idupaul: Nigerians like living in denial and such attitude only allows our leaders to deride us more. Imagine a respected poster like Rossike claimiing the article is Gibberish .. What part of the article don't we already know about ..

1 That Nigerian Soldiers are just good enuff to man check points:: is that not what we see them do only in here in Nigeria .

2 That they are poorly equipped::: When even see them at their check points don we see them poorly dressed and dirty with even bathroom slippers .. Except we say the bottle of Alomo they pack is good equipment

3 That they are Indiciplined :: when we meet them at their check points don't we all see the rag tag manner in which the handle their duty post , Smoking weed , drinking cheap alchohol, threatening to shoot and extorting drivers ..

4 The are just fit for loading trucks..:: We complain but who doesn't know that our soldiers know how load trucks be it with corpse of innocent civilians caught up in their indiciplined fire line and wanton arrest of people

Yu Knw Nuttin About The NA...Have Been To NDA,Cantoments And Am Sure U Just Bleep Up!!

Gnosticmovement:
come on dude...guess d gunfight in monrovia was more intense dan dat on omaha beach ..like i said think well before answering

It was highly intense that was why they eliminated the first set of our troops who stormed monrovia.The war that happened in liberia is more intense than that of Rwanda despite the Ecomog and UN presence in Liberia. That is why today, a true Liberian are thankful for Nigerians presence in liberia NOT the US nor Ghana. @ Gnosticmovement, you seem to see the US as a big nation in terms of its military(yes in a way but do not underestimate the small countries), was it not small vietnam who finished the US military?

ochukoccna:
That you school in Ghana does not mean Ghanaian schools are world class
It just means your folks cant afford to send you to Europe,US,Canada,Asia or even South African universities

Who's this one? What does what I said relate to this crap you posted? Did you mean to quote someone else?

What our soldiers don't have in modern military equipment, they more than have in sheer bravery, decipline and dedication___these are attributes that even the UN knows. It is an insult for some one in UK to say that nigerian soldiers can not take the forefront in the terrain of mali that can not be more difficult than the situation we have in the north east where they are WINNING. I say this because I live there. Folks, let no man make u feel inferior! We may have issues with our system but our military is one of the best in the world. I rest my case.

Harjibode:
Bleep!! And You Think Films R Real...How Pathetic...SMH

Phuckard, who does not know movies are make believe?
I was referencing the weapons in the movies
Does Nigeria have Arleigh Burke class destroyers fool?
Or laser guided missiles?
Or...you get the drift

ocelot2006:

Son, you obviously don't know the Nigerian military. I currently live in the restive NE, and I can confidently say the Nigerian military in conjunction with DSS/SSS have done a great job containing BH Ops. While you continue to insult the military, JTF and STF units along with army special forces and navy SBS units are busy in counter-insurgency Ops raking up BH targets.

Read and understand my post please
Is the NA having an easy ride over BH
Guerrilla warfare tactics differ from conventional warfare tactics son
That apart, has the NA not been heavy handed in dealing with the insurgents
Haven't they killed so many innocents too?
That we don't align with BH shouldn't seal our lips from spitting truth

pretty_boi:

Who's this one? What does what I said relate to this crap you posted? Did you mean to quote someone else?

The same one who did a comparisonal analysis to highlight the shit you spat out

FOREIGNERS USING THEIR MEDIA TOOLS TO PROGRAM THE MIND OF AFRICANS, GIVING US REASON TO BELIEVE THAT WE NEED FOREIGN MILITARY ON AFRICAN SOIL AND FROM THE WAY I SEE THINGS, AFRICANS ARE STARTING TO BELIEVE ALL THE LIES SAVED TO THEM WITH THEIR MEDIA PLATE. THEIR MAIN GOAL IS TO DESTROY AFRICANS WITH TERRORISM AND BRING IN FOREIGN MILITARY TO SECURE (ARREST) US ALL IN AFRICA. THEY NEW WORLD AGENDA. BOTH THE CATHOLIC (EUROPEAN WHITE) AND MUSLIM (ARAB WHITE) ARE BOTH TEAM MATE TO ALWAYS MAKE SURE (KEMET LAND OF BLACKS) IS KEPT UNDERGROUND AND ENSLAVED FOREVER. FOR ONCE OUR EYES ARE OPEN AND WE ARE FREE, THE WHOLE WHITE WOULD WOULD BE ENSLAVED BY US.

