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Foreign Affairs / Re: African Militaries/ Security Services Strictly Photos Only And Videos Thread by Ozonna(m): 8:44am On Sep 17, 2014 |
chris365: Skullz said you need a bottle of cold beer, don’t bother because i’ll buy you a carton of whatever you are drinking Weldone |
Politics / Re: Enugu, The Pride Of The East. by Ozonna(m): 8:34am On Sep 17, 2014 |
Nnewi1stSon: Those two groups are utterly useless! What good can come from a Gov's Forum run by an Imbecillic M0Ron as Orji? Ohanaeze is more interested in flying to Abuja every week to sell Igbos out to Jonathan! Theres no harm in trying 3 Likes |
Politics / Re: Enugu, The Pride Of The East. by Ozonna(m): 7:26am On Sep 17, 2014 |
It’ll be sad if soneone doesnt forward all that have been discussed here to SE governors forum or even Ohaneze ndigbo. 1 Like |
Politics / Re: Enugu, The Pride Of The East. by Ozonna(m): 8:02pm On Sep 13, 2014 |
cjrane: This is called gospel truth 2 Likes |
Politics / Re: Boko Haram: ‘IBB Disarmed The Military’ by Ozonna(m): 7:43am On Sep 06, 2014 |
Thank God that we've started acquiring new military equipments. Things can only continue to get better for us in this war against these terrorists. 2 Likes |
Politics / Re: Nigerian Army's Campaign In The North Eastern Theatre (Photos) by Ozonna(m): 6:43am On Sep 06, 2014 |
SiriusBlack: Hey Guys, I am hale and hearty...Keep praying for your fighting men...as you all know, I can no longer post photos or comment about happenings at the front..But I can say this..Morale is high..we are all thirsty for vengeance and blood..Right now, this is between the sons of God and Forces of Darkness..just don't believe the lies SR is putting out..Victory is assured..Its Showdown time. Guy thank God for you. As I saw this post now my morale don high too. God will grant the Nigerian military victory 2 Likes |
Politics / Re: Enugu, The Pride Of The East. by Ozonna(m): 2:09pm On Sep 04, 2014 |
IGBOSON1: 2 Likes |
Politics / Re: Enugu, The Pride Of The East. by Ozonna(m): 12:13pm On Sep 04, 2014 |
spyder880: We should probe Enugu government for doing too many construction projects, [/b]very un Nigerian[b] Very correct. Some of his colleagues have either reduced or stopped all capital projects because they are in their final lap. |
Foreign Affairs / Re: IS Militants Vow To ‘de-throne’ Putin Over Syria Support by Ozonna(m): 10:53am On Sep 04, 2014 |
Now this is funny |
Politics / Re: Ebola Outbreak: 39 Immigrants From DR Congo, Sierra Leone Arrested In Lagos by Ozonna(m): 9:46pm On Aug 30, 2014 |
davidif: My brother this is not terrorism. This is Ebola wey no get cure. |
Politics / Re: Military Planes Bombed Gwoza, Limankara Begin Major Operation To Recapture Towns by Ozonna(m): 11:07pm On Aug 29, 2014 |
matify: Sorry about your loss. 1 Like |
Religion / Re: Chris Oyakhilome's Wife Files For Divorce Over Adultery by Ozonna(m): 12:46pm On Aug 29, 2014 |
Hian!!! Nna mehn I don weak |
Politics / Re: Total Nigeria Completes Alaoji Power Station Gas Supply Pipe Line by Ozonna(m): 10:40am On Aug 28, 2014 |
pazienza: It will interest you to know that some companies are about to import coal from SA. AS a proactive measure against the lingering power supply crisis in the country, some industrialists and electricity generating companies have started initiating moves to import coal from South Africa. This is to enable them to switch over to coal-powered turbines for their respective operators. The move was said to have been informed by the frustrations being experienced by the operators in getting gas to fuel their respective power plants. Nigeria has been assessed to have about the largest gas reserves in the world, but the parlous supply infrastructure has compromised distribution to various plants requiring the commodity. The nation’s coal reserves remain largely unexploited, even after the Federal Government has sold out the blocs to prospective miners. Leading the coal-import initiative from South Africa is Dangote Cement Plc, which has already placed an initial order of 30,000 tonnes of the commodity from the continent’s second largest economy. Already, the company has slated $250 million for power generating conversion , which would involve establishment of three plants at Dangote Cement’s facilities at Obajana in Kogi State; Gboko in Benue State; and Ibeshe in Ogun State. The Group Managing Director of Dangote Cement, Devakupar Edwin, explained yesterday that the company had to be proactive in resolving the lingering power supply crisis in the country, as ‘‘we cannot afford to compromise the objectives of promoting value addition and job creation in Nigeria.” Edwin stressed that ‘‘no business can survive in an atmosphere of energy crisis. If we don’t have power and fuel, our operations would become endangered.” According to him, ‘‘Dangote Cement would be investing $250 million in coal-based power plants, due to increasing difficulties in getting gas supply to power our electricity generating plants. All our kilns will be powered by coal, with the