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Toju200:
#ISWAP losses Top commander ABATCHA and two other senior Terrorists, following a foiled attempt to infiltrate Army Super Camp ASC Rann town, Kaka Balge province NE. Locals says many Fighters fled with gun shots wounds towards Gajibou

Stormtrooper11:
"we can no longer trust the Nigerian army. We wants the Americans to come and intervene" - Nigerian lawmaker


Something in me feels this COAS can topple this government. He got some guts and ambition.

GeneralFarouq:
U are a sick in the head... U and the other deluded poster
You seek to downplay the information and the intelligence of posters around here without contributing any meaningful thing...
You are one of those that have the body of an adult but the mind of a kid.. too much insecurity
Keep ur self deluded superiority to urself and fvck off kid.

Truthshots2:
I remember my Dad being temporarily promoted from Lieutenant to Colonel when a problem needed solving and none of the illiterate fast promoted northerners had an idea of how to find a solution, once the problem was solved, my Dad was returned to his rank...
Useless army.

Truthshots2:
The "quota system" allows illiterate Sunni northerners to become army officers and once those guys are in the army, they get fast promotions above way smarter people.
How will such a thing encourage smart officers to perform ? Also there is an unwritten rule in the army: don't be smarter than your superior and if you are then hide it well. When your superior is a northerner whose intelligence is nil, what can you do ?

Stormtrooper11:
What happened in Mainok and at different theaters in OPHK has been really saddening. We all know that in order to win this war, we must take control of our supply lines. That should be our first priority and objective. It seems we don't even have an area occupied 90% by our troops except Maiduguri and Damaturu. We need to gain more ground and take control of the major roads.
I can't say it directly what needs to be done to win this war, because i am not in OPHK HQ or AHQ or DHQ. I can only give suggestions. Now, something we failed to notice is that NA is matching the Enemy 1:1. Its not supposed to be so. We have artillery and armour. We are supposed to use them efficiently and effectively. So identified the 4 problems that should be solved within NA.
1. Indiscipline
2. Maintenance
3. Fifth columnists.
4. Manpower

abiodunalasa:
How did you arrive at this your opinion ?

Mhen I showed this your comment to my cousin we almost died of laughter...we just laughing at your shocking ignorance but forming woke

That cousin of mine borrowed 17 million naira from BOI all thru threads he been engaging on Nairaland. He started Rice farming without prior knowledge all through things he read on Nairaland (Agriculture Section)
And now he's cashing out big time.

While people like you on this thread are busy measuring dicks and forming online warriors having no real life impact other than argue here all day.. thousands of smart others are learning things everywhere here on Nairaland.

My little brother while he's waiting to join me in the Army, I made sure he's learning Programming and Design on Nairaland. He's so into it now making money he's having doubts about signing up

My point being, try to dey look past your nose

Faithful007:
Ok. I won't be replying you again after this, because you ain't as matured as you think you are. There's a difference between arguing with someone and shamelessly trying to deride someone's opinion. The latter is rather stupid. Secondly, you don't know who I am, what I do, or where in the world I stay, so don't think I'm a little child in Nigeria, typing all manner of gibberish in the name of knowledge.

Back to what you said, I called in those countries to show you how economic reasons can ensure political support. The only mistake I made was saying that US buys more gas than the EU from Nigeria. And nobody said that they would send their soldiers to fight for Nigeria. I only said that they would prevent any takeover of the facilities so as to keep it under the hands of the federal government. This, historically has been done in several places to keep economic trade going on even during a war. Even the AKK pipeline is part of the trans Sahara pipeline, for gas supply to the EU.

Secondly, in international politics, hardly anyone fights for separatists. The concept of "this is my homeland" does not exist. The territory of Nigeria was handed to the federal government from the British to own. Anyone else who needs it must fight for it. They are the legitimate owners. Just like in Hong Kong, they want to leave, but there's nothing they can do since it's China's territory.

