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SportsRe: Ese Ukpeseraye thanks German team for providing her with bike at Olympics by Rossikk(m): 10:43pm On Aug 08, 2024
SportsRe: Ese Ukpeseraye thanks German team for providing her with bike at Olympics by Rossikk(m): 10:38pm On Aug 08, 2024
ednut1:
she was not billed to participate in track cycling but road cycling, the Eqyptian team got disqualified and she was chosen to step in, her road bike cant do track cycling. dont know why this is a big deal. those bikes cost 30k usd to 50k usd. no be small money
THANK YOU VERY MUCH AND GOD BLESS YOU.

Can you people see what I'm saying?

So Nigeria wasn't even scheduled to be in the road cycling event, and was called up at the very last minute following Egypt's disqualification!

SO IN THE MINDS OF THESE HATERS OF NIGERIA, NIGERIA should have anticipated the disqualification of another country in an event she was not scheduled to contest in, and should have provided a 50,000 dollar bicycle ''JUST IN CASE''.

Can you see the type of MONSTERS we have on this forum?

Enemies of Nigeria?

They are truly SICK people.
SportsRe: Ese Ukpeseraye thanks German team for providing her with bike at Olympics by Rossikk(m): 10:30pm On Aug 08, 2024
Cmanforall:
Yes, most professionals at the highest level own their bikes and care for it like a baby. Maybe she's not got the funds to buy such bikes herself. They can be quite expensive
Sorry, there is nothing like ''at the highest level''.

ALL CYCLISTS HAVE A BIKE.

EVEN NON-PROFESSIONAL CYCLISTS OWN A BIKE.

TALK LESS OF PROFESSIONAL AND OLYMPICS GRADE CYCLISTS!

Somebody needs to ask her WHAT she did with her bike?

Did she sell it?

And then expect ''NIGERIA'' to provide a new one for her ''AT SHORT NOTICE''?
SportsRe: Ese Ukpeseraye thanks German team for providing her with bike at Olympics by Rossikk(m):
FORUM OF ILLITERATE HATERS OF NIGERIA.

''Due to the short notice of me competing at the keirin & Sprint, #teamNigeria I had no bicycle to race with on the tracks. In d spirit of sportsmanship the German team @bunddeutscherradfahr came to my rescue by offering me a bicycle.
Thank you''
This statement leaves a LOT of unanswered questions.

What does she mean by ''short notice''?

Why does she not have a bike if she is a cyclist?

Why did she fly to the Olympics if she has no bike?

How has she been training if she has no bike?

Whose job was it to provide her a bike?

Professional cyclists use their OWN chosen bikes, based on their preference.

Their bike is their baby.

They don't just use ANY bike you throw at them and contest at the Olympic Games.

So what is she talking about and what Is she doing there, and WHERE is her bike if she calls herself a cyclist??

THESE ARE THE QUESTIONS THAT NEED TO BE ANSWERED FIRST BEFORE YOU IPOB WASTRELS INFEST OUR SPACE WITH YOUR ANTI-NIGERIAN NASTINESS.
SportsRe: Ese Ukpeseraye thanks German team for providing her with bike at Olympics by Rossikk(m):
FORUM OF ILLITERATE HATERS OF NIGERIA.

''Due to the short notice of me competing at the keirin & Sprint, #teamNigeria I had no bicycle to race with on the tracks. In d spirit of sportsmanship the German team @bunddeutscherradfahr came to my rescue by offering me a bicycle.
Thank you''
This statement leaves a LOT of unanswered questions.

What does she mean by ''short notice''?

Why does she not have a bike if she is a cyclist?

Why did she fly to the Olympics if she has no bike?

How has she been training if she has no bike?

Whose job was it to provide her a bike?

Professional cyclists use their OWN chosen bikes, based on their preference.

Their bike is their baby.

They don't just use ANY bike you throw at them and contest at the Olympics.

So what is she talking about and what Is she doing there, and WHERE is her bike if she calls herself a cyclist??