AFRICA (KEMET) YOU NEED TO OPEN YOUR EYES AND THINK OUTSIDE THE BOX, WHEN WAS AFRICA DISTROYED, THEY DAY ARABS AND EUROPEANS INVADED AFRICA. THEY SAY THEY COME IN PEACE TO GIVE US CIVILIZATION, BUT WE ACTUALLY GAVE THE EUROPEANS AND ARAB CIVILIZATION IN THE FIRST WORLD UNIVERSITY BUILD IN TIMBUKTU, MALI


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1vhx5OHfekk&feature=plcp

[/quote] The positive side of this story is that the Nigerian Army is capable of manning checkpoints and loading trucks. The Govt has to explain how our ever increasing defence budget is utilised. [/quote]

Na real positive of the story.

This story is very untrue. Nigeria Army is a well trained and disciplined force in Africa. Though, this story will bring more sanity into the military. Also, a ghanaian army calling Nigerian soldiers undisciplined is not a serious person. You cannot send Nigerian Soldiers into frontline duty in Mali without enough intelligence report, current situation report and adequate preparation.Dislodgement of force operating in a familiar terrain is a tactical operation. If Nigeria Army is not disciplined, then a discipline ghanaian army should go to mali to repel the forces on ground in Nothern Mali.

That apart can the NA engage in modern warfare?
Does the Nigerian Armed Forces have the kind of capabilities shown in films like Battleship or Ghost Recon Alpha? [/quote]
Why would any ONE use films as basis for classifying our Army? You should have made reference to James Bond films too.
EveryONE knows the obvious discrepancy between fiction and reality. Cases of Yemen, Somalia, Iraq and even Pakistan which are ongoing failures by those advanced, technologically powered armies readily spring to mind. Is it because of indiscipline or what, or do yOU want to cite their only recent success in attacking the unarmed compound of Osama?

ROSSIKE: Another Useless, worthless, garbage report.

Who was the source of the claim? The Guardian (UK) does not state. For all we know it was the Guardian reporter himself inventing the claim using his 'unnamed source' as buffer. Don't trust these UK reporters past where you can see them.

It really would help if Nigerians start to read these dodgy foreign reports with their brains, and discard them accordingly. Was it not this same British media that gave all the credit for ECOMOG ie Nigeria's removal of the rebels in Sierra Leone to Tony Blair? If you were in the UK at the time like I was, you would think it was the UK military that brought the conflict to an end, such was the completely biased and false reporting of the conflict! Not a whiff about Nigeria and the huge, pivotal role she played in the conflict.

Now today they issue this wild and baseless report about Nigerian troops and some of you just gobble it up without thinking? Pathetic.

don't mind NIgerians. Very glad to read negative reports about the country without verifying the authenticity or otherwise of the report... The story is very far from the truth about the Nigerian army. But let us first deal with our own internal problem first before thinking of any malian problem.

360command:

It was highly intense that was why they eliminated the first set of our troops who stormed monrovia.The war that happened in liberia is more intense than that of Rwanda despite the Ecomog and UN presence in Liberia. That is why today, a true Liberian are thankful for Nigerians presence in liberia NOT the US nor Ghana. @ Gnosticmovement, you seem to see the US as a big nation in terms of its military(yes in a way but do not underestimate the small countries), was it not small vietnam who finished the US military?

guy u cant compare d fight in normandy (omaha beach) to any in africa...wat are u saying..did d us troops run away....if dey really wanted to go in dey would go in....liberia fight nai u want take compare d world war...guy nor vex me o..go and read about d day....who's talkn abt rwanda by d way?....

Ignorance should be no excuse for dumb comments.

Ignorance should be no excuse for dumb comments.

