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dragon2:
By now our bases should have about 3-5 soldiers with anti material rifles that can stop technicals at distance abeg.We should be out ranging and out gunning bokoharam/ISWAP.
Sentry work is also very very important. Things like laser trip wires and ground radars should be part of the package of a base.
The North-East is a challenging terrain,I always tell people it is bigger than one imagines. You can fit England(not UK) into Borno,Yobe and Adamawa with space left.
Ground Surveillance is just as important as aerial. You can't have aircraft airborne 24/7.

One of the first to things I noticed about our forward bases is that we are still in this millennium shockingly, "Digging Trenches" that is so outdated. The next you notice we have no "Elevation"

So you see the enemy when he is almost on top of you.

A 50 cal. Rifle will still need elevation to have the advantage.

JOSCOFELIX:
equipment have been sent. Last week ammunition was sent . Mrap and other combat vehicle will follow the plan to attack the ammunition convoy but was reinforce with air support and special operation forces

Your statement is general and without any specifics it becomes a NOTHING statement like a political slogan.

AskiaHarem:
A graph showing the continued decline of piracy in Nigeria and West Africa overall thanks to the Gallant Nigerian Navy with the help of its regional allies. It's great to see that crime is declining by the year as the Federal Republic advances in power.

Nigeria records 76.5 per cent decline on ships attacks in nine months.

According to the latest IMB statistics, reported incidents are down to their lowest level in decades, but violence against seafarers has continued with 51 crew kidnapped, eight taken hostage, five threatened, three injured, two assaulted and one killed.

IMB’s latest global piracy report recorded 97 incidents of piracy and armed robbery for the first nine months of 2021 – the lowest level of reported incidents since 1994.

[url] https://guardian.ng/business-services/maritime/nigeria-records-76-5-per-cent-decline-on-ships-attacks-in-nine-months/ [/url]

I knew it had to be you.

You seem to have forgotten to make reference to the international task force that has been operating in Gulf of Guinea.

We are talking European, American and even Russian naval vessels all coming by together to fight piracy.

Or did your not know

Geronimoe:
How do you make the naira stronger against the dollar? And again, what has changed in current fiscal policy as against former policies? Please kindly explain.

Fiscal policy hmmm

Fiscal policy is essentially about governments management and strategy of taxation and spending.

It's part of economic policy but isn't a determinant of national currency exchange rates.

You really want to make reference to Monetary policy and central bank activities that are directed toward influencing the quantity of money and credit available in an economy.

I don't think this is the place for that .

drDoom3:
Stop having delusions of grandeur. If we meet Mali with our full team right now, I doubt if we can come out with a draw. We don’t even have up to five players in UCL, teams like Morocco, Senegal and co. with actual world class players are not even making mouth like this.

The good thing we have is decent squad depth, and hat is mostly in attack. Midfield is lean, defense has plenty names but mostly poor players really. The only promising players in defense are Zaidu, Awaziem, and possibly Zainab/Bassey. The rest have reached their ceilings.

Awaziem is not a quality players by any stretch of the imagination, Zaidu is fast but average .

What happened to Aina , not much talk about him here. Despite getting relegated with Fulham ,he did very well in the EPL.

Our defence is not very good. Ekong has been OK at Watford but not outstanding , Balogun has done above average at Rangers ( but then it's the Scottish League) not very competitive. Omeruah has been " just there" nothing to report that's outstanding. What is Jamui and Shehu doing there

JohnBullMySon:
Very soon all West African countries will be playing home games away from home. God forbid sha.

Shocking �

Meanwhile will this AFCON still take place in Cameroon, who are fighting a bloody existential threat with Ambazonia separatists.

Also take into consideration the Boko Haram insurgency in the North.

And in in addition the long standing despotic ruler Paul Biya fighting any political opponents and murdering human rights.


Is it safe to go to Cameroon, I wonder

Joebie:
See if you can find a clip of Nigeria vs Bulgaria in USA '94 I watched on Youtube just last week. I remember the commentator quoting Westerhof in that encounter.

