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Nigerian Troops engaged the terrorist in Marte yesterday where the infidels tried to attack the base the military killed some of the infidels whilst about 7 gallantry men paid the supreme price. Abducted citizens where freed, more details later.
The military will keep pushing up as they are well motivated. God bless you

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LTGEN:
Baba Owen and Nobody
Have destroyed this thread. I will be leaving.
I am grateful for all the intelligent people I have met here.
I am glad the NA is dealing ruthlessly with them.
The End is close folks .

You are being bullied from doing what you love to do and you are conceding?
Is this the first time we will have bitter people like him here?
He will soon get tired and move somewhere else like they always do.
And we keep failing by feeding these trolls attention. We need to do better.

Whyem15:
You are being bullied from doing what you love to do and you are conceding?
Is this the first time we will have bitter people like him here?
He will soon get tired and move somewhere else like they always do.

Yeah !
He wouldn't be the 1st bitter people here on the thread neither will he be the last, So ignore them then we move

bidex111:
#Libya

More of the #GNA photos of its EOD teams clearing mines, IED and UXO from western sirte Lybia.

I dont really get the reason for these vests, if the shit hit the fan while defusing, na die you go still die with vest or no vest.

Apparently Marte was attacked again. But it seems the insurgents were successful this time around.

youghs:
I dont really get the reason for these vests, if the shit hit the fan while defusing, na die you go still die with vest or no vest.

I thought I was the only one who saw that "airbag". I thought working as an IED expert you need some kind of complicated vest to shield you from impact of blast.

bidexiii:
Nigerian Troops engaged the terrorist in Marte yesterday where the infidels tried to attack the base the military killed some of the infidels whilst about 7 gallantry men paid the supreme price. Abducted citizens where freed, more details later.
The military will keep pushing up as they are well motivated. God bless you

7 men? Going to the theatre and coming back unscathed is a proof that you are God's favourite child.

Sleep on heroes.

bidex111:
#Libya

More of the #GNA photos of its EOD teams clearing mines, IED and UXO from western sirte Lybia.

but there's an apparent 7/10 % exposure of the body when you use these vest...

More success for Paramount as Indian Army orders 200 x Mbombe 4.
To be manufactured under licence in India as the Kalyani M4.

https://defenceview.in/indian-army-order-200-kalyani-m4-armoured-vehicle/

Lurker4Long:
More success for Paramount as Indian Army orders 200 x Mbombe 4.
To be manufactured under licence in India as the Kalyani M4.

https://defenceview.in/indian-army-order-200-kalyani-m4-armoured-vehicle/

Good news

One Mrs Ajoke Ishola, who was abducted on Monday by some suspected Fulani herdsmen has been killed by her abductors.

DAILY POST learnt that the lifeless body of Ishola was found inside the bush around 7pm yesterday.

A son-in-law to the deceased, Engr Aremu Rafiu, confirmed the incident to our correspondent in a telephone conversation.

Rafiu had earlier disclosed that his mother-in-law was kidnapped along Igbo-Ori around 11am on Monday.

He recalled how the abductors accosted the commercial motorcyclist conveying Ishola to farm, shooting him and injuring another woman on the bike.

On Monday night, Aremu revealed to our correspondent that, “We have found my mother-in-law’s dead body. The Fulani herdsmen killed her and dumped her body behind Obasanjo’s farm in our area.

“But, what we observed was that the killer Fulani herdsmen did not go away with their cows initially. The OPC members saw the cows while searching for Mrs Ishola. After the OPC operatives had combed the entire bush and left, the herdsmen came out of their hiding to drop her body and took away their cows.

“We made findings and discovered that the cows belong to one Fulani man called Orebe. So, those who committed that crime were Orebe boys.

“We have informed the police, but they said they won’t be able to visit the place at night, promising to be there on Tuesday.

“The police said they would take the corpse to the mortuary. I told them I don’t have any money to waste at the mortuary. We only informed the police to be witnesses.

“The corpse was dropped by these wicked people near Obasanjo’s farm along Oke-Irori village,” the distraught son-in-law told DAILY POST.

Aremu expressed sadness that the killing of innocent souls continue unabated in Yewa axis of the state.

No fewer than 12 persons have been reportedly killed in Owode Ketu, Ebute Igbooro, Agbon Ojodu and Imeko in the last one week.