THESE ARE THE QUESTIONS THAT NEED TO BE ANSWERED FIRST BEFORE YOU IPOB WASTRELS INFEST OUR SPACE WITH YOUR ANTI-NIGERIAN NASTINESS.
FoodRe: Video Of Massive Food Preparation At RCCG’s Redemption Camp Goes Viral (video) by Rossikk(m): 7:34pm On Aug 08, 2024
whytediamond:
I remember my years in Deeper life growing up.

We would go for a 4-day "retreat" as it was called.

The high point of every retreat was the free meals served twice daily and the chance to explore.

Nothing has really changed, just a cycle that has kept us backwards as a country.

Religion is fvcking beautiful Africa up.

If you travel to China, U.A.E or North America, you will see the difference in quality of life.

They don't do religion the way Africa does

We waste too much time of things that has never moved us forward as a people.

Christianity and Islam are not our original religion as a race and people.

Why dump your toy because you were told the other child's own is more beautiful? It's all about mindset and I can tell you for free, Africans do not have a mind of their own.

Think about slave trade. Why was Africa the only continent that sold their brothers?

Until we stop wasting precious time doing religion instead of working, we go no where as a people.

Make God sha help Africa
Think about the 20th century.

Why are Europeans the only people to have slaughtered over 100 million of their own brothers in 2 tribal wars they deceptively termed “world wars”?

Africans allegedly sold 12 million Africans in a 300 year period.

Europeans slaughtered 100 million Europeans in a 40 year period.

But African are the ones that are made out to be idiots?

Let that make sense.

It’s certain that all those millions of his fellow white brothers Adolf Hitler marched into GAS CHAMBERS would have much preferred to be sold into slavery instead.
PoliticsRe: 'Count Us Out Of Any Future Protests!' - North Rages Over Igbo Deception To Riot by Rossikk(op): 1:36am On Aug 03, 2024
Raskimonojendor:
It was very glaring that this was going to happen. How do people (SE) say they won't protest, but if you (from any other region) also say you won't protest, they will insult you or gaslight you. That was the game they played on social media. They also printed fliers for protest grounds and smartly did not include anywhere in the SE.

Reading in between the lines, it's glaring that the protest had an agenda. Reno Omokri also warned people with several post about the agenda, but they did not listen. Same Arewa are not begging the president to declare a nationwide curfew. They only need that in the North and not the South. The north have themselves to blame for surrendering themselves to be gaslighted.
Yeah... undecided
Politics'Count Us Out Of Any Future Protests!' - North Rages Over Igbo Deception To Riot by Rossikk(op):
Paraphrasing an irate northerner:

''They incited our youths online to go around vandalizing the north.

We thought everybody was going to do the same in their own region. Only to see that as our cities BURNED in the north, with buildings and vehicles set ablaze, the rest of the country, especially the South East, was a picture of tranquility, silence and peace.

Leading us to wonder If we are in the same Nigeria as them. A country that decided to go on nationwide protests.

Or they reached a different agreement among themselves not to protest?

If so, why didn't they tell us? It is most unfair.

Henceforth, count us out of future protests. We will wait to see that you are destroying your own side first, then maybe we will join after.

Shege barawo banza, all of you!''.
AutosRe: ROXETTES Motors: 40,000 Units Capacity Automobile Plant In ABIA Nears Completion by Rossikk(m): 10:05pm On Jun 29, 2024
DeepSight:
If we can't produce steel locally, we can't manufacture jack.

How many decades has Ajaokuta been wasting away for. Just like what happened to the refineries. Nigeria is a joke.... We need private hands in steel. Only then can real industrialization begin.
Mr Man, there are many functional steel plants in this country. Many of you are so ignorant about Nigeria. You think Ajaokuta is the only steel plant in Nigeria because you are too lazy and negative to research anything.

Just Google 'Steel plants in Nigeria' and educate yourself. It's not hard.
PoliticsRe: Benin City Should Reclaim It's GLORY by Rossikk(m): 6:49pm On Jun 25, 2024
Ojiofor:
That is what I was saying, it was an exaggeration for the poster to claim that Bini city was the most developed city in Africa when they have nothing left of that era as evidence.
Dude, BENIN CITY WAS REBUILT AND REOCCUPIED after its total destruction.