Lastly, foreign policy overrides every other reason for international action. In fact, the major reason UK and US keep talking about Hong Kong lies in their policy to stem China's rise. Nobody is thinking about allowing a strategic partner on the GWoT to tear apart. Ethiopia and the Tigray region is a classic example.

NB: The use of word "platform" was an obvious mistake.

bidexiii:
NIMASA has successfully taken delivery of its 3 Aw109 special mission helicopters, their primary role will be surveillance but they will also be utilised for search and rescue operations as mandated by the IMO in the SOLAS ( Safety of live at sea) convention.

Litmus:
Not a leveler, more a retrogradinger.

I’ve just left a thread where the majority of respondents – presumably Nigerians - don’t know that there are insurance companies in Nigeria. Millions of this type of mindset will work to bring Nigeria down mainly out of ignorance of their own Nation. They are the types that might cry, ‘South Africa and Kenya have Insurance companies, common Insurance company, we don’t have in this country, oh why did god let me be born in this shithole Nigeria!’

Like this, millions of ignorant, negative voices help create and facilitate despondency that empowers anti-state actors

Faithful007:
Trade partnerships have no strategic meaning you say? Research on Libya and Congo then. Why does US support haftar? Trump even openly said that Haftar is protecting the oil fields even with the UN against him. Why did the US support Evo Morales ousting in Bolivia?

Let me give you two reasons why I believe foreign powers will back Nigeria, they have established deals with Nigeria in terms of gas trade. China is sponsoring the AKK platform across Nigeria and you think it means nothing to them? Developed countries are shutting down Nuclear plants in favor of gas.

Secondly, Nigeria's distabilization will give BH/ISWAP a huge advantage to spread and become formidable.

DubaiLandLord:
In Nigeria, if you have the money and right connection.

Blueelf:
Well, I may want to agree with you on the first bolded comment, the second volded comment is what we are clamoring for. What is worth doing is worth doing well. I am not in any way comparing our SF to the SAS or DEVGRU unit but at least, let them be well funded to tackle our immediate National Security concerns.

And please what is the deal with taking out soldeirs to Bulgaria, Serbia etc for SF training? Do they have terrorism concerns like ours over there? You see my point now

Faithful007:
I didn't say it's because of loans. I'm saying that most of Nigeria's gas is exported to the US. I ain't even thinking about oil, most of our oil is India I think. I didn't really understand your second paragraph.

Concerning your earlier post, Buhari isn't asking for Fort Bragg or JBA. Africom though having the capacity for about 10000 troops usually has no more than 1200 people on base. It's mostly for recon BTW.

DubaiLandLord:
In terms of landmass and population size, Benin republic is bigger than Kano state. No state in Nigeria is as big as Benin republic.

Hoverbird:
When one give a contrary perspective to government position automatically one is seen as a sympathiser of Kanu or IPOB. I have always condemned his utterances, neither have I supported his quest for Biafra am not even from the South east. What IPOB is today is because of the highhandedness of PMB and the military in the first place before they took up arms they were shot point blank, this same army used acids on many of them just for waving flags, we warned that this will only harden them, we should learn to offer political solutions rather than the military options to certain issues. Now they've taken up arms if you ask them they will say the army kills them without holding any arms that it is better for them to die fighting with weapons as they have nothing to lose. We are now stuck in a bubble, same way Bokoharam started and we refused to learn.

cutievik:
The same government that humiliated and kicked out foreign PMC is crawling on its knee's begging the USA. What if this was the long term plan to make Nigeria weak we would come begging on them.

Buhari and his cronies ruined us Sha.

How far the war self?

Faithful007:
The Chinese military are more interested in power projection than Terrorism control. As for China controlling Nigeria, they're still a long way to go. The US still controls most of our fossil fuel industry.

