africaken254:
A house divided against itself cannot stand

 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8yEdyeAgHiQ

andrewza:



Why do you want the A10. The supper Tucano will ne just has deadly vs BH cost less to fly, requier less ground support in time, man power and resources, have a faster turn around and generally be more cost effective. You fighting coin warfare not trying to defend the west against a hord of soviet tanks. The Tucano was built for the type of war you fighting.

Well only 1 sub Saharan African country could respond to a sub. So dont it not a big deal you cant stop one. Since no one in your sphere oprats submarines.

You may be getting the same deal Afghanistan got. They got 20 Supper Tucano's spare parts and training from America.

africaken254:
A house divided against itself cannot stand

overhypedsteve:
the world today is beginning to go beyond the concept of present threat to foreseeable threats, Boko Haram was severely mishandled and it created a terrorist bloc in west Africa. That's because during the early days of the Al quada and Taliban insurgent movement African nations were busy using their armies to chase arm robbers and street hudlums they believed the threat from these insurgent group was not real nobody thought of monitoring the Tuaregs in Mali or the bandits in the lake Chad basin area (MNJTF that was supposed to do so had no strategy,structure or support). Now the threats of terrorism is real and we have lost our citizens to their barbaric activities but still yet we have not learnt anything from losing anyone, we have not learnt anything from the Al shabab killings of school students in Kenya and we have not learnt anything from the kidnap of school kids in chibok, what have we done to ensure that this embarrassing tragedies do not repeat themselves? The Nigerian government had a hard time identifying the missing girls and even claimed it was all a propaganda because we do not have a national identification infrastructure that works, and then there was a series of claims and disclaimers and we started begging for foreign aids to rescue the girls(now we know we need advance surveillance and search and rescue platforms, now we know we need knowledge in GeoIntelligence but we use to think it was not in our strategic doctrine to buy high tech stuff but now we need it to rescue our kids and our head of state would have to beg on our behalf)Look at Kenya, what have they done after the university attack are they stationing men to secure institutes of learning round the country or are they just creating rapid responds squads whose primary duty would be VIP protection. we need to start drafting out forseeable threats and building our armed forces to fulfil these roles. What would happen if a rogue state decide to invade a west African anglophone ally what will Nigeria do? What will happen if a Francophone state close to us allow its territory near us to be used for atomic weapon test what will Nigeria do? What will happen if our oil assets in the Gulf of Guinea come under attack by a capable state competing for share in the international oil market what will Nigeria do? What will happen if pirates seize a missile armed frigate and bring it to our coast to effect damages what will Nigeria do? What will happen if Fulani herdsman kidnap young kids from a school in the Mid belt and take them to Neighbouring Mali? What will happen if South Africa comes under a white supremacist regime and our problematic brothers from the south becomes even more problematic, what will happen if the world turned upside down and Africans were the only ones caught unprepared?

What did we put in place to protect the little we have achieved in development over the years? Are we protecting anything at all? 20 super Tucanos as a Nigerian national security objective at the ending phase of a war you fought with four alpha jets? we have the EEZ to protect, we have the Gulf of Guinea to police and all we are thinking of is 12 super tucanos for Boko Haram. Why not give them the money for the jets and beg them to stop fighting?

The Mistral class Gamal Abdel Nasser lefts StNazaire,france for a week of training at sea with 180 Egyptian sailors

The Mistral class Gamal Abdel Nasser lefts StNazaire,france for a week of training at sea with 180 Egyptian sailors

