lionel4power:
FOR ALL THE DEAF SOUTHIES
The Boko Haram insurgents can no longer confront Nigerian
soldiers in a battle in any part of the country, a senior army
official has said.
Nasir Muazu, a Major General, stated this in Akure on
Saturday at the closing ceremony of the Nigeria Army Inter
Brigade Competition.
“I just came back from the North East and I can comfortably
tell you that Boko Haram cannot and I repeat cannot take
any offensive attack against Nigerian Forces, that one is for
sure,” the General Officer Commanding 2 Mechanized
Division of the Nigerian Army said.
Mr. Muazu said the insurgents, who last year displaced
soldiers from several military formations in the North East
as they seized several territory, had changed tactics to
aiming at soft targets.
“What the Boko Haram insurgents are now doing is hitting
sub-targets which indicates that their days are numbered,”
he said.
He assured that the country’s armed forces are capable of
bringing an end to the Boko Haram insurgency and that the
military had reviewed and renewed its strategy to curb the
activities of the terrorists.
Although, the Army General agreed that part of the major
challenges confronting the country is the coordinated
activities of the Boko Haram, he promised it would soon be
brought to an end.
Mr. Muazu also said that all military commands had been
placed on red alert in order to fight issues bordering on
insecurity.
“We are looking forward to an Army that is responsive to the
society, that would respond to the demand and needs of our
people,” he said.
“I want to remind all Nigerians that this preparation of
explosives by the insurgents is not carried out in the open, it
is carried out in houses and hidden places. So every
Nigerian must key into how we can win the battle against
insurgency in the North East. I think with that support, we
are going to make it.”
He assured that the Nigerian Army would continue to work
for the sustenance of peace and not deviate from its
professional roles of defending the territorial integrity of
Nigeria.
http://www.premiumtimesng.com/news/more-news/187303-
boko-haram-can-no-longer-confront-nigerian-soldiers-
major-general.html

First things first, I would like to congratulate the Nigerian Armed Forces for their partial success in combating Boko Haram, however that is subject to the validity of Mr Muazu's statement. To what extent, when evaluated, are the allegations by Mr Muazu true? Well, I will assist you in answering that question. I submit this with full confidence that the statement by Mr Muazu is not true.

What Mr Muazu stated at the Nigerian Army Inter Brigade Competition is propaganda driven. The setting of where he delivered his speech is truly indicative of the nature of why he stated what he stated. It was a ceremony, and it is common cause that in ceremonies and what could be termed as 'joyful events', emphasis will only be attached to the good aspects of a cause. In this instance, much emphasis was placed on the successes of the Nigerian Armed Forces' fight against Boko Haram. The consequences of such emphasis, not only down plays the nature and reality of the war, but creates the impression that Boko Haram has been defeated. The intended effect sought to be achieved was to encourage, for purposes of morality, the armed forces and to keep the public away from the notion that they are still prone to Boko Haram attacks.

In addition to propaganda, the statement of Mr Muazu, in part and whole contradicts the idea he portrays. The idea portrayed being that Boko Haram has diminishing capabilities. In my understanding army officials ought to know that war is unpredictable, Mr Muazu makes it a certainty that Boko Haram "can no longer engage Nigerian" and in fuelling the confusion further he states that Boko Haram altered its tactics into hitting soft targets. Now, one asks, what was Mr Muazu referring to as "soft targets"? Is it the civilians or Soldiers? If it is the civilians, then the image he portrays that the powers of Boko Haram in terms of civilian attacks have decreased is false, reason being that Boko Haram is still consistent in their mission and that further implies that the Nigerian Armed Forces are failing in meeting the objective of protecting the public. If it is soldiers, then the image created that Boko Haram can no longer engage soldiers is false.

I would also like to put to the table, although it might seem irrelevant for now, the truthfulness of Nigerian Armed Forces officials. From the insurgency's inception, the Nigerian Army has been down playing the impact of Boko Haram and misleading the public in certain aspects of the war. Now, one asks whether is this also part of the tactics of the Nigerian armed forces to down play the impact of Boko Haram? There are many answers that come to play. However, this is strongly relevant and would be a significant contribution of my submission but I will not delve deep into it.

In conclusion, the statement of Mr Muaza is invalid as it is propaganda driven and embedded with contradictions. The notion that the Nigerian Armed Forces are winning the war against Boko Haram might be true and it can also be false, whatever the case may be Mr Muazu's statement(in my view) cannot be used as evidence to support the idea that the Nigerian Armed Forces are winning the war against Boko Haram.

Those days.

ddami:
TAaa TAA taaa
Nigeria has d richest people in africa-whether listed or unlisted
Nigeria has 5 of d top 10 richest pastors-whether listed or unlisted
if u are referring d@ ur s.a has d richest no way u guys have only 1 black s.a on d@ list(even Forbes had 2 indicate). d rest are anglo-dutch who only adopted s.a......deir roots aren't 4rm d@ country...

It is clear that you and your companion(lezz) want to start a family in South Africa so your children can have a brighter future.

