Dechymmytv: sorry makinde is not the only person who has access to routers news archive . How could you even say that, was it makinde that made the videos..
The fact you can't even "Reuters" well says a lot. No be only you get access to Internet. Many people here no be only nairaland dem they come. We the know what's up ..
mysticwarrior: my brother we have a good internal security network but corruption would not allow it to flourish and blossom, if you go to a police station and make a report that somebody robbed you of #20,000 the police will not respond, but go there and report that your 20milion is stolen by an unidentified gunman, within 48hrs they will nab that robber, its all about what they stand to gain. Our external security may appear weak but if a country like Cameroon, Niger or Benin Republic decide to invade Nigeria what do you think would be the outcome? Nigerian soldiers will bring down hell upon them, we careless about our internal security but we desplay our powerful might when dealing with our African neighbors, Nigerian would consider it a shame for any African Country to invade and attack our borders just to start up a war, ask the Cameroonians what their soldiers suffered during the Bakassi tension between both countries. Secondly during the regime of Obasanjo A transborder robber called "Tijaoni" attacked Obasanjos daughter Iyabo, two children died in that attack, within 45munites Obasanjo ordered the closure of all Nigerian borders, for 3 days and the President of Benin republic personaly came to Obj to beg him with a promise to capture Tijaoni, Two days later Tijani was captured in a village near Timbuktu in Mali. My brother go kidnap dangote or Buratai daughter and try to smuggle her out of the country, that time u go know say Nigeria get tight border security.
I stumbled upon this Footage of the execution by firing squad of a man convicted of armed robbery in Nigeria. The execution took place at Victoria Island's Bar Beach in Lagos.
Footage of this execution was used in Michelangelo Antonioni’s 1975 film, "The Passenger", which starred Jack Nicholson as a television journalist traveling in Africa. The scene was fictionalised as the execution of a political leader.
The power evacuation capabilities of our transmission stations are severely hindered by the gross neglect/lack of maintenance of the downstream distribution sub sector. The downfall of the unbundling of the power sector means, private entities now saddled with the distribution sub sector have ready made excuses for why and how they can't manage power
Once upon a time, I taught the final year students in a certain school mathematics. The eve prior to the day they were to write Waec Math, I met some of the students at a football viewing center where a premier league match was ongoing. Do you know what they said to me? They asked if it was a wise decision for me to be watching football since they had Math the following day and I their teacher was supposed to be reading!
midnighter: Can anybody help me with some information about this?
I know nobody has data to waste lol but if you can, please skip to 3:40 to see the masquerade I'm talking about
I stumbled across it on Youtube and it's one of the most graceful masquerade dances I've ever seen. But I'd like to know more about the origin, the mask, the dance steps, etc.
I'll explain a bit. The tiv culture is one that is deeply rooted in the supernatural, deeply superstitious and animistic. Growing up in Benue state, one of the prime beliefs that held sway with the tiv cultural sub group was the prime existence of water or marine spirits. Hence it was not uncommon to hear people describe say a woman's beauty with reference to marine or water spirits. Also, the tiv are avid hunters and the glamorization of the art of hunting and/or animals is something they take great pride in. You will see this in the slow snakelike wiggle of their dance steps and in the many masks (animal) they use for their masquerades. This might be unrelated but legend has it that the green snake (Ikyaren) was particularly helpful to the early forbears of the tiv race when they tried crossing a river during a war/disaster aeons ago. Thus, it is prohibited, I'd say almost a taboo, to this day for any tiv son or daughter to kill the green snake. This is perhaps the origin of the much celebrated swange dance of the tiv people. PS: I'm not Tiv. My position is entirely based on my experience living amongst them in the early years of my life. As such, a complete rendition of events may be slightly different from what I've said here.