overhypedsteve:
the world today is beginning to go beyond the concept of present threat to foreseeable threats, Boko Haram was severely mishandled and it created a terrorist bloc in west Africa. That's because during the early days of the Al quada and Taliban insurgent movement African nations were busy using their armies to chase arm robbers and street hudlums they believed the threat from these insurgent group was not real nobody thought of monitoring the Tuaregs in Mali or the bandits in the lake Chad basin area (MNJTF that was supposed to do so had no strategy,structure or support). Now the threats of terrorism is real and we have lost our citizens to their barbaric activities but still yet we have not learnt anything from losing anyone, we have not learnt anything from the Al shabab killings of school students in Kenya and we have not learnt anything from the kidnap of school kids in chibok, what have we done to ensure that this embarrassing tragedies do not repeat themselves? The Nigerian government had a hard time identifying the missing girls and even claimed it was all a propaganda because we do not have a national identification infrastructure that works, and then there was a series of claims and disclaimers and we started begging for foreign aids to rescue the girls(now we know we need advance surveillance and search and rescue platforms, now we know we need knowledge in GeoIntelligence but we use to think it was not in our strategic doctrine to buy high tech stuff but now we need it to rescue our kids and our head of state would have to beg on our behalf)Look at Kenya, what have they done after the university attack are they stationing men to secure institutes of learning round the country or are they just creating rapid responds squads whose primary duty would be VIP protection. we need to start drafting out forseeable threats and building our armed forces to fulfil these roles. What would happen if a rogue state decide to invade a west African anglophone ally what will Nigeria do? What will happen if a Francophone state close to us allow its territory near us to be used for atomic weapon test what will Nigeria do? What will happen if our oil assets in the Gulf of Guinea come under attack by a capable state competing for share in the international oil market what will Nigeria do? What will happen if pirates seize a missile armed frigate and bring it to our coast to effect damages what will Nigeria do? What will happen if Fulani herdsman kidnap young kids from a school in the Mid belt and take them to Neighbouring Mali? What will happen if South Africa comes under a white supremacist regime and our problematic brothers from the south becomes even more problematic, what will happen if the world turned upside down and Africans were the only ones caught unprepared?

What did we put in place to protect the little we have achieved in development over the years? Are we protecting anything at all? 20 super Tucanos as a Nigerian national security objective at the ending phase of a war you fought with four alpha jets? we have the EEZ to protect, we have the Gulf of Guinea to police and all we are thinking of is 12 super tucanos for Boko Haram. Why not give them the money for the jets and beg them to stop fighting?

Ethiopia military industry is mounting its S-75 SAMs on T-55 tank hulls,thus turning S-75 into self propelled SAM's

rugged7:
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Henry240:


12 months gone, nobody has been jailed in this so called "arms probe investigation".


What equipment has be purchased by the Buhari led government since he came into power 1 year ago?


So what is he using to prosecute the insurgency in the N.E, if he, his Vice-President and government have been continuously inaundating the public with stories of monumental corruption of biblical proportions?

Stephandeswardt:


Most of the dead bht have head shots

africaken254:


during the recent oil boom nigeria earned billions of dollars,i presume you could go straight to embraer and acquire dozens of this super tucanos.which only cost 14 million dollars each,why isn't that happening!

TrueHeart365:


i don't know why Nigerians are so blind to this.

the same administration that claimed looters had returned stolen funds in billions. ask for figures and they'll label you a wailer.

they have now come out to say it would be difficult to retrieve stolen funds.

and Nigerians are yet to ask questions.

this government thinks it's still campaigning.

Iblawi1:
brother where is the money today? We gained nothing from it.

africaken254:
oil and this other minerals on our earth are a curse.its better to be intellectual and innovative like the Japanese

Iblawi1:

You are on point bro. Sometimes I wish the oil dries up cos we have many other ways of surviving. Nigeria was a much better country in the 60s and 70s.

Saudi Arabia has finally revealed what life after oil may look like.
The world's top oil exporter and Middle East power on Monday unveiled an ambitious plan to diversify and become one of the 15 biggest economies in the world.
Presenting "Saudi Arabia's vision for 2030," deputy crown prince Mohammed bin Salman said the kingdom's huge oil wealth was now holding the country back.
"We have a state of addiction in the Saudi Arabian kingdom, by everyone, and that's dangerous. That is what held up many sectors from developing in the past years," he told Al Arabiya television in an interview.
Under his plan, Saudi Arabia wants to boost non oil revenues sixfold to $266 billion by 2030, sell part of national oil company Aramco on the stock market, and create a $1.9 trillion public fund to invest at home and abroad.
Oil makes up 87% of Saudi Arabia's revenues and the collapse in world crude prices since 2014 has left the kingdom struggling. It has already cut subsidies and borrowed billions to try to balance its books.

Concerns mount over whether Kampala will withdraw troops in Somalia

 
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Iblawi1:


Bros this is simple na they have recovered so much but tedious to recover the rest.

They said they have recovered about N2.7 trillion except you want them to give details monthly.

I don't think any1 would expect much from a government without a budget. Budget was signed yesterday, let's just be patient for a month or 2 before making conclusion.