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Unconfirmed reports indicated yesterday that the Nigeria Air Force, NAF, fighter jet declared missing by the military over Adamawa may have crashed around Gabun village near Gaanda, in Gombi Local Government Area of Adamawa State.

According to local reports, villagers in Gabun on Sunday alerted the authorities about an aircraft wreckage believed to be that of the missing Alpha Jet belonging to the NAF.

The military authorities had announced that “an Alpha Jet (NAF 466) belonging to the Nigerian Air Force is missing around Adamawa State.

“The aircraft, with two pilots onboard, left Yola at about 10:45am on September 12, 2014 on a routine operational mission and was expected back by 12noon. Since then all efforts to establish contact with the aircraft have not yielded any positive result. “Meanwhile, searchand- rescue effort is ongoing to establish contact with the crew.”

This is the second time in less than two months that military aircraft in the ongoing military operations against Boko Haram insurgency group in the North-East has been involved in an incident.

On July 21, a three-man crew NAF helicopter, Mi- 35, on a training mission, crashed at Bama, Borno State, killing the pilot, while the co-pilot and the aircraft technician survived with injuries.

The DHQ, however, stated that it was established that the crash was not as a result of enemy action.

For the past two weeks, Adamawa had come under serious attacks as rampaging terrorists moved to capture Gulak, Michika, Mubi, amongst others.

The worrisome development prompted the military to launch a major offensive involving the air force and ground troops, which led to the reported stability recorded in the areas.

Meanwhile, the Adamawa State acting Governor, Mr. Ahmadu Fintiri, has offered his prayers for the safety of the crew members piloting the missing jet.

He said the prayers of the people of the state are with the aircraft pilots “for their safe return to their families”. He also saluted the resilience of the Nigerian military and the gains they are making in the war against the insurgents.

Our correspondent also reports that the disenchantment among military personnel especially within the ranks and file is beginning to receive the requisite attention as a military source said there has been a lull in cases of desertion by combatant soldiers in recent times, which nearly marred the war against insurgents.

The soldier, who spoke said our correspondent confirmed that troops were now being properly mobilised, “especially as we prepare to launch another rounds of attacks, things are not the way they were again, most of our people have decided to put the past behind them even as we await new military hardware, to prosecute this war”.

The soldier, who explained that the actions of some of his colleagues was not borne out of sabotage but rather to protest a situation which he likened to sending someone to farm without giving him any farming implements.

He said, “All that is gradually being re-addressed and we are now back to the trenches.

http://nationalmirroronline.net/new/boko-haram-missing-air-force-jet-found-in-adamawa/

By Femi Aribisala
We need to admit the truth; Nigeria no longer has an army worth its salt. The Nigerian army of today is a pathetic shadow of its glorious past. This explains why it is proving grossly inadequate at checkmating a Boko Haram army of some 10,000 men. As a matter of fact, ranged against the insurgency in the North-East, the army is now staring abject defeat in the face.

Gone are the glory days when the Nigerian army was at the forefront of international peace-keeping efforts, only surpassed by Pakistan, Bangladesh and India. The C.V. of Nigeria single-handedly initiating the ECOMOG (ECOWAS Monitoring Group) and orchestrating peacekeeping and peace-enforcement operations in Liberia and Sierra Leone is now in a dismal state of disrepair.

Coup-proofing the military

The Nigerian contingent sent to Mali in 2012 was disgraceful. It lacked equipment and training. Assessing their capability, a source told London Guardian: “The Nigerian army is in a shocking state. In reality there is no way they are capable of forward operations in Mali- their role is more likely to be limited to manning checkpoints and loading trucks. The Nigerian forces lack training and kit, so they simply don’t have the capability to carry out even basic military manoeuvres.”

Now the chicken has come home to roost with the Nigerian army deployed against Boko Haram. When you have a military that specialises in overthrowing civilian governments, you don’t empower it after civilians finally manage to come back to power after donkey years. Therefore, it is not surprising that, since the advent of civilian rule in 1999, the Nigerian military has been intentionally starved of funds and diminished by every successive administration.

Today, it is a shell of its much-vaunted past. From the height of a 350,000 man army during the 1967-70 Civil War, the Nigerian military now has only 76,000 malnourished men lacking motivation, training and weaponry. While the military budget has been beefed up in the last few years of the Jonathan administration, much of this has been pocketed by the military top brass, as usual.

Counter-insurgency deficit

The earlier plaudits of the Nigerian army were in fighting conventional wars. But counter-insurgency is something new requiring new sets of skills, tactics and equipment. Lacking this, the Jonathan administration declared a classical state of emergency in the North-East, and then embarked on a scorched-earth military strategy.

