₦airaland Forum

Akon419:
as mighty as USA millitary , you should have asked yourself why they made a combination of other countries to fight ISIS.

You think US needs help in dealing with any kind of insurgency?

The reason for all the coalition is just to be politically correct, in order to allay the general perception that USA is a big bully.
So don't be deceived!

Otuoke straight

No break!
No jam!

So what happens if these armies refused to give up their conquered land?

Can we push them out?

I dey laugh o

Why can't you people just hit the nail on the head ?

The government of Jonathan systematically sabotaged the military, in preparation for war against the Nigerian state.
I must Comment that they have succeeded!
Imagine, nigeria that used to be feared in the sub region is now relying on the French colonists to fight simple insurgency!
Is the Cameroon or chadian army using better equipment than what we have here in the army?
No!
So how come they can do in days what has taken Nigerian army years, unable to do?

Awada kerikeri!

This man funny pass Mr Ibu

It's well
Nothing spoil!

At least there is security guaranteed from our neigbours even though we have own own security outfits!

We are a country of hypocrites
And we delight in telling ourselves lies!
This Boko haram insurgency has proved that NA is just a paper tiger!

I seriously think LYING blatantly by government officials should be made a punishable offense!

Na now una dey bomb and reclaim territory ?
Abi?
When election is days away!
Another gimmick after many lives and properties have been lost?
We don wise!
Eleven days to go
And we are waiting for you at the polling booth!

Nonsense!

That is part of the 30 trillion missing under Okonjo Iweala

Make una go sit down!
Na every day Boko haram dey suffer massive casualty!
That is not what we want to hear!
We what to hear that all the captured land has been recovered and the Islamist has been pushed out of Nigeria.
Or is that too much to ask?

Igbo Kwenu
Still a learner in the politics of diplomacy!
Continue to keep all your eggs in one basket!
But don't cry when the basket falls and the whole content get dashed to pieces!

God bless the man that conducted that interview!
He just confirmed what we all know!
Asari is a retarrded thug with no iota of s.ense in his cranium!

No doubt corruption has been a problem in the army for ages, but Jonathan was the person that legitimize it and encouraged it to a state, where the army is now cannibalizing itself! i.e the army is being destroyed from the inside!

I have always known that allowing indiscipline and recklessness to continue will always backfire!

The present government in its bid to pocket everybody, even the military retired 140 well trained generals with invaluable experience between 2011 and 2013, and planted their lackeys with minimal experience and intelligence.
The price of that is the unneccesary deaths amongst rank and files.

140 Military Generals Retired In Two Years
Our Special Correspondent
— Feb 15, 2014 | 2 Comments
With the recent retirement of service chiefs, the number of generals retired from the Nigerian armed forces in the last two years has reached at least 140, LEADERSHIP Weekend’s investigation has shown.

From the statistics available to LEADERSHIP Weekend, about 40 major-generals and 52 brigadier-generals were retired from the army, followed by the air force with 25 air vice-marshals and 40 air commodores; in the navy, about 20 rear-admirals and 38 commodores were retired between 2012 and 2014. This was confirmed by a top military officer who sought anonymity.

http://leadership.ng/news/345540/140-military-generals-retired-two-years

SeverusSnape:
Sahara reporters at it again...

All of you always saying the above bulls.hit whenever saharareporters carry news, critical of your paymaster , you lot just continue to prove to us how pathetic you all are!

I'm sure if the news had been "Buhari ran mad on the campaign trail"
You will be the first to share it and cry that Sahara is saying the truth !

@the news
I hope more men are being deployed to strengthen the Defence of Maiduguri ?
That city must not fall!

Oya!
Straight to Maiduguri, Konduga, Monguno, Michika and Baga!
No more excuse!
#bringbackourland

Why am I not suprised?

Chinko electronics don't last!

Enough of defence,
It's time the Army goes on the offensive.

If Maiduguri falls?
Jonathan will be held personally responsible!

With all these security reports, what is he doing to safeguard lives and properties apart from going on a campaign trail to spew lies?

http://saharareporters.com/2015/01/29/boko-haram-regrouping-massive-attack-maiduguri



Nigerian security sources say they have seen signs that Islamist Boko Haram militants may be planning a massive attack on Maiduguri, the capital of Borno State, less than a week after Nigerian soldiers repelled a daring attack and handed the insurgents a costly defeat last Sunday.

Security and local sources told SaharaReporters that Boko Haram terrorists appeared to be regrouping to overrun the strategic northeast city before commencement of Nigeria’s general elections due to start on February 14.