new plants located in Obajana, Ibeshe and Gboko. ‘‘Already, we are expecting the first shipment of 30,000 coal from South Africa, to power 60 megawatt power plants, with another 30 megawatt generating facility on standby.” Edwin, however, explained that the coal importation agenda was only scripted as a temporary measure, to forestall system collapse in their operations. ‘‘We are aware of large coal deposits in Nigeria and the allocation of blocs to prospective miners. But we have to take urgent steps to safeguard our investments in the country, more so as exploitation of the commodity has not commenced on a scale that can sustain our operations. ‘‘Currently, we don’t have either gas or black oil (low pour fuel oil) to run our machines fully. We even had to resort to importation of black oil to do our business. ‘‘We, however, have a plan to look inwards in respect of coal sourcing, as we expect the companies that have secured coal blocs to commence their respective mining operations in the country. ‘‘We had hoped that the gas infrastructure challenges would be resolved, so that normal supplies can be resumed. But the reality on the ground now is that the crisis has persisted. ‘‘The government would need to come to the aid of cement manufacturers as the operating environment is not encouraging at all. The cost of doing business is increasing. When a cement company is forced to be importing black oil to sustain production, how would it not affect its financial projection?” Investigations by The Guardian revealed that some power generating companies (Gencos) have already started considering converting their plants to coal-fired turbines, with unabated crisis in securing gas to power their respective facilities. Mostly affected by the gas paucity crisis are the Gencos that are located inland, which have not got the close proximity advantage to the gas supplying facilities, which are located in the Niger Delta region. http://www.ngrguardiannews.com/news/national-news/175150-nigerian-firms-others-to-import-coal-from-south-africa-for-power-generation |
Politics / Re: Nigerian Army's Campaign In The North Eastern Theatre (Photos) by Ozonna(m): 8:50am On Aug 28, 2014 |
Just like I read in beegeagle (yes, am addicted to that blog ). At just over 100000 troops, our military is small in number compared to our population and land mass. So what these terrorists do is they attack soft spots/towns where there are few soldiers. The terrerists attack in greater numbers than our troops who are stationed to defend the town. Read what the beeg man has to say: That notion of a lean and mechanised military will not work for Nigeria. Nigeria’s problem, unlike other vast countries such as Algeria, Sudan or DR Congo is that we have settlements from end to end…from the sand dunes of Yusufari to Bassambiri in the Niger Delta. In times of war, except every square inch of territory is staked out, there shall always be the case of insurgents preying on isolated communities. http://beegeagle./2012/06/05/exercise-obangame-2010-at-calabar-nigerian-navy-participation/ Quote ” I remember that, but that is neither here nor there. What is the magical correlation between 50,000 troops and professionalism? Most countries with a less than a quarter, a third or half of Nigeria’s population have larger armies – Algeria, Morocco, Burma, Turkey, Iraq, Ethiopia, The Philippines, Iran, Egypt BECAUSE there is correlation between geography, demography and manning. I do not see how the disproportionately large sizes of the Egyptian and Turkish armies have hampered their quest for professionalism. As of 1988, the defunct Directorate of Foods, Roads and Rural Infrastructure enumerated 94,000 communities in Nigeria. Compared to that and the last time I checked, the DRC had 40,000 communities, Ethiopia 45,000 and the pre-partition Sudan had 35,000 communities. We face challenges of insurgency in which men have to be put on the ground. NORTHERN NIGERIA is equal in size(slightly larger as a matter of fact) to Benin, Togo, Ghana and Cote d’Ivoire put together OR FOUR times the size of Liberia and Sierra Leone put together.Half of that huge swathe of territory(equal in size to Germany) has been critically affected by insurgent attacks. There is a critical requirement for BOOTS on the ground since these chaps strike where they sense a vacuum. It is the same everywhere with COIN-CT operations. In Liberia we had a peak deployment of 13,000 troops, in Sierra Leone it was 19,000 men. That is 32,000 men to man an area the size of Scotland and England combined and there was still a deficit. I just said that Northern Nigeria is four times as large as the combined area of Liberia and Sierra Leone! The insurgent knuckleheads will attack every undefended church, every isolated police post, every vulnerable church and the COIN-CT operations are beyond what the Police alone can handle insofar as they only field rifles whereas the insurgents have RPGs, GPMGs, are massively IED-reliant and use suicide bombers. In the deep south, the Niger Delta is a labyrinth of 3014 