samorobo:
Lol Kenya show me your police vehicles in any other county aside nairoslum...I am sure Nairobi police uses matatu and local "BODA BODA" for patrols



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0mZbynuRt1I

Ohh ignorant loudmouth Naijjan Child! Pix and opinions don't matter regardless of how fervently they're held. I did this early last year and am repeating it for the newbies. 3.5 naira=1 kshs.

Here are Kenya police salary 2019. There are also Kenya police ranks

Kenya Police Rank pay Per Month Total Per Year
Senior assistant inspector general 274,890 3,298,680
Assistant inspector general 187,890 2,254,680
Commissioner of police 130,590 1,567,080
Senior superintendent 85,890 1,030,680
Superintendent 73,020 876,240
Assistant superintendent 70,530 846,360
Chief inspector 59,220 710,640
Inspector of police 53,820 645,840
Senior sergeant 50,220 602,640
Sergeant 45,540 546,480
Corporal 42,660 511,920
Constable/ Fresh Graduate 32,880 394,560

http://trendinginkenya.com/kenya-police-salary-scale-allowances/

Police Constable (PC) II – N84,000.

2. Police Constable (PC) I – N86,000.

3. Sergeant Copral (SC) – N96,000.

4. Sergeant Major (SM) – N119,000.

5. Inspector Of Police (IP) II – N167,000.

6. Inspector of police (IP) I – N254,000.

7. Assistant Superintendent of police (ASP) II – N271,000.

8. Assistant Superintendent of police(ASP) I – N296,000.

9. Deputy Superintendent of police (DSP) – N321,000.

10. Superintendent of Police (SP) – N342,000.

11. Chief Superintendent of police (CSP) – N419,000.

12. Assistant Commissioner of police (ACP) – N483,000.

13. Deputy commissioner of police (DCP) – N531,000.

14. Commissioner of police (CP) – N1.5million.

https://www..ng/news/see-the-newly-approved-salary-structure-for-the-nigerian-police-force

Meaningful stats trump noise and as ever we lead you despite our problems and challenges in Kenyan policing none of us would deny. As you can see we pay our cops 50% higher. Goodness,niggas;I know they have their 'extracurricular activities,' like our own but FUCCKKKK!?

68816419:

UAE builds 300MW renewable energy plant in Lagos

A 300MW renewable energy power plant has been established and it is ready to generate power in Lagos soon. This was revealed when the United Arab Emirate Ambassador to Nigeria, Dr. Fahad Obaid Al Taffaq, paid a courtesy visit to the Minister of Power, Engr. Sale Mamman in his Office on Tuesday
The United Arab Emirate Ambassador to Nigeria Dr. Fahad Obaid Al Taffaq informed the Minister that a 300 megawatt power plant established by the United Arab Emirate, UAE is ready for take-off in Lagos to supplement the National grid. Al Taffaq said the 300MW power plant established by a member of the Emirate Royal Family, Ahmed Al-maktum, has the capacity for expansion within a few months to about 1,000mw.

He noted that the power project is part of the United Arab Emirate investment activities in Nigeria. The Ambassador however requested the assistance of the Minister in securing a generation license and tariff from the Lagos State Government. Al Taffaq explained that the company had concluded all agreements with Shell for the supply of gas to the plant. The Ambassador also informed the Minister of the interest of the United Arab Emirate to invest in electricity transmission and distribution network across Nigeria.


Read more: https://www.dailytrust.com.ng/uae-builds-300mw-renewable-energy-plant-in-lagos.html

We keep rewinding the same poo! We told you 17x at least even if you produce 10k MW and have a effed up distro system its pointless!

AskiaHarem:


Nothing

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LxB6B8z_2HU [/url]

You love that plastic bag poop image so much I'm wondering about you! While you'd have us believe every Naijjan eases himself in such a designer bathroom that's not the case! Anyway,everyone else,here's the reason for the prevalence of cholera in the hollow Potemkin city of Abuja!

As beautiful as the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) is, you still find men and women, including the sophisticated ones, squatting shamelessly in the open to defecate in public places, such as the highways, markets, motor parks and recreational parks.



Ideally, decent toilet, either publicly or privately run ought to have been provided in such places.

Inside Abuja checks revealed that there are spots in the FCT where some persons specifically go to just to defecate. On one of such occasions, a young man smartly dressed, jumped down from a green- coloured Toyota Camry and dashed into one of such spots adjacent the Federal Ministry of Finance, Central Business District.

https://www.newtelegraphng.com/2019/07/public-toilets-changing-lives-restoring-hope/

Only in Naij! When you built the giant theatre stage called Abuja you somehow forgot to build toilets-WTF!?

Open defecation is the norm in many higher institutions of learning in Nigeria because the toilet facilities are not properly managed.