Attacks on the innocent; illegal searches and torture; extra-judicial killings; wrongful and indefinite detention of suspects without trial; random burning of homes and farms; and revenge attacks on the innocent was the order of the day. This became a veritable blueprint for losing the war. As a result, the military successfully alienated the local population it is sworn to protect; making it all the more difficult to fight the insurgency.

Western governments would not sell counter-insurgency weapons to Nigeria given the dismal human rights record of our army. Indeed, the sale of lethal weapons to Nigeria is specifically prohibited by law in the United Kingdom because of such concerns. A 1997 law also prohibits American forces from working with foreign military units that have been accused of chronic human rights violations.

There is also a problem with sharing highly-sensitive intelligence information with Nigeria because it is widely understood that the Nigerian military includes a fifth column of local Boko Haram sympathisers. The means the Nigerian army cannot even be trusted to safeguard sensitive information from falling into the hands of the insurgents.

Politics of insurgency

President Jonathan has been caught on the horns of a dilemma. He is a minority South-South president facing re-election in 2015. No Republican has even been elected president of the United States without winning Ohio. No Nigerian can be elected president of Nigeria without getting a substantial number of Northern votes. But now a major segment of Northern leadership is insisting six years of Jonathan presidency is enough.

This makes the handling of the security situation in the North-East a very delicate matter if Jonathan is not to lose vital Northern votes and support. Indeed, it has put the president in a Catch 22 situation. When he declared emergency rule and clamped down on the insurgents in the North, his Northern political opponents accused him of genocide. They maintained his Chief of Army Staff was mischievously from the South-East. Some even threatened to take the matter to the International Court of Justice. But when Jonathan soft-pedals on the insurgency, he is accused of incompetence.

It has not helped that Borno, Yobe and Adamawa, the three states in the fore-front of the insurgency, are all controlled by the opposition APC party. In declaring emergency rule, Jonathan was careful to leave their APC governors intact, as chief security officers of their states. However, they have not been inclined to cooperate with the federal government and, until more recently, have tended to see the insurgency as a means to undermine it.

Resurgent Boko Haram

In the middle of all this, the Boko Haram has gone from strength to strength. From a rag tag group of ill-equipped local thugs who engaged in hit-and-run bombings, it now operates with armoured personnel carriers, rocket launchers and advanced weaponry that match, if not best, those the Nigerian military has to offer. Indeed, it is Nigerian military that has now become rag tag, as the Boko Haram has continued to build up its arsenal of weapons. It even attacks Nigerian police-stations and military-barracks whenever it needs a new cache of arms.

One of the initial sponsors of the Boko Haram was Muammar Gaddafi, who wanted Nigeria to be balkanised into a Christian South and a Muslim North in his bid to promote Libya regional supremacy in Africa. The decision of the United States and its allies to overthrow him further succeeded in unleashing radical Islamic terrorist groups in North Africa, including the Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb, now armed with Gaddafi’s cache of sophisticated weapons.

These groups moved down the Sahel from Libya; through Algeria into Mali and Nigeria, where they have linked up with their “brothers” in the Boko Haram. Today, the Boko Haram has come of age. In the last few weeks, it has become so emboldened that it has embarked on a new daredevil strategy different from its guerrilla warfare of the past. Its fighters have come out of their hideouts in the Sambisa forest and Mandara Mountains to establish a foothold for their Islamic Caliphate right on Nigerian soil; according to the horrific blueprints of the ISIS in Iraq.

New Islamic Caliphate

Last week Monday, Boko Haram militants seized control of Bama, the second largest city in Borno State. They put up their flag over it, forcing an estimated 26,000 of the residents to flee, according to the U.N. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs. The remaining residents were then force-fed with a strict diet of the Boko Haram version of Islamic law, on pain of death.

They did not stop there, but are also now reported to have taken over other major towns including Damboa, Gamboru Ngala, Banki and Gwoza. As a matter of fact, they are now reported to pose imminent threat to Maiduguri, the capital of Borno State, which is barely 65 kilometres (40 miles) away from their new acquisition of Bama.

Australian hostage-negotiator, Stephen Davis, who is currently making waves as a result of some controversial pronouncements, says: “When (the Boko Haram) attack a town, they empty the treasury of the banks. That is another source of funding for them. They are gradually depopulating many villages in the state, taking them over and foisting their flag.

They are very well organised and becoming very good strategists. By the time they are done with the villages, they will have a very good base from where they will launch attacks on Maiduguri, with the aim of taking it over and proclaiming the caliphate that they desire.”

