agaugust: Hey, ignorant juvenile, Chad has a right to enter Nigeria to a limit of kilometers under MNJTF agreement signed 8 years ago before Boko Haram ever existed....Nigeria has the same right to enter Chad. Regional military cross border area agreement was signed 8 years ago when there was nothing called Boko Haram, and such similar agreements exist all over the world. Maybe you don't read international affairs, you stuck in a baby bath tub in ANC republic.
Ignorant and poorly informed juvenile .
I see only shame!!! shame!!!! shame!!!!
There is nothing like Chad was in agreement to penetrate Nigeria only to a certain limit. Nigeria stalled Chad's mission out of shame because the public was already commending Chad's troops than Jonathan. I have even saw this on a certain documentary on TV.
agaugust: That's partly because all the millions of Nigerians who can only read and write local languages like Yoruba, Igbo, Hausa, Arabic, etc are NOT COUNTED as literate people, we only count English language speakers. In South Africa your government counts 11 official languages meaning English and 10 local language speakers as all literate, that includes millions of village Zulu pig farmers who have never been to school, thanks to P.W. Bother and F. De Klerk, yet those illiterate mo.ronic Zulus are counted as literate because they speak an official language of Zulu tribe.
40 million black South Africans are 80% illiterate victims of apartheid regime mental captivity....your literacy figures are technically wrong, your people did not go to school because of apartheid oppression .
Your statistical method about how they collect data to reach conclusion about literacy of certain country is imaginary and grossly incorrect. literacy= schooling, it refers to those who can read and write. It has nothing to do with your proficiency in english. There are many people born as english speakers, yet they cannot read and write. English is just a language, it has nothing to do with literacy.
agaugust: [size=15pt]France NEVER withdraws military presence from Chad, they have permanent army and air force garrison in Chad.
The story says both France and Libya withdrew extra the battlefield forces from Chad, NOT that the France closed down it's permanent military bases in Chad. France NEVER withdraws it's permanent military garrison from Chad, the French military permanently lives and resides inside Chad.
Fool .[/size]
As such they will defeat you, so, don't you dare mess up with them.
ChukwuCantDie: Then why do they answer to whites? How can the majority of your country be black but they are all to dumb to lead SA is a failed state like Somalia.
Are you sure that statement was not made in reference to Nigeria?
agaugust: Nope, South African literacy rate is about 40 % and much lower than Nigeria. Your white apartheid masters denied you education as "lesser human beings".
Literacy rate 93% includes illiterate local herbalists and pig farm laborers who speak one of the 10 local languages by birth as mother tongue, they have never been to school, yet they are deceitfully counted as literate for speaking a language like Zulu, etc because you have 10 such local language of illiterates legally recognized by ANC government along with English language the 11th official language.
Only the South Africans who speak English and graduated high school are literate, the rest are illiterate local language speakers and they form about 60 % of South African population.
Your real literary level is about 40 % in Soweto nation, thanks to 100 years of white-man's oppression of your fathers .
Your country Nigeria is still on the a.ss bottom in terms of the level of literacy in Africa.
G6-52L which SANDF has as current has the mobility range of over 700KM dude and firing range of 67km. It outranges your baby bofor Archer with more than 200KM, dummy. SA is the king in Howitzers technology.
DieVluit: In which part of this post, which effectively is an analysis of DieVluit's personality, is there a coherent argument and evidence against the following statement: "Out of shame and embarrassment, Nigeria stalled Chad, after Chad's push into Northern Nigeria"?
Please point out where your argument and evidence are, because we don't see them.
You are not Iteraror, Evarn or August. If they had already done the job, why are you going there "again"?
Argument and evidence, please. Not rhetoric.
Is all about guilty conscious I guess. People in Nigeria were starting to praise Chadian military for their battle-hardened tenacity, however, these successes by the mighty Chadian forces slowly brewed jealousy among Nigerian military. Nigeria's aim is nothing but to steal the glory achieved by the noble Chadian forces.
agaugust: [size=13pt]"The subsequent intervention of 3,000 French troops ended the Libyan successes and led to a de facto division of the country, with Libya maintaining control of all the territory north of the sixteenth parallel. Under an agreement for mutual withdrawal from Chad, French troops withdrew by early November 1984, but the Libyans secretly dispersed and hid their units."
