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zyzxx:
Apy birthday Uncle Naptu2 LLNP
Wish u all d best things u dream of amen.

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UjSizzle:
Happy birthday Naptu2. Wish you the very best and more memory space in your brain

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Forte Oil Super V TV advert (the cartoon - Doctor! I got a bellyache ).

The original (1980s) and the new advert (featuring Tiwa Savage).


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ktIsevN9PT8

The big issue has been maintenance (particularly during the military era) and the two examples that best illustrate this fact are NNS Aradu and NNS Ambe.

Ships can serve for a long time. The US used World War 2 era battleships up into the 1990s. The key thing is that you maintain them properly.

NNS Aradu is a Meko 360 class frigate (probably the first one ever built). This means that its parts are perfectly interchangeable, therefore it should not have to be alongshore for a long time, but it was not maintained properly and so it spent almost 12 years alongshore. It has run aground several times because of bad seamanship. Thankfully it has been better treated since 1999 than it was during the military era.

I do not think that we would have been successful in Liberia without NNS Ambe and her twin sister NNS Ofiom (they were used to transport troops, armoured cars, tanks, etc from Ecomog countries to Liberia and Sierra Leone and their ro-ro capabilities ensured that we could land the equipment despite hostile fire from shore). Yet we have treated both ships badly. NNS Ofiom is practically dead. The roro ramp of NNS Ambe has been welded shut. What use is a Landing Ship Tank without its ramp? It has suffered fires and a naval training exercise had to be abandoned in 2004 because the Ambe did not arrive shore when it was supposed to (it broke down).

NNS Obuma suffered similar fate when it was still alive and that's what made the government decide to replace it with NNS Aradu. I reckon that it could have served us for 10 to 15 more years.

These ships are not really that old, but they have not been maintained properly (credit to Admiral Adekeye for what he did with NNS Andoni, NNS Aradu and what he planned to do with NNS Obuma)

Good, some have answered my questions, so back to my first question, why should the Nigerian Navy have a battleship in this day and age? This isn't 1894, neither is it 1914, we are in 2014!

What's the difference between these:

1) Battleship

2) Aircraft Carrier

3) Amphibious Assault Ship.

4) Amphibious Landing Ship

5) Landing Ship Tank

6) Cruiser

7) Destroyer

8 ) Frigate

9) Corvette

10) Patrol Boat?

seankafor:
And if so how does it look like

reminds me of the movie'battleship'

Do you know any navy that uses battleships in this day and age?

Obiagelli:

Welcome back.

johnwell:
how come this goes on front page, not a single pix

I've been searching all over for you (I forgot your username). Can you recreate the Akwa Ibom Stadium thread? It was wiped away by the data loss tsunami.

@Gidi_Traffic der is mayhem @ ojuelegba now6:34pm - 9 Oct 14

@Gidi_Traffic ojuelegba-yaba road is now a war zone...drive safely

There's a difference between @mrAyeDee (who took the action against Linda Ikeji) and @aydee (a parody account). The person running the parody account has been hurling insults at Linda Ikeji, while the real @mrAyeDee has been predicting that she'll bounce back.

@lindaikeji

The blog is still up on lindaikeji.mobi...please read there for now until I sort this out

https://mobile.twitter.com/lindaikeji/status/519882088108285953?p=v