More Trivia: Arius (Dan Hedaya) is said to be a deposed dictator from the country of Val Verde. Val Verde was a fictionalized South/Central American country used by Hollywood from the 1980s to early 1990s to depict a Spanish speaking country similar to Cuba or Nicaragua without encountering diplomatic problems. It is also referenced in the films Predator (1987), Die Hard 2 (1990), and the made for TV movie Supercarrier: Deadly Enemies (Pilot) (1988). There are 54 stunt performers listed in the credits, 17 more people than the actual cast. Martial arts expert and fight choreographer Michael M. Vendrell worked with Arnold Schwarzenegger on the film, and, by the end of production, Vendrell estimated that Schwarzenegger had become a second degree black belt. The cut on Arnold Schwarzenegger's forehead in the beginning of the movie was real. Rae Dawn Chong's reactions to the motel fight were filmed separately and were completely ad-libbed. The surplus store where Matrix picks up all the war toys during his night "shopping" was "Surplus City" in Sun Valley, California. A movie addition to the building (on the driveway) allowed for the secret room, where the machine guns and the other fun stuff was hidden. In the 1960's, this company had the largest collection of military surplus 'jeeps' and 'mighty mites' for sale in the US. Arnold Schwarzenegger can bench press over 450 pounds, but they made the phone booth out of balsa wood anyway. After filming one scene, Arnold Schwarzenegger told Mark L. Lester to never give Vernon Wells a real knife. Nick Nolte was the original choice for John Matrix, but Arnold Schwarzenegger was cast instead. An Army consultant showed Arnold Schwarzenegger the move to quietly kill Henriques. The shot of Matrix standing on the landing gear of the plane as it races down the runway was shot by constructing the wheel section of a plane and attaching it by hydraulics to the side of a camera truck. John McTiernan was offered the chance to direct this film, and turned it down. Later, while editing Nomads (1986), his feature debut, he was offered the chance to direct Arnold Schwarzenegger's second film for 20th Century Fox, Predator (1987), which he accepted. He also directed Arnie in Last Action Hero (1993). Read More at:https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0088944/trivia
Fun Facts about the Movie Commando 10. Arnold wasn’t the first choice for the lead role. Nick Nolte was almost selected ahead of him. That might have given us a very different movie indeed. 9. The shopping mall in the film was the same one used in Terminator 2. After being used for both films the shopping mall was eventually remodeled. It might not be recognizable today. 8. Arnold was very protective of Alyssa Milano on the set. He made it a point to look out for his younger costar and would even help her with her homework on occasion. 7. They had to use a crane to dangle Sully over the cliff. When Matrix has Sully hanging over the cliff the director initially wanted Arnold to do this without help. Arnold thought it was too risky so they had to use a crane setup. 6. The cut on Arnold’s forehead in the beginning of the movie was real. Arnold took his fair share of bumps and bruises in this film but warned the director about ever giving his costar a real knife again. 5. It was surmised that thanks to his training Arnold was the equivalent of a 2nd degree black belt by the end of the film. Throughout the film he was constantly training and finding new ways to adapt to the role. So by the time it was done he’d gained a fair amount of skill. 4. The film took 45 days to shoot. That’s not record time but it’s pretty dang quick for a full-length motion picture. 3. The studio execs didn’t want Arnold to talk in the movie at first. Even at this point his accent was so thick that it was hard to understand him at times. The studio execs toyed with the idea of having him not speak at all, but eventually relented, perhaps thinking that it would be best to at least let him try. 2. Arnold did a lot of his own stunts. It was extremely difficult to find a stunt double his size so he did a lot of his own stunt work. He suffered a dislocated shoulder and a lot of stitches in the process. 1. Arnold’s body count in this film is 81. That seems about right for a film with Arnold Schwarzenegger in it. By today’s standards it’s probably still kind of impressive. https://www.tvovermind.com/10-things-didnt-know-movie-commando/
philip0906: The fastest man/woman in the world, dey this country (I can bet my life on that)...but their talents are rotting away. They are probably skatting on ikorodu road, sharing Dominos pizza handbill...