At the Nnamdi Azikiwe University Awka, Anambra State, students prefer to find other means to using the toilets available. The federal university thousands of students and four student hostels. With over 1,000 occupants of the hotels, sanitation facilities are over-stretched.

Victory Ezeokonkwo, the president of Block E male hostel, said due to poor facility management, most of the students defecate in bushes. The 300-level Political Science student said there has been no water in the hostel since his first year in the school.

"I have not seen water in any of the toilet closets since I came to this school. Sometimes it is even difficult to get water for bathing."

https://allafrica.com/stories/201809040084.html

As always with all things Naij more research reveals the unthinkable and unmentionable:

Investigations reveal that a lot of tenants don’t know their rights in Nigeria and one wonders, why should lease-holders, pay for offices without toilets in shopping complexes. In Port Harcourt, for instance, it is a novelty. You shouldn’t be surprised to read; that many shop owners defecate inside their shops, in bags, and dispose of it secretly.

https://www.newtelegraphng.com/2018/04/open-defecation-cholera-other-epidemics-loom-nationwide/

I'm wishing I hadn't taken this shitty road but the train has left the station and there's no jumping off til final destination!

Sunday Telegraph’s visits to some tertiary institutions in Nigeria revealed that most students’ hostels do not have decent or enough toilets to carter for the increasing number of students in the schools, and this pushes some of them to defecate and urinate in their rooms and dispose to the environment. They call it shot-put or flying carpet, when they fling it off in cellophane bags.

AARRGHHH!? The same unis you scream are the best in Africa with Kibera attributes!? Only in Naij-its too much. I'm out!

Algerian1:
Fox 2 algeria

Is it just me or could the WZ-551 be a Chinese Fox? Is there a resemblance?

WARTHUNDER:


Sorry broz, I dint know you posted Vicky & AML-90 upgrade years ago. Thanks for sharing the good ideas. So its Nigeria's failure to upgrade not Kenyans hiding useful stuff, we need to fix our own lives here in NG

Kenya surprises me going for MD armed light helicopter, same Kenya had 12 early model British made Tucanos before, now instead of moving up to Super Tucano model like 20 other developing countries, a plane that can take off from Kenya to kill Al Shabaab in Somalia and return to Kenya on same fuel load is a mystery.

They can be converted to ground attack which is why they were purchased.

WARTHUNDER:


When ISIS swooped over Iraqi army 2014, government army was losing that war. Fastest game changer was urgent procurement from Russia of 250 MT-LB upgunned with ZU-23-2 anti-aircraft guns costing 250K dollars per vehicle, and so ISIS rapid advance was stopped. Iraq could then sit down, plan, fund big time procurement.

If NA adds modern thermal vision for night combat to 23mm x 2 MT-LB, up cost to 500k apiece but 500 million dollars means we get 1,000 night vision armoured heavy firepower all terrain troop carriers to spread around 100 army FOBs, 100 more NAF air bases, NN Lake Chad bases, military barracks, MJNTF bases, Baga & Bama regular hot zones, Police MOPOL hot camps, endangered Maiduguri, Monguno etc.

You see pics difference between NA MT-LB captured and why it was lost, compare Iraqi MT-LB, I never saw Iraq lose any to ISIS. Other pic is Ukraine's Army Elite troops using it now against insurgency. We can push BHT ISWAP out of all Nigerian spaces with 1,000 killer MT-LB upgrade, then plan how to use the one thousand vehicles to win this war fast. My own shop right viewpoint, I hope its usable.

That's an excellent platform but I'd be happier if it were a 6x6 for speed. You do know tracks have a limited lifespan depending on the surface,rocks,sand mud or tarmac each of which abrades the tracks which must then be replaced after a certain mileage.
A question:is the 23 mm turret stabilised? If not its more of an area suppression weapon!

rvp20182:
Very nice - we need to get to 1B dollars - and I think we can - if we leave Maize & beans entirely for Tanzania and Ugandans.

We've passed RSA:no surprise there. A lot of energy has gone into avocado growing . We need to look at value addition and stop being primary producers.

jln115:
SMH.....

What? Is there anything incorrect? Such tendencies are common with race obsessed groups. Is the expose on the Apartheid era homopedophilia fake news?
What??

Stevoh18:


I will be updating the progress often

Completion due date Nov 2021

We'll still be here though not all of us will be even slightly less unintelligent.

gallivant:


[b]Samson you are loosing your head! [/b]You have not proven the proforce ARA was exported to Southern Africa or the UN, just wailing like a goat that lost her baby! You need to stop, step back and make an appointment so they can do a ct scan on your brain.

Here's the scan!