Army in disarray

Instead of putting up a fight, Nigerian soldiers are reported to have fled into Cameroon, with the army making a face-saving declaration that it was a tactical manoeuvre. A recent report by Chatham House, a London-based think-tank, points out that soldiers in the North-East are bedeviled by equipment failure, low morale, desertions and mutinies.

The military budget has been increased and increased, but the money has clearly not made its way to the military rank-and-file in terms of equipment and supplies. The government is talking of taking a one billion dollar loan to fight the insurgency. Why would we need as much as that to fight the Boko Haram? What has happened to all the monies spent till date? In spite of the huge outlays, the report from the foot-soldiers remains the same: inadequate weaponry and poor logistics.

Meanwhile, Nigeria’s sovereignty is now at stake. An eye-witness reports that: “In Bama now there is no single police, soldier, civil defence, or state security service personnel. They have all run away for fear of being killed, even the civil-servants are not spared from attack, if you are a government worker they kill you.” Apparently, no less than seven emirs have fled their palaces in Borno and Yobe States.

New map of Nigeria?

Andrew Noakes of the London Guardian, who co-ordinates a so-called Nigeria Security Network of Analysts, warns that: “Unless swift action is taken, Nigeria could be facing a rapid takeover of a large area of its territory reminiscent of ISIS’s lightning advances in Iraq. If Borno falls to Boko Haram, parts of Yobe and Adamawa can be expected to follow. Parts of Cameroon along the border area would also probably be overrun.”

This means it is wake-up time. The PDP and the APC must stop playing politics with the Boko Haram. Neither can the insurgency be filed away until after the election. If we are not careful, the damage would have been done long before then. Nigeria is in danger of becoming a banana republic. As Linda Thomas-Greenfield, U.S. Assistant Secretary for African Affairs warns: “The reputation of Nigeria’s military is at stake. But, more importantly, Nigeria’s and its children’s future is in jeopardy.”
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5. The successful candidates will also have experience in engaging with senior executives from a variety of industry sectors.


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1. Meet assigned revenue targets by generating business from new and existing clients
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5. Coordinate opportunities from prospect through to engagement
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5. Proven ability to create compelling written collateral in a concise manner
6. Self-motivated with strong communication and organizational skills
7. Able to listen to, lead and influence senior management
8. Enthusiastic about contributing to our growing business, its brand, processes and client base
9. Established network of business contacts
10. Collaborative team player
11. Comfortable presenting in group settings
12. Strong negotiating skills

Job Details
Job Location: Lagos and Port Harcourt
Company Industry: Training and Consulting Services
Company Type: Employer (Private Sector)
Job Role: Sales
Joining Date: Dec. 1, 2013
Employment Status: Full time
Employment Type: Employee
Monthly Salary Range: Monthly basic in 6 digits with 5% commission on sales revenue.
Manages Others: No
Number of Vacancies:1 in each location
Career Level: Management
Gender: Male & Female
Nationality: Nigerians or expatriates


Method of Application: A current CV and one page cover letter should be sent to the following E-mail addresses not later than two weeks from 10/10/2013
Port Harcourt BDM: portharcourt.bde@gmail.com
Lagos BDM: lagos.bde@gmail.com
Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted for an interview in LAGOS for both locations

A training and consulting organization request for the services of Business Development Managers (BDM) in her Lagos and Port Harcourt offices.
The BDMs will sustains the growth of company’s business by establishing new business relationships with corporate clients within the banking, oil & gas, Telecoms and FMCG industries. They will be responsible for the day to day management of opportunities from prospecting until formal engagement and will play a part in facilitating that transition into engagement. By articulating the value proposition of the company, they will help executives realize the financial benefits and transformational value to their business offered by a relationship with the company.

Requirements/Qualifications
1. First degree( with minimum of 2.2) in any discipline
2. MBA and/or professional certification in either of project management, business analysis or SAP will be added advantage
3. Minimum of 4 years business development experience in reputable training and consulting organizations.
4. The successful candidates will have a proven track record in selling training and consulting services and achieving revenue targets.
5. The successful candidates will also have experience in engaging with senior executives from a variety of industry sectors.