This country, na dream killer...The only thing I owe my kids, is to make sure they have first world citizenship. I won't make that mistake
persius555: Seal the borders with our neighbors. If they are serious about ending the war too, they can join us by helping to evacuate their citizens from towns bordering Nigeria. Nigeria should evacuate all of its citizens from major towns in bornu and relocate them to just three major town and maiduguri. Militancy exists only where people exists. They cant operate in a vaccum. Taliban, ISIS, Al-Qaeda etc They all thrive among the local populace
Move people out of these towns and let the military set the rule in just a month. Bornu is just one out of thirty-six states in Nigeria.
The problem with this is the serious refugee /humanitarian crises the government will have on it's hands. Just imagine cramming some 4million people into an area the size of Abuja..
mysticwarrior: Starvation strategy. cut all their food supply, medical supply, fuel supply and Ammunition supply, a hungry man will lost his will to fight. Lunch a full all out assault against them trust me Book haram will be history.
Easier said than done. With the porous borders up north, who's to tell how and where these devils receive their supplies. Besides with little intelligence or the lack thereof , it will be virtually impossible to this within any meaningful time.
Commando (1985 film) How many of you remember the Uber action packed film starring Arnold Schwarzenegger! I think it was a film that defined an era or rather a generation. It represented a marked shift in the Hollywood action sub genre that saw the revolution of a culture that always had a certain glamour for gun toting villians and crime heroes. Plot: Retired United States Special Forces Colonel John Matrix is informed by his former superior Major General Franklin Kirby that all the other members of his former unit have been killed by unknown mercenaries. The mercenaries, among them Bennett, an Australian ex-member of Matrix's team fired for excessive violence, attack Matrix's secluded mountain home and kidnap Matrix's young daughter Jenny. While trying to intercept them, Matrix is also overpowered and abducted by the mercenaries. He is taken before their leader, Arius, a South American former dictator who blackmails Matrix into carrying out a political assassination in his home country of Val Verde , where Arius wishes to lead a military coup. Matrix previously led a United States-backed revolution that deposed Arius, who has chosen Matrix to assassinate the new president of Val Verde, as he trusts Matrix implicitly. With Jenny's life on the line, Matrix reluctantly accepts the demand, but not before killing Diaz while refusing to cooperate with "his men". After boarding a plane to Val Verde, Matrix manages to kill his guard, Henriques, and jumps from the plane just as it is taking off. With approximately 11 hours before the plane is scheduled to land, he sets out after another of Arius' men, Sully. He enlists the aid of an off-duty flight attendant, Cindy, and instructs her to follow Sully to a shopping mall. Cindy first assumes that Matrix is a maniac, but after she sees Sully pull a gun on Matrix in the ensuing fight, she decides to assist him in his endeavor. After a lengthy car chase, Matrix catches up with Sully and drops him off a cliff to his death. Taking a motel key from Sully's jacket, Matrix tracks down and confronts Cooke, a former Green Beret in Arius' employ. He kills Cooke after a lengthy fight and learns where Jenny is being held. Matrix breaks into a surplus store to equip himself with military weaponry, but is immediately arrested by the police. Cindy helps him escape with a rocket launcher and, after commandeering a seaplane from a nearby marina controlled by Arius, Matrix and Cindy land the plane off the coast of Arius' island hideout. Matrix instructs Cindy to contact General Kirby and then proceeds to Arius' villa, killing the leader as well as his men on the way. Jenny escapes her confinement to the villa's basement, but is captured by Bennett. Matrix tracks them, and after a lengthy fight, finally kills Bennett by impaling him with a steam pipe. Kirby arrives with a military detachment and asks Matrix to rejoin the Special Forces Unit, but Matrix declines and departs the island aboard the seaplane with Jenny and Cindy. Source:https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commando_(1985_film)
‘Nigeria can’t afford a second civil war’ - Lt. General Akinrinade
At 41, he retired as Chief of Defence Staff after a brief stint as Chief of Army Staff. Later, Lt. Gen. Alani Ipoola Akinrinade served as Minister of Agriculture, and later, Industries and delegate to the 1989 Constituent Assembly under the Babangida administration. During the June 12 struggle, he was a key chieftain of the National Democratic Coalition (NADECO). The light-skinned General, who is celebrating his 80th birthday today at the Conference Centre, University of Ibadan, Ibadan, spoke with reporters on his military career, civil war exploits, his ordeals as a pro-democracy crusader, Afenifere crisis, the 2014 National Conference report and the battle for true federalism. Deputy Editor EMMANUEL OLADESU was there.