Lionessza6:


LOL,well those players are now panicking since the commission is backfiring. Zuma once said " those calling for the commission will be the ones to cry the most" . His prophesy is now evident for all to see; George Soros media houses are working around the clock spin-doctoring the testimonies of the witnesses . We now have the American government trying to change the ending of the commission even before it's concluded.
True, such cases have been pushed aside for far too long , leaving some victims in some cases to take the law their own hands as we saw with the Terreblanche case. He died with a stick in his butthole which was inserted by a young boy; No surprise here. There are many more " good Christian men" from these farmlands who die with their penis'es inside their mouth and or with rods up their arses. We are told these are robberies or racial attacks, but clearly there is more behind these murderes. Mostly it's the old men in the farms who are at the receiving end of this sort of sadism; that is telling . There are allegations that Orania, where they claim they are protecting their culture is now a paedo paradise ; No surprise here either. As you said, these sorts of evil deeds are common around communities that are ran like cults.

You misread me,sweetie-its common with those obsessed with racial superiority attitudes. This is the BLF site but still:

We have not forgotten how Eugène Terre’Blanche and his cabal raped farm workers and their children for years until Chris Mahlangu ended the terror and hacked Blanche to death with a machete.

This and the numerous unreported violations that happen in Orania, in farms where our people are subjected to sexual slavery,

https://blf.org.za/tag/eugene-terreblanche/

Lionessza6:


Like you said it's all BS. There was never any state capture by the Zuma family and the Guptas, it was all a hoax as I said to you before. The real state capture is taking place. Check out; cr17bankstatements. Eskom IPPs and the long running contracts of the SAA. The plan was always to get rid of Zuma and plant the puppet . Remember I told you that Pravin Gordhan was going to be our prime minister? . And the so called SA here came for me ; claiming I was crazy. Duduzane did appear infront of the kangaroo court known as state capture commission, and killed the bastards. They have nothing on him nor Zuma. The Guptas assets that were seized are now back in their hands , yet America has sanctioned them �. No court in SA has found them guilty though, so there........

It's all getting interesting, the real state captureres are now being exposed, while idiots are busy screaming Zuma �.

I thought as much! Looking at the players involved in screaming 'state capture,' I saw the same hysterics used against Mbeki multiple times by the same individuals. Good to see Dudu handled himself! Imo,til an inquiry exposes the late Malan & others involved in Jimmy Saville like activities with black boys I'll never take their judicial investigations srsly!
Have you heard of this,sis?

The Lost Boys of Bird Island: three apartheid ministers named in paedophilia ring
Magnus Malan is one of the ministers who was named as a central figure in the trafficking and sexual abuse of children of colour in Bird Island.

https://www.thesouthafrican.com/news/bird-island-ministers-paedophilia/

The writer,a former cop 'suicided' last year. Btw,these homo sadistic tendencies are quite common with those obsessed with ideas of cultural and/or racial superiority-I specifically remember that clown who used to like dressing up and riding horses,Terreblanche was once sued by a bodyguard for sexual harassment.

vaxx2:
A good read about Nigeria so called bogus inventor.......

Philip Emeagwali—Another fake Black "genius"
Philip Emeagwali—Another fake Black "genius"
When the story about Philip Emeagwali first appeared in the media, I thought that he was a genuine African genius. After all, even on a continent where the average IQ is 70 and the standard deviation is 12, one Black in 368 million will have an IQ higher than 140, which is the minimum IQ to qualify as a genius. There's an even chance that there are two Black geniuses in Africa, and how was I to know that Emeagwali wasn't one of them?

Anyway, I'm ashamed to admit that I was deceived by that talk about Emeagwali inventing the supercomputer by watching the way bees build their hives. It turns out that this was just jive.

In 1989, Emeagwali was one of nine people to share a Gordon Bell Prize, worth about $1000. The Gordon Bell Prize is one of many smalltime prizes that people who use computers can win, and it is the basis for a lot of bogus or hyperinflated self-promotional claims that Emeagwali later made.

The Jewsmedia, including CNN, picked up on Emeagwali's antics and gave them uncritical prestige. Suddenly, we were hearing that Emeagwali invented the idea of parallel processing. He did not. We heard that Emeagwali invented the supercomputer. He did not. We heard that he invented the Internet. He did not. We were invited to believe that Emeagwali's Gordon Bell Prize was some kind of major achievement, on a par with the Nobel Prize. It is no such thing. There are even pseudobiographical anecdotes about Emeagwali to be found online, many of them intended to convey the idea that Emeagwali is one of the most brilliant men ever to live, on a par with, say, Karl Friedrich Gauss. He is not.


source ...live journal

Be careful with that African IQ B.S.!? Many foreigners are emotionally invested in the mantra when the fact is Africans beat ALL on culturally adjusted intelligence testing.

vaxx2:
never ever mention Philip emagwili. that great lier and deceptive who wanted to claim what he does not achieved. and regarding your other ranting, i have submitted a credible screen shot that discredit your gibberish.

Thanks! This professional BSer would have claimed to have even invented air! Idk how many claimed he had that were all debunked. The kind of thing that makes us ALL look bad.

