₦airaland Forum

bidexiii:
Look at you laughing at the height of your ignorance.

What is ignorance about several NA trucks driven happily by BHT? oh!! they drive our APC's too . I have followed this thread long enough to know that most of you are not designed to be honest on common sense issues, dont think my response calls for a debate, I just want to enjoy the pictures in peace!!

Stephandeswardt:
The solution to half of our FOB issues, AGL's, and rapid firing guns, that basically create a wall of lead.....Coas, mentioned buying gatling guns and it was all over the news, I have never seen one or seen anyone that has seen one.....3 gatling guns in a FOB, are a game changer, as it basically, makes the assaulters hide their heads in a region of no cover and wipe out technicals while mortars wreck the BHT, but seems this common sense isnt common.

bidexiii:
More...

Picture of BHT Hilux or picture of our Hilux gifted to BHT

EVarn:
Your ability to do basic research has only managed to avail me with information I already have,since the days of beegeagle. Everybody knows how international politics made Nigeria's fleet of jaguars useless as combat aircrafts. But what excuse do we have for neglecting them and leaving them to rot?,what is wrong in taking them to India for maintenance,and then using them as trainers?.

Do not preach patriotism to me, I am as patriotic as you can get. But that doesn't mean I won't present facts the way I see them.

The truth is, we allowed our fleet of jaguars to rot, international politics is no excuse. The role of those jets went beyond their deep strike capacity.

Talking about F7s,how many operational F7s do we have?. Issues must be addressed without emotions and sentiments so that we can move forward.

India is a commonwealth nation, Nigeria under commonwealth sanctions can not go to India, the UK blocked everything, do you think Iran can just go to Nigeria and do business as it is today? That does not mean iranian sanction is same with ours but I used it to give you a clue how the real world works, once the Allied gods come for you, there is nowhere to hide!!
India didn't get the license to manufacture Jaguar parts, so taking it to India that will still order the parts from UK is useless.
Same with our foreign reserve transferred to Switzerland to be protected by the financial secrecy act of 1934, after decree 53 handed it over to OBJ, he called it Abacha loot to loot it.
Thank God the swizz caught him in his tracks and stopped all payments to his administration, only $700m paid the supreme price.

EVarn:
Well,do forgive me for making ignorant comments. You must understand that we weren't all blessed with the divine gift of omniscience.

However, can you be so kind as to enlighten my feeble mind on why our jaguars are now unoperational?.

EVarn:
When you use the word "control" in reference to the police,I reluctantly assume that you may not be seeing the big picture. The question is, is the police meant to be controlled?. One of the many problems facing the current centralized police system is political interference; senators have police slots, governors have slots, ministers have slots, even scullions in aso rock have designated slots. Why,infact,any big man needs just to point a finger to order arrests and perpetual detention.

The answer is that we need not just state and LG police,but full autonomy for the police force. Police chiefs should be elected and impeached by designated bodies, not based on political appointment.

Ideally, a police chief should be a gallant ombudsman,not a boy-boy to any governor or president.

As for how the states will fund their police, well, I agree with you. States cannot currently afford the cost of running police forces. If the FG is serious about decentralizing the police,I think it should be part of a wider structural reform. The FG must make up for the responsibility it is giving the states by enacting a system of fiscal federalism, which is popularly called "restructuring" in some circles. States should be allowed to generate money and use a bulk of the money generated for their individual needs.

ugo4u:
First of all I'm not responding for the sake of it neither is it to further a biased narrative but if we don't discuss this issue on national level it won't be laid to rest, and groups like IPOBs will keep on preying on the loopholes.
That being said, Ojukwu foiled the Nzeogwu coup in Kano, Ado Bayero was to be assaainated but he stood he's ground and refused the rascality of Kaduna Nzeogwu, till the death of Ado Bayero he and Ojukwu were best of friends suffice to say Ojukwu ensured the failure of the Coup in Kano. Nzeogwu, Ifeajuna, Nwaobishi were Igbo of Mid Western region (same people who claim they are not Igbos) who were all brought up in the north, so was most of the coup plotters and elements from the north and west(Katsina, Ademoyega etal) at best the coup was senseless and needless.
Ojukwu on other hand told the easterners that escaped the first pogrom to return while issues where being sorted only for the mother of all pogrom to happen again. As a leader will you advise your people to remain in a hostile region?
Nzeogwu was only released from prison after students of UNN protested his incarceration during the war. It is documented that Ojukwu never liked him, Kaduna wasn't given any official command, he gathered troops for isolated attacks till he was ambushed somewhere in Enugu.
As for the plane you said crashed carrying weapons don't know if it's documented but if it's true don't see anything wrong in having a backup plan incase of any eventuality which was predictable by the way.