Modified
the only team Westerhof believed could cause us problems was Brazil (the eventual winners). He believed we could beat any team.
Going forward we should only employ coaches who have a pretty good track record and can see a huge potential in Nigeria.

Big difference the players we had then were top players and top players in their respective leagues and clubs.

Consider

Olise
Jjay
Finidi
Yekini
Amokachi
Ikpeba
Amunike
Sia Sia
Ekoku
Adepoju

None of our current strikers are better than Yekini, Ikpeba , Amokachi
None of our wingers are better than Finidi
Nobody pass Jjay and Olise or Sia Sia
Okechukwu the defender no get mate for the current Eagles

Westerhof had very good reason to tbe very confident.

I am sorry but Rohr is just being real.

Oasis001:



...... we are damn funny on this Thread walahi. We do rate our Players beyond Imaginations. We ain't in the 90s and Fans here should try to understand. This is no Era of Okocha, even Ronaldinho won't be able to play for a top Team in this present Epoch.

Football is no longer built on individual brilliance, its now rather built on Teamwork. Adama Traore, a fine Dribbler, yet playing for Wolves. Tactically, it'll be difficult at AFCON to rely on individual brilliance to win Matches.

Africans are rugged, and Defenders are ready to end your Career for you, if you try to mesmerise around them.

This is why not too long ago Rohr to rightly so said Victor O. is too light weight and preferred Ighalo.

Well for all the abuse he gets he was very CORRECT Ighalo comes away from AFCON as highest goal scorer.

Now things have changed he is not so lightweight but then can aggressive play overcome physicality in THE AFCON.

Time will tell.

Icon79:
Omo, as a player, you stake your claim to the national team by playing well in your football team. If you’re putting in a solid performance week in week out in your team then there’s no way you won’t get an invite. But if you don’t perform at your football club then how can we expect you to perform wonders at the national team?


O pari

Then explain the inclusion of Jamui Collins, Shehu, Musa, and one or two others.

EricBraven:
The increase in prices is everywhere not only Nigeria. The dollar to naira exchange rate is still fair to me compared to some developed nations. Infrastructure is the bedrock of development and accessibility to basic amenities

In 2015 the exchange rate was 250 naira to £1.

In early August l came into Nigeria and exchanged at 685 to £1, when I left in early October it was 780 to £1.

The government financial stability strategy actually does the opposite creates INSTABILITY. Restrict $ allocation to BDC operators , creating false shortage and then to add incompetence to cluelessness they accuse ABOKI fx for causing Naira depreciation by its reporting.

But then what can you expect from a leader who has no school leaving certificate.

To be honest I tire for the matter.

EricBraven:
PMB is not the problem,the fire started a long time ago and different president has refused to give it the attention it deserves.

Thankfully intelligence doesn't rest with the Majority.

Let me use a football analogy to bring light to your dark sense of reasoning, if it can even be called REASONING. That way you may just about grasp how ludicrous your suggestion is.

So because former Chelsea Managers Hiddink, Conte, Sarrri and Lampard started badly and wallowed in mediocrity therefore Tuchel current manager of Chelsea SHOULD NOT UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES be top of the Premier League table, Today.

This proposition is a nonsensical one with no be substance WHATSOEVER.

PMB is a comprehensive failure on all fronts, and he offers absolutely nothing from the past, present and future. Six years in power and he is blaming his predecessor that's foolish, he's taken us to the ABYSS, worst President in the entire in history of Nigeria.

When a football manager FAILS we don't keep him to keep failing WE SACK him IMMEDIATELY and get somebody else who can succeed and WIN.

maidaboi:
Odion Ighalo have arrived camp

Great news, l have great expectations for Gentleman striker Ighalo.

Icon79:
Big Joe, I agree with you. This team tends to play well when you give them a good pitch. And Morocco has some of the best soccer pitches in Africa.


O pari

Morocco is almost like a European country within Africa.