That is why you cannot see any ‘ruins’.

It’s like saying they were was never a city called Hiroshima or Nagasaki in 1940, since they are no ruins of them. Those cities were destroyed totally by bombardment by the US.

Go there today, and you will see new cities called Hiroshima and Nagasaki. No ‘ruins’.

Even Chicago and Atlanta were destroyed in the US civil war. Go there today. No ‘ruins’. Just modern, rebuilt cities.

London itself was almost entirely destroyed in the Great Fire of London in 1666. Go to London today. No ‘ruins’ of ancient London.

So saying that ancient Benin City did not exist because you cannot see the ruins is beyond clownish.

It’s rank idiocy.
PoliticsRe: Benin City Should Reclaim It's GLORY by Rossikk(m): 5:19pm On Jun 25, 2024
Goodlyhrt:
See this one.. So you still relied on the colonizers record to validate your claim? So in your greatness none of your literature survived to point to as reference to your claim bah?

Common getat from my mention you.. living in the past.

You should probably pack you things and go back to those primitive time so that you can really enjoy the 'greatness' you so cherish.
Stupid brainless dunce, brainwashed to self hate.

Are you even aware that the British bombarded and burnt down the entire city of Benin and surrounding communities after looting the palace and public buildings of everything therein, in 1897?

Did they not seize power and rule for nearly a century afterwards?

What ''records'' should have been kept in the smouldering ash of burnt down cities and fleeing survivors, you brainless imbe.cil.e?

Whoever cursed you to hate your own self to this extent, must be truly satanic.
PoliticsRe: Benin City Should Reclaim It's GLORY by Rossikk(m): 5:09pm On Jun 25, 2024
UK Guardian Report



With its mathematical layout and earthworks longer than the Great Wall of China, Benin City was one of the best planned cities in the world when London was a place of ‘thievery and murder’. So why is nothing left?


Mawuna Koutonin

This is the story of a lost medieval city you’ve probably never heard about. Benin City, originally known as Edo, was once the capital of a pre-colonial African empire located in what is now southern Nigeria. The Benin empire was one of the oldest and most highly developed states in west Africa, dating back to the 11th century.

The Guinness Book of Records (1974 edition) described the walls of Benin City and its surrounding kingdom as the world’s largest earthworks carried out prior to the mechanical era. According to estimates by the New Scientist’s Fred Pearce, Benin City’s walls were at one point “four times longer than the Great Wall of China, and consumed a hundred times more material than the Great Pyramid of Cheops”.

Situated on a plain, Benin City was enclosed by massive walls in the south and deep ditches in the north. Beyond the city walls, numerous further walls were erected that separated the surroundings of the capital into around 500 distinct villages.

Pearce writes that these walls “extended for some 16,000 km in all, in a mosaic of more than 500 interconnected settlement boundaries. They covered 6,500 sq km and were all dug by the Edo people … They took an estimated 150 million hours of digging to construct, and are perhaps the largest single archaeological phenomenon on the planet”.

Barely any trace of these walls exist today.

Benin City was also one of the first cities to have a semblance of street lighting. Huge metal lamps, many feet high, were built and placed around the city, especially near the king’s palace. Fuelled by palm oil, their burning wicks were lit at night to provide illumination for traffic to and from the palace.

When the Portuguese first “discovered” the city in 1485, they were stunned to find this vast kingdom made of hundreds of interlocked cities and villages in the middle of the African jungle. They called it the “Great City of Benin”, at a time when there were hardly any other places in Africa the Europeans acknowledged as a city. Indeed, they classified Benin City as one of the most beautiful and best planned cities in the world.

In 1691, the Portuguese ship captain Lourenco Pinto observed: “Great Benin, where the king resides, is larger than Lisbon; all the streets run straight and as far as the eye can see. The houses are large, especially that of the king, which is richly decorated and has fine columns. The city is wealthy and industrious. It is so well governed that theft is unknown and the people live in such security that they have no doors to their houses.”

In contrast, London at the same time is described by Bruce Holsinger, professor of English at the University of Virginia, as being a city of “thievery, prostitution, murder, bribery and a thriving black market made the medieval city ripe for exploitation by those with a skill for the quick blade or picking a pocket”.

