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INSURGENCY: NIGERIAN AIR FORCE SOLICITS UNITED STATES SUPPORT FOR TRAINING AND FLEET MAINTENANCE
The Nigerian Air Force is seeking necessary support from the United States to keep functional its US-made platforms employed in key roles in the fight against insurgency in Northeast Nigeria. The latest move is geared towards overcoming delay and hitches currently associated with equipment overhaul and provision of aircraft spares. The NAF is also seeking assistance in the area of training for pilots, engineers and other operations support specialists.
The Chief of the Air Staff, Air Marshal Sadique Abubakar, during a recent official visit to the US met with the management of Lockheed Martin Corporation and Textron Aviation, the manufacturers of C-130H and Beechcraft King Air 350i aircraft respectively. The objective was to establish rapport with the concerned US authorities with a view to strengthening identified areas of mutual cooperation that would enhance NAF’s overall operational readiness and efforts in the on-going counter-insurgency operations.
Air Marshal Abubakar’s visit to the US is in the light of the delays that are currently being experienced in spares procurement, and is also at eliminating middlemen in the procurement chain. Furthermore, the visit to the companies will henceforth fast-track the procurement process and cut cost. The Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs) visited promised to support the NAF and ensure prompt delivery of spares to Nigeria. The CAS team was conducted round the facilities visited.

So after all this american noise, it doesn't even give any significant military financial aid to Nigeria?

Troops of 7 Brigade and 8 Task Force Clear Remnants of Terrorists, Boko Haram hideouts ahead of Gratte in Kukawa Local Government Area of Borno State.

Utter RUBBISH

We let this matter die, now you are resurrecting it with extreme prejudice

Oga Henry has been relatively even-handed in most of his analysis

Why is it that when someone doesn't worship una demi-God he automatically becomes a target?

As far as i recall, a 6 months Blietzkreig under Jonathan neutralized most of the threat.

Buhari is doing his best as he knows how but i still have not seen him buy any weapons or equipment

All equipment being used now are from the previous administration

If you keep going along this path of propounding a political argument, u will destroy this blog

By the way, i thought the plan for command and control was for the service chief to be based in maiduguri?

Why are they sill not based there 1 year after??

All these smoke and mirrors sef

overhypedsteve:
Oga Henry started condemning the administration before it came to power, he regarded all the accusations of corruption made on top officers of the past administration as baseless, he is rarely seen making comments commending the present administration on its successes in the anti terror campaign and he would have us believe he is not partisan but championing the rule of law.
May God help us.

Nigerian made drone beside the test runway.

I'm Vexed

I'm terribly Vexed

What continuously annoys me is how quick the Nigerian commanders are to praise the americans

See that commander telling the reporter how they rely on the americans for ISR, thermal imaging over-flight intelligence

Yet the plane flying overhead is obviously Nigerian

They should teach these commanders how to talk and engage the press.

They must learn to embellish themselves and the Nigerian army without getting a rush of blood to the head

Hell will freeze over before the americans praise the NA for the good work they have done so far

Tosyn24:
CNN embedded with the Nigerian army in a bid to find the missing chibok girls. Please find link below. http://edition.cnn.com/videos/world/2016/04/24/boko-haram-chibok-girls-nigeria-elbagir-pkg.cnn

Bruv,

In a 50 seconds clip, you have seen what is "symmetrical" and what is "asymmetrical" warfare

Are you for real??

Or do you just like seeing your words in print??

And even if it is a symmetric manouevre, what exactly is wrong with it??

The fact that Nigeria is fighting asymmetric war with boko haram means we should not prepare for other engagements which may be symmetric in nature?

Innit?

Nigeria has gone to war with Chad and Cameroon before

I don't see any reason why it can't happen again.

Boko haram or no boko haram

africaken254:
aren't those conventional maneuvers tactics, while the kind of warfare your facing is asymmetrical !

Americans and their TALL tales...

bidexiii:
Failure to Share Data/intel Hampers War on Boko Haram in Africa

DAKAR, Senegal — The military campaign by Nigeria and neighboring nations to combat the West African militant group Boko Haram has been hampered by a failure among those countries to share crucial intelligence — sometimes even within their own security services, American and other Western officials say.

Western partners have balked as well. The Pentagon and American intelligence services have struggled at times to provide information quickly about Boko Haram militants to the African countries — Cameroon, Chad, Niger and Nigeria — without violating restrictions on what can be shared from spy satellite imagery or electronic eavesdropping within rules for not disclosing sources and methods.