creeks and waterways with 5,000 miles of pipelines, hundreds of remote flowstations and installations scattered across a daunting maritime area the size of Sierra Leone. The creeks call for patrols by triads and quartets of troops in river gunboats, the multimillion dollar flowstations need to be protected by squads and sections of troops as well. How many troops are we looking at ideally to effectively man that area where bunkering, piracy, insurgency and kidnapping are not going to quieten down before 2015 at the earliest? What manner of 50,000 troops was OBJ speculating about? Was that a joke? We need to get started with more than twice that number and with a 2,000-man NAF Regiment(plus 15,000 others) and a 3,000-man Naval Infantry Command (plus 15,000 others) They should forget the glib talk about ‘compact and professional.’ This is not Israel. Our land area is 45 times larger. China have not been in any war since 1978-79 against Vietnam. Their land is ten times larger, their population is eight times bigger but their military is more than twenty times larger. Does anyone know why, if not for the correlation between population size, land area and the need for MANNING 1 Like |
Politics / Re: Nsukka Traditional Ruler Sets Enslaved Villagers Free by Ozonna(m): 9:02am On Aug 27, 2014 |
berem: This would make a good nollywood movie with very good actors to play the roles perfectly. Gbam!!! Good actor, directors and quality camera. Infact quality production |
Politics / Re: Nigerian Army's Campaign In The North Eastern Theatre (Photos) by Ozonna(m): 8:56am On Aug 27, 2014 |
jteku: Nigerian Bigboys To be sincere I don't want to blame these big boys. I want to blame all of us Nigerians. There's something that makes us forget where we came from immediately we get to a post of authority. Pastors should know the evil spirit behind this and fight it. Imams should know the jinn ( sorry incase I got the spelling wrong am not muslim) behind it and fight it. Scientists should find a rationale explanation for it and prescribe pills/ solutions to take eliminate from our nation. This affects all facets of our national life and not just the military, Infact politicians and civil servants are worse. Gen Minimah being an infantry man must have seen many battles (without any bullet peoof) in his career from the deserts in Somalia to the jungles in Liberia and Sierra Leone (though I haven't seen his CV). Same goes for the CDS and CAS both of whom I'm sure flew the Alpha Jets when they were tear rubber. Now these men suppose to know better about equipping the armed forces with latest military gadgets . For God's sake what's giving a soldiers 2 or 3 magazines nah. It doesn't make sense at all. While we pray and hope for the quick arrival of the equipments/super tucanos/helos, we also pray to God to help our military to master the equipments in record time, use it to inflict heavy damages on the enemy and not submit them to the insurgents. 2 Likes |
Politics / Re: Nigerian Army's Campaign In The North Eastern Theatre (Photos) by Ozonna(m): 9:55am On Aug 26, 2014 |
Got this from beegeagle. Corruption is abominable but it is not the explanation for everything under the sun. It does not explain – Why tanks and medium artillery could not repulse and attack by light infantry in Gwoza – Why the commander of the troops at Gwoza would not have scouting positions on the heights to have seen the Boko Haram long before they got into the town – why the retreating troops could not spare a few minutes to toss 1 grenade each into the abandoned tanks and APCs, or spike the guns – Why all the air assets we have not been armed and were not sent into the air to bomb the advancing BH as they came Soooo many questions, none of which is directly connected with the corruption of politicians (or even Generals for that matter). 6 Likes |
Politics / Re: 480 Nigerian Soldiers Flee To Cameroon by Ozonna(m): 6:37pm On Aug 25, 2014 |
komekn: Infact, I am speechless. This is a huge disgrace 1 Like |
Politics / Re: 480 Nigerian Soldiers Flee To Cameroon by Ozonna(m): 4:31pm On Aug 25, 2014 |
Sincerely speaking, President Gej isn't handling this war against boko haram well at all. Sir you need to tell the service chiefs to retake every territory under the control of the terrorists within 30 days or face sack. People who are clamouring for new equipments, can't you guys see how we keep donating our tanks to the insurgents without demobilising the equipments? One day we'll hear how we donated our one and only Alfa jet to them (with the most experienced pilot as jara). This is no longer about equipments. There is more to this war than meets the eye. 2 Likes |
Politics / Re: Enugu, The Pride Of The East. by Ozonna(m): 2:44pm On Aug 24, 2014 |
