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GabrielYulaw:
Hi all! Here are my thoughts. But first, where's Bidexii?
Me and him no agree on much, but this na his thread. Did the guy mount a 122mm rocket that was fired to the heavens? Or is he on a hush-hush commando mission? Would love to know.

On a serious note, I'm afraid that regardless of what the EndSars panel said, nothing will change within the NA. No one will be punished, no real reforms will be implemented. And something like this will keep happening again and again.

The NA is dysfunctional for a purpose and making it a fully disciplined and professional fighting force is not something I see happening soon. It's more like a collection of rogues than an army. But I'm really happy to know there are shining lights here and there that are not like the typical Nigerian soldiers/commanders.

You know, we are Nigeria. We suppose be the giant of Africa. When we cough, neighboring countries suppose p1ss themselves in fear. When we blink they suppose cry for their mama.

And what do we have now? Chadian and Cameroonian troops can saunter into our country anytime they want, kill our countrymen and say they were suspected Boko Haram fighters. Governments like Ghana can go on national tv and insult us. Ivorian authorities can confidently frame up a girl for a crime she no commit and get her killed in jail.

We are so massively disrespected on this continent. We are the butt of jokes and it's not even funny. There's only one way we can change this and that's to start living up to our potential.

It will involve modernizing our security agencies, our economy, our way of life and everything else. But is that going to happen? Not at all because the way Nigeria is set up right now is super profitable to the elites. There will be no change. And we will keep being treated like scum across much of Africa.


And there's another thing. EndSars and the Lekki massacre was special. I'm not sure some of you noticed, but there was a very massive and skilled disinformation campaign just after the Lekki massacre.

I have never seen something as skilled happening in this country and I don't think this disinformation campaign was run by Nigerians. And the goal was a simple one- to make us doubt what we saw that night and to provide ammunition for doubters like that Askia guy to come here and say the whole thing was a hoarse.

Who was behind this wide scale deception? Who paid for it? It's important we find out and fast because I fear something like this will be repeated again, perhaps during the 2023 election.


Some of you come here and see me wailing always, criticizing and gnashing my teeth and think I'm just a chronic complainer. That's not true. I love my country. It's beautiful and magnificent.

We can easily rule Africa and we have the brains and resources to make that happen. And it just tears me apart to see the depths we keep sinking to as a people and as a country.

Talk true, is Nigeria a fit place to live and raise children? For me the answer is no and I will keep doing my best to change this and make this a country we all can be proud of.

My apologies for the long epistle.

SuperSixSeven:
The skull is the very popular Punisher Logo from Marvel. RiceProducers just hates the A29 for no reason.

ugo4u:
Justice is all Nigerians are asking for and justice they must get else we wont make any progress as a nation. In this same Endsars protest we saw videos of middle level officers particularly Majors in the army disarm and de-escalate angry mobs w/o firing a single gunshot infact the Major that was in charge of the NYSC camp in kogi literally stopped his soldiers from firing into the crowd that wanted to loot the stuffs made for corpers he appealed to the mob and made them see reasons why they shouldn't steal what belongs to their brothers/sisters that came for service, similar scenario occurred in Osun state were we saw another army Major engage an irate mob and within 10min he deescalated an already tensed atmosphere also not forgetting the Senior NAF officer captured on camera warning police officers to stop firing at the mob so he could engage them. These is to tell you that the military have alot of good men that know the sanctity of human lives and the huge responsibility that comes with wearing the uniform, what makes you a good soldier is the ability to carryout your objectiuve with as minimal casualties as possible infact if you can disarm your enemy w/o firing a shot the better. To those set of officers we will always praise and commend them but you see those bad eggs that perpetrate criminalities we must call them out it doesn't mean we aren't patriotic we all want a sane society not a banana republic were anybody can misbehave because he or she have access to a rifle, virtually everyone can pull a trigger people at the helm of affairs should try as much as possible not to push the citizens to the wall because when all hell breaks lose simultaneously all over the country the result will be worst than a zombie apocalypse.

Toju200:
NAF A29 pilot

jl115:
namibia does not have jf17s

Coolliot:
You know this article is rubbish? And the author doesn't know what he is writing about. He probably just giggled navy , and saw words without understanding the intricacies and depth and started pasting them on this writeup.

dragon2:
They do,and we have them. The performance is still up for debate.
https://www.africanmilitaryblog.com/2019/05/nigerian-air-force-acquires-two-agusta-a109-power-light-attack-helicopters
Modified.
NAF576,NAF577,NAF578,NAF579.
Unless you mean with that level of complexity.

yoged:
. 220m yen yen. Sitting comfortably in your house spitting trash. How about you go join the army and be posted to Lake chad area.