Before the Islamist fighters struck last Sunday, residents of some communities near Maiduguri said they had alerted the Nigerian military that some insurgents were approaching along the Dambua-Biu road near Allahganrino village. According to the reported informants, the military had apparently paid no heed to their warnings. A day later, Boko Haram attacked Maiduguri.

A soldier who fled Monguno, a town that was also attacked on Sunday and seized by the insurgents, told SaharaReporters that the militants used to say when they would storm towns and military barracks and carry out such threats. He criticized commanders who boast about working on intelligence, saying they had nothing to show for such ostensible intelligence.

“We should stop defending all the time. There is [an] urgent need for a counter-offensive against Boko Haram,” said a military source. He alleged that the Islamist militants forewarned about their attacks on Baga and Monguno, adding that he had experienced such pre-attack warnings three times.

A resident of a village near Maiduguri told SaharaReporters that he and other residents had seen a large number of Boko Haram militants arriving along Dikwa road in sports utility vehicles, motorcycles and camels, adding that they had alerted military authorities as well.

“We have received tips from some of the locals that they have sighted the militants,” a security operative in the beleaguered city told our correspondent.

A member of the civilian joint task force combating the Islamist militants said many of the local people “have vowed to join in the fight to flush Boko Haram out. We are not going to take things [lightly] with them. We are ready for them [Boko Haram fighters]. Since they want to die, we shall kill them.”

However, some residents of Maiduguri say they have not been able to “sleep with two eyes closed since last Sunday,” as one of them stated. He added that the fall of Monguno barracks meant that the militants now control various types of deadly weapons, including artillery weapons with capacity to fire from long distances. “We don’t know when they will come again, but they have the weapons to cause major havoc,” said the resident.

I hope Jonathan will dispatch another battalion to support Maiduguri !
Before it is too late!

Islamic extremists are rampaging through villages in northeast Nigeria's Adamawa state, killing, burning and looting with no troops deployed to protect civilians, fleeing villagers said Wednesday.

More than 40 people have been killed in seven villages as houses and mosques have been burned down and businesses and homes looted this week, according to Emmanuel Kwache and state legislator Adamu Kamale.

"They don't spare anything: they slaughtered people like rams and they burned down our houses after looting food," Kwache said. "There's no presence of troops, some residents are hiding on top of hills, while those that could not run were abducted, particularly youths and women."

Kamale said he has appealed in vain to authorities to send troops since the attacks began on Friday. On Monday, he said, the militants moved from villages to the town of Michika.

In Maiduguri, some 200 kilometres north of Michika, people fleeing militant attacks in neighbouring Borno state say that Boko Haram fighters warned they are preparing "a big grave" for them in Maiduguri and that "there will be no mercy." Maiduguri is the biggest city in the northeast where troops repelled a daring offensive by hundreds of militants Sunday. At least 200 combatants were killed, according to residents and security forces.

"They kept saying they were chasing us so that we can all run into the big grave they are preparing for us in Maiduguri", said Aishatu Ba'malum, who fled from Monguno, a northeast town taken by the militants on Sunday.

Ba'malum, who lost her husband in the chaos of her flight, is among more than 200,000 people taking refuge in Maiduguri.

The city of two million residents appears to be surrounded. Three roads lead to areas held by Boko Haram. The militants are believed to be attacking the fourth road leading to the northern city of Kano, according to residents too scared to leave though they fear an imminent attack.

The extremists who denounce democracy are increasing attacks as Nigeria prepares for Feb. 14 elections. Some 10,000 people died in the five-year insurgency in the past year.

http://www.cbc.ca/m/news/world/boko-haram-rampage-in-northeast-nigeria-kills-more-than-40-1.2934479

Shame to bad people!

Nigeria will not finish,
Only those behind this plan are finished!
Dead and they shall not be remembered !

Iyabo please go and sit down!
Patronizing APC will not make them give you a post when they eventually win.

Walahi!
Nigerian army has become a joke!
What kind of excuse is this for God's sake!
Coward!

https://static01.nyt.com/images/2015/01/28/magazine/28mag-28bokoharam/28mag-28bokoharam-articleLarge.jpg
A Civilian Joint Task Force officer in Maiduguri, in northeastern Nigeria, screening residents of nearby villages and towns who were displaced by recent Boko Haram attacks.