Until recently, Western officials and analysts said, Britain and the United States provided only sanitized intelligence reports to the Nigerian military. The countries feared that more detailed information might be misused by an army that human rights groups say has committed abuses against civilians as it battled Boko Haram, which has pledged loyalty to the Islamic State.

And a new intelligence “fusion center,” created in Chad as part of a multinational task force, has only recently overcome budget and staffing shortfalls, as well as lingering mistrust among the participating countries, to help coordinate operations.

“The big unanswered question right now is how much are all those five countries that are participating going to collaborate and work effectively,” Col. Robert Wilson, who commands American Special Forces in North and West Africa, said in a recent interview here, noting that Boko Haram moves easily across borders. Benin recently became the fifth country to join the coalition.

Even within the West African countries, interior ministries often do not share information about terrorist threats with their military counterparts.

In Cameroon, an elite special operations unit, the Rapid Intervention Brigade originally trained and equipped by Israel, now gets training and equipment from United States Navy SEALs and intelligence not handed over to other branches and units of its security services, Western analysts said. “It’s a confused mess,” said J. Peter Pham, the director of the Atlantic Council’s Africa Center in Washington.

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American military and counterterrorism officials say intelligence sharing is a difficult issue, particularly outside established alliances. The United States confronted its own shortcomings after the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks, when it became clear that the F.B.I. and C.I.A. each had information about the hijackers not shared with the other. In the wake of the Islamic State attacks in Paris and Brussels in the past year, the authorities in France and Belgium, as well as throughout Europe, are seeking to fill glaring gaps in intelligence sharing.

American intelligence and counterterrorism officials said it was a challenge to share sensitive intelligence with the West African allies fighting Boko Haram and other terrorist groups. The United States has different rules for what intelligence it shares with each country, and what one country can or cannot share with its neighbor — even though all are trying to fight a common regional enemy, Boko Haram.

“Because U.S. policy in Africa is for Africans to take the lead, a lot of the challenge is building trust among the partners themselves and not generating a dependence on what information we do have,” said Alice Hunt Friend, the Pentagon’s former principal director for African affairs.

American officials said progress was being made. Initially, it took up to two weeks to release information such as an aerial surveillance photo. Now, depending on the intelligence and the country, that is down to as little as an hour, American officials said. To help speed the release of information, American analysts are being encouraged to “write to release” — mostly meaning stripping information of sources and methods to ensure broader and faster distribution to partners without dumbing down the content. Drone photos provided by the United States recently helped the Nigerian Army avoid a major Boko Haram ambush.

Brig. Gen. Donald C. Bolduc, the top United States Special Operations commander for Africa, said that since Nigeria’s president, Muhammadu Buhari, instituted military reforms in recent months, “my guys are now coffee-breath close to our partners in the Lake Chad basin.”

“As a result,” General Bolduc said in an interview last week, “we have developed relationships of trust.”

Since taking office last year, Mr. Buhari has begun a major push to rid the country of Boko Haram, which has assaulted northeastern Nigeria for years. In past months, the group has spread across borders to terrorize the country’s neighbors, too.

The nations in the Lake Chad region that have become Boko Haram’s new stamping grounds — Niger, Chad and Cameroon — have long been distrustful of one another. Mr. Buhari met with their leaders one by one, shoring up support for a campaign to join forces to fight the group.

But Mr. Buhari’s strategy of forging individual relationships did little to build trust among the nations themselves, Western diplomats say. All are working together now, but with a skeptical eye on one another. And while the Nigerian-led effort has retaken a significant number of villages that were under Boko Haram control, the authorities have been less successful sustaining security, allowing fighters to continue to raid the very villages recaptured by government forces.

Military efforts have freed thousands of hostages of Boko Haram, most of them women and children. Yet the effort to press them for information about fighters appears inconsistent. In some instances the hostages, some of whom have been raped, are taken to camps where humanitarian groups spend time interviewing each about psychological problems that he or she may suffer. But it appears that no one is asking about the tactics and locations of fighters, alongside whom many have lived for months.