WARTHUNDER:


Bros that's interesting to hear. Thanks for the info.

Methinks 1980s night vision is weak though, maybe sees 30 metres far and still needs supporting infra red headlamps to brighten the area, a method now obsolete. Abrams newest upgrade is modern day thermal imagers. Abrams is farthest among rivals with 15 km night vision very sharp n clear like i-Phone X pictures.

We should be okay with year 2000 thermal sight if we can shop right and get it.

How come you guys upgraded your own Vicky tanks & AML-90 with modernized night vision and didn't share the idea with us? [b]You guys are stingy with good ideas? ;[/b]D

Both the Vics and Panhards were upgraded by the respective OEMs. Stingy? Not the Hurlingham (DOD HQ)boys;no sir-here's a true story you can confirm from your end I first posted 2012 on the Thread that turned into a poo parade. After the night time amphib/airborne Kismayu capture in September 2012 your your Ship House were around requesting the tactical playbook and some specops guys to recce Mali for the intended NA mission against jihadists;remember that episode?
Anyway a section were on ground in nondescript unidentified kit for a fortnight and said a BIG NYET! Too many competing players both military,political plus freelance adventurers while cultural ans linguistic issues would've made operations too iffy.
Like I said confirm from your end if this story is true.

WARTHUNDER:
Is there cause for alarm? Yes or No? Has everyone seen ISWAP playing on top our legendary Sagaie 90 that did so well for NA in Sudan, S. Leone, Mali? Am avoiding posting that pic, am sad cuz Sagaie 90 is my favourite NA airmobile tank on tyres. Now ugly face Jihadis capture my favorite AFV. A student of mine at Institute I lecture, told me a shocking thing that only 1 in 20 NA armoured fighting vehicles have night vision combat infra red! My 2nd fear in that Sagaie 90mm pic is these nowadays common brown uniform, is this still unconventional war or now semi-conventional? As academic school teacher of Strategic Studies I wonder. Our enemy now has official militia combat uniform, mad boldness! I pray for Nigeria with my beads daily, because so did Rome fall to Barbarians, not that BHT ISWAP call defeat us, but they can frustrate 300 Nigerian tribes with insecurity and we unknowingly tear down our fragile fabric that joins us as one nation. Is our future secure inside this insecurity?

Your Vic 3s like ours have an integral low light TV set from the 80s. Ours were upgraded to 4th gen IR 6 or 7 years back. Same thing with our Panhard AMLs though I can't name the model.

WARTHUNDER:
Free public show April 2019, it was fun that day in Kaduna, army weapons display. I dont know if same pics are on other pages here.

Methinks arguments on Army budget is simple case. Low funds VS Enough funds. Lets agree to disagree like someone said. Thinking with published data from FGovt. Min. Budg & Nat. Pln budget office and Army HQ.

NA lost golden chance oil boom 2001 till 2013 when clever armies of OPEC nations masterminded their own full scale army modernization master plans, but Nigerian army wasted its own bonanza, army alone capital procurement budget incd. side grants hit $5 billion total. Next phase 2014 till 2019 another MBNP $2 billion capital budget paid army alone. NA didnt shop righitht with $7 billion 2001 till 2019, Fed. & Legist. will now need real convincing to dish out heavy again, fears wrong shopping.

For 2019 Army COAS asked FGovt. for capital procurement budget $250 million but Fed. MBNP gave $120 million. MBNP blames scanty unclear purpose because Army don't fully detail whats needed to fully finally finish job in N.E, it's asking for same things MBNP paid NAF to buy, not so convincing in these scarce dollar days. Please can anybody help them plead their case well? Help NA if you have ideas.

Tbh,the entire defence budget needs to be expanded dramatically! Ours is a billion dollars for 25k in the triservices and we're still short of air transport and need new jets while you guys got roughly the same for 160k!? Meaning welfare,housing,acquisitions and the usual line items are srsly squeezed with barely enough to go round. Idk how you do it and til this is addressed I don't see the battle against BH succeeding- ITS BEEN NEARLY A DECADE.

There seems to be a secret ongoing convo: WTF are Oris,Alterans and hyperdrive!?

Stevoh18:



Pathetic
What a shame for an oil rich country like Nigeria aka world capital of poverty ....Lagos a city of 24m residents(paupers) looking like a refugee camp, ....can only brag about a bridge the rest are just simple structures...

Indeed! Naijjans,tell us why you always lead the worst cities Index! Is it biased Oyinbo media,a genuine blunder or deep conspiracy? Pls give us our opinion; I truly want to understand why.

nemesis8u:


Frankly speaking I always liked the bird especially the F version, no fuss no muss

Other than their organic firepower capability

One of their main utility lies in their ability to act as forward fire controllers for indirect line of sight weapons like mortar , artillery , rockets etc.