SuperSixSeven:
oh Yes we do. HESCO is part of the solution to build better FOBs.

ugo4u:
It's very clear our military needs help but some idiotic self deluding fellows keep decieving themselves. They think calling for assistance means calling the Military useless, even the US with all its resources would hardly go into any war w/o alliance(s) talkmore of Nigeria that is still struggling to consistently spend $1bn yearly solely for procurements/upgrades. Is it not 2 weeks ago COAS was complaining bitterly about the slashing of army's budget yet we shouldn't seek for help anywhere we could. Even soldiers on ground will tell you they will welcome the idea of getting reinforcement from regional blocs even if it means them holding the fort along border towns.
As for the ewures shouting that we only amplify bad news, so we should keep quiet when soldiers die because they're not human beings with families. In the US death or casualties of soldiers can bring a gov't down but in Nigeria we should hush it all up and amplify BHT casualties as if the lives of those renegades equates to that of soldiers.
Well!!! The cycle continues..

yoged:
. Buhari will never agree to that bro. . just wasting the lifes of our soldiers

Roan77:
Bad news always overshadows success in Nigeria.

Malory:
How many civil servants can afford such. Buhari is evil

Stormtrooper11:
Negative. Hesco bags over barbed wires all day. Even in the counter attack at bonny Island, 1967, barbed wires were extremely detrimental.
Barbed wires in Metele, Borno led to the death of numerous of our troops. A truck go stuck in the barbed wire and blocked the passage of troops and vehicles leading to the death of good men.
We need Hesco bags not pure barbed wires.

DubaiLandLord1:
For over 9 years, nah still the same and same news

This Government don fail for security matter, make man dey pray make 2023 com fast

Sergio101:
Nigeria soldiers I know do show the pictures of their enemies gunned down by them especially in a fierce encounter like this. In order to increase the morale of young aspiring soldiers.

But here.......... no pictures and you want me to believe??.
well I believe

FarahAideed:
In over 8 hours of fierce fighting that involved the use of 7 fighter aircraft and consumed the life of the brigade commander you are saying only 31 Boko Haram and four soldiers died ? How did Boko Haram even reach the brigadier

ugo4u:
It's high time we rally support from ECOMOG and AU or even the UN to come assist us with both men and equipment; if we can rally about 10,000 contingents of these regional forces to take on these terrorists head-on it will go a very long way in this war. It's getting obvious that the military is overwhelmed/overstretched coupled with the fact that they're heavily underfunded especially the Nigerian Army. We should tuck in this big brother abi na giant of Africa mantra in our pockets and seek for assistance anyway and anywhere we could this war has already lingered for too long we can't build a nation in a perpetual state of internal-war.

youghs:
Video of Tigray Defense Force(TDF) shooting down an Ethiopian Mi-35. If that is a manpad then I think Egypt is already in the play.

https://twitter.com/MapEthiopia/status/1459164399961350148?s=19[/quote]Egypt is in play? smh
Is the US not in play?. China is challenging in Djibouti. I think Ethiopia knows what to do. Unfortunately it has to be an alliance with Iran, China and to an extent, Russia.
They can give their enemies a bloody nose.

Whyem15:
Could you provide us with any literature to prove trenches are outdated or you could simply explain why it won't work against ISWAP or BH.
In the flatlands that the northeast is, elevation isn't much of an advantage when you can see kilometers away while on level ground. Both sides will see each other several minutes before they can engage each other. Except of course the highlands near the mandara mountains.
Also, as long as you have a clear line of sight and your aim is true, you will hit your targets conveniently.

komekn:
One of the first to things I noticed about our forward bases is that we are still in this millennium shockingly, "Digging Trenches" that is so outdated. The next you notice we have no "Elevation"

So you see the enemy when he is almost on top of you.

A 50 cal. Rifle will still need elevation to have the advantage.

Rich4god:
Again....

If most attacks come from lake Chad region....
Why can't the military gather a reasonable number of men and ammunition and try to set up a barricade between lake Chad region and the rest of town/Nigeria. And probably set up offensive from there.

I don't want to even ask why the military don't want to start and sustain an onslaught against these guys. Why must we always wait for them to come and attack and run away. Abi iswap dey sleep for air.

As big as northern Iraq is, Iraqis military and civilian forces moved house to house routing out Isis till they left Iraq.

If its the forces the military need, they should petition national assembly. We have thousands of youths willing to join the army.

Mobilize massive forces and attack lake Chad region.
Is that rocket science.
We may not have the tech, but we have the man power.

miteolu:
Yes, 2 A-29 Super Tucano Destroyed. Remain 10. About $1b spent on the tucanos

WoeBetide666:
And the guy talk say ein dey military smh

Iriruaga100:
I was one of the few who campaigned vigorously against him. Someone who couldn’t bring meaningful growth and development in 1984, what want bring instant change in 2015.
You can’t give what you don’t have!

kmcutez:
Remove Northern Nigeria and watch miracles happen. Southern Nigeria carrying the dead weight and burdensome Northern Nigeria.

Tingotoe:
Who cares,?

Desmalis:
Again I ask, what is Sunday's crime exactly.

Because he volunteered to save his people against the killer herdsmen or what exactly?

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