool.

gidgiddy:
Nobody ever agreed to be Nigerian but we are all Nigerians today, not of our own making, but the making of the British

The Biafran agitators want referendum where everyone can finally have the opportunity they have never had of choosing what they want to be

Unless people like you think it is a bad thing for people to choose their destiny

decrownprince:
The Nigeria military know the name of the hardware, which country use similar hardware and the year it was manufactured. What they mean by "strange" is that they are not aware of it intention to pass through our country. They were not inform. The owner refused to follow proper channels. The proper thing to do was to inform our govt, then our govt will inform the customs, police and army. The customs, police and army will wait for them at the border, while the army and the police will escort them thru our country.

timtunday:
According to Premium Times, Nigerian soldiers manning a checkpoint in Adamawa State have intercepted six mine resistance vehicles that seemed to have been transported into Nigeria without due process.

The military personnel, attached to the Nigerian Army 23 Armoured Brigade in Yola, seized the equipment in Fufore Local Government Area this week.

The Nigerian Army could not immediately verify the ownership of the equipment, where they were being shipped from and their destination, PREMIUM TIMES learnt from military sources.

Although the Nigerian Army headquarters has directed an urgent investigation into the discovery, the equipment have been handed over to the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) in the interim.

On Saturday, the commander of 23 Armoured Brigade, S.G. Mohammed, handed over the vehicles to the comptroller of Customs in charge of Adamawa and Taraba, Olumoh Kamaldeen, at a ceremony in Konkol, Fufore LGA, PREMIUM TIMES learnt.

It is not immediately clear whether suspects have been arrested. It is illegal to import such equipment without an end-user certificates from the Office of the National Security Adviser (ONSA), which is the only federal agency with powers to issue such document.

The development could further upset security agencies, who have continued to grapple with acute insecurity and violence across the country.

Security analysts regularly question how terrorists and other criminals acquire weapons they have used to keep the country under siege for many years, urging security and intelligence agencies to devote more time to understanding the complex web of illicit arms movement.

The latest seizure of six mine-resistance all terrain vehicles (MATV) came three months after a Nigerian politician, Ibikunle Amosun, handed over weapons he had illegally stockpiled for several years to the police.

Mr Amosun kept the weapons for several years at Government House, Abeokuta, until his last day in office when he realised he would no longer enjoy immunity from arrest and prosecution.

The police have failed to arrest the former governor, now a serving senator, despite the widespread uproar and concerns amongst Nigerians that prosecuting Mr Amosun could serve as deterrence to other politicians involved in proliferation of deadly arms across the country.

Source: https://www.premiumtimesng.com/news/headlines/348370-just-in-nigerian-soldiers-intercept-strange-military-equipment-in-adamawa.html/amp/

GabrielYulaw:
He has a valid point though. Using Chinooks mean that the military can move men and material around far more rapidly than Boko Haram can react. With helicopters like that we can finally go on the offensive, rather than sitting around waiting to be attacked. In that, his suggestion makes sense, just like the Americans used Hueys to such good effect during the Vietnam war. Even if the US won't sell us Chinooks, we can buy the rough equivalent -perhaps the Mil M-26- from the Russians and Chinese.

EVarn:
Because despite the amount of arms they capture from us, they end up losing 60%-70% of it to aerial bombardments. So in operational terms, it is not just the weapons they steal from the military that is sustaining them.

It's all a strategy. Stealing the weapons and forcing the Airforce to locate and destroy them is a ploy to not only beef up their own armoury, but also deprive the army of critical arms and dampen the morale of soldiers.

The Elbarnawi faction receives a lot of weapons through that LC corridor from it's Libyan and Malian allies. These people actually travel out of the country through that route to negotiate arms deals with allies, smugglers and black market profiteers.

Tobiloba2407:
what we need are chinook ch47s, about 30 of them, with a stand by armed helicopter escort about 20 of them (mi35)and those super tucano(, they are really valuable).....all tasked towards quick reaction and as blocking force, leapfrogging around bht.....but if they do this, how would the policymakers get money to loot?

EVarn:
Seems BH/ISWAP is really after Borno North, out of 10 local government areas,only Monguno has any coherent military presence, the rest have been deserted. Places like Abadam,Marte,Kukawa and so on have zero military presence and little civilian presence. Infact, even Borno South isn't safe(look at Bama). To the extent that in some places, residents have to pay taxes to BH, according to reports.

Something drastic needs to be done. It all boils down to the Lake Chad corridor where these people ferry smuggled weapons through; if what it would take to stop this catastrophic flow of ammunitions is an all out invasion of Chad and annexation of the Hadjer lamis-massakory region, I think we should start considering it.