Allows to lay down accurate firepower on a massive scale from the first round itself at standoff distances. Enables the rear guard support troops to break up enemy assault through accurate mortar , artillery , rocket barrage etc and relieves the pressure off the forward troops in direct contact with the hostiles.

This is a classic example of air ground combined arms synergy for max effect.

I'm really waiting for the MD 969 NOTAR! Rotor less,twin engine and faster,more powerful it verges on a medium weight. Its MDs response to US Army FARA,Future Attack Recon Aircraft.

That will give MD three in-production military helicopters: the 530F Cayuse Warrior with a gross takeoff weight of 3,750 pounds, the 530G with a takeoff weight of 3,950 pounds and the[b] twin-engine 969 with 6,770 pounds of payload capacity at an empty gross weight of 3,350 pounds.[/b]

“That means a lot of weapons, a lot of mission equipment and it’s all under $15 million, which really gives us a niche in the light attack space,” Tilton said.

If it performs as the other variants usually do I expect this variant to be in Aircav colours within a decade. It has a strange never before seen internal Common Launch Tube allowing for higher payload while its internal space is also larger.

Made of composite materials, the fuselage offers greater strength to weight ratio. The helicopter features two sliding cabin doors providing a 1.3m-wide entrance space on each side.

The cabin offers a volume of 4.8m³ and can accommodate up to eight members. It also houses a machine gun to compliment fire support missions.

Ever seen that? I know I haven't! It launches drones and PGMs.

The new 969 will cruise at 160 knots and sprint at 180 knots, which puts it at the threshold speed requirement for the U.S. Army’s Future Attack Reconnaissance Aircraft (FARA). Based on the 969, the company is developing a winged variant that uses MD’s no-tail-rotor (NOTAR) technology that will fly at up to 200 knots, squarely in the Army’s desired capability range

https://www.rotorandwing.com/2019/03/06/md-hypes-new-winged-swift-variant-969-armys-new-attack-recon-aircraft/

All these systems should be approved by end of 2019.

nemesis8u:




Let's agree to disagree

As always you're wise! I couldn't find actual combat footage of a pair of MDs in action for some reason apart from this Afghan training vid:

https://youtu.be/uUvtMSj3908

That's why the following Army aviation units use this excellent platform;the Chileans,Malaysians,S Kors, US Army,Finns,the Phils',Jordanians and the Israelis used to. Others like Italians,Croatians,Afghans and Mexicans use it in their AFs

mtisTheQubit:

Hope you did something like this...

Not that big;but still MAJOR,trust me!

GabrielYulaw:


[b]I was surprised too when I saw his quote. 200K for an ATGM [/b]and against Boko Haram and ISWAP that lack the resources to launch a counter to missiles of any sort. Lol. Even old ATMG of the sort the Russians and other Eastern countries have in stock will do here. We don't need state-of-the-art ATGMs that cost more than an estate in Lekki
I also agree about the army needing to be strong in land theatre. It needs to acquire lots of short and long range rocket artillery, as well as long range convention artillery. This can replace air strikes when needed.

Yes! As the link showed Chinese analogs like the HJ-8 built in the late 80s are 50% less but the newer models like the -11 and -12 are only 20-30% less in cost. Due to the tech involved,guidance seeker,flight motor,cutting edge production processes etc,etc its not possible to go below a certain price point. See the Javelin diagram.

This Ukrainian buy shows the cost breakdown of roughly 200k$ a piece for the Jav:

WASHINGTON - Congressional and State Department officials on Tuesday preliminarily approved a [b]$39-million sale of shoulder-launched Javelin anti-tank missiles to Ukraine to help the country battle Russia-backed separatists.

First reported by Bloomberg News, the sale of 150 missiles and two additional launchers [/b]comes months after Ukraine requested the additional batch of Javelins earlier this year.

https://www.voanews.com/usa/us-prepares-39m-anti-tank-javelin-missiles-ukraine

My broz, Warthunder is a lecturer in this field, he knows much more than you wrote. He reviewed all spec details of MD-500, it wont defeat ISWAP. Army must be strong on its land. This year June, one Jihadist used ordinary 7.62mm PKM to shoot down a good French armed Gazelle helic, news on internet.

Infantry ATGM low calibre versions made in China Ukraine Pakistan cost only $20 a pop new build, $10k storage stock. Very cheap east side, not USA Javelin. I blame NA because they dont shop right, Little $50 m buys 100 ATGMs launchers (covers all 100 FOBs) with 2,000 missiles for NA, now does ISWAP, BHT have 2,000 Hilux gun trucks to fight such NA in new MTOE & TDA?

If I'm reading you correctly static bases each with cheap ATGMs and a sole launcher will defeat BH. Do you have a source for those bargain basement ATGMs?