AugustineAgain: Third time and final battle was a stalemate, Israel failed to defeat Egypt and the Israelis agreed to peaceful settlement, and NEVER attempted to threaten Egypt again, the Egyptians finally broke Israel's military track record of victory.
Saudi Arabia won't last 7 days if they fight Israel.
Egypt is the most powerful Arab and African nation today, and Nigeria is beign called upon by Egypt to help them fight ISIS in Libya, they know who is the second STRONGEST MILITARY IN AFRICA......Nigeria ! .
Egypt is calling for alliance with Nigeria because Nigeria is facing terrorism threat, simple. The two countries are facing similar challenges, but please don't help Egypt fight ISIS because ISIL will crash you beyond recognition. The invitation was not based on the fact that Nigeria is a powerful military in Africa, if they were really that powerful, why did they run to other countries, even calling the US to help them fight BH. Calling upon the world to help them fight rag tag BH. It's a shame.
[size=18]Eskom's Medupe power station unit 6 has been successfully synchronised, a huge relief for SA power crisis. It seems our problem will be solved sooner than expected.[/size]
agaugust: . [size=20pt]How Nigerian army ordered Chad, Niger, Cameroon, to protect their own borders....
.....and save themselves from Boko Haram escapees, or be invaded by fleeing Boko Haram ![/size]
[size=13pt] Nigeria's Chief of Defence Staff, Air Chief Marshal Alex Badeh made a detailed disclosure even as he noted that Nigeria was sending “a force of 5000 military personnel while Chad is sending a force of another 2500 personnel totalling 7, 500 troops with which we intend to bring the Boko Haram nuisance to an end. Cameroon too is contributing troops but I cannot tell you the number for now, and we also have an MOU with Niger. They will block their own side so that the Boko Haram or the enemies won’t have the opportunity to run into Niger to cause havoc for them”.
Chad, Niger Republic, and Cameroon are NOT saving or helping Nigeria, they are saving their own country from invasion by fleeing Boko Haram who are now running across land borders and even drowning in Lake Chad as they run away like cowards fleeing from the anger of the Nigerian army's final offensive.
Shame on Nigeria's enemies....including South Africans who ran away from Seleka war in Bangui [/size]
PHOTOS: NIGERIAN SOLDIERS SET BOKO HARAM ON FIRE AS WE MARCH FORWARD AND BOKO HARAM FLEES LIKE COWARDS ! .
[size=16]Chad has helped Nigeria to temporarily defeat Boko Haram, now you don't even see their contribution anymore. They will pull out from you and you will have a hard time again controlling BH.
The role that they played by flushing out terrorists on your land immensely contributed on BH imaginary final defeat. However, we all know that BH is not yet defeated, they are simply lying low and will erupt once your muscles grow bigger and start to notice the role played by other forces as worthless.
Once you start claiming all their glory to yourself by telling the world that you defeated BH all alone without help from anyone, they will pull out and leave you all alone with BH. That's where BH will make you Barbecue for the day. You know well that you can't defeat BH all alone.[/size]
AugustineAgain: NAF does not do Hollywood photo mania like SAAF that has inferiority complex due to lack of combat experience, you want to boost your ego with photos while Nigeria boosts ego with combat experience. The was NEVER any report ANYWHERE that NAF has shortage of pilots for F-7 jets....or else show us one such source/report !
Rather is is SAAF that has been reported by many sources all over the world as having shortage of pilots, 9 Gripen pilots previously qualified, the rest are dummies that cannot do combat, while recent reports now say the 9 previously qualified Gripen jet pilots NO LONGER get qualifying flight hours, means NO SINGLE QUALIFIED GRIPEN JET PILOT in South African air force today 2015 !
SAAF is d.ead .
NAF is a dead man walking. No forth generation fighters nothing.
lezz: what's your secret? What's your secret for being so devoid of pride,shame and diginy?
Common sense says a country where over 80% of its population only came into contact with civilization and decency in 1994 will still be won't to savagery and barbarism.
Patchesagain, tells me Zulu and Xhosa boys and girls have 93% literacy level. You must have escaped from the queue at the synagogue.
Tell me, how is the educational integration going ? You gave a link but I want you to read on this excerpt : SA’s shocking literacy stats
October 22 2013 at 07:52am By Leanne Jansen Comment on this story
AP File photo: Experts have blamed poor litercay levels on pupils being taught to parrot rather than read independently. Durban - The literacy level of South African Grade 5 pupils is a “national catastrophe”.