Omanambala:
Shut the ffuck ffuck! Every shoe has a size...go pick your size because I am outa your league. You love attention too much , for a man. You know where I stand but you love going in circle and insulting people because your life in uneventful.

I dont boast but I am well off , insha allah and same goes for my offspring! I will never brag but you were here the day KOMEKN claimed I live in Burkina Faso and never left Africa, until I dared him and silenced him forever.


You "mock" me over what ??

The very thing you accuse people of you are the undiluted personification of, YOU ARE THE MOST UNCOUTH, ABUSIVE, UNCIVIL person on this discourse and your diction is almost entirely VITRIOLIC in this forum, you have the KINGSHIP of BAD BEHAVIOUR .


" Out of the depths of the heart the mouth speaks "

Your heart is opaque and very dark, you have eyes but cant see, i would say you have a mind but that would imply some level of intelligence.

Your propositions are self birthed from an ingrained parochial mind , I ABSOLUTELY DO NOT BELIEF you LIVE in the USA. However, the possibility exists that you may work in a dark sewage in some obscure part of the USA , excluded from society and normal socio cultural interaction, as a consequence. You still have the mentality of a nomad goat herder from Burkina Faso, you remain the same. Its like you can take the bushman to school but you cant always get the, bush out of the man.

You find self importance on this thread, it is your sense of identity and self worth, that is sad. Imagine boasting on a faceless forum to faceless people, " I am well off " which sane person does that.

Look at how deeply delusional you are , you actually believe you essentially silenced me and took me out of this discourse. I have responded to you as an act of charity and compassion, so you can wake up out of your conceited dark and infantile fantasy , and come back to REALITY and wake up hopefully, although I am not optimistic .

GeneralFarouq:
First I think the rumours are unrealistic and unsubstanted and secondly.... My initail comment was a sarcasm.

Agreed without question

DubaiLandLord1:
The Senate on Wednesday held a minute silence to mourn the killing of over 120 Nigerians by bandits at the Gorony Market in Sokoto State.

The attention of the upper chamber was drawn to the incident by Senator Ibrahim Gobir through a point of order during the start of plenary.

He said the massacre of the victims by bandits occurred on Sunday, October 17, 2021.

Gobir said, “On Sunday, October 17th 2021, Gorony Market was attacked and about 120 plus people killed.

“The terrorists came to the market and started shooting every person they saw in the market.”

He added that in seven villages within some local government areas of the state, residents were compelled by bandits to pay levies between N1m and N20m

Gobir gave the affected villages to include Kwarangamba, Garki, Danadua, Katuma, Kurawa and Dama.

The lawmaker lamented that failure to meet the demand imposed by the bandits in the affected areas had severally led to the killing of the villagers.

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He expressed frustration that deapite consistent pleas to security agencies to come to the rescue of the affected communities, nothing had been done so far by the military and police to intervene in the plight of the people.

He further said that the failure of the military to come to the rescue of the villagers has emboldened the terrorists to install their own representatives as villages heads in some areas of Sabon-Girin Local Government.

He said, “The terrorists are now installing their village heads in some areas of Sabin-Girin local government.

“In Gangara, they replaced the village head with Dan Bakkolo, the next in command to a known terrorists called Turji.

“In Makwaruwa, they installed Dan Karami (a terrorist) as Maigari,” Gobir said.


https://punchng.com/senate-mourns-120-nigerians-killed-by-bandits-in-sokoto-market/

Lost for Words

How have we descended to this abyss.

I thought things were bad l mean incomprehensibly BAD, and you think we can't go any Lower than this.

But I am BEWILDERED.

And we have a government, honestly I think PMB should be impeached he's failed every test and has ABSOLUTELY NOTHING TO OFFER.

Bandits are now setting up government and claiming territory and charging taxes.

IT IS FINISHED.

EricBraven:
Where is the manpower to saturate everywhere

Very very simplistic solution.

We have the manpower, trained and experienced just new designation and commensurate equipment.

The mobile police corps are more of a para military unit, just don't have the required weaponry.

I would speculate that we must have at least 40,000 mobile police personnel.