WARTHUNDER:
Please, we cannot blame this current NAF, just read all seminar papers by NAF on Limitations of Air Power 2019.

Any army full of of overseas trained officers academy and MSc graduates that says it cannot defeat totally illiterate primary school drop out BHT ISWAP unless government buys them dozens of army owned combat helicopters, that army is a failure.

How many aircraft does Boko Haram have? How many tanks, artillery, MRAP, APC, does ISWAP have?

That tiny, soft skin, cheap armed helicopter is not good for this deadly war, 300 bullets gun pod is too small. It flies only 2 hours airborne so add base distance it stays like just 15 minutes in combat zone, our troops fight 6 hours long battles. No armour, GPMG 7.62mm can shoot it down like it shot down some French Gazelles recently in Mali. ISWAP BHT that has anti-aircraft and shot down Alpha jets, heavily damage well armoured Mi-24. its them our army wants to fly against in light helicopters?

Govt cant spend $600 million on Super Tucano, $300 million on Mi-35 and still invest money to buy enough of really capable army helicopters to create another second air force with our weak economy causing low budget.

Our army is joking, how will helicopters be stationed in frontline trenches beside soldiers like a Jeep? No army on earth keeps air support helicopters in frontline trenches. Army officer that does not know complexities of aircraft fleet maintenance and ground support facilities wants to park helicopters like Hilux Jeep beside troops in trenches! May this army not waste us.

NAF is flying against Delta militants, N.W. bandits, N.E. terrorists, N.C. herdsmen, ocean pirates, nationwide armed robbers, all the same time, with how many aircraft? If NAF flies without maintenance down time per hours of flight per aircraft and pilots fatigue, NAF will have air crashes daily! They cannot do more than these tens of thousands of sorties per season, it's called technical limitation of air power. 70 armed helicopters owned by Kenya has not given Kenyan army victory over Somali insurgents, yes 70 combat helicopters wont win CT-COIN. An army must be well equipped to win on land.

Nigerian army is not serious, see, when air support is not always guaranteed, armies around the world have alternatives, they use man portable anti-tank thermobaric missiles to kill off gun truck vehicles in large scale insurgent attacks, then use heavy machine guns to wipe out foot insurgents in hundreds.

US, UK, and allied army infantry men fired off over 30,000 TOW, MILAN, Javelin etc against Taliban and ISIS in one decade of CT-COIN.
NA refuses to induct any infantry missile or KPV, or ZPU as options to NAF air support for decades, but now they want squadrons of army helicopters to defeat enemies that have no aircraft. Why?

Air fleet of combat helicopters is huge cost to maintain serviceable 24/7, prone to air crash, shoot down by anti-aircraft, can be overrun at army aviation base if poorly equipped garrison platoons retreat overwhelmed.

Drones owned by army are much needed, NA has many DJI, Govt. should add squadrons of Gulma UAV to our army owned airborne ISR to cover all N.E. land mass. How many armies on earth own fleets of combat helicopters? Is lack of own gunships a reason to lose war? An army planning to win land based war using armed helicopters forgets the enemy can get MANPADS. A good army must plan to win by operating on land, it's traditional battle space.

$180 million is average annual capital procurement budget for NA. Factor special war funds, means 2009 to 2019 Nigerian army was paid nearly
$3 billion to buy new equipment. All we see are poorly armed armoured, and soft skin no armour vehicles parading DSHK like it's Nigeria's nuclear weapon for victory.

ISWAP entered Nigeria, and with BHT they hold our once upon a time mighty Nigerian Army down to a forever stalemate. We are not happy, we want real victory and a Nigeria free from war.

That's why they operate in pairs. Also a pair of 3 tube 2.75 inch rockets. The pic shows the ordnance. I know of a flight of 6 MD 500s on an operation against Toposa cattle rustlers in '86 beyond L Turkana who flew a combined 20 hours! Its range is actually quite handy-

It has a maximum permitted speed of 282km/h at sea level and can fly to a range of 426km. The MD 530G can operate for two and a half hours with an auxiliary fuel tank.

https://www.army-technology.com/projects/md-530g-scout-attack-helicopter/

A squadron given the usual combat/training/maintenance cycle should be more than adequate for your NE. If you were facing conventional mech forces,yes you'd need heavier gunships.

The KDF actually performed as expected-the training,equipment,platforms and tactics all worked except for the terrible El Adde attack due to the criminally negligent coy commander who ignored all advice and intel. The aircav is only one tool in the entire tactical playbook-its not a magic wand and must be properly utilised in conjunction with ground forces. Fyi,over 3000 AS militants have died within Somalia at KDF hands though its impossible to apportion a percentage purely to the Aircav.