Congratulations Gen. How do you feel celebrating 80?
If you go through some bumps in life and you survive and live up to 80, you feel great.
During the civil war, you escaped death. During the Abacha period, you also escaped death. During those times, did you entertain the fear that you will not clock 80?
Every soldier is really prepared to check out anytime. All is a blessing. There are so many bumps in life. There will be many more. I have spent nine months in the hospital before, which was different from the war front. I went through different operations. When I came out, it was as if I lost some forms of energy. It is a way of life. That was the life of a soldier. A soldier should know that there is the possibility of losing your life. I think what one should pray for is to finish a good course. Some die in some futile ways; get killed by armed robbers.
Why did you choose soldiering as a career?
How I became a soldier? If I say it was a deliberate thing, I will be economical with the truth. As a young person, I loved boys scouting, even from primary school. I used to see my uncle who went to Burma. Next door in the house. He was a hunter. When he came back; fairly elderly. When he went out hunting, he looked like a brave man to me. He told us stories. Usually, in the village, soldiers after the world war used to move about in the village when they were exercising. We used to see them. They came out of their vehicles in the village buying all sorts of things. Their looks had some impressions on young people. They were smarter people. I thought if these people could be like this, I could also be. I left boys scouting in the secondary school and went to interact with different people. I like to live a very outdoor life, very active, practical. So, when I left school and saw one day the UTC store at Ibadan some officers who were shopping and they were younger officers, lieutenants and captains, I didn’t get to know who they were. That was the way we say them as young people. I took the courage to talk to them. They were looking very smart in the old colonial dresses. I had something within me telling me that soldiers were not ruffians. I thought it was not a bad idea.
I was working in the Ministry of Agriculture as a Clerk. When the advertisement came in the Daily Times, I said why not try. That was the long and short of it. That was how it started. It was not a deliberate thing. In any case, the advertisement said you will train in Nigeria, you will train abroad. I thought that was something. It was going to be competitive. Then, you were to get a big salary that was enough. I thought that was okay. It was better than what you get when you leave the university and start working in the civil service. So, nothing to lose. If I didn’t make it, for instance, I will just go back to my original plan, do my A/Level and find my way to the university and start life. There was nothing really to lose. It was a gamble that was worth it.
In your days in the Army, and up to now, you were described as a master strategist, who advised Murtala against crossing River Niger by foot and against another operation around Owerri…
I think it is not because anyone is smarter or clever. I really don’t believe so. I think when matters come to a head, where we all differ is that some people are not able to stand their ground. It may not be because they didn’t know, but that there may be risks attached to it. Some can’t stand their ground. I think that’s the difference. It is not about being master strategist or not. I was a Major. I should be commanding a company, not a brigade. That was the situation we found ourselves. Experience is one thing. Knowledge is important. It is the best. Many of us had knowledge. Experience? No. but, some people were not quite strong enough to stand their ground. I think that is the only difference. I know some people, who would have done much better, who were my peers too. The problem then was that most of the people who would not stand up and speak were my seniors. They just sat down there. I always said that was lack of guts, because if you know what is to be done, then, stick to it. You suffer the consequence if that is the case. In my own case, all the people who could have done me in, I think I was too close to them for them to do anything untoward. I came back to Lagos to see the Commander-In-Chief, and I returned to the war front. They couldn’t say go and lock this idiot up. Many of those making the mistakes were not properly instructed. You have hierarchy. The Army Headquarters, even the Supreme Commander. The Supreme Commander was not tough on us. He couldn’t put his feet down, that you should not do this. People just did what they wanted to do. That was the atmosphere that pervaded at that time.