This is getting serious, we need to restrategize and like Ugo said, increase the quota for recruits. We desperately need to control that Lake Chad region, beef up intelligence,and avoid incessant losses of arms to these people. From what I have observed so far from reports and all, it seems these BH guys are well versed in the art of ambushes; they will send a contingent to attack a military base and while the attack is ongoing, another contingent is lying in wait fo the inevitable back-up to come to the aid of the distressed soldiers(maybe from a neighboring military formation), they then proceed to bombard the rescue team, loot arms, kill soldiers and join their colleagues in finishing off the soldiers at the base. They have been employing this unholy tactic for a while now. To imagine that some people are still dreaming of those disgraceful crop-dusters that aren't landing until 2022.

If they completely overrun Born North and Borno Central(which they are about to succeed in doing), stealing our weapons and getting huge reinforcement of arms through the LC corridor, then a major offensive to capture Maiduguri is inevitable.

Baba Buratai needs to be sacked abeg, clearly, the man has lost initiative. Is this how all our gallant men will die finish at the hands of BH?. Not long ago, we lost so many soldiers in one fell swoop that the entire theatre command of Operations Lafiya Dole had to be restructured.

EVarn:
We don't have the required aircrafts for sustained bombardment, we don't have the required APC/MRAPS to enable an all-out land offensive(else we lose men like toilet paper), we are still digging trenches at this stage of the war, many cases of tired old AK47s jamming/overheated/exploding during battle; basically, we are sitting ducks, relegated to defending pockets of cleared zones. How then will ISWAP not continue to harass and overrun our bases in overwhelming numbers, seizing useless tanks and artillery?.

EVarn:
What then would the regulars fight with?... special forces cannot cover ground.

Maybe if we invested in the right equipments,we wouldn't be losing the ones we have.

EVarn:
What then would the regulars fight with?... special forces cannot cover ground.

Maybe if we invested in the right equipments,we wouldn't be losing the ones we have.

kettykin:
So innocent chukwuna, ibeto , oji kalu, Nest oil all have their investment in Lagos.
This apc na useless lying bastard, anyway uncle Joe make sure you are given a key ministry so that you can make money like Ambode before the bubble burst

bidexiii:
Observation of ISWAP photostreams suggests more than ever before in "Boko Haram history", ISWAP is a non-state military. If estimates r right that it has *40* 100-fighter brigades like in photos/vids, beyond ideology & structural factors, major combat is gonna be needed 2 defeat them.

S3BViking:
When are you going to stop posting air force propaganda and bring up more cerebral discussion?

OgbanjeProphet:
Bịa oga Zakzaky, my advice for you is to seek for asylum in India, and never come back.
If you come back, na to rest in peace be that. Elrufai and his agents of darkness will only let you be when you die.

And Buhari no care. He no send anybody shaa shaa.

EVarn:
I disagree with your first statement. All embassies have diplomatic immunity guaranteed by the international law of inviolability, as codified in the Vienna convention. So yes, an embassy is supposed to be out of bounds to the host country. It is only on invitation of the ambassador that the host country (or it's representative) can enter the embassy.

In the case of Kperoogi, Turkey violated international laws by spying on and invading the Saudi Arabian embassy, just that due to how delicate the issue was,the Saudis couldn't take it up. There are some countries,like the UK, that have passed laws to legally enable invasion of any embassy on their soil, if the said embassy loses control of it's building to hostile forces or the embassy perpetuates actions that constitute a threat to national security. Apart from that, it's a violation.

EVarn:
I disagree with your first statement. All embassies have diplomatic immunity guaranteed by the international law of inviolability, as codified in the Vienna convention. So yes, an embassy is supposed to be out of bounds to the host country. It is only on invitation of the ambassador that the host country (or it's representative) can enter the embassy.

In the case of Kperoogi, Turkey violated international laws by spying on and invading the Saudi Arabian embassy, just that due to how delicate the issue was,the Saudis couldn't take it up. There are some countries,like the UK, that have passed laws to legally enable invasion of any embassy on their soil, if the said embassy loses control of it's building to hostile forces or the embassy perpetuates actions that constitute a threat to national security. Apart from that, it's a violation.

Covert1:
No na u be 'sharpest' lol! Clearly you are living an illusion. Here u are reading what u glimpsed from print media and making veiled defense for mediocrity. Did you even know when this happened. It's more than 48 hours yet your government only responded after the noise on social media an attitude reminiscent of how they respond to Nigerians in distress abroad. And now they responded where are the sanctions on the Congolese government or the sanctions the host government has meted out on those who trespassed our sovereign territory. Do you know that's the least that should happen. What you see is just saving face.