In contrast, in Borno State in Nigeria, the military has been detaining and screening nearly everyone held hostage by Boko Haram in an effort to collect information and determine whether the individual formed an allegiance with the militants. The detentions sometimes last months, and include even children. At the Minawao refugee camp outside Maroua, Cameroon, near a part of the country where Boko Haram has launched numerous attacks, residents said no one had inquired about the fighters.

There are examples of success. A young woman trained as a bomber near the border between Cameroon and Nigeria dropped her explosives and instead ran to the authorities in the village she had been sent to blow up. Her information led to a major operation that captured and killed numerous militants, officials said.

Col. Didier Badjeck, a spokesman for the Cameroon Defense Ministry, praised the emerging cooperation among the nations. One recent operation involved 500 soldiers from Cameroon and Nigeria, and guidance from the multinational task force in Chad.

In particular, he said, intelligence from Americans has been pivotal to carrying out operations. “They’ve given us very good information, and we can verify it,” he said. “And they also have given us information that we don’t have.” Colonel Badjeck added, “It’s the first time Americans have been this involved in West Africa.”

Meanwhile, this made my day...

Oga bidexii, permission to fire this picture

"TO BOKO HARAM WITH LUV"

OGA HENRY, OGA BIDEXII, Oga iblawi, oga realnas, oga lionel4power AND ALL OTHER OGAS AT THE TOP

Personally i think we shouldn't turn this thread into a political thread.

I promise you it will derail very fast.

Thatz probably one of the reasons Oga beegeagle left his blog.

I do not like jonathan nor do i like buhari

I dislike PDP as much as i dislike APC; i think they are both filled with the same crooks

However, i STAND with Oga Henry on this one.

Too much smoke and mirrors in this so called anti-corruption war

People bandying about billions of dollars found in soak away pits, in wardrobes, in banks, under beds, in girlfriends accounts etc

Yet we still have not seen any diligent prosecution or legal retrieval of ANY funds!!

WE MUST FOLLOW THE RULE OF LAW

Anybody caught with stolen funds, i'm all for a bullet in the head.

BUT....WE MUST FOLLOW THE RULE OF LAW. FULLSTOP

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The Nigerian Air Force (NAF) held a colorful celebration to mark turning 52 this year, following its establishment by the Statutory Act of Parliament on 18 April 1964. This year’s celebration was tagged “NAF Re-union 2016”, it held from 12 – 15 April 2016 in Bauchi state.

So if u don't see a picture that means it doesn't exist.

You see how myopic some of you are on this thread?

Oga, abeg, wake up that part of your brain responsible for critical analysis...

africaken254:
do you have an actual photo of a dog and its handler in actual counter insurgency operation ?

What is it with you trying to belittle the Nigeria Army or any african army for that matter?

The Nigeria army has been using war dogs in counterinsurgency for donkey years

Both in raids on boko haram and ansaru sites in sokoto, zaria which netted HVTs. And even in the niger delta insurgencies

Even the navy SBS has used war dogs in niger delta ops

Oga henry has shown you pictures of an SBS war dog yet you are still arguing

Nigeria armed forces has been on COIN mode for more than 10 years. S/leone, liberia, mali, darfur, bakassi, niger delta, Northeast and you are all of a sudden claiming that it doesn't use war dogs in COIN and the North East?

This is inconceivable and utter bladderdash

Under COAS ihejirika, the war dog section for boko haram existed as of 2012

In 2014 alone, i know COAS- minimmah deployed 20 war dogs against boko haram
Nigerian Army Deploys 20 War Dogs To Fight Terrorism
Read more: https://www.naij.com/341039-nigerian-army-deploys-20-war-dogs-to-fight-terrorism.html

All these propaganda against the Nigerian army has to end someday

Google is your friend, try and use it...

africaken254:
cameroon B.I.R dog handler and his dog

 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_JS1zJfqpBo

Oga Olapluto, Oga Henry and Oga bidexii...Make una no vez

Na condition dey bend crayfish.

I usually reserve my angst for our brothers from south africa

I just think Nigeria army are doing a good job in difficult circumstances and sometimes do not get their due

bidexiii:

CDS CHALLENGES MILITARY TO BE COMBAT READY

Troops of 3 Battalion, of 22 Task Force Brigade have made an unprecedented catch with the arrest of 4 Boko Haram terrorists Ameers (kingpins) at Rann, headquarters of Kala Balge Local Government Area today, Friday 22nd April 2016. The arrested kingpins specialized on various aspects of criminality to sustain the Boko Haram terrorists group in their areas.