Through the fall and winter, the Islamist militant group Boko Haram has seemed nearly unstoppable. It has captured town after town in northeastern Nigeria and laid siege to the fishing hamlet Baga and nearby villages, killing hundreds of people. But over the weekend, the group finally suffered a significant setback. The militants tried to invade Maiduguri, a city of two million in the northeast, as well as two towns in the area, Monguno and Konduga. While Monguno — which is 80 miles north of Maiduguri and houses a military base — fell under Boko Haram control on Sunday, Maiduguri and Konduga held their ground, in no small part because of vigilantes who fought alongside the Nigerian military.

Hundreds of Boko Haram militants descended upon Maiduguri from two directions and were met by the vigilantes and soldiers. The assault prompted Nigerian troops, who were caught by surprise, to call in airstrikes. Scores of Boko Haram members — and probably soldiers too, though numbers have not been released — were killed in the fighting. Without the vigilantes, the battle would have most likely been lost.

One of these vigilantes was Abba Aji Kalli, whom I wrote about for the magazine in November. I called Kalli early this week to find out how he was faring after the battle. “We are doing fine,” he told me. “We pushed them back. They didn’t enter Maiduguri.”

Kalli said his men recovered artillery and rocket-propelled grenades from the militants. None of the vigilantes died in the fight, he added with his usual cockiness, though some were wounded during the battle, which lasted about 90 minutes. “Maiduguri was surrounded by Boko Haram,” Kalli went on. “They had been trying to break into Maiduguri at different locations, but, God help us, we are repelling them.”

Like other residents of Maiduguri who were fed up with the Nigerian military’s weak response to Boko Haram’s insurgency, Kalli helped create what became known as the Civilian Joint Task Force, a battalion of volunteer combatants who organized to defend their homes from the Islamist militants. Kalli eventually abandoned his job as a government auditor to command his own unit, leading his friends and neighbors in what has been a sometimes-ragtag struggle against Boko Haram. With homemade arms and self-taught counterinsurgency strategies, the vigilantes have managed to push the group out of Maiduguri.

Meanwhile, the military struggles to keep its soldiers, who complain of a lack of munitions, from abandoning their posts whenever they’re attacked. (The military and the vigilantes have each been accused of engaging in abuses in the name of ending terrorism: arbitrary arrests and beatings, summary executions, forced recruitment and the use of children in their ranks. Kalli denies that he or anyone in his group has ever been involved in any human rights abuses or that any members of his group are under 18. “We don’t kill anybody,” he told me in November. “We hand them to the authorities. We have to protect ourselves, but we normally catch them alive.” )

Kalli told me that his men were alerted on Saturday night to Boko Haram activity near Maiduguri. By 7 the next morning, when the militants tried to enter the city, Kalli and other vigilantes were blocking their way. At least eight people died during the clashes, and residents were forced to flee from nearby housing estates. Some residents, worried about their safety, have not yet returned. But life in Maiduguri — a rambling, sandy metropolis with a university and historic mosques — is otherwise back to normal, or at least what residents now consider normal given the recent suicide bombings orchestrated by Boko Haram. The city’s relative peace may be fragile, but Maiduguri, largely because of the vigilantes, remains a haven for residents of nearby towns and villages who are not as lucky — the inhabitants of Monguno, for instance, who fled into the city.

I asked Kalli if he thought Boko Haram would try again. “They are always ready to try,” he said. “But we are always ready to engage them.”

http://mobile.nytimes.com/2015/01/28/magazine/the-people-vs-boko-haram.html

PDP !
Continue to deceive yourselves!

I hope you will not say that bot voted for APC when we all go out to vote by Febhuari 14!

Your eyes will soon clear!

Shame to bad people!

PDP ! the party of blackmail!
Who started documentary?

Abeg fire on APC !
Waiting for the documentary
And please don't forget to even show it on AL Jazeera and CNN!

Shame to bad people!

PDP ! the party of blackmail!
Who started documentary?

Abeg fire on APC !
Waiting for the documentary
And please don't forget to even show it on AL Jazeera and CNN!

The guy na real AYIRI - MADMAN!

APC !

Let the gloves come off now!

I'm expecting to see APC documentary on Jonathan on TVC!

And please,
Nothing is untouchable, including Patience Jonathan's matter

I can see all the saTANist on overdrive, mast.urbating all over this thread !

It is clear to both the blind and deaf that this present government cannot deal with Boko Haram!

What the good pastor is saying is that Buhari will end crush boko haram what the present government allowed to fester !

And all of you using this tragedy to prosper shall be put to shame!

Shame to bad people!