African fractals

Benin City’s planning and design was done according to careful rules of symmetry, proportionality and repetition now known as fractal design. The mathematician Ron Eglash, author of African Fractals – which examines the patterns underpinning architecture, art and design in many parts of Africa – notes that the city and its surrounding villages were purposely laid out to form perfect fractals, with similar shapes repeated in the rooms of each house, and the house itself, and the clusters of houses in the village in mathematically predictable patterns.

As he puts it: “When Europeans first came to Africa, they considered the architecture very disorganised and thus primitive. It never occurred to them that the Africans might have been using a form of mathematics that they hadn’t even discovered yet.”

At the centre of the city stood the king’s court, from which extended 30 very straight, broad streets, each about 120-ft wide. These main streets, which ran at right angles to each other, had underground drainage made of a sunken impluvium with an outlet to carry away storm water. Many narrower side and intersecting streets extended off them. In the middle of the streets were turf on which animals fed.

“Houses are built alongside the streets in good order, the one close to the other,” writes the 17th-century Dutch visitor Olfert Dapper. “Adorned with gables and steps … they are usually broad with long galleries inside, especially so in the case of the houses of the nobility, and divided into many rooms which are separated by walls made of red clay, very well erected.”

Dapper adds that wealthy residents kept these walls “as shiny and smooth by washing and rubbing as any wall in Holland can be made with chalk, and they are like mirrors. The upper storeys are made of the same sort of clay. Moreover, every house is provided with a well for the supply of fresh water”....

The early foreign explorers’ descriptions of Benin City portrayed it as a place free of crime and hunger, with large streets and houses kept clean; a city filled with courteous, honest people, and run by a centralised and highly sophisticated bureaucracy.

At the height of its greatness in the 12th century – well before the start of the European Renaissance – the kings and nobles of Benin City patronised craftsmen and lavished them with gifts and wealth, in return for their depiction of the kings’ and dignitaries’ great exploits in intricate bronze sculptures.

“These works from Benin are equal to the very finest examples of European casting technique,” wrote Professor Felix von Luschan, formerly of the Berlin Ethnological Museum. “Benvenuto Celini could not have cast them better, nor could anyone else before or after him. Technically, these bronzes represent the very highest possible achievement.”


World famous Benin Bronzes
https://i.pinimg.com/564x/16/25/2e/16252e15fdc6debd74e7b5433fd9291f.jpg

https://i.pinimg.com/564x/de/b2/11/deb2113f9bda69c56d343b68abddd8d0.jpg

What impressed the first visiting Europeans most was the wealth, artistic beauty and magnificence of the city. Immediately European nations saw the opportunity to develop trade with the wealthy kingdom, importing ivory, palm oil and pepper – and exporting guns. At the beginning of the 16th century, word quickly spread around Europe about the beautiful African city, and new visitors flocked in from all parts of Europe, with ever glowing testimonies, recorded in numerous voyage notes and illustrations.

https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2016/mar/18/story-of-cities-5-benin-city-edo-nigeria-mighty-medieval-capital-lost-without-trace
PoliticsRe: Benin City Should Reclaim It's GLORY by Rossikk(m): 5:00pm On Jun 25, 2024
Goodlyhrt:
Delulu Africans with their village "Empire" hallucinations grin
Ojiofor:
Bini city have nothing left of their mud thatch houses they called great city.
You do not expect mud thatch houses to survive in a rain forest region like Bini and mud houses can't make a city great.
SHUT UP, YOU MENTALLY COLONISED, IGNORANT BUFFOONS.

This is why you all feel so inferior to other races, because you are so TRAGICALLY IGNORANT of your glorious African history.


Benin City was described as one of the world's most beautiful cities by European visitors from the 1500s through to the late 1600s.

It had street lights powered by palm oil, underground drainage, and large multi-storeyed buildings and public monuments. A city described as being so crime-free that the people did not bother to build FRONT DOORS to their houses, because theft was ''UNKNOWN''.

