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#Libya- LAF deploys Mi-35 to Tamanhint airbase to support greater Sabha operations .

#Algeria- another weapons cache discovered in Tamanrasset (along border with #Mali-#Niger) with some things you don't see every day:
BM-21 Grad rockets (looks like just motor, no warhead, 5th time this month~) a KPVT HMG, 82mm mortar (?) with 8 shells, 6 grenades and some ammo .

2 Nigerian soldiers were captured after Wednesdays #ISIS Wilayat Gharb Ifriqiyah #ISWAP attack at Dikwa.
Casualties on both sides were reported.

Libyan forces clashed friday clashed with Chadian militants in Ghadwa Sebha killing a number of them. The town of Gedo was also liberated by the Libyans.
Weapons paid for and awaiting transfer to sahelian and west African Jihadi groups was destroyed.

jakeporeshenko:
COAS COMMISSIONS THE NIGERIAN ARMY VEHICLE MANUFACTURING COMPANY IN RIGACHIKUN KADUNA STATE TODAY
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Why are these vehicles still produced with these commercial spare wheels?

NNAMDIII:
Something!!

Something like that. Hehehe

Just In: #Chad launched an offensive in several islands considered to be the HQ of #IS in the region. With Niger Republic closing its borders and #NigerianTroops intensifying attacks, #ISWAP maybe heading to C/Southern Borno, where #BokoHaram, their arch-rival will resist them.

Nigerian navy Exercise Ani-Oforifori successfully concluded!

Nigerian Air Force F-7Ni, I think the blue bombs are for training, I wonder why the lady has an AFIT jumper.

Senegalese Air Force Cn235 receiving maintenance

South African Air Force formation flying

jakeporeshenko:
Nigerian Air Force F-7Ni, I think the blue bombs are for training, I wonder why the lady has an AFIT jumper.

I recognize the hair from that NAF women of war documentary.

She's a flight engineer

The helicopter conveying Vice President Yemi Osinbajo has crash-landed in Kabba, Kogi State.


PS: From my personal point of view I believe the probable cause might be that
1) The pilot had a brown out (Judging from the environment and the shape of the main rotor) or it might be purely pilot's error, would have fingered engine failure but any helicopter pilots that is worth his badge will safely bring his bird down when the engine quits on him(Autorotation).
2) Maybe the pilot lost one of his rotors (Unlikely) because depending on the altitude the occupant wouldn't have survived it, so it's either it went off during landing some few feets above the ground(because from the pic, the helicopter is still intact) if at a higher altitude the bird will be a heap of scrap upon impact
3) Uneven weight balance pushing the helicopter's C of G outside its limit
4) Kogi people Testing the mic

Add yours

ugo4u:
The helicopter conveying Vice President Yemi Osinbajo has crash-landed in Kabba, Kogi State.


PS: From my personal point of view I believe the probable cause might be that the pilot had a brown out (Judging from the environment and the shape of the main rotor) or it might be purely pilot's error, would have fingered engine failure but any helicopter pilots that is worth his badge will safely bring his bird down when the engine quits on him(Autorotation).

Is he safe?

Odunayaw:
Is he safe?

Yes

Thank God for safely but I hopo it doesn't belong to NAF.

Kalapizim:
Thank God for safely but I hopo it doesn't belong to NAF.

It’s an Aw139 that belongs to caverton

jakeporeshenko:
It’s an Aw139 that belongs to caverton

Bye to patronage from Aso Rock

Odunayaw:
Bye to patronage from Aso Rock

It depends on the cause, but most certainly bye to the pilot.

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Odunayaw:
Bye to patronage from Aso Rock

I doubt, not many other companies offer the heli chattering service.

Sequel to the release of list of candidates for 78RRI, please be informed that the recruitment exercise is scheduled from 1 - 14 February 2019. Shortlisted candidates are to report to their respective states recruitment centers with the following:
2 of 2 A Pair of white vest, blue shorts, white canvas, white socks, writing materials, original/photocopy of their credentials, 4 passport photo graphs, 2 full size card photograph and BVN printout.Please treat as important.

cc; Perfectdanny

jakeporeshenko:
It’s an Aw139 that belongs to caverton

I talk am, that crash most likely is due to a brown out equivalent to white out(Snow) nothing fear Pilots pass that thing apart from rotor failure..

ugo4u:
It depends on the cause, but most certainly bye to the pilot.

The pilot died?

jakeporeshenko:
I doubt, not many other companies offer the heli chattering service.

They will just use PAF helos instead

Odunayaw:
The pilot died?

They will just use PAF helos instead

Nah nobody died, they literally walked out of the accident not even minor injuries, pretty lucky.

PAF helis probably aren’t available that’s why VP is using a chartered service.

Odunayaw:
The pilot died?

They will just use PAF helos instead

No casualties, I mean the pilot might be shipped out of PAF, to other flying squadrons in the country that is if it is eventually established that his error/misjudgement led to the crash..

ugo4u:
No casualties, I mean the pilot might be shipped out of PAF, to other flying squadrons in the country that is if it is eventually established that his error/misjudgement led to the crash..