Have am immediate ban on mobile police being the security guards ,PA's, House boys, etc for a myriad of political actors, both in office and out of office as well celebrities and rich individuals.

That creates the immediate manpower.

Procure 2000 varied armoured vehicles, IFV, LAV, MRAP,and they Mobile police should be upscaled with .

Grenade launchers, heavy and light machine guns, NVG as standard issue, Thermal vision equipment, high calibre sniper be rifles 50cal., rocket launcher ( hand held) etc

In that one move you have completely changed the dynamics of the security infrastructure and the capacity to mitigate against all existing security threats in Nigeria.

There will be GREAT RELUCTANCE on the part of the army , because they have historically INTENTIONALLY kept the police weak and incapable. An outcome of the desire for military coups.

Whyem15:
Rather than buying thousands of IFVs, APCs and tanks and [i] other vehicles that will not only be extremely expensive to purchase and maintain, [/i]force multipliers such as sensors like this, a few attack helicopters in each state, full artillery coverage across country, military satellites and other ISR equipment both manned and unmanned in reasonable quantities and tackling arms smuggling across borders with some of these systems will achieve a far better result with far lesser cost. All of the above doesn't make obsolete the capabilities that IFVs and other land systems offer but for a country heavily reliant on borrowing to finance its budget, it is a foolishness to get thousands of such systems at a time.

for now, a few heavily armed mechanized Battalion in each state and more in the hot zones is enough, they will be adequately provided with CAS whenever going on any mission and will only be used for offensive actions, other troops or law enforcement personnels can then move in to secure the ground or whatever else is needed.

Please don't speak from ASSUMPTIVE ignorance.

If you must make a proposition make it from a standpoint of knowledge and be substantive.

How much does one LC79 Toyota pick up cost or HiLux and or Ranger all upwards of $40k. What's the shelf life of these soft pick up trucks. After a fewengagements on the front , being punctured with AK47 rounds like a knife through butter. I have no statistics, but 6 months is probably the best. Imagine the money wasted on renewing these pick up by trucks every 6 months it thereabouts, they just get destroyed so easily.

So what you have is a penny wise pound FOOLISHNESS approach which personifies our. "Manage am like that" culture that pervades our society.

In this regard which would you rather be in , A refurbished Armoured platform that has far higher survivability rate, resilience against small arms fire, IED's, as well as being fit for purpose.

I could easily get 2/3 used but still very effective and capable armoured platform with real offensive capabilities for the cost of one LC79 soft skinned pick up truck . That destroys your poorly though out ASSUMPTIVE based proposition.

So we should ABSOLUTELY no excuse WHATSOEVER to allow our prized and valued combatants to be going in suicide soft skinned pick up trucks.

THERE IS NO EXCUSE.

youghs:
No vex sir.
Ikorodu Albert Einstein

I take exception to your jibe.

Please replace Ikorodu with WARRI.

youghs:
What the heck is this bro
Komekn has hacked this account

Do you know that intelligence rests with the minority not the majority.

To the one who knows NOTHING even when the WISE give advice he thinks it is FOOLISHNESS.

The bliss of ignorance.

iblawi:
Am sure we have received close to 400 APCs this year alone if we add locally produced ones. We have not even talked of the old ones already in use and It's normal to expect more with this year's supplementary budget.

Secondly, We have less than 20,000 troops fighting in North East.
This procurement is a major one for men in frontline and not a drop in the ocean as you claimed.

You can't have all troops in APCs. If you add 400 APCs to what we have already am sure we should be able to move about half in protected vehicle if need be.

It seems your still using DOS when we are even moving beyond windows10.

The landscape of modern day conflict and security has completely changed in the last two decades.

Criminals are using military grade weaponry across the world, insurgencies and Islamic terrorism have gone global.

Police forces that are forward thinking have upgraded and upscaled to meet the modern day threats. The modern day police forces are more like military units. Equipped with HMG, MRAPS, LAV's, Mortars and Grenade launchers, Rockets, etc.

Now let's talk about armed forces.