Untill the Rwandan approach of national reconciliation of both sides happen, webcam only postpone the dooms day but it will eventually come.
Karma is a Greek goddess of redistributive justice. If after all this years the issue that led to the war still hovers around like a vulture, it goes to tell that Nigeria is seriously sick.

SLBMS:
You know what? I'll stop making contributions here. Is there anyway you guys don't insult someone impulsively? I've known you from the days of Beegeagle..you were one of the mature contributors..now you are no better than the simpletons we have here who think you have a monopoly on opinion. Do you even have a job besides spewing crap and making rash judgement? I doubt if you knew me in real life or know my pedigree you will open your mouth to insult my personality and call mentally deranged. You are most disrespectful and full of it. But I don't blame you
.I blame myself for the insult.

Just know if you knew who I was in person and know my pedigree you will not dare address me in such a provocative language.

chicwoman:
Hello Nairalanders,
So I've been seeing this thing on Nairaland where people say that they are ordering phones from Aliexpress.
Hmm.
Let me narrate some experiences,
I have this friend that wanted to buy a phone and was attracted to the specs (and price) of phones that he saw on Aliexpress so he ordered one.
Only for the phone to pack up a month later, when he call their customer care to get the replacement parts he was told that he needed to order it from China, and the parts cost more than the price of the phone.
Really bad abi?

Somebody also bought a Samsung phone from UK and took it to a Nigerian service center and they told him that they can't touch it because it's not from this (Nigeria) region.

My advise is for you to buy from reputable home based brands like tecno and the like. They have service centers all over the country that you can go to if your device has issues (I have even used tecno's Carlcare to repair something on my phone and they didn't charge me anything), several brands like Innjoo,Infinix and co also have these service centers.
Don't play yourself, protect your hard earned money.


Uncle Lalasticlala and mynd44 please help me push it to front page abeg.

SupremeCourt:
Chad caused Nigeria's problem in the first place. Thousand kpv zsu anti aircraft killer technical Toyota battalions came through their lands into Nigeria from 2012 when BH started overrunning NA bases. Cameroon, Niger Rep, Chad are permanent open transit routes for deadly Libya, Sudan, Somalia, Arabia Middle East black market military grade weapons killing our soldiers and alpha jets. 300 Chibok girls were kept enslaved for years in Cameroon-Chad forests, reason UK, US, and NAF flews best ISR planes and drones searching Nigeria but never found our girls.

If Chad like, let them not join us, if Nigeria becomes viable BHT ISWAP base, they will launch Jihad into Chad too, they never get satisfied taking one country, they spread caliphate everywhere they can to gain worldwide empire, Mali was not enough prize fro them. If those 40,000 Boko Haram fighters at full strength had focused on Chad's 20,000 army, they will beg France for oyinbo legion battalions intervention force. As for BHT focusing on Cameroon, Biya will run to hide in Paris, while Niger Rep will cease to exist . Nigeria's 195 million population, NAF young pilots like late Hedima that will never give up, our 500,000 army+police is just too big for BHT to overrun. Let other countries now claiming champion, taste what Nigeria had to swallow, then lets see how they perform

SLBMS:
The 1980s were the golden age of the Nigerian Air Force. A much poorer Nigeria with relatively no security imperative or threat was able to aquire some of the world's most advanced 4th Generation fighter jet..a full squadron.

Today a much richer Nigeria, the richest black nation in modern history fighting a decade long war that threatens the sovereignty of the nation is still negotiating for trainer aircraft and we Nigerians are lauding this as an achievement? We spend nearly a million dollars training pilots in training schools in the United States and South Africa only to put them in am aircraft that will not survive 10 minutes in contested airspace. Instead of opening factories or sporting complexes or fish ponds or forensic labs and building a parralel army to compete with the Nigerian army for allocation, why not FOCUS on improving Nigeria's Air defence capability.

Invest in fixed air defence batteries : NO
Invest in mobile air defense batteries: NO
Replace the aging ROLAND SHORAD: NO
Complement the ROLAND with more MANPADS: NO
Aquire more supersonic fighter jets to compliment the FOUR F-7Ni AIRGUARD we have for air defence: NO


We've seen Boko Haram make mince meat with the Alpha jet and Mi-17 helicopters. Months ago our brand new MI-35M was shot down. This means Boko Haram has improved it's air defence assets. In the year 2019 we are still converting trainer aircraft's for strategic missions. How many pilots have we lost to crashes? What a disgrace. No wonder nobody takes us serious anymore. We have lost respect in the region. Since Nigeria's military decline %70 of EFOWAS member states have signed strategic military cooperation with the United States an France. Can you imagine Alpha jets and L-29s protecting Nigeria's external reserves? There are simply not enough assets to secure the nation's airspace, maintain air superiority and secure strategic infrastructure. These mallams at the helm of affairs of the Nigerian armed forces are a joke. There are people here on nairaland that are better suited to take strategic decisions and improve the nation's air combat caps than these clueless punks we are parading about. Any Chief of Air Staff that invites the media to a ribbon citing ceremony to officially open a new FISH POND is not fit to employ as a dog catcher much less be in charge of defending the nation's air space.