When you were entering the Army, did you ever envisage that soldiers will be in political control for a long time?
The Army and politics? We don’t even mix at all. There was no such time. There was a big wedge between the military and civilian administration. It was not our business at all.
Could the civil war have been averted by the military?
The military are the worst people to resolve a confused situation like the one we had. It was a political problem which could have been solved through political maneuvering, sitting down and talking. But, when you put the military in charge, they are only thinking at the hard power, that if I can really do him in, why should I talk to him. So, that was the difficulty we all had in Nigeria. Military were in charge when things went very very bad. And they made the wrong decisions. They made the war to go on and we lost so many people. Political problems should be solved by politicians. When I joined the Army, the closest I had ever come politician before 1964, for instance, was because I had a friend, who was a lieutenant like me. He has an uncle who was in politics. They were two. The junior one was a parliamentary secretary or so. He has a car, a Chevrolet car. And during weekends, we used to go and borrow it. We took it out Saturday night and that kind of thing. The third time, we got drunk and slept in the Bachelors’ Officers Quarters. And in the morning, they saw the car. The car had no registration in the barracks. Who brought it in? Two idiots. So, we were in for a high jump for that. It was illegal to do it. That was the closest. He was called Omokowajo. He was a parliamentary secretary in the Western Region at that time. But, to sit down with politicians and talk politics? No.
Would the country have been different, if there was no military rule?
I think so. I honestly think so. I think that was the undoing of the political system. When they started jostling for central power and got to the point of people biding together to do people in; like the treasonable felony and that kind of thing. Up to that time, until they started breaching law and order, the military never left their barracks. But, it was only when the police cannot stabilise the system, you call the Army to do it for a short time and go back. The Army is not to govern. You don’t go and sit down in State House and say you want to govern. That is not part of our business. We lost our way.
Why was your tenure as Chief of Army Staff so short?
Again, it is the carry over problem that started a long time ago. You begin to look for people you know, people you have worked it, people you trust. The argument was going on all the time. You couldn’t have a Yoruba an as Chief of Army Staff at the time. That was the situation.
Your friend, Brig-Gen. Alabi Isama, said we do not know the real account of how Biafra surrendered; that it was you and Major Tumoye that accepted the surrender before you invited Gen. Olusegun Obasanjo…
The account of Alabi is correct. Alabi was in the Third Division. But, when the push was really tough and both of us decided to leave the Third Division; we had had enough of Adekunle. We thought that leaving him there was unfair. Adekunle had fought so hard. Really, the law of diminishing return had been coming. He was beginning to get a little irrational. And when you are commanding human beings, each time you make mistake, it cost human lives. It was worse than political mistake. That was the reason that both of us said if the Commander-In-Chief would not remove him, we better leave. We left and we came back. We persuaded the Commander-In-Chief to change him and he put Gen. Obasanjo. Unknown to us, between Ibadan and the war front, after persuading him to come to the Third Division; and these are terrible stories. That if anyone else who is not Yoruba took over Third Division, he will not succeed. Unfortunately, that was the setting at the time. So, Gen. Obasanjo agreed. He came down. I think he was scared to have me and Isama there. He knew me a little better than Isama. He asked Isama to be posted out. That was how Isama left for the First Division. But, the tactics we finally used was a document that me and Isama had prepared. In our last time with Adekunle, he had started becoming distrustful of us. He was not happy with some of the things he thought we were doing. Also, he also believed that we were not believing in him as our commander. So, he posted us outside of his headquarters. So, Alabi was in Third Sector. I was in Two Sector. That was the mistake he made. The two sectors were adjacent to each other. I was in Aba side. Ayo Ariyo who was a bit senior, but our classmate, much older that we were, was in Calabar. We were saved for Imo River all the way to Calabar. He now put somebody else in the First Sector, who was also our senior, but we didn’t particularly get along with him. In the Second Division, when I quarrel with my own GOC, he was there. He said nothing. They were just sitting down there, allowing the GOC to do whatever he wanted. He now again ended in the Third Division. I didn’t want to have anything to do with him. They were having hell in that Owerri sector.