Governor Dapo Abiodun was in the area on Monday to sympathise with the people.

Today, Abiodun said he would hold an all-important meeting with about five northern governors and other major stakeholders so as to find a lasting solution to the killings.

https://dailypost.ng/2021/02/16/woman-abducted-by-herdsmen-found-dead-in-ogun/

LTGEN:
Baba Owen and Nobody
Have destroyed this thread. I will be leaving.
I am grateful for all the intelligent people I have met here.
I am glad the NA is dealing ruthlessly with them.
The End is close folks .

Bye bye

BabaOwen:
Bye bye

Baba, I doubt any poster on this military thread has the ability to do anything about your concerns. Since it seems as if the majority on the thread are not in league with your sentiments, or that your persistence has had the counterproductive effect of hardening their resolve against you, why not share these concerns with the military? I'm confident you have the ability to get your massage seen at the very top. However, if your real mission is as part of a group of people charged with ensuring Nigerians see nothing good in any part or institution of their country, you’re wasting your time here. You can’t force intelligent people to see things only from your perspective.

“Good morning fellow Nigerians, this is Lt. Col Bukar Sukar Dimka of the Nigeria Army calling. I bring you good tidings. Murtala Muhammed’s hypocrisy has been detected. His government is now overthrown by the Young Revolutionaries. All the Nigeria military governors have no powers over the states they now govern. The state affairs will be run by the military brigade commanders until further notice. All commissioners are sacked except for the armed forces and police commissioners who will be deployed.

All senior officers should remain calm in their respective posts. No divisional commander will issue orders to his formations until further notice. Any attempt to foil this plan from any quarter will be met with death. You are warned, it is all over the 19 states. All acts of … (word unclear) observed will be death. Everyone should be calm. Please stay by your radios for further announcements. All borders, airports and seaports are closed until further notice. Curfew is imposed as from 6am to 6pm. Thank you. We are all together.”

These were the words of Bukar Sukar Dimka of the Nigeria Army Physical Training Corps, representing those he called the Young Revolutionaries, as they attempted to take over the General Murtala Mohammed-led military regime. Although the attempted coup failed, Mohammed, his ADC, Lt. Akintunde Akinsehinwa, and driver were killed.

A volley of bullets were sprayed on Muhammed’s official Mercedez Benz car near a petrol station, opposite the Federal Secretariat, Ikoyi, Lagos. Dateline: Friday, February 13, 1976.

Following the failure of the coup, Dimka and his co-conspirators were declared wanted by the military authorities. Intermittently, the radio gave information about the fugitives.

Friendship

March 4, 1976 began like a normal day in Amachi, Afikpo, Ebonyi State. (Afikpo was in Imo State then). However, before the sun went to bed, things began to change in an extraordinary way.

In the evening of that day, a white Renault car with registration number ECC 6253 entered the premises of Ikenyi Friendship Hotel in Afikpo. The front number plate was dangling.

The sole occupant was a well-built man in his mid 30s, five feet six-inch tall with one deep tribal mark on each cheek. He wore a traditional robe.

The young man approached the hotel staff and asked to be shown around before checking in. He was taken to all the rooms in the hotel, which was a bungalow at the time. Finally, the man chose a room at the back of the building. Interestingly, the room had a special feature: It had no burglar proof; other rooms had.

Subsequently, the guest checked in as Mr C. Godwin, an official of the Federal Ministry of Agriculture, Enugu.
A staff of the hotel, Ogbonnaya Nwaogwu, who was about 20-years-old at the time, told the reporter: “After checking in, the man made a request. He asked for a woman to spend the night with. So, a woman was brought for him from a brothel around. But when he saw the lady, he said he did not want an ashawo (prostitute).

We wondered how he knew that the lady was an ashawo; after all ashawo is not written on anybody’s face. When the woman came out, she said that he had been to their place (hotel) before and played with the ladies there. I think he must have also noticed the woman with others there.

“So, when he rejected the first girl, we went to a neighbouring village, Ukpa, and brought another girl for him. He didn’t complain about the girl and he shut the door when the girl entered into his room. Her name was Beatrice Ugochi.

“Some of us who were here did not know Dimka in person. All we knew was that there was a coup, but some people in Afikpo knew Dimka. That was the problem.
“When he came to Afikpo, some people recognized him.