The consequence of pupils being taught to “parrot” rather than read independently was that, after five years of school, 13 percent of Grade 5s (11-year-olds) were illiterate and most were able to score no more than four out of 20 on a comprehension exercise, new data from the national education evaluation and development unit, has revealed.
Speaking in Durban on Monday, Nick Taylor, the head of the unit which reports directly to Basic Education Minister Angie Motshekga, said that, from the classroom research conducted in urban and rural areas, it had become “quite clear that most of our teachers can’t teach reading”.
This was despite several years and billions of rand worth of teacher training later.
Earlier this year, Taylor’s unit released the first national evaluation of how pupils in grades 1, 2 and 3 (the foundation phase) in urban schools were taught, marking a shift off the emphasis on Grade 12.
The upshot of the report was that pupils were not taught to solve numeracy problems or read independently because most teachers did not know how to teach these skills.
This year the unit has extended its work to later grades, focusing on reading in rural schools. Its final report will be handed to Motshekga early next year.
“As far as I’m concerned this is a national catastrophe,” Taylor told a meeting of the National Professional Teachers’ Organisation of South Africa (Naptosa), at which he was the guest speaker, and which was attended by principals, school governing body members and politicians.
Taylor said it was “deeply disturbing” that in the classrooms visited by the unit this year, just 5 percent of Grade 5 pupils could read at the required rate of 80 to 90 words a minute.
In the urban Grade 2 classrooms the unit studied last year, it found that while the average eight-year-old was meant to be reading 58 words a minute by the end of the second term, and 71 words a minute by the end of the fourth term, this was not the case.
Instead, when the reading fluency of the top three pupils in each class was observed, researchers found that most were reading between 20 and 29 words a minute.
Teachers could no longer afford to shut their heads of departments (HODs) out of their classrooms, because if the situation was to be remedied, reading had to be declared a “national priority” and professional development needed to take place at school.
Taylor said that teachers were putting far too little emphasis on the ultimate goal, which was independent reading – children were simply “singing in unison”.
Despite teachers’ poor subject knowledge, the large majority of them were considered qualified.
In 1990, 53 percent of teachers held a teaching qualification. By last year, that figure stood at 96 percent. But there was a gap between qualifications and competence.
“While it was true that resourcing, policy and school leadership are all very important, once children are in classrooms, learning depends heavily on the teacher.”
Taylor said that the growth in the number of teachers who held teaching qualifications had been fuelled by the Advanced Certificate in Education courses, which were offered part-time by universities. But the courses had failed to address poor subject knowledge.
Turning to his recommendations, Taylor said that teachers’ unions would be key to turning the situation around.
They needed to help dispel the belief that for teachers to be monitored by their school management team was “about judging”.
The notion that school managers should not visit classrooms was both “rife” and “disastrous”.
“When teachers go into their classrooms, they close the door and that is their kingdom.”
Taylor said that as far as teacher training was concerned, afternoon workshops were “a waste of time”, and that district-based subject advisers were overwhelmed, being responsible for up to 300 schools.
“I want to promote the idea of in-school professional development. The HOD is the person on site who knows her teachers, who can help her teachers on a daily basis,” Taylor said.
Basil Manuel, the president of Naptosa, told the meeting it was “unacceptable” that HODs were not visiting classrooms and not evaluating teachers for fear of upsetting certain teachers.
It was the core responsibility of an HOD to manage the curriculum and monitor its delivery, Manuel said.
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SA was long civilised when Nigeria was still a bush. The year 1994 denote only new transition and political dispensation, it has nothing to do with civilisation dummy.
EVarn: We stand above mediocrity. All the weapons i highlighted are indeed produced by either DICON or PROFORCE.we produced less than 5% of our weapons,however that was during peacetime.but now because of the war against terror,we now produce 15% of our military gadgets,most of them APCs,grenades,armoured vests and drones.
All your defence industries are still infants when it comes to arms production in the world.
lezz: listen, little man, you are the embodiment of stupidity and immobility.
You have only taken responsibility twice in your magot existence.
(1) when you blaimed whites for all your personal and collective failures.
(2) when you envied Nigeria for being everything you can't.