The four terrorists were arrested following a tip off by well meaning members of the public.

Subsequently, the troops conducted a cordon and search operation in the general area that led to the apprehension of the terrorist leaders, who contribute to the sustenance of the insurgency through their illegal trade specialization.

The arrested kingpins include Umara Mai Gyaran Rediyo (Radio Technician), Umaru Mai Nama, (who specialize in cattle rustling and sales), Alifa Makinta (a specialist on stealing foodstuffs) and Balu Jugudum (in charge of stolen jewelleries).

http://www.nationalhelm.net/2016/04/boko-haram-kingpins-busted-and-arrested.html

The italians and Germans are no match for the Russians...

The Russians have shown time and again that they are a force to be reckoned with.

Sans any of the glitz of prime time TV you see with american forces

The Russians are very effective without making too much noise

Henry240:
OFF-TOPIC


Cool Russian Commando with his tricked out AK-74M.


You can hardly tell the difference between a Russian and a Western commando, and by Western i mean American, British, maybe French Commando. The Russians would beat the Italians and Germans blue-black.

You must be a flying witch to be able to tell just by that one picture.

olapluto:
Im sorry,but that guy in white was extra judiciously killed. That looks like an execution than a combat gun shot. Our Army should not do such things.

UPDATE ON CLEARANCE OPERATIONS BY TROOPS
In continuation of clearance operations of the remnants of Boko Haram terrorists, troops of 7 Division in Operation LAFIYA DOLE have been making tremendous progress in their various areas of operational responsibilities. They were able to carry out clearance operations, raids and patrols that resulted in the killing of so many suspected Boko Haram terrorists, arrests and rescue of persons, as well as recovery of arms and ammunitions.
On Thursday, 21st April 2016, troops of 21 Brigade Nigerian Army carried out clearance operations at Bulari, Tori 1, 2 and 3 during which they successfully cleared the general area of remnants of Boko Haram terrorists.
During the operation, 10 terrorists were killed and one was captured alive. Unfortunately, 2 Civilian JTF accompanying the troops lost their lives. The troops rescued 7 civilians and recovered a Volkswagen Golf car, 15 bicycles and various bags of foodstuffs.
The troops of 22 Brigade on the other hand intercepted 26 persons comprising mostly women and children, coming towards Adah village in Ngala Local Government Area of Borno State, who on interrogation stated that they were held hostage by Boko Haram terrorists, but escaped as their captors were moving towards Lake Chad general area because of troops presence.
Similarly, troops of the same Brigade carried out a fighting patrol, cordon and search operation on Thursday 21st April 2016, along Dikwa-Marte road, Kaje, Selenge, Manekura, Mane Gana and Gawayi villages. Although there wasn’t any encounter with the terrorists, the troops recovered 5 motorcycles, 6 Boko Haram terrorists flags and 4 bags of grinded corn in Mane Gana village. They also rescued 3 women and 5 children at the same village. The rescued persons told the troops that their husbands were actually Boko Haram terrorists who have ran away towards Lake Chad area due to immense pressure from the military clearance operations.
On their part, troops of 3 Battalion also conducted patrol towards Diema, Sigel and Kala in which they had an encounter with Boko Haram terrorists in which the gallant troops killed 8 of them and recovered 2 Dane Guns and 4 assorted batteries.
The troops of 7 Division Special Fighting Forces attached to 25 Task Force Brigade Damboa, at a checkpoint, arrested a suspected Boko Haram terrorist, Abubakar Bello and 6 other suspects carrying 28 gallons of “Turkey” brand of vegetable oil, 8 bags of flour, 130 crates of soft drinks and 2 bags of sugar. In addition, 5 mobile telephone handsets, 1 external hard drive and 5 flash drives, 2 national identity cards and the sum of Seventy Thousand Naira (N70,000.00k) only were recovered from him. Preliminary investigation discovered that the terrorists now dilute the vegetable oil with other substances to produce diesel to power their generators.
The troops of 254 Task Force Battalion in conjunction with vigilantes and Borno Youths Empowerment Scheme (BOYES), also carried out clearance operations at Mufurundi, Kaleri, Masemari, Bego, Bale, Gadzama and Gagantilo villages along Damboa-Bale-Gwoza road. During the operation, the troops encountered and detonated an Improvised Explosive Device (IED), buried by the terrorists at Gadzama village. They also encountered Boko Haram terrorists at Bego where they engaged the terrorists, neutralized them and cleared their camps within the general area. In the encounter, the troops killed 9 Boko Haram terrorists and recovered 1 AK-47 rifle with registration number TH5712 and 17 rounds of 7.62mm (Special) ammunition. They also rescued 157 persons held hostages by the terrorists.
The troops of 26 Task Force Brigade stationed in Gwoza yesterday also intercepted 8 suspected Boko Haram terrorists, trying to enter Gwoza town. Though they claimed to be farmers coming from Shiadawey, Takwala and Amdaga Madachi villages respectively, which were known terrorists hideouts, preliminary investigations showed that they were indeed terrorists on a recruitment drive. This was made manifest when the sum of Six Hundred and Thirty Seven Thousand (N637,000.00k) Naira was discovered on Abdullahi Yakubu who was identified by another escapee/suspected Boko Haram terrorist as having trading links with the terrorists while the others were confirmed to have participated in carrying out various terrorists acts for the Boko Haram terrorists group. Similarly, one Ibrahim Bute aged 67 years, of Gobara village was arrested by the troops on suspicion of being a Boko Haram kingpin.
Troops of 114 Task Force Battalion of 28 Task Force Brigade also conducted a fighting patrol along Bitta-Madube-Izge axis same day.
The troops of 117 Task Force Battalion following a tip off, also arrested a suspected Boko Haram terrorist who gave his name as Bello Isah at Mugulvu village. The unit also discovered and retrieved 29 rounds of 7.62mm (Special) rounds of ammunition hidden at a farm in Gella village.
The troops in various deployments within the theatre remain vigilant with soaring morale and committed to their duties of clearing the remnants of the Boko Haram terrorists hiding in various remote corners and crannies.
Thank you for your continued support and cooperation.
Colonel Sani Kukasheka Usman
Acting Director Army Public Relations