Those ATGMs cost at least 200k$ a pop!? Will you use them against a BH group of 12 gun trucks attacking a coy FOB? Srsly?
http://nationsdawnofanera.weebly.com/anti-tank-guided-missile.html

Warfighting is also about economics. The .50 BMG ball&tracer 100 rounds costs roughly 250$ on the. high side.
https://www.wikiarms.com/group/50BMG
You do know the .50 BMG will penetrate even heavy AFVs within a 100m? When fired from a manoeuvring platform by a flyguy who knows his poo they're not that easy to shoot down. I know a few 50 Aircav guys,including one who was shot down 1984 by Somali bandits in Kenya.

rvp2018:
I have tremendous respect for Kipchoge and I am really.hoping he does it

I knew it! Just got paid a heavy bet,way bigger than usual at 1.8 odds;like I said intelligent betting is all about risk mitigation. Kipchoge can even do 1.58.50 or even 30. You saw his finishing kick-he's got much more in his gas tank!

oyinpr:
God bless you for speaking the truth sir, the synergy can never be the same as depending on another arm for air support those days are long gone. I was highly impressed when I saw the Kenyan army aviation corp in compat again insurgents and it was at night sef.

Just seen this today!

The major factor that hinders the Nigerian army from defeating Boko Haram is the lack of an “army aviation,” the man who heads the army’s operations against the terror group said.
Olusegun Adeniyi, who is the Theater Commander of the army’s Operation Lafiya Dole, said this when he received a delegation of the National Assembly joint committee on the army on Thursday.
Mr Adeniyi, a major general, took over the command of the military’s counter-insurgency operation about two months ago.

https://www.premiumtimesng.com/news/headlines/357102-why-nigerian-army-has-not-defeated-boko-haram-theatre-commander.html

He also sees the obvious and frankl;y having followed the BH issue for 7 years here I'm now convinced while the West ,specifically France is secretly supplying them some state forces are happy with the status quo!

Look at this:

The war general said Boko Haram has never been a “formidable force” as they are perceived to be.
“The only thing that needs to be given to the army now is Nigeria Army Aviation,” he said.
“There is a way you solve a problem that will change the game. The army needs combat helicopters to end the Boko Haram war. If we have it, it will not be deployed like air force assets, air force jets which are for bigger strategic goals.
“These helicopters will sleep with us in the trench, they will be with us in the front line. These helicopters and the rifles are dispatched together.
“I know this has been on the table for years. When this is done, Nigeria can forget about Boko Haram.”

This should actually have been done at the beginning-that it hasn't til now means there's a hidden agenda and tbh,Naij Army Aviation may remain a dream on these pages,indefinitely,I'm sorry to say.

Seened:


And most of these veterans have passed on. Sad.

Every year on VJ day a dwindling band of Burma survivors would accost the Brit defence attache for word on their benefits and be chased away by guards. By the time they realised Johnnie Brit had no intention of paying they were in their 90s!?

But when the fighting was over, Britain sent these men back home with an end-of-war bonus that was roughly a third of the reward given to their white counterparts, even those from settler communities living in the same African colonies.

“When I got out, they gave me nothing,” said the Burma campaign veteran, Mbiuki, now 100 years old and living in poverty in rural Kenya. “They should have known how much we had helped them. They would have given something. But that was not the case. We were abandoned just like that.”

https://foreignpolicy.com/2019/02/23/britains-abandoned-black-soldiers/

They're talking about a mere 12 mn GBP aid package-talking,mind you! No wonder these guys were the vanguard of the Uhuru struggles in the 50s.

The public flogging of African soldiers for petty crimes—illegal in the main British Army since 1881—led to a formal complaint in 1943 from an English-born missionary, with threats to go public with allegations of “sadism.” Such abuse was not formally abolished in Kenya until December 1946 but was still permitted in military prisons until April 1948.

Look at this horrible ishyt!

Rates of war gratuities were starkly different for white and black soldiers. A white private could earn 10 shillings for each month of service; for a black soldier of the same rank, just 3½ shillings. White corporals would get 12 shillings per month of service; for black corporals, just 4 shillings. Fearing any threat to the racial order, Britain barred its African soldiers from reaching higher ranks during the colonial period. The most senior position open to them was “warrant officer class 1,” which could earn them a war gratuity of six shillings per month of service, 30 percent of the sum on offer to white officers of that class. Stringent rules governing Britain’s colonial forces also prohibited these more senior African soldiers from disciplining lower-ranking white troops. Even higher-ranking black soldiers were expected to address the lowest white private as “sir.”

What disappoints me is that most of us still have no idea.

rvp20182:
You come from such a dysfunctional country - you think having 24-7 electricity is rocket science - and fiber to home can only be connected to whites & asians. Kenya has about 0.5 fixed broadband with about half of that fiber - to- home. That is about 0.5m household - which translate roughly to 2M kenyans having fixed broadband. Nigeria - the giant mess of africa - has 150k fixed broadband - maybe only 10K are on fiber if ever.