You think what you read is the reality. Why do u think we have NIA case intelligence officers on the ground under the cover of other nocturnal diplomatic status and military attaches in our embassies. Before official statements are made the foreign minister is well aware of what's going on same as the president who receive intelligence briefs everyday first thing in the morning (assuming your current president reads them) and plans are made to preempt any negative fallout. That's what responsive governments do and where there're intelligence failures they attempt a robust response by other kinetic means to divert attention.

So what you are reading ain't the reality. Besides invasions don't happen overnight something you think I advocate, I opined about the signals you send out by applying some measure of soft power. About Nigerians vis-a-vis South Africans pls tell us something we don't know. That's old story nothing new.

I feel I'm talking to a kid though. Perhaps no point.

Covert1:
And the larger perspective is to restructure the country which your president Buhari promised but reneged upon assuming power like he reneged on everything else like the 5000 NGN for unemployed youths and 1 dollar to the Naira etc. That speaks of his integrity.

You noticed I don't join issues with u whether sentimental or emotional cos the facts speak for themselves. This country is badly run and enormous powers are vested in the presidency to change that and you don't give excuses when elected, you change for the better what you find on ground. Buhari has had four years yet still blaming those four years on others. If Obasanjo did that we would not have paid off the Paris Club Debts or ever launched our first satellite or brought GSM to Nigeria. If Yar'Adua and Jonathan did that there would not have been a Nigeria for Buhari to rule. The truth is this APC government is evil.

We have only retrogressed under Buhari not progressed. We come here and sing praises of our military but those are individualistic efforts of patriots like Air Marshal Abubakar and the troops on the ground not the leadership of the country. How can a country of Nigeria's size not be flying fifth generation aircraft by now or modern Frigates and Destroyers. Something not impossible with the right leadership. People are quick to crucify the PDP but it was the PDP administrations that gave us our first stealth warships/OPVs, T-72s, F-7s, Mi-35s, SBS, satellites, increased NIA & SSS funding and even Abuja to a large extent. Yet APC propaganda tell us they did these things, something they already met on the table.

I tell you with all the PDP corruption say Atiku were president instead of Buhari you can expect to see major start up funding of some 5 billion dollars for our military with a shopping list for modern armaments and we wouldn't have had to wait for 4 months for a ministerial list of half dead men. Abubakar Atiku already had his economic adviser Prof. Chike doing the rounds with detailed plans of his programs for all sectors of the economy including the military. Atiku even had an agreement with our elders from North to South to restructure the country. I use Atiku cos he had a better chance of winning a fair election. Tinubu wan be president by force so a sick man must be foisted on us by all means to that end. I hope you try to read the intelligence between the lines. If you know how these evil men seek to stranglehold this country you would not only call for revolution you will call for worse.

Look at our young queuing at embassies to run. A country is only as strong as it's people. Instead of supporting mediocrity everyone should be ashamed we are were we are today. Na only una country dem still dey take light like this. We should be ashamed. And I am. I don't even bragg with fellow Africans anymore. Infact a Kenyan once asked me why the lights are out in Nigeria. You can imagine the shame.

Dey support Tinubu. Let another government enter power and let's see how visionary he is. Wait until dem open his wardrobe. Tinubu has basically confiscated Lagos like 19th century America where the mob ruled. The APC is a mob party. Brazen stealing of an election in broad daylight with military suppression and mobsters. Be bold to say you are a Tinubu man. It is self evident which is why you support bad leadership.

Pls abeg let's tell ourselves the truth and challenge the status quo. Enough is enough. It's time to fight back.

Nowenuse:
People are beheaded instantly on the streets on mere accusations of insulting the prophet or tearing the Koran or selling food/eating food during Ramadan and no one is arrested or prosecuted, rather the killers are celebrated with jubilations.

Nowenuse:
By tolerating shiites? You are talking as if these shiites are Iraqi or Iranian citizens. These are Nigerian citizens. Or do we no longer have freedom of religion in Nigeria again?

Fulani herdsmen are much of a bigger problem to Nigeria than Shiites could ever be, yet the FG is turning a blind eye to the herdsmen. There can never be peace in a country where the government is partial.

Nowenuse:
How many do christians have in Saudi Arabia & Yemen?

Iran (the capital of Shiism) treats christians far better and honorably than Saudi Arabia (the capital of Sunnism), this na the koko of the matter.

There are 600 churches all over Iran, how many are in Saudi?

darediamond:
Just as expected, you sound childish. What more do you have to say?

Taavon2:
My point exactly. You can sympathize with possible reasons why the Government might want to clamp down on the Shiites early before they evolve into something the government will have no control over later.

tit:
you be real mugun.
using gas is chemical warfare.
American cannot be involved in the use of chemical and biological weapons!
(And if the girls are with boko haram, what will protect them from the weaponized gas?)

you are a boko haram confusonist!
we are going to get you soon.

Nowenuse:
But Assyrians and Armenians are christians