The emperors of Benin built a massive wall surrounding the entire kingdom, and even walls separating cities and villages, as a form of military defence against invaders, and the wall was recorded in the 1974 and 1982 Guinness Book of Records, and being the largest man-made structure ON EARTH.

1834 drawing of Benin City by English visitor, Mary Evans, showing a vibrant city with large monuments and public buildings. This was 63 years before the British invasion of Nigeria, and destruction, bombardment of Benin City, whose inhabitants fought gallantly and desperately to defend their city from the invading British vandals.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DhFQSSxX0AADqSb.jpg

So this whole idea that Nigerians needed ''white people'' to become ''civilised'' is a BIG FAT LIE.

If anything, contact with them stunted our development.

Here. See. The whites know your history better than you:

UK Guardian report on Ancient Benin City

''Benin City, the mighty medieval capital now lost without trace''
https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2016/mar/18/story-of-cities-5-benin-city-edo-nigeria-mighty-medieval-capital-lost-without-trace
PoliticsRe: African Trad Religion Was Largely Abandoned Cos It Couldn't Save Africans by Rossikk(m):
I'VE READ SO MUCH GARBAGE ON THIS THREAD.

Everybody is WRONG.

The ONLY REASON Nigerians/Africans abandoned their traditional religion was because the colonialists seized NOT just the land, but the resources and riches of the land.

Access to those resources became dependent on your getting a British-style education in one of their wretched 'missionary schools', become a clerk, typist or whatever. A COLONIAL JOB.

(In areas where Islam was prevalent, they made no such demands to abandon Islam.)

Now to gain ADMITTANCE into those ''missionary schools'', you had to renounce your traditional religion, adopt christianity, get baptised, and get an English name, like John, 'Henry', or 'Jonathan'.

So all the chiefs and great traditional leaders began sending their wards to the missionary schools, and those later became powerful leaders who were christian, and who entrenched the new belief systems across their regions. Guys like Samuel Ajayi Crowther and co.

One thing you people need to realise is that Nigerians have been aware of christianity since at least the 1400s.

The Benin Empire had extensive trade relations with Europe, especially Portugal, with whom she exchanged ambassadors in the 1500s.

Yes, there actually was an Embassy of the Benin Empire in Lisbon, Portugal, in the 1500s, staffed by Benin bureaucrats, and an ambassador.

King Alfonso in the early 1500s had tried severally to get Oba Esigie to allow the establishment of churches in the Benin kingdom.

These overtures were bluntly rejected by the Oba, who only allowed the establishment of one or two churches in the kingdom. And no more.

And so it remained for many centuries, until 1897, when the British invaded, bombarded, burnt down and looted the great city of its treasures, like the pack of savage vandals they are, and today display their loot shamelessly in their 'museums'.

SO THIS WHOLE GARBAGE THAT ''Oh, it was because Africans saw that their gods did not work'' etc etc is just that , PURE GARBAGE.

It was ECONOMIC BLACKMAIL BY COLONIAL INVADERS WHO PREDICATED INDIVIDUAL SUCCESS UPON ABANDONMENT OF AFRICAN RELIGION, that forced them to do so.

Ancient Nigerians always saw the christian story as BULLCRAP.

The entire story made no sense to them. They laughed it off as the story of children.

They stopped laughing when the 'holy' christian guns by colonial thieves pointed at them.

If Africans abandoned religions because of military defeat or setbacks, why do the descendants of slaves practice their Yoruba religions till today in Brazil, Cuba, Trinidad and elsewhere?

Why didn't they say ''Oh well our African gods did not save us from being enslaved, so let us run and accept the 'white man Jesus' as our ''personal lord and saviour''?

NONSENSE.

ECONOMIC BLACKMAIL is the answer.

Here's what would have happened if the British had not IMPOSED Christianity on Nigerians.

They would have handed over to an educated leadership practicing a modernised version of TRADITIONAL RELIGION, just like JAPAN is doing today.

Japan's religion is Shintoism.

There is very little difference between Shintoism and African Traditional Religion.

In Japan there are over 200,000 public shrines, many built and maintained by the govt.

When a Japanese man buys a car, he takes it to a shrine where the traditional priest pours a strange concoction over the car, to guarantee safe journeys.