Adekunle was having a second thought about us. When he left and we came back, I don’t know who briefed him; he decided to send us away. so, it was that work that both of us had done when he was in the First Sector and I was in the Second Sector; because we said we wanted to finish this war, it was not that difficult. We then, presented it to Adekunle. Whether he read it, whether he studied it, we were not sure. But, all he wrote there was that ‘This is tactics lesson one. When am I expecting the next tuition?’ He closed it. We went back to our sector. It was that one that I brushed up and put it purview. I didn’t tell Obasanjo that we were going to execute that. I was fed up sitting in the war front; the war we should have finished in one year, we were there for 30 months. So, we decided to execute it. That was why Isama knew much about it, although he was no more there. Tumoye was there. Ariyo was there.
What are the lessons of the civil war?
It taught us a lot of lessons. What is the last thing that should be in anybody’s mind? Recently, somebody said they wanted a Yoruba nation. IPOB said they wanted Biafra. I asked them: can we sit and iron these things out? If you say no, then, I part company with you. If you can’t, you are telling me that you want to fight a civil war. I don’t know about a country that has survived two civil wars. Secondly, did you see the carnage that the last one caused? Are you telling me that things are not going to be even worse now, if we start one again tomorrow? No. so, war is the last thing on anybody’s mind.
You retired at the age of 41 in 1981. Part of your reason was that President Shehu Shagari was not able to foster better relations among the Army, Navy and Air Force, and that the Chief of Defence Staff should have moderated. Today, there is rivalry among them to the detriment of security of life and property. What do you have to say?
I think on their own, they do cooperate among themselves. I know they have outer forces where the Army, Navy and Air Force do operate. They are efficient to the extent of the equipment and training available to them. That is what really dictates what happens; the organisation you have and the equipment available to you. They are performing the task within that framework.
In our time, I thought it was because I was the first Chief of Defense Staff, that I said, laid out all these things; what the atmosphere should look like, what the organisation should look like. It was the advice that should be given to the Commander-In-Chief. The Commander-In-Chief has access to all his troop; the Chief of Army, Chief of Navy, Chief of Air Force.
In the case of President Shagari, he was not an ex-soldier. So, it was the duty of his Chief of Defense Staff to protect him, to know what was really going on in real times and take decisions everybody can live with. Once you neglect doing that, you start calling the troop yourself and start buying equipment for them, you invariably end up with an Armed Forces that is not balanced. You don’t have unlimited resources. You want to prepare. So, you really prepare for those challenges. And that is the work of the Chief of Defense Staff. But, if you say you have personal relationship with the Chief of Army Staff, what about the Chief of Naval Staff? You won’t have a force when you are called upon to do so. I don’t like to sit in a place and see things going in a wrong way. I won’t sit down there and say it is not my business. It is my business of all of us. That was why they felt that in those days the Chief of Army Staff was pompous. That feeling that it was about Awolowo was also there.
But, I had my chance to publicly tell all of them. I had the opportunity to tell the Commander-In-Chief my mind. When I went to him, that I wanted to leave, he asked people to talk to me that I should stay. I really don’t know why I would want to stay. He said he was not too happy that everybody he sent to me, Akinjide, Akinloye could not convince him. Nobody was there when I decided to join the Army. Why should you make it your business when I wanted to leave? That is my decision. When I now saw the big boss himself, he was not happy. Well, I also told him that I was not happy either. I said I saw them as a bunch of people who wanted to commit suicide and I said I was not in the business of committing suicide with anybody. I thought that will open the way for a big discussion between both of us. But, he didn’t ask the big question. I didn’t volunteer any further information.