Innovator90: Please kindly forward this SRDC proposal to Governor Obiano, Gov ¥ Okorocha and Ohaneze Ndigbo. Govs Chime, Elechi and Orji will be leaving their seats on May 29th next year. Govs Obiano and Okorocha (if re elected) should push this regional development agenda to the nnew sworn in Govs. Also members of the NASS from Igboland shouldn't be left out. Maybe Chino, Abagworo and other guys who are connected to top politicians in theIgboland should be of help here and see how they can make this idea come to physical manifestation. We shouldn't let brilliant ideas in this thread ggo to waste. Pleas it shouldn't end here. 4 Likes |
Politics / Re: Nigerian Army's Campaign In The North Eastern Theatre (Photos) by Ozonna(m): 6:32pm On Aug 23, 2014 |
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Politics / Re: Nigerian Army's Campaign In The North Eastern Theatre (Photos) by Ozonna(m): 1:06am On Aug 23, 2014 |
NafeesaAA: When you gave out that information, I searched the net to know if it was true. No online blog carried the news as at the time I read it here, i thought it was a lie and I was angry because the terrorists all over the world knows how to strike fear in the hearts of the populace by making good use of propaganda. Knowing fully well that we've lost the propaganda battle to boko hharam, I gave in to my emotions and made the statement I made. Mistake I made was not apologising after reading this same story from reputable online news stands. I apologise for making the statement I made. Cheers 14 Likes |
Politics / Re: Boko Haram: Soldiers Mutiny, Demand Better Equipment by Ozonna(m): 3:33pm On Aug 22, 2014 |
ocelot2006: NPF as in Nigerian Police Force |
Romance / Re: The Kind Of Self Confidence That Attracts Women by Ozonna(m): 1:28pm On Aug 22, 2014 |
Sagamite: And continously reminding her that she's a furcktard 1 Like |
Politics / Re: Nigerian Army's Campaign In The North Eastern Theatre (Photos) by Ozonna(m): 5:07pm On Aug 21, 2014 |
tunshe: Trash You not only read and replied to what you call trash, you even counted the lines . You are even a greater fool than I thought 3 Likes |
Politics / Re: Nigerian Army's Campaign In The North Eastern Theatre (Photos) by Ozonna(m): 11:52am On Aug 21, 2014 |
SiriusBlack: http://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.defenceweb.co.za/index.php%3Foption%3Dcom_content%26view%3Darticle%26id%3D35923:nigerian-air-force-acquiring-aw101-helicopters%26catid%3D35:Aerospace%26Itemid%3D107&sa=U&ei=J631U5fpC8a6O4iKgeAC&ved=0CAsQqQIwAQ&usg=AFQjCNFGpWgFAcID0cYFBvAe49Di71aERA I don't want to believe that we are acquiring this for VIP use. I just want to believe they're acquiring this covertly to be used in the NE. These men can't be this heartless. We should bombard twitter handle of Olukolade with questions like where the hell are the Super Tucanos,40 helos, etc. These military leaders have made Nigeria laughing stock in Africa 2 Likes |
Politics / Re: Nigerian Army's Campaign In The North Eastern Theatre (Photos) by Ozonna(m): 10:12pm On Aug 20, 2014 |
NafeesaAA: The last security agency still present in Gwoza was today rooted out by about 1000 armed Boko Haram fighters with 8 APC. I just got this breaking news from my Cousin a MOPOL that Boko Haram have now completely over run the famous MOPOL Training Camp in Gwoza, after two unsuccessful attempts. That the insurgents pissed with their inability to conquer the camp after destroying a military base and warded off two attempt by the military to recapture Gwoza, today lunched a all out offensive on the camp. I blame the army PR for not doing their jobs properly. If they had allowed SiriusBlack to continue his thread we wouldn't be subjected to rumours/lies like this one I just quoted. Boko haram sympathisers will use this opportunity to fill the gap and continue spreading their evil propaganda. |
Health / Re: Another Liberian With Ebola Found In Lagos by Ozonna(m): 1:15pm On Aug 20, 2014 |
Seems like some people are hell bent on spreading this disease in this country. If he tries to pull any Patrick Sawer stunt, the police should put a bullet in his head |
Business / Re: Brazil Tops Buyers Of Nigeria Crude Oil (SEE FULL LIST) by Ozonna(m): 12:56pm On Aug 20, 2014 |
That was one of the reasons why Nigeria bought Brazilian fighter plane Super Tucano for COIN to balance trade between both countries. |
Politics / Re: Isis/boko Haram: Handling Terrorism The Russian Way by Ozonna(m): 12:00pm On Aug 20, 2014 |
I endorse this Russian method 1 Like |
Politics / Re: Enugu, The Pride Of The East. by Ozonna(m): 11:40am On Aug 20, 2014 |
Guys si just saw this thread https://www.nairaland.com/1865201/iboland-donate-grazing-land-fulani now. Every well meaning Igbo man (not just enugu indigene) should condemn this bill now and make sure it doesn't see the light of the day. Those that have access to their representatives on the assembly should call them now and advise them to throw away that bill without wasting their time arguing about it. We shouldn't allow this Eugene Odoh led House of Assembly to turn Enugu State to plateau or Nasarawa state in the near future. Supporters of all political heavy weights here should call the attention of their bosses to this curse that a certain Chinedu Nwamba wants to bring to Enugu and help put a stop to this madness. 2 Likes |
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