The Japanese simply replaced blood sacrifice with sacrifice of food, flowers, etc. They upgraded with the times.

THAT IS WHAT SHOULD HAVE HAPPENED IN NIGERIA, if the British were not ASSHOLES.

By now we should have BEAUTIFUL SHRINES AND TEMPLES to our various orishas and to the Most High.

Shrine in Osaka, Japan
https://www.howto-osaka.com/en/wp/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/koyasan-4.jpg
PoliticsRe: Nigerian Army Air Brigade Takes Form With Assault Helicopters by Rossikk(m): 10:58pm On Jun 21, 2024
Cromagnon:
you get black hawk money
Don't mind the idiot.

I'm sure his father can't even afford to buy keke.
PoliticsRe: Nigerian Army Air Brigade Takes Form With Assault Helicopters by Rossikk(m): 10:56pm On Jun 21, 2024
Dogalmighty17:
What a log of garbage. The Huey that the US used in Vietnam is what our army depends on as cutting edge close air support tech? The huey? This platform that was developed in the early 1950s before Nigeria got independence?

In contested airspace where bandits across the North have access to weapon systems that bring down fast moving fighter jets, a huey that its maximum speed is 127mph is just a flying coffin. Who the hell thought this was a good idea?

The US is about to retire several hundred of its A-10 warthogs. That's about the most capable close air support platform around. Since the US is now willing to sell weapon platforms to Nigeria, they might consider selling some A-10s to us. Even though that's a tall order.

2024 and na Huey wey oyibo don forget about since 1950 na him our army fall hand dey buy so. Shebi dem no see blackhawk buy as dem go market?
YOU LIAR FROM THE PITS OF HELL.

List of countries that use the Huey today include, but are not limited to:

China

USA

Italy

Turkey

Japan

South Korea

Kenya

Indonesia

Brazil

Saudi Arabia

Greece

Argentina

Chile

Colombia

Pakistan

Morocco


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Bell_UH-1_Iroquois_operators

One thing you anti-Nigerian elements need to understand is that in this digital age, if you come online and make wild claims and lie against Nigeria, you will be fact-checked on the spot.

Idiots.
PoliticsRe: Obi To Tinubu: Stop Pretending, Nigeria Remains Poverty Capital Of The World by Rossikk(m): 10:44pm On Jun 21, 2024
This man sef.
BusinessRe: US Lawmakers Visit Tigran Gambaryan (Binance Executive) In Kuje Prison by Rossikk(m): 10:37pm On Jun 21, 2024
Amedu3:
Nigeria is a third world country.




Ciao
What a dumb comment.

''Third world'' means you have no rights, in your stupid head.

Mumu.
PoliticsRe: Nigerian Airforce To Acquire 50 Aircraft, Including 24 Fighter Jets by Rossikk(op): 12:27am On Jun 20, 2024
Beautifulday:
Tinubu went twice to one Arab nation to court investors. Do you know why the rejected his invitation to come?

The government doesn't even know because Nigeria run on short memory from the high to the low.

They gave Nigeria name of boko haram sponsors during Buhari regime. That name was never published. Those people were never prosecuted. Nothing was done about those names.

To those people, Nigerian government are neck deep into the terror happening in Nigeria. Tinubu coming from a scandalous election was a big red flag but if he shunned junking around at the initial time and start down to hunt those sponsors, even if he didn't get them. Investors would have flooded Nigeria because they would believe he wasn't part of the terror group.

This is showing working.

Take out their sponsors and their leaders. The groups will fold up.
Mr Man, no Nigerian is sponsoring any blasted Boko Haram.

THEY ARE 100% FOREIGN FUNDED.

Who are these mysterious Nigerian 'funders' of your imagination, that have been supposedly 'funding' Boko Haram for 20 years plus?

Their money no dey finish?

Better get this: All this stuff you see is externally-funded. From Iran, Western intelligence agencies, eg Mossad, CIA, MI5, Libyan terrorists, etc...