So, they reported to the police that they had seen someone who looked like Dimka. You know, you cannot just go there and say you have seen Dimka just like that.

“Not long after, security men stormed the hotel, saying that they wanted to know the people who were lodging in the hotel. We told them that we were having only one guest and they asked if he was Dimka. We told them that the guest was an agric officer from Enugu. They insisted on seeing the guest.

“When the officers insisted on seeing our guest, Mr Godwin, we went and knocked on his door. When the lodger asked who was knocking, he was told that some people wanted to see him. The lodger said that he would come and see the visitors shortly, explaining that he was having a shower. They waited for him for some time but he didn’t come out. The officers surrounded the building and some went and knocked on his door.

“After waiting without answer, the officers forced the door open and found Ugochi sitting on the bed. The men asked her about the man she was supposed to be with and she pointed to the bathroom.

Again, they knocked on the bathroom door but there was no response. They broke the bathroom door but the lodger was nowhere to be found. He had vanished.”

It was later discovered that the guest escaped through the bathroom window, which had no protector. The suspicion that the lodger, Mr C. Godwin and Dimka were the same person became more profound. Then the officers started beating the girl.

The disappearance of the lodger threw the security agents into confusion and panic. According to a witness, “the security agents began to sweat profusely. They painted pathetic pictures as they searched all over the place, looking for the escapee lodger who slipped through their fingers, and abandoned his gateway car loaded with cash. They didn’t know how long he had been gone or the route he took. In fact, they all looked stupid. Dimka had outsmarted them.”

The security men unleashed their anger and frustration on Ugochi, beating and battering her like a thief. They took her and the hotel manager to the police station and later transferred them to Owerri.

Dimka’s physical ability was deployed when it mattered most. While the men pursuing Dimka were chasing shadows in Afikpo, he walked away through the bush behind the hotel at the time. He walked in the bush all through the night for several kilometers. The bubble, however, burst at Abaomege, near Abakaliki.

Dimka’s plan was to enter Cameroun through neighbouring Cross River State. Investigation revealed that during the Ngeria/Biafra civil war, Dimka had operated in Afikpo, so he was conversant with the area.

Victim of the flesh

Dimka gave himself away by frolicking with women of easy virtues at a nearby brothel before checking into Ikenyi Friendship Hotel. While there, some people had noticed him and reported to the local police. But before the security personnel arrived, he had gone. They finally traced him to Ikenyi Friendship Hotel. Anyway, Dimka was just being himself. While appealing for information on his whereabouts, the police had noted that, “he drinks and he is fond of pub houses.”

Ikenyi Friendship Hotel was undergoing renovation when Daily Sun visited last week.

The Federal Government, on March 6, 1976, issued a statement regarding Dimka’s arrest. The statement said: “His arrest followed a massive manhunt operation mounted by a combined team of the army and police in the area.

“The previous day, Lt. Col. Dimka had checked into a local hotel in Afikpo under the name of Mr C. Godwin of the Federal Ministry of Agriculture, Enugu. Later, on his request, the hotel manager secured for him a girl, Miss Beatrice (Ugochi) Agboti, with whom to spend the night.
“A few hours later, the local police security was alerted and they closed up on him. At about 10.30pm, he bolted away through the toilet of his hotel room into a nearby thick bush, abandoning his car with a dandling registration number ECC 6253.

“The continuous joint manhunt operation by the army and police resulted in his subsequent arrest near Abakaliki.”

And the man died

Dimka was tried and convicted by a military tribunal. On Saturday, May 15, 1976, he and six others, including the former governor of Benue Plateau State, Joseph D. Gomwalk, were executed by firing squad.

Thirty-two others had earlier been executed on March 11, 1976, for their alleged roles in the events of February 13. They included the federal commissioner for defence, Maj. Gen. Illiya Bisalla, who had attended the burial of the slain Head of State in Kano. He had maintained his innocence even as he was being tied to the stake, saying: “I am going to heaven. I need no prayer any longer.”