You deny that arguing with Nigerians doesn't give you a temporal, personal fulfillment "high" from the malady of your subdued condition?
Why else are you still here as if your very life depends on.
You need to unfuck yourself and we're helping you achieve that, douchebag.
1. The former white apartheid government must be blamed for their failure to develop townships and instead modernising only their suburbs to the European standard.
2. Yes we envy Nigerians because we can be drug peddlers in their own country, messing up the future of their school children with drugs, dirtying their places and flats meant for accommodation and defrauding their citizens with 419 schemes. Thank you.
EVarn: Because nigeria has a fledging defense industry,we neither produce tanks nor do we manufacture supersonic combat jets. though we build APCs,surveillance drones,mine detecting robots,body armour,rifles,touch sensitive mines,time and trigger bombs,patrol and combat vessels,with remedial capacity to begin manufacturing IFV,AFV,low orbit satellites,light armoured tanks,OPVs,and MRAPs but all these are barely of enticable capabilities enough to attract powerful militaries like the US. As for SA,well,south africa is known to have a lackadiasical disposition toward weapon procurement.many of SA's military gadget are worn,outdated and poorly maintained,with no light at the end of the tunnel for its rapidly shrinking and poorly secured defense industry. Nigeria could care less if SA procures weapons from us.
SA has a modernised defence industry that maintains their obsolete weapons. Nigeria's defence industry is still a baby and has not even provided your military with over 5% of locally produced weapons. All the so called weapons you claim to be produced in Nigeria are all imaginary.
Global firepower website even openly admit that there is no military in Africa that uses the kind of sophisticated and modernised weapons that South Africa has. Produced 100% in local defence industries.
AugustineAgain: NAF fires F-7 jet air to air missile in training with Pakistani air force, we have many PL-9 missile special training versions.
SAAF has no training missiles.
Missiles test for manufacturer is NOT = Real combat.
No target enemy jet that will evade missile and retaliate, SAAF has ZERO missile combat experience with Gripen jets
There are only two countries in Africa that uses live missile and guided bombs during training in Africa. Nigeria is not one of those countries either, only Egypt and SA. Both countries have done that traditional method of training for years with SA possessing one of the few test stations in the mother earth. Countries all over the world flock to SA to perform live test of their missiles.
Nigeria does not even have a missile technology and all that they have been firing in Boko haram camps were unguided free falling bombs until recently when mercenaries fired PGMs on their behalf. Nigerian fighter pilots are the poorly trained pilots in the mother is universe, that's why Jonathan could not waste any of his precious money to hire SA mercenary to fly his sorties, as it also was during Biafra war. All sorties were flown by mercenaries in Biafra and Nigeria is one country that does not have confidence on their own pilots. Nigerian Air force as it now stands has been privatised to mercenaries.
Henry120: The only thing South-African about that Half-french Helicopter, is it's name.
Design = French Engine = French Components = French Engineers = French Concept = French
The Rooivalk is the first french helicopter built outside france.
You South-Africans can name the patria anything you like, at the end of the day, the Patria IFV that would go into service in South-Africa would remain Finish.
Design= SA Engine= French Components= SA Engineer= SA Concept= SA
AugustineAgain: I said modern day war, Angola is over 20 years ago war !
SAAF has never used BVR missile in air combat like Ethiopia and Eritrea.
SAAF has never used FLIR in helicopter combat. SAAF has never used air to ground missile in combat. SAAF has never used air to ground radar on ISTAR aircraft. SAAF has never used guided bombs in combat like Nigeria.
NAF is now your boss in air to ground combat....big time !
Show me a war where South African air force ever did something like this Nigerian air force level of high technology, show me....
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAA… The bush war is the only modern day war that the world today can make reference to. Don't tell me about wat against rebel or terrorist groups who do not have a single air wing or missile to respond to heavy firepower. Even the Ethiopian-Eritrian war was not as intensive and modern as the bush war which nearly took 20 years. It is the nature of war that used all modern day weapons and that Nigeria had never fought in its military history. SA used all kinds of heavy modern weapons in that war, dummy.