This is such a uselesss report, Nigeria seats on the Security Council of the United Nations because of all the intervention works OUR MILITARY HAVE CARRIED OUT IN SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA, we still remain the largest donor of troops to ECOMOG and the AU.............This reporter needs to do her homework first.

seunfly: Are Nigerians self esteem so low to that extent that somebody somewhere wrote an unverified negative report about you and you believed it instantly without thinking twice. Well US ARMY that is well trained enter somalia and could not do anything however Nigeria army enter serialone and capture it within a week.
Although am not in support of fighting any war, but they that are well trained what peace have they brought into the world.

I even heard that it was Nigerian troops that rescued the Americans in Mogadishu (Black Hawk Down) but no mention of it anywhere.

idupaul: Nigerians like living in denial and such attitude only allows our leaders to deride us more. Imagine a respected poster like Rossike claimiing the article is Gibberish .. What part of the article don't we already know about ..

1 That Nigerian Soldiers are just good enuff to man check points:: is that not what we see them do only in here in Nigeria .

2 That they are poorly equipped::: When even see them at their check points don we see them poorly dressed and dirty with even bathroom slippers .. Except we say the bottle of Alomo they pack is good equipment

3 That they are Indiciplined :: when we meet them at their check points don't we all see the rag tag manner in which the handle their duty post , Smoking weed , drinking cheap alchohol, threatening to shoot and extorting drivers ..

4 The are just fit for loading trucks..:: We complain but who doesn't know that our soldiers know how load trucks be it with corpse of innocent civilians caught up in their indiciplined fire line and wanton arrest of people

Ignorance is a disease! Go get some education about Nigeria Army before coming here to spew rubbish. A good as the British Army is, were they able to check mate the Irish dissidents Republican? I have a close relative who was trained by the Nigerian Air Force and now He is with the British Army and each time I get to talk to him, He is of the opinion that Advanced equipment is our main problem and that in terms of training on Warfare, intelligence etc, the training He got in Nigeria is of no lower standard than what He is getting from the British Army.

We know UK arms export is falling and we know how good the British press are in the hands of corrupt arms manufacturers. I would take this report as part of the junk journalism that is currently being exposed in the UK!

Gnosticmovement:
guy u cant compare d fight in normandy (omaha beach) to any in africa...wat are u saying..did d us troops run away....if dey really wanted to go in dey would go in....liberia fight nai u want take compare d world war...guy nor vex me o..go and read about d day....who's talkn abt rwanda by d way?....

Stop your open display of ignorance. The US Military might have highly sophisticated equipment, however we all know in Mogadishu they were defeated by a well organised, but less trained Somalia militias. We know the US military strength is aerial power. They Army are pretty useless as we have come to see in Iraq, Afghanistan, etc.

saem: What our soldiers don't have in modern military equipment, they more than have in sheer bravery, decipline and dedication___these are attributes that even the UN knows. It is an insult for some one in UK to say that nigerian soldiers can not take the forefront in the terrain of mali that can not be more difficult than the situation we have in the north east where they are WINNING. I say this because I live there. Folks, let no man make u feel inferior! We may have issues with our system but our military is one of the best in the world. I rest my case.

I completely agree with you on the Boko Haram war! Let alone if not for the retardeen President that wants to play politics with it, the Boko Haram issue would have been history had He allowed the Military to fully take control.

I dnt knw wia some of u guys get ur info 4rm....dnt jst sit @ home and beleive comments or fake post 4rm any UK based reporter....ve u EVA heard of NIGERIAN ARMY PEACE KEEPING CENTER...i stand bold 2 say dat 9ja NA is very ready and equipd 2 figth in mali...all u haters who re only interested 2 see or hia bad news abt ur country...abeg make una go hud TRANSFOMER...dat is wat we call international politics....if only u knw wat nigerians have done in LIBERIA....SIERELEONE...SOMAILIA where d ''almigthy america failed....u wunt say trash.....

Btw, the Nigerian Airforce acquired two isreali UAVs and the Navy 2 UGVs during the Niger-Delta crises. The NAF also currently produces UAVs code-name AMEBO I and II.