After Dimka’s execution, Obasanjo made a nationwide broadcast, saying: “We have now substantially disposed off the major issues arising from the coup attempt".

https://www.sunnewsonline.com/1976-coup-how-sex-workers-ruined-dimkas-plan/

Litmus:
Baba, I doubt any poster on this military thread has the ability to do anything about your concerns. Since it seems as if the majority on the thread are not in league with your sentiments, or that your persistence has had the counterproductive effect of hardening their resolve against you, why not share these concerns with the military? I'm confident you have the ability to get your massage seen at the very top. However, if your real mission is as part of a group of people charged with ensuring Nigerians see nothing good in any part or institution of their country, you’re wasting your time here. You can’t force intelligent people to see things only from your perspective.

You should know by now he is mentally unwell. He is displaying the symptoms of a child who never got much parental attention, so he goes seeking it wherever he sees a gathering Irrespective of how he goes about it. He can't really help himself, so look at him with pity and simply ignore.

He will sooner move elsewhere to seek his long-denied attention. But till he does, let's just observe him as a live specimens of a psyhological case.

Lurker4Long:
More success for Paramount as Indian Army orders 200 x Mbombe 4.
To be manufactured under licence in India as the Kalyani M4.

https://defenceview.in/indian-army-order-200-kalyani-m4-armoured-vehicle/

This vehicle is a beast

The village head of Kusherki in Rafi local government area of Niger state, Alhaji Masud Abubakar has been killed along with ten other villagers by bandits.

Not only that, the bandits also kidnapped twenty villagers from different communities in the area while the wife of slain traditional ruler was among those kidnapped.

An eye witness told our Correspondent that the raid started at about 12:30 and lasted till around 2:pm unabated.

The bandits numbering up to fifty were said to have invaded the Communities on Motorcycles armed with AK47 rifles and other dangerous weapons as they rode from village to village and started shooting sporadically and ended up killing eleven people including the village head.

Among the eleven killed were five members of the local Vigilante and other youths supporting the vigilante men.

It was reliably gathered that the bandits started from Kasuwe village and moved from there to other villages killing and maiming innocent villagers.

They were also said to have moved from house to house and carted away with cash, valuables and foodstuffs.

Just as the invasion was on in these Communities, another set of bandits were also reported to have blocked the Major Highway from Sarkin Pawa to Minna leaving motorists to scramble for their safety.

Secretary of Munyan Local Government, Mr James Isaac Jagaba confirmed the story but could not ascertain whether people were abducted or not.

According to him,”I cannot give details of what actually happened now but members of the Vigilante are still battling with the bandits.

Reacting to the incessant banditry especially in the past three days, the state government in a statement signed by Chief Press Secretary to Governor Abubakar Sani Bello, Mrs. Mary Noel-Berje confirmed the Kusherki incident and lamented the increasing activities of kidnappers and Bandits in the state which she said is becoming a nightmare to the people.

She described the situation as callous and regrettable.

“The murder of the traditional ruler is callous, regrettable and it is a challenge to the security agencies to intensify their search to fish-out and ensure that the perpetrators of such heinous acts are brought to justice”

“The situation particularly in the last 72 hours has become regrettably alarming. Efforts are ongoing to secure the release of the abducted NSTA passengers the Governor assured because the development is becoming more worrisome.

Governor Bello, therefore, seek more of Federal Government’s intervention to tackle the rampaging menace noting that “banditry is becoming a situation of war in the state”, hence the need for a fresh, sustainable and multidimensional strategy that will neutralize both the bandits and their informants.

Just last Sunday, bandits blocked the ever busy Kontagora-Tegina-Minna Highway and kidnapped eighteen passengers from the Niger State Transport Authority,(NSTA) bus and left a nursing mother and her child on the Highway while the other eighteen passengers were led into the bush.

The whereabouts of the abducted persons is yet unknown.


https://www.vanguardngr.com/2021/02/bandits-kill-traditional-ruler-ten-others-kidnap-24-in-niger/

homerac7:
You should know by now he is mentally unwell. He is displaying the symptoms of a child who never got much parental attention, so he goes seeking it wherever he sees a gathering Irrespective of how he goes about it. He can't really help himself, so look at him with pity and simply ignore.

He will sooner move elsewhere to seek his long-denied attention. But till he does, let's just observe him as a live specimens of a psyhological case.

Nah people like Una dey derail this thread.