Why do you say the US doesn't give a damn about Nigeria? You know they our biggest economic partner right? Which other country gives foreign aid as much as the US to Nigeria?

ugo4u:
I'm not one of those that just throw big words to massage our ego that Nigeria is the giant of Africa, a giant that can't influence what happens in neighbouring countries. That being said, if Buhari is begging AFRICOM to move it's HQ to Nigeria I don't see anything bad it in, we stand alot to gain ranging from military infrastructures including hardwares/softwares, shared intelligence, training, joint ops etc the advantages supercedes the disadvantages, but the reality is that the US don't give a toss about Nigeria and Africa in general. What we see as a kind of interventions in some countries including our neighbors by the US is strictly a proxy game with China, the US are worried about the growing influence of the Chinese in the continent. It will be far easier to get the Chinese military to offer support than the US, why we're not even exploring that option is what I don't still understand. If I'm at the helms of affairs I'll seek for all the help I can get, I won't mind inviting the Chinese to come establish a world class military drone base fully funded by them in the northeast similar to what the US built in Djibouti from where they can jointly operate 24/7 with our security agencies, while also building a defence industry.
As for the DSS their problem lies in the ACT that established them as a department of the presidency, they were created I think by IBB solely primarily for regime protection that's why they're more interested in who insults the president or members of the ruling class than state protection, again this is one of the reasons we have to bin the 1999 constitution and come up with a workable document.

ugo4u:
In the first place it is the search of a strong man that Nigeria got itself into this level of mess. Suspend the constitution and watch the nation disintegrate. Sri-Lanka it's not as ethnically and religiously diverse as Nigeria, what worked there most likely won't work here. We should come up with a homegrown national defense policy that is peculiar to our clime, build and strengthen our Institution, so that they can function properly, then the 1999 constitution which was hurriedly drafted by a few khaki boys should be revisited and tweaked to reflect our realities, it should be truly a constitution based on "We the people".


The President lacks the political will and to a great extent the competence to address some of the security issues we are facing it has nothing to do with old age, the prime minister of Malaysia is almost 93 and he showing leadership, same for Biden 78 & Nana Akufo 77.

DubaiLandLord:
A lot of people are dying almost daily in the North West geopolitical region of Nigeria. People are been killed there by bandits and Fulani heardsmen. Most of it are not even reported.

When you go to a country like Benin republic, you will be shock with how peaceful the country is. Even if you want to start searching for news of gunmen killings, you might not get one in weeks.

In Benin republic, once they get hold of this fulani heardsmen, they do kill them immediately. Fulanis and bandits hardly try all this bullshit they try in that country.

kabe1:
ISWAP has captured newly delivered Nigerian army MRAP.

This is beyond embarrassing.

I feel very, very ashamed!!!

Jimi24:
Nigerians should take the trouble to think about situations. The brain was given for a reason.
When you are an Army company on the ground and you radio for air support, the *nearest* aircraft is asked to come to you.
What if it was vectored in from another engagement and dies not have any more bombs, rockets and even fuel to make it back to base?. It woukd have to leave you without engaging but there is value in the trip because it might have scared the enemy away or given information to joint operations control.

It is always annoying to hear these reports of NAF coming and leaving without engaging and dunces concluding that it was sabotage

Odunayaw:
Poor journalism.

iboboyswag:
True but again, Africa can't be ever truly free if some of its constituent states remain in shackles.

France can be brought to the negotiation table to dialogue a release(as violence would never cut it), and as a Bloc (if not for false posturing by states without rudders the likes of Ghana, Senegal, Rwanda and their ilks), the AU would have been the best vehicle to push for the actualization of these objective.

But then, sabotage and bloated egos have been the main stay of most AU interventions.

I wish Nigeria would have been able to do something, but most often, going by precedence, it is thankless job.

NuraSambo:
Interesting. So why did NATO get involved in the 2011 Libyan civil war against the Gadaffi regime? The last time I checked, the founding objective of NATO is to defend member states from Soviet aggression; how then does this fit into NATO's involvement in the 2011 Libyan revolution? Did the NTC rebels enter into, in your own words, any 'Security agreement' with NATO? Were the NTC rebels members of NATO?