Responsibilities

1. Meet assigned revenue targets by generating business from new and existing clients
2. Set up of meetings with appropriately qualified contacts
3. Partner with relevant team members to create winning proposals
4. Anticipate and recognize any client objections in order to close sales
5. Coordinate opportunities from prospect through to engagement
6. Research and communicate information about target sectors, customers and competitors
7. Proactively communicate news and insights on prospect organizations and contacts
8. Gain and share understanding of prospect’s organization, processes, business strategies, product or service offerings and decision-making structures
9. Work collaboratively with the company’s resources to define the approach and strategy for achieving client requirements.
10. Effectively negotiate with multiple levels of executive management within prospective client organizations
11. Use in-depth knowledge and insight of key competitors to create compelling reasons for prospective clients to engage with the company.
12. Articulate to clients the benefits of the project management approach and educate them about new ideas and new ways of thinking.
13. Communicate the status of opportunities, clearly articulate next steps and discuss potential risks with the wider sales and account management team in weekly meeting


Skills
1. Proven track record of reaching sales targets and KPI’s
2. Comprehensive knowledge of all facets of the business development process
3. Solid financial, business and industry insights and consultative selling skills
4. Well organized and methodical in how business is conducted
5. Proven ability to create compelling written collateral in a concise manner
6. Self-motivated with strong communication and organizational skills
7. Able to listen to, lead and influence senior management
8. Enthusiastic about contributing to our growing business, its brand, processes and client base
9. Established network of business contacts
10. Collaborative team player
11. Comfortable presenting in group settings
12. Strong negotiating skills

Job Details
Job Location: Lagos and Port Harcourt
Company Industry: Training and Consulting Services
Company Type: Employer (Private Sector)
Job Role: Sales
Joining Date: Dec. 1, 2013
Employment Status: Full time
Employment Type: Employee
Monthly Salary Range: Monthly basic in 6 digits with 5% commission on sales revenue.
Manages Others: No
Number of Vacancies:1 in each location
Career Level: Management
Gender: Male & Female
Nationality: Nigerians or expatriates


Method of Application: A current CV and one page cover letter should be sent to the following E-mail addresses not later than two weeks from 10/10/2013
Port Harcourt BDM: portharcourt.bde@gmail.com
Lagos BDM: lagos.bde@gmail.com
Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted for an interview in LAGOS for both locations..

A training and consulting organization request for the services of Business Development Managers (BDM) in her Lagos and Port Harcourt offices.
The BDMs will sustains the growth of company’s business by establishing new business relationships with corporate clients within the banking, oil & gas, Telecoms and FMCG industries. They will be responsible for the day to day management of opportunities from prospecting until formal engagement and will play a part in facilitating that transition into engagement. By articulating the value proposition of the company, they will help executives realize the financial benefits and transformational value to their business offered by a relationship with the company.

Requirements/Qualifications
1. First degree( with minimum of 2.2) in any discipline
2. MBA and/or professional certification in either of project management, business analysis or SAP will be added advantage
3. Minimum of 4 years business development experience in reputable training and consulting organizations.
4. The successful candidates will have a proven track record in selling training and consulting services and achieving revenue targets.
5. The successful candidates will also have experience in engaging with senior executives from a variety of industry sectors.


Responsibilities

1. Meet assigned revenue targets by generating business from new and existing clients
2. Set up of meetings with appropriately qualified contacts
3. Partner with relevant team members to create winning proposals
4. Anticipate and recognize any client objections in order to close sales
5. Coordinate opportunities from prospect through to engagement
6. Research and communicate information about target sectors, customers and competitors
7. Proactively communicate news and insights on prospect organizations and contacts
8. Gain and share understanding of prospect’s organization, processes, business strategies, product or service offerings and decision-making structures
9. Work collaboratively with the company’s resources to define the approach and strategy for achieving client requirements.
10. Effectively negotiate with multiple levels of executive management within prospective client organizations
11. Use in-depth knowledge and insight of key competitors to create compelling reasons for prospective clients to engage with the company.
12. Articulate to clients the benefits of the project management approach and educate them about new ideas and new ways of thinking.
13. Communicate the status of opportunities, clearly articulate next steps and discuss potential risks with the wider sales and account management team in weekly meeting


Skills
1. Proven track record of reaching sales targets and KPI’s
2. Comprehensive knowledge of all facets of the business development process
3. Solid financial, business and industry insights and consultative selling skills
4. Well organized and methodical in how business is conducted
5. Proven ability to create compelling written collateral in a concise manner
6. Self-motivated with strong communication and organizational skills
7. Able to listen to, lead and influence senior management
8. Enthusiastic about contributing to our growing business, its brand, processes and client base
9. Established network of business contacts
10. Collaborative team player
11. Comfortable presenting in group settings
12. Strong negotiating skills