Before Afghanistan the standard basic armoured transport in the British Army was the Snatch Land rover. That's totally changed as the threats that we have to mitigate against have changed. So have the British armed forces had to adapt and change. Upscale and overtake the enemy to mitigate against him.

The standard operating vehicles are now an array of MRAPS, LAV's, APC's, IFV's , etc . You will NEVER see modern day combatants going in to the battle front in soft skinned vehicles.

This is a trend that's not unique to the British but all modern day forward thinking and proactive modern day armed forces across the world..

What's out biggest problems in this particular insurgency raging across the Northern parts of Nigeria. In multiple locations with different murderous active groups.

Where have we suffered the most UNACCEPTABLE casualties , On the ground. I speculate, but I'll not believe any official government figures . I truly believe we have lost thousands of our valued and gallant combatants .

France initiated operation Serval then Barkhan that's about 8 years of operations to date not more than 70 French combatants lost.

British soldiers deployed over 20 years in Afghanistan exceed 150,000 in in that period actual casualties 500 in two decades of bloody fighting.

Why are the NA casualties so high , ambushes, IED's, direct engagement, etc.

But at the heart of it is "not fit for purpose vehicle" soft skinned pick up trucks , dumpsters , trucks, etc. It's apparent that a higher % of our combatants go into highly contested zones in " not fit for purpose" vehicles, in my estimation 90%. The result of this ineptitude is easily predictable.

When you are in a soft skinned pick up truck , your ability to engage the enemy is SEVERELY LIMITED. Why you are always going to suffer casualties in any engagement. Indeed it means you be will not be inclined to carry out search and destroy missions.


Therein is your problem as well as your solution.


So buying a few hundred MRAPS , APC 's , is simply not GOOD ENOUGH.

And its not because we cannot afford it , but we simply don't use best value and greatest impact delivery in making procurement decisions. I don't want to believe that the NA don't know what I know.

A brand new soft skinned Toyota pickup LC79( gun truck) , with modifications can cost up to $60k maybe more. Even a brand new HiLux can cost up to $40k. How many have we bought in the last 5 years probably 10,000. of Which within 2/3 years most are inoperable after being battle scarred.

That same money I would have put to FAR FAR better use and got 5'000 armoured vehicle in varied platforms for the same money.

The question is using a bit of ingeniuity and a more strategic approach to procurement and best value. How many Armoured platforms could I procure, on different variations MRAP, APC, LAV, IFV , Could I get at least 2000. Over the past 6 years we would have 5000 and armoured vehicles will be the ABSOLUTE STANDARD VEHICLE for our very valued combatants.

This is not wishful thinking but I can absolutely substantiate my deductions.

So I am TOTALLY DISSATISFIED by our shambolic and ineptitude where military vehicles procurement is concerned. In this regard, NIGERIA NO TRY AT ALL. I will not commend ineptitude you may but not me.

Inler77:
Please stop this, declaring or not declaring someone terrorist does not stop in any way deployment of state apparatus against them, does not stop the military and law enforcement agants going for kidnappers (way it becomes rampant as it now), we have seen how states formed special units to go for arms robbers and thieves when they were terrorising people, I think all this debate of terrorist or non terrorist is just a waste of time, our metric should be is the govt doing enough? We have seen the military deployed in NW, what's holding them back.

Diction and designation create definition and that in itself gives the legal standing which creates the framework on all fronts to RESPOND WITHOUT ANY RESTRAINT to this menace to society with strongest actions possible.

To answer the question you raised in bold.

The PMB government has COMPREHENSIVELY FAILED BY ANY GIVEN UNIT OF MEASUREMENT.

This government is beyond incompetent.

Roan77:
It's seems the Nigeria Army has finally settled with the Bigfoot MRAPs.
100 bigfoot MRAPs, and 100 piece of the Dongfeng MRAPs.
A good number, I must confess.

Your expectations and mine are on completely different LEVELS.

The NA is probably close to 200, 000 personal. And we can project to assume we have probably 150, 000 combatants with at least 100,000 on active duty on multiple fronts across Nigeria.