Might end up in transport squadron sef

Odunayaw:
Might end up in transport squadron sef

dama na their them go fling am go na, he's not a fighter pilot obviously...
That's one of the worst thing that will ever happen to a NAF pilot ( remove you from PAF) the allowances/estacodes that even an NCO receive is far more than what those in the front line will ever dream of getting.

ugo4u:
dama na their them go fling am go na, he's not a fighter pilot obviously...
That's one of the worst thing that will ever happen to a NAF pilot ( remove you from PAF) the allowances/estacodes that even an NCO receive is far more than what those in the front line will ever dream of getting.

Surely

PRESS RELEASE

AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL CLAIMS ON RANN UNTRUE

The attention of the Theatre Command Operation LAFIYA DOLE has been drawn to recent claims by Amnesty International (AI) that troops' abandonment of their deployment led to the killing of 60 civilians in Rann on 28 January 2019. Undoubtedly, it is disheartening that the situation of Internally Displaced Persons( IDPs) who are already traumatized having been displaced from their ancestral homes by insurgency is being further aggravated by recent callous Boko Haram attack on the IDP community. However, it is most unacceptable and unfair for AI to make such outlandish and unverified claims that troops abandoned their deployment a day before Boko Haram attack on the location, thereby exposing the IDPs to a deadly attack.

This claim is not only bereft of truth, but in its usual mannerism, another futile effort by AI to portray the Nigerian military as incapable,nas well as project the Nigerian government as not protective of her people in the eyes of the global community. It is therefore inevitable to address this misinformation being peddled and fed the public, from AI's obviously uninformed report.

It must be clarified that contrary to insinuations by AI that troops abandoned their deployment a day before Boko Haram astorgous attack on Rann on 28 January 2019, Rann never actually came under any attack on the date claimed by AI. Rather Rann experienced that unfortunate attack on 14 January 2018 and in that encounter, the troops proved their mettle and gallantry by neutralizing two suicide bombers and three Boko Haram foot soldiers, while several took to their heels with gun shot wounds. With the support of troops from the Muliti National Joint Task, who later joined in the battle, the insurgents were finally overpowered.

It is also crucial to mention here, as has been reported in an earlier press release, signed by Deputy Director Army Public Relations of Sector 1 that the Theatre Commander, Major General Benson Akinroluyo and the Commander Sector 1 Operation LAFIYA DOLE Brigadier General Bulama Biu wasted no time in swiftly responding to the development, as they immediately embarked on a long range patrol to Rann, as well as other adjoining communities within the area, during which they conducted battle damage assessment. Contrary to AI's claims, at no point of the assessment , was any report of the killing of 60 civilians made either by the civilians themselves, whom the Sector Commander interacted with or by the members of the Joint Task Force who were at hand during the assessment. Again a Search and Rescue Operation that followed after the attack did not recover the said 60 bodies of killed civilians as AI would want members of the public to believe. The troops commenced a clearance operation in villages surrounding Rann and destroyed Boko Haram terrorists camps that were uncovered during the operation. In one of such clearance operations on 30 January 2019, the troops encountered an ambush staged by the terrorists along Gamboru - Mafa road and gallantly fought through it, overpowering the insurgents.

Another issue in the controvertible AI report is the alleged attack on Rann on 28 January 2019, where as, there was no such attack. Rather, an alarm was raised by IDPs in Rann of the sudden withdrawal of Multinational Joint Task Force ( MNJTF) troops from the location, to which the authorities of Operation LAFIYA quickly responded, following which the Commander Sector 1 returned to Rann on Monday 29 January with reinforcement troops to beef-up and support the troops there.

The astronomical statistics of human casualty touted by AI and the alleged abdication of duty by our selfless and resilient troops cannot hold water in the face of facts of the several exemplary physical involvements of the Theatre Commander and the Commander Sector 1 as well as Commanders of 22 Brigade and 3 Battalion in ensuring normalcy returns to Rann and the reinforcement and replenishment of the troops.

Evidently, in its characteristic inclination to swiftly accuse the Nigerian military of wrong doing, AI failed again to conduct a validity check on its manufactured data before cooking its report.

No doubt, in battles, collateral damages are unfortunately incurred and troops in the front line are first victims to suffer such damages, up to the point of sacrificing their lives, as they are saddled with the duty to defend their country and the citizenry. We are deeply touched by the demise of those who fell during the callous attack of Rann by Boko Haram terrorists. We are also empathic with humanitarian organizations as well as members of International and local NGOs who were affected by the attack. It is indeed another reminder and clarion call on the international and local communities to support the Nigerian military to bring the dastardly and mindless acts of Boko terrorists to a decisive end.

We seize this opportunity to reiterate that our responsibility of defending our fatherland and protecting our people remain our pride and conscience no matter the amount of distraction and smear campaigns.

Please disseminate this information to the general public through your medium.

Thank you for your kind cooperation.

ONYEMA NWACHUKWU
Colonel
Deputy Director Public Relations
Theatre Command Operation LAFIYA DOLE
2 February 2019

Colonel ONYEMA requires a new secretary or the services of an editor. If the army is to maintain or create an aura of professionalism nothing should be dismissed or overlooked as inconsequential.