And why don't you ask any of your friends in the military about the military's Ops against MEND and other criminal elements in the SS, the same Ops that lead to the creation of military special Ops units. Let them tell you about the destruction of militant camps by JTF, including the most notorious and secretive Camp-6. Or maybe counter-terror Ops against cult groups in PH, and Ops that saw the use of NAF Mi-35 attack helicopters stationed at the 98th NAF Special Ops Base againsts insurgents. And how about vessel seizures, amphibious Ops, hostage rescue/counter-terror Ops by Navy SBS, Army JTF, Army intelligence, Police IB and ATS, and DSS/SSS tactical teams.

Gnosticmovement:
guy u cant compare d fight in normandy (omaha beach) to any in africa...wat are u saying..did d us troops run away....if dey really wanted to go in dey would go in....liberia fight nai u want take compare d world war...guy nor vex me o..go and read about d day....who's talkn abt rwanda by d way?....

Guy u don dey vex me sef! D US troops no run but they were observing. For d fact that they were on d coastal side does not mean that they are not doing anything. Guy, fight get fight oo. There is business in a war incase you don't know.forget peace keeping missions, people also go to war for other things. What don't you understand. I am saying in the battle ground in Monrovia, the nigerian troops occupied everywhere and not even US troops where there to occupy. Is that hard to believe. My source is gotten from high ranked officers who went to liberia for peace keeping and not from any book or online diary and they confirmed that when the Ecomog soldiers where out in the battlefield, US where in the coastal areas(obviously doing coordinating etc). Guy, even in that Sudan , there are places where white UN troops goes to in other confront them rebels instead they send Nigerian- african troops,pakitani troops to the deadly zone etc. The US care for their lives, a war that does not concern you if not for peace keeping, why would they die for a black man. The war that happened in iraq on the killing of US troops is becos US were mainly involved with that war. Dem been in d war was their business that's why they hard the highest number of troops in iraq. Guy, I kno say u b slowpoke cos u kno no anyting about military intelligence in Nigeria and dat of the world.

sojopikin: ....if only u knw wat nigerians have done in LIBERIA....SIERELEONE...SOMAILIA where d ''almigthy america failed....u wunt say trash.....

. Pls help me tell 'Gnosticmovement' cos dat guy is having difficulty on how Nigerian military were able to have control over those regions wen Baba US did not do much but to carry away our diamond.

Nigerian military for years were dominated by one tribe with commanders who lack the capacity and understanding of modern military equipment and strategy, which can be attributed to their litracy level before they were recruited into the force. The report is not far from the truth. How can somebody who doesn't understand english language use english equipment?

This kind of report to me is baseless and non-factual. Our military strength and defence capability can only be measured by success so far achieved in all our military interventions. And of the contract interested personal that wrote the freeing up of staff to reduce cost, what should North korea with 1.21 million Military and Paramilitary personnel do. Stop selling us cheap publicity article just to drive home personal interest. If you think we are not capable of handling the Malian insurgency then leave us alone and let us handle our internal BH insurgency. After all who tell you say we still want to loose our fine and smart officers again.

ochukoccna:

Phuckard, who does not know movies are make believe?
I was referencing the weapons in the movies
Does Nigeria have Arleigh Burke class destroyers fool?
Or laser guided missiles?
Or...you get the drift


Read and understand my post please
Is the NA having an easy ride over BH
Guerrilla warfare tactics differ from conventional warfare tactics son
That apart, has the NA not been heavy handed in dealing with the insurgents
Haven't they killed so many innocents too?
That we don't align with BH shouldn't seal our lips from spitting truth


The same one who did a comparisonal analysis to highlight the shit you spat out

Son, what the hell do you think COIN Ops is? It is COUNTER-INSURGENCY i.e military Ops against insurgents/guerilla forces, and it unconventional. So is COUNTER TERRORISM which includes recon and direct action Ops. THAT is what our military has been engaged in in the past few years. Please do a little more reading.

And on top of dat, we bought expired drone from israel!

ocelot2006: Btw, the Nigerian Airforce acquired two isreali UAVs and the Navy 2 UGVs during the Niger-Delta crises. The NAF also currently produces UAVs code-name AMEBO I and II.