OreMI22:
Imposed 1999 Constitution for Nigeria: the 68-Item Exclusive Legislative List




These are the areas the powers reserved exclusively for the central government are defined. This means that only the central or federal government can legislate on the subjects in the exclusive list. Interference of the regional or state governments on matters in the exclusive list can be declared null and void and unconstitutional:

Accounts of the Government of the Federation, and of offices, courts, and authorities thereof, including audit of those accounts.
Arms, ammunition and explosives.
Aviation, including airports, safety of aircraft and carriage of passengers and goods by air.
Awards of national titles of honour, decorations and other dignities.
Bankruptcy and insolvency
Banks, banking, bills of exchange and promissory notes.
Borrowing of moneys within or outside Nigeria for the purposes of the Federation or of any State.
Census, including the establishment and maintenance of machinery for continuous and universal registration of births and deaths throughout Nigeria.
Citizenship, naturalization and aliens.
Commercial and industrial monopolies, combines and trusts.
Construction, alteration and maintenance of such roads as may be declared by the National Assembly to be Federal trunk roads.
Control of capital issues.
Copyright
Creation of States
Currency, coinage and legal tender
Customs and excise duties
Defense
Deportation of persons who are not citizens of Nigeria
Designation of securities in which trust funds may be invested.
Diplomatic, consular and trade representation.
Drugs and poisons.
Election to the offices of President and Vice-President or Governor and Deputy Governor and any other office to which a person may be elected under this Constitution, excluding election to a local government council or any office in such council.
Evidence
Exchange control
Export duties
External affairs
Extradition
Fingerprints identification and criminal records.
Fishing and fisheries other than fishing and fisheries in rivers, lakes, waterways, ponds and other inland waters within Nigeria.
Immigration into and emigration from Nigeria
Implementation of treaties relating to matters on this list
Incorporation, regulation and winding up of bodies corporate, other than co-operative societies, local government councils and bodies corporate established directly by any Law enacted by a House of Assembly of a State.
Insurance.
Labour, including trade unions, industrial relations; conditions, safety and welfare of Labour; industrial disputes; prescribing a national minimum wage for the Federation or any part thereof; and industrial arbitration.
Legal proceedings between Governments of States or between the Government of the Federation and Government of any State or any other authority or person.
Maritime shipping and navigation, including –
(a) shipping and navigation on tidal waters;

(b) shipping and navigation on the River Niger and its affluents and on any such other inland waterway as may be designated by the National Assembly to be an international waterway or to be an inter-State waterway;

(c) lighthouses, lightships, beacons and other provisions for the safety of shipping and navigation;

(d) such ports as may be declared by the National Assembly to be Federal ports (including the constitution and powers of port authorities for Federal ports).

Meteorology
Military (Army, Navy and Air Force) including any other branch of the armed forces of the Federation.
Mines and minerals, including oil fields, oil mining, geological surveys and natural gas.
National parks being such areas in a State as may, with the consent of the Government of that State, be designated by the National Assembly as national parks.
Nuclear energy
Passports and visas
Patents, trademarks, trade or business names, industrial designs and merchandise marks.
Pensions, gratuities and other-like benefit payable out of the Consolidated Revenue Fund or any other public funds of the Federation.
Police and other government security services established by law.
Posts, telegraphs and telephones
Powers of the National Assembly, and the privileges and immunities of its members
Prisons
Professional occupations as may be designated by the National Assembly.
Public debt of the Federation
Public holidays.
Public relations of the Federation
Public service of the Federation including the settlement of disputes between the Federation and officers of such service.
Quarantine
Railways
Regulations of political parties
Service and execution in a State of the civil and criminal processes, judgements, decrees, orders and other decisions of any court of law outside Nigeria or any court of law in Nigeria other than a court of law established by the House of Assembly of that State.
Stamp duties


Taxation of incomes, profits and capital gains, except as otherwise prescribed by this Constitution.
The establishment and regulation of authorities for the Federation or any part thereof –
(a) To promote and enforce the observance of the Fundamental Objectives and Directive Principles contained in this Constitution;

(b) To identify, collect, preserve or generally look after ancient and historical monuments and records and archaeological sites and remains declared by the National Assembly to be of national significance or national importance;

(c) to administer museums and libraries other than museums and libraries established by the Government of a state;

(d) To regulate tourist traffic; and

(e) To prescribe minimum standards of education at all levels.