How many Armoured vehicles on different variations fo we need certainly not hundreds but thousands..

200 MRAPS is literally a drop in the ocean.

NOT GOOD ENOUGH AT ALL.

TheLoneCitizen:
It's only good if he moves to a first league. No matter how poor it is.

It mustn't be a second division.

Not all second Divisions are poor and with low quality like the Segunda.The gulf in quality between the La Liga and the Segundo is vast.

You can add the finances are very poor indeed within the Segunda.

andrewbaba44:
I hope he is going to a better club

On what basis outstanding top notch consistent performanced in the Segunda league

Roan77:
Truth to be told, the tigrayan force will not fare better against Nigeria military, using conventional tactics, they will be smacked.
Ask the Chadian troops when they invaded Borno, they learned a lesson they will never forget in their lives, we nearly took over their capital, only to be stopped by president Shagari, this is Chadian troops that humiliated Libya, but couldn't gain the same success against Nigeria.

You must be very young and inexperienced, your approach is indicative of your background.

Using historical analysis 2/3 decades ago to make a projection in the HERE and NOW.

I want you to think about , what the Chadeans did in two weeks when invited into Nigeria to help fight against Boko, what they did in Mali, all in very recent times.

Consider Thier international reputation as the toughest fighters in Sub Saharan Africa. Even with very rudimentary equipment if you ask me.

DubaiLandLord1:
Terrorists, often referred to as bandits, have appointed their members to head some villages in Sabon Birni Local Government Area of Sokoto State. According to a Sokoto-based online newspaper, Daily Star, the new terrorist village heads were reportedly acting on the orders of one of the most notorious bandits, Turji.

According to the report, the bandits first summoned the Gangara villagers to a crucial meeting in Saturu village on Thursday to announce the deposition of the existing heads of the villages and posting of some of their members as the new ward heads. In attendance at the meeting were five Turji commanders namely Ɗan Baƙƙwalo, Boka Tamisƙe, Hassan Ɗan Ƙwaro, Dogo and Jammu Baƙi. The new strongmen then asked Gangara villagers asked to select one from the five bandit commanders to serve as their village head. The villagers selected Ɗan Baƙƙwalo, after which they were given some conditions by their new ruler.

Reading riot act to the villagers, Mr Ɗan Baƙƙwalo said no police officer, military personnel or vigilante group members would be allowed henceforth in the village. He implored his subjects that all disputes must be brought to him for adjudication.

The new ruler also ordered the villagers contribute and pay the sum of N1.5 million tribute to him.

Mr Ɗan Baƙƙwalo ordered the immediate reopening of three Juma’at mosques and the resumption of weekly (Tuesday) market activities in Gangara village, against the order of Sokoto state government of closure of all weekly markets.

At Maƙwaruwa village, bandit commander Boka Tamisƙe declared himself the new district head and summoned a meeting where he asked the ‘ousted’ district head, one Ɗan Sani, to tell the villagers, by himself, who was now in charge.

Mr Ɗan Sani told the people there that Boka was now the new head of the village.

“The villagers had no option but to obey these bandits” one of the villagers told the newspaper.

“They are now in charge and every case or dispute must be reported to them.”

Meanwhile, 85 villages in Burƙusuma, in Gatawa ward, have been taxed N300,000 each for not farming enough food that the bandits could use.

The villagers were given an ultimatum to contribute the money or face the wrath of the gunmen.

When contacted by DAILY NIGERIAN, the spokesman for the Sokoto State Police Command, ASP Sanusi Abubakar, said he would make some findings about the development and revert back.

https://dailynigerian.com/bandits-impose-village-heads/

And the PMB government still refers to them as Bandits.

Lost for words.

There is a new multi national rapid force , Literal "Response Group" with the USA spear heading it.