Incidentally,are you betting on Kipchoge's 1.59? As a jogger,nowhere near his level ofc,my best 10k is 45 mns,8k 34.30;its doable for a runner of his calibre-he'll need to do at least 2.45 mns thereabouts per km. With the flat course and trained pacemakers I think I'll take a large bet considering he was just 27 seconds outside this at Monza.
Unaonaje?

BabaOwen:
Yes I did.

I think the Nigerian Army need an air arm. All the attack helicopters with the Nigerian airforce should be transferred to the Nigerian army.

Buratai once said the Nigerian army will soon operate attack helicopters, I think he even commissioned about 10 guys sef and gave them wing, what's the latest about this guys?

Definitely! Also to avoid inter arms delays requesting support across service lines from Army to AF you need your own CAS capability. At least 2 squadrons of cheap,easy maintenance,light attack gunships in an army unit like the 50 Aircav we have here in 3 squadrons,a mix of 500 MDs and 530 Fs,36 in number. Operating in pairs they can put serious hurt on uglies with their .50 BMGs and 2.75 inch rockets.

Seened:
Flashback (copy and paste)

Soldiers from the King's African Rifles practice their bayonet drill in Burma. They are a few of the 100,000 African soldiers who fought for Britain in the jungles of Burma against Imperial Japan during WWII - Picture was taken in 1944

Their story encapsulates the colonial experience. They served 4 years straight only going off the line infrequently from 5-10 km in the rear for rest,paid a third of their white counterparts,serving in the longest fought campaign of WW2. Fyi,their victor in Burma saved India! Field Marshal Slim,14th Army commander admitted as much.

The campaign that carried Slim from the borders of Burma to Rangoon is considered by military historians the greatest feat of operational maneuver by a British general in the 20th century. Slim had said he wanted soldiers who could go anywhere and do anything. In the Fourteenth Army, that is what he had in 1944-45.

https://winstonchurchill.hillsdale.edu/great-contemporaries-bill-slim/

None of their promised pensions and benefits were ever paid-til today!? Which is why whenever I hear colonial apologists I say,"nigga,'tards are that way!"

Mkenya2019:
I think the issues was - when to count - those customers - when they apply for an account or when they turn the light. That controversy was alive when Kenya Power had like 4M customers...now they are nearly double.

Kenya Power is PUBLICLY LISTED company in Nairobi Stock Exchange and publishes it's AUDITED results.

Here is one for last year

https://www.kplc.co.ke/AR2018/KPLC%20Annual%20Report%2017_12_2018_Wed.pdf
For example - last year --

In the course of the year, we connected 578,808
new customers to the grid, growing the overall
customer base by 9.4 percent to 6,761,090 million.
This was largely achieved through the government
funded Last Mile Connectivity Project. As a result,
the national electricity access from both grid and
off-grid solution as at end of June 2018 had risen
to 73 percent compared to 29 percent five years
ago. The connectivity drive is premised on our
strategic goal to secure the power distribution
and retail market and support the country’s goal
of providing electricity to all Kenyans which is
an important ingredient for socio-economic
transformation and development.

They're not capable of comprehending that nor the explanation below.

SUFFERInSMILIIN:

My friend you are totally stupid you I'm borrowing money from China and World Bank including IMF to build islands in the middle of the sea doesn't Nigeria have enough of land. These are massive white elephants just like Elijah Steel plant or Nigerian Airways. [/b]I was told by a Nigerian in Botswana that Nigerians are building this project to try to escape from Nigeria in the Islands so when Nigerians are in does Islands they believe they're not in Nigeria

It seems there's a fatal flaw in EAC-the sea wall around the site. Its slightly higher than the surroundings:

But according to some climate scientists, [b]the same wall that will protect Eko Atlantic could worsen the situation for neighboring areas not protected by it, which includes much of Lagos. Dr. Alan Blumberg, renowned for his research and the effects of climate change on water structures, highlighted the challenges in a phone call.

“What happens when you build a wall is that the approaching storm surge will come up to the wall, and it will move to the left or right of the wall, searching for a weakness or a low spot. If there are two islands close to each other, it may go to the island next door instead.”

https://qz.com/africa/923142/the-flaw-in-the-construction-of-eko-atlantic-island-in-lagos/

Others have very interesting observations on EAC talking about 'utopia/wealthy enclave.'

n his 2012 book, Zombie Economics, Australian economist, John Quiggin, talks about ideas that have been disproven or ‘killed’ time and time again but continue to live on in the minds of public policymakers with disastrous results. Quiggin was thinking mainly of the assumptions that led to the 2008 financial crisis in the United States, but I can’t help but recall the concept whenever I hear of the ongoing ‘megacity’ project in Lagos, Eko Atlantic.

https://www.republic.com.ng/june-july-2019/african-mega-city-addiction/

Btw,he talks about the sea wall problems,too!