The formation, annulment and dissolution of marriages other than marriages under Islamic law and Customary law including matrimonial causes relating thereto.
Trade and commerce, and in particular –
(a) trade and commerce between Nigeria and other countries including import of commodities into and export of commodities from Nigeria, and trade and commerce between the states;

(b) establishment of a purchasing authority with power to acquire for export or sale in world markets such agricultural produce as may be designated by the National Assembly;

(c) inspection of produce to be exported from Nigeria and the enforcement of grades and standards of quality in respect of produce so inspected;

(d) establishment of a body to prescribe and enforce standards of goods and commodities offered for sale;

(e) control of the prices of goods and commodities designated by the National Assembly as essential goods or commodities; and

(f) registration of business names.

Traffic on Federal trunk roads.
Water from such sources as may be declared by the National Assembly to be sources affecting more than one state
Weights and measures.
Wireless, broadcasting and television other than broadcasting and television provided by the Government of a state; allocation of wave-lengths for wireless, broadcasting and television transmission.
Any other matter with respect to which the National Assembly has power to make laws in accordance with the provisions of this Constitution.
Any matter incidental or supplementary to any matter mentioned elsewhere in this list.


How can Nigeria develop if all critical infrastructure provision (Bolded) are in the so called exclusive list of 1999 constitution??


SOURCE: http://www.lnc-usa.org/blog/exclusive-legislatie-list-a-great-impediment-to-regional-development/

Turantula:
Ignorant will not kill you, wise fool!

Tsam96:
Even a baby Geologist knows there is no oil up north...they can explore all they want...maybe they'll find gas...but oil in commercial quantity? Probably in their dreams..

olas24u:
The constitution granted the regions autonomy.

einsteine:
Decree 13 of 1970 fixed revenue derivation at 50/50 between states and the federal government.

olas24u:
You are the ignorant person,before you come to discuss on issues of the nation zyou must know simple facts.1963. ! derivation was 50%.that is how you will all be coordinating Mecca and praying after stealing what does not belong to you .

olas24u:
It either you are igbo or hausa ,this are the people against regionalism .

olas24u:
You are part of the Nigerian problem.fiscal federalism is the answer to the Nigerian problems.you know about it but just trying to write .

olas24u:
The constitution granted the regions autonomy.

olas24u:
Revenue allocation system was strictly based on derivation.

olas24u:
You don't read ,the 1963 constitution was strictly based on derivation.50% of all revenues derived from the resources found in the regional.

olas24u:
Between independence and the emergence of military rule, the revenue allocation formula was a whooping 50 per cent

olas24u:
Go and read 1960 and 1963 constitution , you pay a % back to the federal and keep the rest .

olas24u:
But how come you called that nonsense?so you prefer this unitary system,then you are part of the Nigerian problem.

oyatz:
Chad and Niger Republic have discovered and started exploring crude oil

olas24u:
That is not true if the proceeds are shared according to number of states and local governments,do the mathematics,you are tryin to write about the 13% dereivation but it cost more to build infastructures in does regions that were left and needed to do catch up .In the past during the regonal system ,you get 45% of thr proceeds from your wealth to develop your land.

SLBMS:
Nigeria has the richest economy in the modern history of the African continent. We have the world's 9th largest proven oil reserve with 38 billion barrels, valurd at over $3 trillion. Nigeria had the largest foreign reserve until Algeria overtook us 3 years ago.

What this means is that Egypt and South Africa combined do not have the financial muscle of Nigeria. We can build a nuclear program. We can save our foreign reserve and pay for weapons with oil. We have Africa's most valuable national assets.

YET !!

We've been fighting a decade long war with trainer aircraft. Our Navy has no real offensive capability even though %80 of Nigeria's oil production comes from offshore oil platforms. We spent the combined defence budget of Cameroon and Chad combined on 12 Brazilian made turbo prop crop dusters that so not be delivered until 2022. 16 Alpha jets and 5 F-7Ni fighters is what Nigeria has to protect her airspace as well as vital assets of 39 billion barrels in oil. We finally decide to buy 4th generation jets we opt for the JF-17, an unproven weapons system. As if that's not mad enough we are acquiring just THREE with no idea when it will be delivered.

There is something seriously wrong with this country. It's begining to look like a spiritual problem..because it just does not make sense.

Fynline:
Kindly take a look at this video. You will see that a good number of MRAPS were deployed. The only eyesore is that coloured "tipper"


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ye0YnDDnqX8

At first I thought it was a Boko haram convoy.