GOVERNOR SANI BELLO REGRETS KILLING OF DISTRICT HEAD OF KUSHERKI, 9 VIGILANTES IN MUNYA AND ABDUCTION OF PEOPLE BY BANDITS IN NIGER STATE

Governor Abubakar Sani Bello of Niger State has expressed outrage at the recent killing of the Village Head of Kusherki in Rafi Local Government Area Mas'ud Abubakar and abduction of his wife, children and some others by Armed Bandits.

A similar attack took place at Kachuae under Munya local government area where nine vigilante were killed and twenty three (23) abducted.

The Governor, in a statement, said the increasing activities of kidnappers and Bandits in the state is becoming a nightmare to the people.

Governor Sani Bello described as callous and regrettable, the murder of the traditional title holder and numerous others challenging the security agencies to intensify their search to 'fish-out' and ensure that the perpetrators of such heinous acts are brought to justice.

"The situation, particularly in the last 72 hours, has become regrettably alarming! While efforts are ongoing to secure the release of the abducted NSTA passengers, we heard that of Kusherki and Kachuae. We are witnessing these attacks now, almost, on daily basis and it is worrisome", the statement said.

The Governor said the state government will not be deterred nor discouraged by the recent turn of events stressing that the existing collective resolve of government, security agencies and the people must be sustained to checkmate the situation.

He expressed regret that the infiltrating bandits are closely collaborating with some insidious Informants within the communities to attack them and tasked the people to provide more intelligence to the security agencies to isolate the informants in order to eliminate the bandits.

Again, the statement seeks more Federal Government's intervention to tackle the rampaging menace noting that banditry is becoming a situation of war in the state, hence the need for a fresh, sustainable and multidimensional strategy that will neutralize both the bandits and their informants.

Niger State has witnessed the influx of Armed Bandits in recent times, making sporadic attacks at villages, maiming, killing and abducting people with reckless abandon in some local government areas of the state.

Mary Noel-Berje
Chief Press Secretary to
Governor of Niger State

To the aggrieved and those who love posting bad news on here, is there a reason why you need to crash this thread to do it? I mean, open your own, i get it the audience is here, but that audience was built and maintained for a purpose, which was what this thread was created for, stop being a nuisance and take your stories elsewhere. Act like adults for one damn second in your lives.
No one here is blind to the ills of Nigeria or the atrocities going on there, if you need someone's attention, contact those who have the ability to respond to your concerns, and stop fvking up this thread.

Sizzorkay:
To the aggrieved and those who love posting bad news on here, is there a reason why you need to crash this thread to do it? I mean, open your own, i get it the audience is here, but that audience was built and maintained for a purpose, which was what this thread was created for, stop being a nuisance and take your stories elsewhere. Act like adults for one damn second in your lives.
No one here is blind to the ills of Nigeria or the atrocities going on there, if you need someone's attention, contact those who have the ability to respond to your concerns, and stop fvking up this thread.

Everything he posts is copied from the frontpage. So what is the point of derailing the thread with news we have already read on the FP? Their is absolutely no sense in that.

Una go wail tire

Off topic.
Interesting analyses here.
https://www.rt.com/op-ed/515695-russia-america-military-fighters/

By the time all of us start to dey report each other for posting what's on front page or other sections for Nairaland, nah only pic all of us go dey share on top this thread

Someone was accused of always stealing pic on this thread, Una two dey blind back then abi

Una go wail tire

I will keep on posting stories about security issues on this thread... If you're tired, you can create another thread or leave Nairaland. Cause you will wail and wail and wail and I will still be here posting.

Gunmen suspected to be armed bandits on Wednesday invaded Government Science Secondary School in Kagara, headquarters of Rafi Local Government Area of Niger State, abducting an unknown number of staff members and students.
The armed men were said to have invaded the school around 3 am.

“At about 3 am last night, bandits attacked Government Science College in Kagara, killing one and abducting an unknown number of students.

“Some staff members, their spouses, children were also abducted by the bandits,” a source told SaharaReporters.

The incident comes barely two months after gunmen invaded Government Science Secondary School, Kankara in Katsina State, kidnapping over 300 students.

The abduction happened when President Muhammadu Buhari was visiting his home state of Katsina.

SaharaReporters gathered that the gunmen also killed one of the students.

http://saharareporters.com/2021/02/17/breaking-many-students-missing-bandits-attack-niger-secondary-school