Turbocharged:
What were these ur innocent civilians doing in a hostile area for 8hrs of shooting?
Fishbrain, get it into ur skull dat Boko no get uniform. So whenever there's a shoot out like that, what u do is to try and leave the vicinity.

Gnosticmovement:
massacaring d villagers @ odi during d mend struggle was brilliant abi.....smh @ u all who dnt wanna face d truth..the article was kinda bad , but lets face it....small truth dey d story

idupaul:

You are a slowpoke .. Do U know more about the Nigerian Army than me? I come from a family that has rich history in the Nigerian Army .. There is know portion of NA history for now that is not replete with the bravery and toil of my family members .. And I have had my fair share too fool. So U think our Army is what it was in 1984 before the downward spiral started in 1986... Do U know that our Army doesn't have a functional S and T Again , Do U know that the Nigerian Army has been reduced from a total fighting force to an assault rifle clutching GI wearing vigilante force... An article has said the truth about someting and this fool is here living in denial .Get out Joor

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.

Madawaki01: Www.beegeagle.

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.

Gnosticmovement: ...oh u try n leave?...so u can get hit by stray bullets....fishbrain?....dah was uncalled for...buh i dnt expect much from sum1 like u sha...

emmysenior: Let's not allow the wicked to mind trap us. Often times, people hypnotise the public through the media. If the above statement is true, then, why was Nigeria army ranked no. 4th in the world weeks ago. Nonsense.

idupaul:

You are a slowpoke .. Do U know more about the Nigerian Army than me? I come from a family that has rich history in the Nigerian Army .. There is know portion of NA history for now that is not replete with the bravery and toil of my family members .. And I have had my fair share too fool. So U think our Army is what it was in 1984 before the downward spiral started in 1986... Do U know that our Army doesn't have a functional S and T Again , Do U know that the Nigerian Army has been reduced from a total fighting force to an assault rifle clutching GI wearing vigilante force... An article has said the truth about someting and this fool is here living in denial .Get out Joor

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.

ocelot2006:


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.

nagoma: Nigerians will not heed an advice. Go on continue playing the ostrich. They are telling you that corruption has eaten up your fighting force and some analysis was provided. But all you can do is to shout blue murder. Why can't you produce a counter analysis to show how the ever increasing military and security budget has improved the armed forces' capability and effectiveness?

ocelot2006:

Question: what is S and T? 'just curious.

VolvoS60:

^^^^Good point. I notice no one has really countered the points made in the OP's second post. Are those points valid or not?

Some posters here have become very defensive about the newsreport. I can assure them that the same things said in the newsreport about Nigerian troops have been said about the british army & the US army for years - these major shortcomings (low morale, lack of kit and indiscipline) were brought into sharp relief in the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. The press in the US and the UK did not hide these things - a web search will confirm this.

This is not the time for false nationalism. If there is no merit in the newsreport,then ignore it. If there is, act on it. That's what serious people do.

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.

duni04:
You definitely don't live in Nigeria. The Nigerian Army we know of and see everyday on our streets extorting innocent people and fighting with policemen is the Nigerian Army the report is describing. The same Nigerian Army that is still battling with Normads and cattle rearers with bows and arrows in Jos. Its the same Nigerian Army that still cannot contain oil bunkering in the Niger Delta. The same Nigerian Army soldiers that small boys with AK-47's and home made bombs are killing with so much ease in Bornu and Yobe.

(UK Guardian - Nigerian Army's In A Shocking State)

duni04:
You definitely don't live in Nigeria. The Nigerian Army we know of and see everyday on our streets extorting innocent people and fighting with policemen is the Nigerian Army the report is describing. The same Nigerian Army that is still battling with Normads and cattle rearers with bows and arrows in Jos. Its the same Nigerian Army that still cannot contain oil bunkering in the Niger Delta. The same Nigerian Army soldiers that small boys with AK-47's and home made bombs are killing with so much ease in Bornu and Yobe.

nagoma: Nigerians will not heed an advice. Go on continue playing the ostrich. They are telling you that corruption has eaten up your fighting force and some analysis was provided. But all you can do is to shout blue murder. Why can't you produce a counter analysis to show how the ever increasing military and security budget has improved the armed forces' capability and effectiveness?

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 heljavascript:void(0);os, 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.

Ogojohn: sometimes some fellows at this forum needs there brain to be removed and be re twikkd. How could they easily believe those trash. Nigerian army is a force to be feared in Africa. Ask Major General Maxwell Khobe of the blessed memory. His type still abound in our army. Why was Lungi international Airport at Freetown renamed Khobe international Airport. Some folks needs to go back to history class.

samfibby:

I actually read the article. All i can say is its high time we withdraw our men from any war front in africa or elsewhere. I believe the article was aimed at rubbishing the long established image of the nigerian army. Lets come to think of it, the article was written by a Ghanaian report for the uk guardian. We know the antecedents of these backstabbers, they are at it again, they will go to any length to rubbish anything Nigerian. He specifically pointed out that our army lacked discipline and were corrupt, can any of the worlds army claim not to have a degree of these flaws. Nigerias ragtag army will do far better than any well equipped army in the region. I think its time the Ghanaian take over and stop whimpering like babies.

solbil: @owobokiri, the report cannot be true. How else can we explain it to you people who are just blinded by fraustration. Ok, lets take one by one.

He said the NA cant fight on the front line. But the NA have done it before in seria leone, liberia, DRC, CIV. And if you say that is old school even though they are within the last decade, i will tell you about dafur. We are still doing the shooting there. I hope i have countered one of the points in the report.

The report said they are poorly equiped. But we just comissioned a locally made warship. We also comissioned amored personel carrier. Our air force made their UAV (drone) sometime ago.

igwe4life:
I even heard that it was Nigerian troops that rescued the Americans in Mogadishu (Black Hawk Down) but no mention of it anywhere.