Nigeria Army foot patrol #NorthEast

PETITION: WE WILL NOT STAND BY WHEN UN SOLDIERS ABUSE, RAPE AND MURDER

A report by the AIDS-Free World’s Code Blue campaign found that U.N. and French troops in the Central African Republic (CAR) abused at least 98 girls (see below). These latest revelations about soldiers stationed by the UN are evidence that it is untenable for French troops to continue to be based in Africa.

At least 98 girls from the Central African Republic were sexually abused by United Nations peacekeepers and French troops and four of the girls were forced to have sex with a dog by a French commander

Young boys were also sodomized

We urge you all to sign this petition to hold french soldiers and others accountable for their crimes against humanity.

Where is the ICC??
Where is CNN, BBC and other western media
They have all suddenly lost their voices
*SPITS*
SHAME ON THEM

https://community.avaaz.org/petitions/we-will-not-stand-by-when-un-soldiers-abuse-rape-and-murder

This man sef..

I sent you an email message

U ignored it and said u wanted to speak to another rugged

Wetin u wan make i do?

basingstoke:
Hello sir, please my email is marospylankymoore@yahoo.com, or goshen.goshen@yahoo.com. please sir i really want to discuss with you, please kindly send me ur number please,

what is ur email address?

basingstoke:
Rugged7 I beg na me again. please if you can email me your number, i beg. i am not on twitter i need to speak with you urgently.i have replied to the mail you sent yesterday

..

OrthoDude:
Hi bro. Your twitter handle is a bit hard to find o! Is there an underscore btwn idi n amin?

Use Idi Amin@buway7

The Nigerian Army will from Tue 12 to Wed 20 April 2016 conduct a Nine- day Field Training Exercise (FTX) in Kaduna and Bauchi State

iblawi:
Which fighter jets is the airforce testing in bauchi? It seems they just refitted some of the alpha-jets or MB339 jet. They've being flying since yesterday and even announce on radio that people shouldn't be scared that they are just testing them.

Nigeria's Praetorian Guards
Emblematic Insignia
The Brigade of Guards
cc:bidexii

General Victor Ezugwu who led liberation of Borno town, pictured with happy children at Kala Balge

I sent u a mail via nairaland, but i don't know watz gwan with this nairaland mail.

If ur on twitter, DM me @Idi Amin

basingstoke:
Oga thank you sir. please can you kindly reply to my email request. please sir.I am waiting i really need to discuss with you.

LIES

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