And why don't you ask any of your friends in the military about the military's Ops against MEND and other criminal elements in the SS, the same Ops that lead to the creation of military special Ops units. Let them tell you about the destruction of militant camps by JTF, including the most notorious and secretive Camp-6. Or maybe counter-terror Ops against cult groups in PH, and Ops that saw the use of NAF Mi-35 attack helicopters stationed at the 98th NAF Special Ops Base againsts insurgents. And how about vessel seizures, amphibious Ops, hostage rescue/counter-terror Ops by Navy SBS, Army JTF, Army intelligence, Police IB and ATS, and DSS/SSS tactical teams.

Oga, are you in the Military? You seem to know too much about our military

Bolan123: Nigerian military for years were dominated by one tribe with commanders who lack the capacity and understanding of modern military equipment and strategy, which can be attributed to their litracy level before they were recruited into the force. The report is not far from the truth. How can somebody who doesn't understand english language use english equipment?

I don't just understand what you said. If it is so , why do our govt send people to germany and other countries for training and re-training? They send few people abroad for military training so as you can come to your home country and teach other military personnel on how to use a certain equipment. Your post is just silly!

Bolan123: Nigerian military for years were dominated by one tribe with commanders who lack the capacity and understanding of modern military equipment and strategy, which can be attributed to their litracy level before they were recruited into the force. The report is not far from the truth. How can somebody who doesn't understand english language use english equipment?

Again total hogwash. The military we currently have is not only better trained and way professional, but equally WELL BALANCED tribal-wise. A force were promotion is based SOLELY on merit. Get your facts straight before you post.

this story is nothing but total hogwash. Then again, the journalist is Afau Hirsch, a Ghanian who obviously has a grudge with Nigeria and a source from the Malian military, a military known for cowardice and total lack of professionalism.


People, this is the Nigerian military we're talking about. A military with a very long and proud history dating since pre-WW1. The same military that defeated the Germans in Cameroun and Eastern Africa (WW1), operated alongside the elite Chindit force and destroyed the Imperial Japanese army in the Jungles of Burma during WW2 (the Japanese were so scared of us cos we always took off the heads of our victims and delivered them to shocked British Army officers), defeated the Biafrans during our sad civil war, and partook in several peacekeeping Ops from Lebanon to Kosovo, Chad to Liberia. Ill equipped in the 90s, the same Nigerian military took on the NPLF in Liberia and RUF in Sierre Leone and soundly defeated them. The same tactics used by the late Nigerian Army General Khobe to recapture Freetown is still studied at US military academy, West-Point. Even the Nigerian military contingent to Somalia were feared by Somalian warlords and deeply respected, particularly by the Irish.

Now fast forward to post-democracy periods. The military as a whole were fully reformed. Apart from our military training facilities, officers are equally trained in some of the best training schools in the USA, UK, Isreal, Pakistan, China, France, and India. Personnel from foreign units like the US Special Forces, British Army and Royal Marine Commandos, ex-members from Isreali Sayeret units, etc. Our military schools are not only upgraded but have introduced additional courses like desert warfare, counter-insurgency (COIN), military Ops in urban terrain (MOUT), counter-terror Ops to their curriculum. With respect to our platforms, ALL our Scimitar and Scorpion Light Battle Tanks and recce vehicles, our Vickers MK-3 Main Battle Tanks, Panhard Armoured Vehicles, Styer APCs, Roland SAM system, and other platforms have been refurbished by the styer plant at Bauchi. All these exclude newly acquired vehicles like the Otokar Cobra MRAPs from Turkey, Uturus from Brazil, and the new Nigerian made Iguru APC. The news gets way better in the Navy were old platforms like our flagship NNS Aradu', our Landing Ships, Fast Attack vessels, and other older corvets have been fully refurbished by our indigenous ship yards, and new Offshore Patrol Vessels (OPVs), patrol boats, supply ships, patrol boats, Augusta 109 helicopters, Fennec, Bell Jet Ranger, and Puma Utility helicopters, and our new Nigerian-made gunboat. As for the airforce, well you have the fully refurbished L-39 light attack aircrafts, recently upgraded Alphajet attack jets, our C-130 and G-333 transport planes refurbished and upgraded in both UK and France, newly acquired Mi-35V and P attack helos, Mi-34 hermit training helos, Augusta 109A power utility helos, new ATR-48 maritime patrol aircrafts, refurbished PUMA helicopters, F-7NI interceptors, and UAVs. We are the only west African nation that produces it's military equipment locally from firearms, rpgs, bulletproof vests to UAVs, APCs, and gunboats.