But, on the day I was leaving, he graciously gave me a luncheon. His ministers were there. Party chieftains were there at the State House. I asked him whether he will give me permission to say anything. He said yes after his speech. I asked if I could be permitted to make a response. He said yes. So, I wrote a speech because I wanted a record for it. I made sure it was a three-minute speech. I thanked everybody and told him I had enjoyed my work and ensured that the commission they gave me was executed, that I have tried very hard to keep the soldiers in the barracks and that the only thing that will keep them in the barracks is good governance. Some of my people were not too happy with that.
You made a statement which really foiled Dimka’s coup in 1976 when you said what was happening in Lagos was not happening in other parts of the country. What really gave you the courage to do that?
People talk about courage. I have always thought that whatever conviction you have, you are ready to live by it. This is why I stand. I will tell you so. You may not like it. It was not anything extraordinary as far as I was concerned on the line of duty. There are lot about the story that people didn’t get absolutely right. I happened to be in Lagos for a conference and the conference was to start at 10 am on the day of the coup. I had an agreement with Alabi Isama to make a presentation at the conference. So, because he was the Principal Officer at the Army Headquarters, and I was only a GOC in Kaduna, he was to make the presentation. But, he wanted me to work on it. We agreed. I had seen the draft. We agreed that I will be in the office before 6.30am, meet with him so that we can conclude the presentation, get the slide. I was staying in Marina and one could walk across. There was a radio in his office. It was on. Radio Nigeria. We had the voice. By the time it stopped, he said that was my officer, Dimka. We all knew him very well. So, what do we do? We waited. People were coming to the office. So, the Chief of Staff arrived early. He was to be the chairman of the conference. He needed us to brief him on what we would present so that he could have an idea. He said there was a coup. He had a radio in his office. He put it on. He said oh my God, we needed to get out of here. There was a decision on what to do, whether to operate from the Headquarter here before the thing got too hot, and go and take over a unit, in Bonny Camp. We decided that everybody should get into his car and fly our flag. The worst thing was that they will shoot us. We decided to go to Bonny Camp. Unfortunately for us, the officer at Bonny Camp, Shagaya, was not there. He was already on his way to the airport to go and catch a flight to Jos. But, there was Yomi Williams and another officer. We got to the barracks. The barracks was not too awake to know what was really going on. That was around 8.15 am. The Chief of Staff, Danjuma, was there. I wished I were in Kaduna, but I was not there. I said let me write a brief speech for broadcast. If I wanted to do it in Lagos, the radio we knew had already been taken over. Before they take over Kaduna, let me find a telephone. My officers, HMO, Garrison Commander were there, Bako and so on. There was no phone working at the Headquarters. For whatever reason, the phones were not working. There was no phone inside that barracks going from office to office. Suddenly, I saw this group of officers. They all got up and saluted. I asked: does anybody has a phone there? They said no sir. They said I should go the next officer, which was Adefope’s office. He was our Chief of Medical Corps. We went in there and there was phone and it was working. I got my headquarter. I called Bako, my Garrison Commander. I asked him to listen carefully and get some things down. I asked him to read it back to me. I said: Take over the radio station, go and broadcast that. Take the officer to take a unit you can muster from the battalion there. Start going to the bridge in Lokoja and take over the bridge because the next thing they will do was to break the bridge and people will not be able to cross easily and we didn’t have the kind of big air force. Our best bet was to seize the bridge. Most people thought I was sitting in Kaduna. I was in Lagos, but I gave them the impression that I was the one speaking. .
Tacha's never done an honest day's work Vertical. You can't give what you don't have. When you have more expertise with men's phalluses than a class three year old has with her English reading text, this is the result and I mean no disrespect here.
dermmy: 6 months? NATO has been battling the Taliban of Afghanistan since 2001. The war on terror is not a conventional warfare, when you attack these terrorists brace yourself up for counter attack, they have people joining their ranks everyday and they are highly motivated. But Nigeria can still do better if it has good intelligence gathering. That is what Nigerian military lacks.