If you think it's some Hausa man sitting in his parlour in Kano, you're extremely naive.
PoliticsRe: Onanuga, O'tega Criticse Aisha Yesufu Over False Claims On Tinubu And Ramaphosa by Rossikk(m): 12:08am On Jun 20, 2024
HAS AISHA THE THIEF ACCOUNTED FOR HER CAMPAIGN FUND SPENDING?

MADAM CHOP AND CLEAN MOUTH FORMING SAINT.

CORRUPT W.HORE.
PoliticsRe: Nigerian Airforce To Acquire 50 Aircraft, Including 24 Fighter Jets by Rossikk(op): 11:52pm On Jun 19, 2024
Beautifulday:
Even if there are half of the country. Defeating them wouldn't take more than a year if our government do the right thing.
What is the ''right thing''? Enlighten us.
PoliticsRe: Nigerian Airforce To Acquire 50 Aircraft, Including 24 Fighter Jets by Rossikk(op): 11:44pm On Jun 19, 2024
Beautifulday:
We are talking about 50 fighter jets.

We don't need these much to defeat those rag tag organizations. We need only the will. They will be gone in less than a year
It's 24 fighter jets brother..

Plus those 'ragtag' guys are more organized and plentiful than you think. They are literally tens of thousands of them in total.

You guys don't seem to realise there is a low scale war in the north between the military and those insurgents. Bombs are dropped almost daily by the airforce in their forest hideouts and it's not even reported, so you think nothing is happening.
PoliticsRe: Nigerian Airforce To Acquire 50 Aircraft, Including 24 Fighter Jets by Rossikk(op): 11:37pm On Jun 19, 2024
Beautifulday:
I thought we all agreed that we no get money for this country? 😞
Insecurity nko?

Or we should just leave Boko boys and bandits to take over the country? undecided
PoliticsNigerian Airforce To Acquire 50 Aircraft, Including 24 Fighter Jets by Rossikk(op): 11:33pm On Jun 19, 2024
The Nigerian air force said Tuesday it will acquire 50 new aircraft to strengthen its capabilities against armed gangs and terrorists in northwest Nigeria.

Nigerian Chief of Air Staff Marshal Hassan Bala Abubakar made the announcement at the opening of new military facilities, including two aircraft hangars in northwest Katsina state.

Abubakar said the aircraft would include 12 AH-1 attack helicopters, 24 M-346 combat planes, 12 AW109 multipurpose helicopters and a pair of Casa 295 transport aircraft. He did not disclose the cost, nor did he say who would provide the aircraft.

He said Nigeria is expected to receive them by next year.

The aircraft will be used to bolster offensives against jihadist groups and armed gangs that have terrorized northwest and central states in recent years, Abubakar said.

But security analyst Mike Ejiofor says acquiring 50 aircraft is overambitious and possibly misdirected.

"I know it will bolster the fight against terrorism, but I believe that we should concentrate more on land than air. We're not at war,” [/b]Ejiofor said.

The money, he said, should [b]“have been channeled to training and provision of welfare for the ground troops. I think we would've achieved more results."

Abubakar’s announcement came as Kaduna state authorities announced Tuesday a partnership with the military to set up three new operational fronts within the state.

Kaduna state Governor Uba Sani said, "We concluded with the military to set up forward-operating bases in southern Kaduna, and another one in the Giwa and Birnin-Gwari axis. All the arrangements are being concluded."

The Nigerian air force came under heavy criticism in December after more than 80 people were killed and dozens wounded during an airstrike in Kaduna state that was intended to target gangs.

Nigerian authorities have promised to operate with more precision to avoid future accidents.

Nigerian Chief of Defense Staff General Christopher Musa told journalists in Abuja, "The armed forces of Nigeria are highly professional. We're here to protect innocent citizens, not to harm them. Whatever it was that happened there was a mistake, but we're addressing such issues."

Ejiofor said authorities should focus more on boosting the ability of the air force to gather and process accurate information about the activities of armed groups.

"These strikes are intelligence-driven, so we must get the intelligence before they're guided to the areas,” he said. “I think what we should've done is to deploy more drones that will be sending this data."
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.voanews.com/amp/nigeria-announces-plans-to-acquire-50-military-aircraft/7662588.html

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