In summary, we have a lean but professional armed force backed up with way better firepower than any military in West Africa. Yet it's the same military that's being rubbished by a stewpid Ghanian journalist who probably got her ass dumped by her Nigerian boyfriend.

ocelot2006: this story is nothing but total hogwash. Then again, the journalist is Afau Hirsch, a Ghanian who obviously has a grudge with Nigeria and a source from the Malian military, a military known for cowardice and total lack of professionalism.


People, this is the Nigerian military we're talking about. A military with a very long and proud history dating since pre-WW1. The same military that defeated the Germans in Cameroun and Eastern Africa (WW1), operated alongside the elite Chindit force and destroyed the Imperial Japanese army in the Jungles of Burma during WW2 (the Japanese were so scared of us cos we always took off the heads of our victims and delivered them to shocked British Army officers), defeated the Biafrans during our sad civil war, and partook in several peacekeeping Ops from Lebanon to Kosovo, Chad to Liberia. Ill equipped in the 90s, the same Nigerian military took on the NPLF in Liberia and RUF in Sierre Leone and soundly defeated them. The same tactics used by the late Nigerian Army General Khobe to recapture Freetown is still studied at US military academy, West-Point. Even the Nigerian military contingent to Somalia were feared by Somalian warlords and deeply respected, particularly by the Irish.

Now fast forward to post-democracy periods. The military as a whole were fully reformed. Apart from our military training facilities, officers are equally trained in some of the best training schools in the USA, UK, Isreal, Pakistan, China, France, and India. Personnel from foreign units like the US Special Forces, British Army and Royal Marine Commandos, ex-members from Isreali Sayeret units, etc. Our military schools are not only upgraded but have introduced additional courses like desert warfare, counter-insurgency (COIN), military Ops in urban terrain (MOUT), counter-terror Ops to their curriculum. With respect to our platforms, ALL our Scimitar and Scorpion Light Battle Tanks and recce vehicles, our Vickers MK-3 Main Battle Tanks, Panhard Armoured Vehicles, Styer APCs, Roland SAM system, and other platforms have been refurbished by the styer plant at Bauchi. All these exclude newly acquired vehicles like the Otokar Cobra MRAPs from Turkey, Uturus from Brazil, and the new Nigerian made Iguru APC. The news gets way better in the Navy were old platforms like our flagship NNS Aradu', our Landing Ships, Fast Attack vessels, and other older corvets have been fully refurbished by our indigenous ship yards, and new Offshore Patrol Vessels (OPVs), patrol boats, supply ships, patrol boats, Augusta 109 helicopters, Fennec, Bell Jet Ranger, and Puma Utility helicopters, and our new Nigerian-made gunboat. As for the airforce, well you have the fully refurbished L-39 light attack aircrafts, recently upgraded Alphajet attack jets, our C-130 and G-333 transport planes refurbished and upgraded in both UK and France, newly acquired Mi-35V and P attack helos, Mi-34 hermit training helos, Augusta 109A power utility helos, new ATR-48 maritime patrol aircrafts, refurbished PUMA helicopters, F-7NI interceptors, and UAVs. We are the only west African nation that produces it's military equipment locally from firearms, rpgs, bulletproof vests to UAVs, APCs, and gunboats.

In summary, we have a lean but professional armed force backed up with way better firepower than any military in West Africa. Yet it's the same military that's being rubbished by a stewpid Ghanian journalist who probably got her ass dumped by her Nigerian boyfriend.

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