A force that could be deployed in Africa if needs be. Video below is self explanatory.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6q7duIOapzw

ArabicBerber:
I'm not even Nigerian; I'm just following the data. Yes; I thought the Ethiopian Armed Forces would have performed better than this. They have some of the most sophisticated equipment in Sub Saharan Africa and used to be rated 2nd to only South Africa. So yes I'm SURPRISED there getting dominated by foot rebels at such a level weaker nations have swept. I don't no much about there maintenance and never commented on it began with.

How the Nigerian Armed Forces is viewed varies depending on who you ask and there motives. Right now there militery performs on the battlefield is outperforming "just about" every other country in sub Saharan Africa. I don't think there special but there clearly more competent than your usual African nation

The fact of the matter is Bokoharam in all there forms have been campaigning in a revelant compacitity since 2009 and they've never made it beyond the North East or Greater Lake Chad Region of West Africa and today there no more than glorified scavangers sensationalized to hell and back thanks to politics. They couldn't even take a state capital.

That's progress.

The Tigrey didn't start seriously campaigning until 2018 and there already pulling up at the National Capital despite Ethiopia being more militarized than Nigeria at the start of there conflict.

That's decline.

You can't argue with the facts starring you dead in the face.

I said I'm pretty sure the Ethiopian soldiers are doing the best they can with what there given and that this incompetence is more than likely do to the top officials. So there wasn't even disrespect.

What you have not done is to consider first of all the genesis of this war, which is actually internally political.

The second thing to consider is the regional, ethnic dynamics. These people have more in common than what could possibly devide them.

This may find combatants not too willing to spill blood for thier political master's. That affects moral and discipline. The Tigray ( landlocked) are almost entirely using abandoned weaponry by the Ethiopian to prosecute this war.

That tells you something, look at the thousands of Ethiopian soldiers captured/ surrendered prisoners of war who do not look like they are being treated badlyl

My projections are if they enter Addis Ababa with the not so popular government ( forget the government sponsored rallies) there will be dancing in the streets with a collapse of the existing not so popular government very shortly.

Not too long ago there was mass protests against the government of Abiy Ahmed which was put down violently.

Let's not see things with superficial eyes.

ArabicBerber:
ISWAP would love to take Maiduguri, Abuja etc but they can't thanks to the NAF there redused to being Lake Chad scavangers to make it through the day.

Al Shabaab would like to take Mogadishu but they can only control the underground thanks mostly to AMISOM.

Tigray rebels would enjoy taking Addis Ababa and they JUST MIGHT at this rate thanks to the suprising incompetency of the Ethiopian Armed Forces Chain of Command. I'm pretty sure the individual soldiers on the front are trying there best with what they got.

The Taliban have long dreamed of taking Kabul and they did!

Objectivity requires that you have a non partisan approach to your analysis and be devoid of sentiment and emotive based preference.

You have described the Ethiopian Armed forces as. "SURPRISING INCOMPETENCE"

Someone even mocked the Ethiopian air forces implying they cant even maintain sophisticated SU27 they have. Again emotive prejudiced based assumptions .

If you like try a balance score card approach and look at the Nigerian armed forces.

Do you know how the Nigerian armed forces are viewed both regionally and internationally in general .

Don't just have a self birthed conceited Nigerian based parochial view.

Roan77:
Boko Haram would have long be decimated, if they were using conventional tactics, they tried that rubbish in 2014/15 and they paid dearly to it, till they switched back to the unfamiliar guerrilla warfare, that's what weaken them at first, if they were strictly conventional force, it would have been easier for Nigeria military to finish them once and for all.
Not this hiding, and hit and run tactics they are using now.

You have moved away from the comparison proposition which was made between the Ethiopian armed forces and the Nigerian armed forces .

It's that comparison, I QUESTIONED. With the suggestion that the Nigerian armed forces would not be able to any better against the Tigray armed forces.

So what exactly is your point Considering what the core discussion is.❓❓

Stormtrooper11:
That's a big Turret for a tank. In fact, the Turret is larger than the T 72 Hull. Any idea bout the ID of this beast?

Looks like a Leopard MK2 at a glance , probably best tank in the world outside of the Abrams M1

Originally made in Germany.