And if you want to watch, make yourself comfortable Jacob Zuma Sings Kill the Boer -Video Dailymotion www.dailymotion.co... May 7, 2013
Man it is either you have a problem with your hearing or understanding. ZUMA HAS NEVER IN ANY OCCASSION SANG "KILL THE BOER". The article says ZUMA's ANC sings kill the Boer, not Zuma. They are still also very incorrect to say that. The song was sang by JULIUS MALEMA long after it was sang by his fellow home boy PETER MOKABA.
ZUMA sang "Umshini Wam" roughly translated as "my machine". The song does not say anything about killing the whites or Boer. Your first link is deceiving and incorrect. We used to sing those songs and know the lyrics well. Zuma's song does not say kill the Boer. period.
AugustineAgain: SAAF has no aviation fuel to even fly pilots to meet standard qualifying hours. Soon your jets will be fueled with cooking oil.
Your Gripen jets have ZERO training missiles, Nigeria has training missiles on F-7 jets.
SAAF world war II pilots of 1940 is what you are using to claim champion in year 2015 ? D.ead p.ilots don't fly aircraft, SAAF has no living ace existing.
SAAF was defeated in Angolan war by Cuban teenagers flying MiG-23, SAAF was NEVER ably to fly air to air and challenge those boys, talk less of sh.ooting down any MiG-23 in combat.
SAAF has NEVER fired ANY single missile on Gripen jets, NEVER dropped any bomb on Hawk jets, SAAF combat pilots today 2015 have ZERO experience of missile combat air to air on their aircraft.
NAF flew 5,390 combat sorties of ground attack, ISTAR, and logistics in 1 year alone, SAAF has not flown ANY SINGLE combat sortie in 20 years.
The South African air force is TOTALLY D.EAD .......................................................
Gripen pilots fire missiles from time to time when they test A-Darter missiles dummy. The only pilots who have never fired AAM are those of Nigerian Airforce, period. The SA mercenaries are even currently helping them to use PGMs.
Nigerian pilots cannot fly their own jets in battlefield they have contracted mercenaries to take over their air force.
The issue of SAAF jet fuel saga has been addressed from last of last year when the treasury allocated a special budget to SANDF to address the issue.
South Africa will make a kill should it acquire this weapon of mass destruction. All you need to do is that you programme it with the coordinates of the target and leave it to do the job from a distance of 300 KM away. SANDF will rule Africa with Raptor III.
The story is very clear and simple English language, read the topic again....
SOUTH AFRICAN TIGER BRAND LOSES $82 MILLION TO DANGOTE – BUSINESS LESSONS
That is what accountants call over-valuation on merger/acquisition.
Dangote was smart, he over-valued his Dangote mills and made your M.oronic South African businessmen with ZERO mathematical thinking, to pay excess, Dangote was overpaid by you Dumbazz Domingo South Africans to the tune of over ONE BILLION RANDS CASH....Dangote is R.aping South African economy because Nigerians are more intelligent that your ANC Domingo nation of mumus .
You analysis is unqualified and incompetent for someone who has qualifications in Accounting. This is happening in Nigeria so how does it affect the economy of SA. The SA companies operate in Nigerian economy r.aping every sector to bits.
agaugust: Yes, all those who fought Nigeria avoided air to air combat because they fear NAF's air power, so the dare not challenge us the way Cuban teenage pilots challenged SAAF.
The source you posted showed MiG-23 shot down my ground based anti-aircraft missiles, I SAID SAAF NEVER SHOT DOWN ANY CUBAN MIG-23 JET IN AIR TO AIR COMBAT you dummy ! Can't you use your head? Domingo !
SAAF has NO air force ace pilots, you ran away from Cuban teenage pilots in MiG-23 jets, your Mirage F1s were hiding at their airbases
SAAF only succeeded in using jets to chase slow helicopters around, and you call that air force air power or an ace pilot?
One NAF F-7 jet pilot will shoot down all your 10 Rooivalks in 10 minutes.
You don't have ANY air to air combat experience jet vs jet of same generation in SAAF....you are at the same level with Nigeria, while NAF beats SAAF in air to ground attack combat with jets or attack helicopters flying thousands of NAF combat sorties, while SAAF Gripens, Hawks, and Rooivalks are redundant with ZERO war experience ! .
You have degraded yourself badly. You have lost taste of sanity severely.
Foreign Affairs › Re: Who Has The Strongest Military In Africa? by Msauza(m): 12:31am On Mar 05, 2015
SA is a failed state like Somalia.