IGpro1:
Nigeria sent troops to, yes, to smaller countries. it's like Mexico and Canada deploying to US because there's crises. Nigeria, IMO is bigger than AU.
let me rephrase the statement ' if Nigeria cannot allow US soldiers in the fight, do you think she will allow AU to deploy beyond her boundaries.
even the MNJTF were only allowed based on mutual agreement.

IGpro1:
not really, Iran has been playing rough with the US and Israel even when she knows they have nukes.
in this century, no country will dare nuke another, it will be a deal with the devil, not even the us will try that again.

ugo4u:
Nigeria as presently constituted don't have the capacity to end France hegemony on West Africa. Ask yourself do we even have a foreign policy in the first place? We are lucky France isn't really interested in the affairs of Nigeria, if we provoke them to beam their search light on us believe you me there may be a coup in Nigeria. It's like we all don't really know how deeply divided this country have sunk. Some people are ready to sabotage Nigeria even without any form of incentive as long as they get logistic support.
The centre is already weak as there is no leadership presently in Nigeria, give or take we are towing the Yugoslavia path except something urgent is done to put the nation on a 180° turn.

Valkrie:
Bro...the army have been zoombified to think in certain ways which civilians don't, I'm sorry to say....! With all the battlefield coordinatuon by the army what have they been able to achieve so far, more than 12 years and counting...!! Look back to history..all difficult wars have been won when the civilians decides to get armed and fight for their land or get involved..!! When the Israeli soldiers crossed the Suez canal and the Egyptian soldiers all ran away it was the civilian militia in the town that drove off the Israeli soldiers...many of their abandoned war tank are still their till today...!! ISIS/boko/al shabab etc no matter how you look at them are all civilain militia and look at what they doing to the more coordinated army for years...Not even the almighty Russian and american american army could bring down the Talibans...!!

See bro the Algerians learn the usefulness and power of the civilians in early 90's when they where having issues similar to ours now...what they did was to arm the civilians...madness for madness and the killings stopped and Algeria got her peace today...their remnant are the once their militart is cleaning up today...!!

Trust me.if the civilians decides to carry arms and enter a war...their would be change in the equation...!!

NafeesaAA:
Ops Tura Bango seem to have lost momentum. No more updates of military achievements, only news of repeated BHT attacks on Super Camps.

It seems to me like the NA can't fight these ragtag militias without air support. Its like the NA are waiting for Tucanos and JF-17 before they could muster courage to venture of thier Super Camps.

Everything just looks blimp and scary to me. I come to this thread to read and enjoy news of Victory over these bloodsockers but I am.daily fed with news of REPELLED REPELLED and REPELLED

Covert1:
I concur "A strong ECOWAS is a strong Nigeria". A strong Nigeria is also a strong ECOWAS. A weak Nigeria is a disaster for all of Africa. We can even stretch it to say a strong African Union behind Nigeria taking the lead is a force to be reckoned with in global affairs. The way to shut down these colonialists once and for all is to be united. But fifth columnists abound everywhere because of envy. The likes of Quattara helped by Jonathan to office now a total lackey of France and then the perennial ruler in Cameroon and even worse South Africa under Jacob Zuma and other puppets of the west. I expected more from Ramaphosa but with him and his ANC already advocating support for the junta in N'djamena for the sake of stability raises questions of what are there motives here. The whole chad business screams bad news with terrorists running amok and cheap Libyan weapons awash in the entire sub-region.

Another option is to allow the regional hegemons a seat on the UNSC with veto power but here we are with the west playing brother against brother. ECOWAS still seems the best route for Nigeria but Africa would be better off with Nigeria as its lead voice in global affairs much like Europe defers to America. Many will not agree with me and may clamor instead for a United States of Africa but I don't see Nigeria with its huge population and potential acceding to such ideas which is why it supports the gradualist position of integrating the African Union. The strategic patience Nigeria has thus far employed might need to be jettisoned for a more robust assertive foreign policy to whip these nations into line for true emancipation.