Job Details
Job Location: Lagos and Port Harcourt
Company Industry: Training and Consulting Services
Company Type: Employer (Private Sector)
Job Role: Sales
Joining Date: Dec. 1, 2013
Employment Status: Full time
Employment Type: Employee
Monthly Salary Range: Monthly basic in 6 digits with 5% commission on sales revenue.
Manages Others: No
Number of Vacancies:1 in each location
Career Level: Management
Gender: Male & Female
Nationality: Nigerians or expatriates


Method of Application: A current CV and one page cover letter should be sent to the following E-mail addresses not later than two weeks from 10/10/2013
Port Harcourt BDM: portharcourt.bde@gmail.com
Lagos BDM: lagos.bde@gmail.com
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BARELY 48 hours after the Boko
Haram gunmen killed 24 members of
the Borno Vigilance Youths Group
(BVYG) at the border town of
Monguno, the Joint Task Force (JTF)
and the youths yesterday killed a top
Boko Haram commander (name withheld) and
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Maiduguri.
The arrests and killing, according to JTF
sourcesSunday in Maiduguri, occurred when
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for fleeing Boko Haram at Bama. The five suspects
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Gwange ward of Maiduguri.
Bama is a border town with Cameroun and 78
kilometres east of Maiduguri, where over 100
people have been killed in several attacks by the
Boko Haram insurgents since April this year.
Speaking on Monguno’s attack and killing, the
Chairman of Monguno Council, Alhaji Mohammed
Nur Monguno, yesterday said that the youths were
ambushed by members of the Islamist sect who
disguised in military uniform, the same way they
killed 14 vigilance youths last week at Bama.
A surviving member of BVYG, Ibrahim Isa, also
said they were ambushed by the Boko Haram
gunmen in military uniform, who disguised as men
of the JTF from Maiduguri to assist the vigilance
youths hunt for fleeing sect members.
Chairman of BVYG, Abubakar Mallum said: “Our
members numbering over 100 were on a mission
to capture some Boko Haram terror suspects in
their camps around Kaleri, Shuwari, Maganari and
Nannari villages before they were ambushed by
the gunmen who killed 24 vigilante youths, while
about 36 are still missing.
“In fact, there was an initial arrangement with
military troops that they will accompany the
vigilante youths to the said Boko Haram camps in
Monguno. But when the youths waited to see the
arrival of the military men for some hours without
response, they took courage to visit the area with
a view to arresting the suspects. Unknowingly to
them that the armed Boko Haram sect members
disguised in military uniform with three captured
patrol vehicles of the security agencies, the
vigilante youths concluded that it was the military
troops that went to the camp ahead of them.
“As they approached the camps, the terrorists
opened fire and killed about 15 of our members,
while the other nine who were spiritually charmed
against gunshots were killed by using their
vehicles in crushing them. But as I am talking to
you now, about 36 of the volunteered youths are
still missing. We received an unconfirmed report
that five of our members who escaped the attack
with broken legs and hands injuries were rescued
by some good Samaritans and are in one of the
villages close to the camps where they are
receiving treatment by the villagers.”
A top politician and close associate of Governor
Kashim Shettima; who did not want to be
identified for security reasons, also confirmed the
incident yesterday in Maiduguri to newsmen.
The spokesman of Borno State Police Command,
Gideon Jibrin, also confirmed that six terror
suspects were arrested in Maiduguri by vigilante
youths and handed over to JTF for further
investigation.
He added that a top Boko Haram commander
was also shot dead in an encounter with troops at
Bama Sunday.

www.theguardianmobile.com/readNewsItem1.php?nid=16938

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Boko Haram leader-Abubakar Shekau
By Sani Tukur
The Nigerian military has announced that it has
killed the deputy leader of the Boko Haram
sect during onslaught against the group in
Borno State.
The military Joint Task Force, JTF, said it killed
Momodu Bama – aka Abu Saad – on August 4,
during an offensive by the sect on a Mobile
Police Base, and Bama Town.
Abu Saad was Boko Haram’s Operation Officer
and second in command to Abubakar Shekau
and was one of the most “vicious and heartless
killer in the group with penchant for
slaughtering his victims,” the military said in a
statement on Tuesday.
Before his death, the JTF placed a N25 million
bounty on him.
The military said Abu Saad was killed alongside
his father, Abatcha Flatari, who was described
as “one the spiritual mentors” of Boko Haram.
He was “in charge of indoctrinating child foot
soldiers who are mainly abducted children,”
Sagir Musa, spokesman of the Borno JTF, said
in the statement.
The military increased its offensive on the sect
and other criminal groups in three northeastern
states – Adamawa, Borno, and Yobe – after a
State of Emergency was declared there in May.

SOURCE: Premium Times http://
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