Ok fair enough. What immediate strategies would you put in place? For instance, what do you think of the super camp strategy employed by the NA in tackling the insurgency in the north east?
So I see a lot of military theoreticians here.Supposing you are made Chief of Army Staff, Nigerian Army, what practical strategies/tactics will you deploy to vanquish Boko haram within the above time frame? Let's Discuss.
Seun: I cannot solve all your complaints about Nairaland at once. At best, I can tackle issues one at a time after identifying which issues are most urgent, and even this requires the cooperation of my staff because there is not much that I can do by myself.
I don’t know why Nairalanders act as if all their complaints are one and the same when clearly, they are very different and require different solutions. It baffles me a lot. Someone says, “I am hungry”. Another says “me too, I haven’t had sex in 6 months”. A third person says “me too, my boss sacked me”. And they are all after me like, “why are you refusing to solve this problem?” “Nairaland is totally destroyed”, etc.
The most troubling thing mentioned so far are the image spammers. I thought we had handled them a few weeks ago after enabling a new moderating tool for the supermods. Did anyone notice the improvement? Did things get worse after getting better, or was there no noticeable improvement at any point?
I must say there's been a noticeable change in the number of posts with pornographic content. As for your second paragraph, I'd say that trend of conversation is obvious trolling and should be punished with a ban, a reprimand or any other commensurate action that will serve as a deterrent. You can take a cue from a few foreign sites like quora, reddit etc. You get into those forums and you know there's no messing around. You contribute positively or you gonna get it.
Ikinternational: Guy you're not being sincere. The politics section has turned into a daily tribal war dance. Everything is seen through tribal lense. Hense the insults. You mean you don't see it? You need someone to bring it to your attention? Fire your mods if they are not doing their job. Anybody that has been reading this site for more than 10yrs will tell you this is the worst it has ever been.
Don't let people that are here to push hateful agendas take over this site for the sake of traffic. While you feign ignorance. The buck stops at your desk sir
I concur! Can you imagine Seun telling us to show him these things. You are the owner of this Site for crying out loud! Once intellectual minds held sway on this forum, Katsumoto, Maxsioulloun, Kosovo, Davidylan.. to mention but a few. Even Musiwa was here for comic relief, but what do we have now, a bunch of deviants and ne'er-do-wells who populate this forum with half baked, infantile, tribal and nepotistic comments that have no bearing to sane reasoning. Let me tell you all a short story. In 2013, I was serving in the far north in faraway Kebbi state. A village it was, very close to the Niger Rep. border without network service and very few social amenities. To pass off time, what I did was to climb a not so small hill, where I could get a bar or two of network service, save as many pages as possible of threads from nairaland and read. Then for a particular thread, I could save as much all the pages of that thread for future reading. Guess what, these days I don't even bother reading through a page of a thread to know it will be filled with useless comments. Even those threads that hold some promise sooner or later get derailed and nothing gets done to curtail it. This is my tenth year as a registered user on nairaland and to say I'm disgusted is to say the least. Something needs to change Seun. Get to work.
hinere: Hello. I've just found a new love for TV series and my genre is Drama. So which Drama series can I start with? Please how much data can I use to download like a 10 episode series and which is the best site to download from?
Dollyak: Depending on the voltages, you can technically build a house close to (not under)a pylon structure provided the minimum clearance of 6m is reached, of which isn't the case here.
I'll be very worried about Earth potential rise and step and touch voltages.
Are you sure this isn't a telephone mast?
It's actually more than 6m. Minimum of 15-25meters for 132/330kv OH HT networks.
aro1: i did not say it's a must,but ike does not even know lyrics to american popular songs,its just like a lagos young guy not knowing popular hit tracks of olamide,davido and wizkid
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