However the things you say here in an attempt to hide your true feelings about South Africa are the reasons as to why some of your brother were and are killed in South Africa. How could you disrespect a nation which you don't belong to and expect them to take it lightly and not strike back?

lezz:
Zulu, you don't fool me, one bit.

South Africa is one of the most unequal countries in the world with 5% whites controlling 85% of the economy and your ancestral lands.

There are two south Africas, the one of the Anglo dutch and the one for Zulus .

And when Zulu push in mass migration into Jo burg, the Anglo dutch scamper in fear of savagery into sandton suburb.

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The funny part is that you turn a blind eye to negative factors influencing Nigeria economically, socially and politically.

It can also be argued, and proven on a balance of probabilities that Nigeria also suffers greatly from, inter alia, inequality. However, the onus of prove is on you, this is because by stating that the South African economy is controlled by the minority you tacitly imply that the Nigerian economy is controlled by the majority. The majority being indigeonous Nigerians.

It should be borne in mind, as a matter of common cause, indigeonous Nigerians refer to black or African people historically identified as Nigerians and are presiding in Nigeria.

With regards to the issue of Nigeria being or not being a democratic state remains a question of fact. Firstly, there needs to be a; clear definition of what is democracy, what legal machanism gives effect to democracy, how is it observed practically so. With the aforsaid, this leaves us with a presumption that Nigeria is not a democratic country. However, this presumption is rebuttable upon evidence satisfying the criteria provided.

lezz:
Healthcare? Your citizens are the most HIV infected in the world, your health care is a 0. But I no you must be talking about few private hospitals own by Anglo -Dutch.

Education? What nonsense? The vast majority of your population are pap guzzlers too busy feeling the victim of anglo-Dutch oppression and thinking of stealing their companies and running their firms to the ground to get any proper education. Nigerians on the other hands are Nobel literary winners being the most educated people in the America.

Infrastructure? I could give you that. But we all know all the cities the anglo-Dutch built for you are turning into slums. Fact.

Entertainment? You are a hopless slowpoke running out of point. Nigeria remains the entertainment headquarters of Africa. Channel O broadcast us FREE OF CHARGE.


DSTV? how does that change the fact that you're no. 2 in Africa? Your petty mindedness is alarming.


Beaches
Wildlife
Hotels , Stupid criteria not worth the efforts of disputing. You really are silly.

Technology? Not anymore, all your companies are foreign and the few left are all Anglo Dutch, son. You have nothing.


Sports? What are you taking about. Football and track and field we remain your superiors and those are the sports Africa care about.


I hope you have read the report by ISS ? We remain your superior and that report happened to mirror my prediction last year.

South Africa is an ignorant, misguided nation with no sense of international play, tact, and power. A country ran by blacks who went to school too old, too late and who seem confused picking up where the anglo-Dutch left off.

What is it that makes you hate black South Africans to such an extent?

Well, well. About a year ago, the same people claiming Boko Haram captured or does not occupy any town/s in Nigerian territory are now talking about "Nigerian town/s liberated from the occupation of Boko Haram''. Another thing is, to support their claims, that they are winning, they use reference to their ''own' General's statements", and I suppose nothing is subjective about that, right? Another point proven, for quite some time it was debated here that Nigeria needs outside help to defeat Boko Haram, but again Nigerians disagreed, look who's getting helped now and there's much more progress since Nigeria is no longer the sole contributor in combating Boko Haram. Oh, and that dude Agubugu, your pathetic man, you were once a good debater and now there's no longer any substance in your posts, what happened?

What amuses me is that we are comparing a war-time country(Nigeria), which is most likely to acquire more military assets and strengthen security, with a peace-time country(South Africa). From what has been debated, I can conclude that war-time South Africa will/would be superior to war-time Nigeria and the whole of Africa at large. Currently, South Africa does not see the need to go all out like the Nigerian government. The issue about the JF-17 is vague, there can only be solid arguments once it is operational in the Nigerian Air Force. What surprises me is that, when @MikeCZA, @patches..... bring up the Mokopa missile, A-darta, Ground Based Umkhonto missile, Badger, Mangoose etc People jump to say "It is not in service yet", but now they are talking as if the JF-17 is in service. So, till the JF-17 is in service, then the matter of who has the strongest air force in terms of fighter capability may resume, till then this argument is baseless.

EVarn:
hmm...thats splendid!,now the NAF is finally taking action.if we can start manufacturing our own jets{both light alphas and heavy bombers},we wouldnt quail under unfair sanctions{and secret embargoes} in the future.BOKO IS SUSHI!!

There's nothing new about these news, just look at the date on that News article(image) he posted. It is hypothetically impossible to deduce which military is most secretive. About NAF manufacturing their own jets, LOL, I'd like to see that happen with Nigeria's financial situation.

fydence: more delusions...Oya kruger park has called ur Recruit-impregnating and [b]Broke HIV ridden retirement home [/b]of a military to action, Show results or at least read them this mouthfarts nobody cares about... You cant handle an Insurgency if you cant handle common theives...ur rhinos are laughing at u frm botswana....olodo grade9!

Those emboldened words are allegorical of emotional distress, please, use logic instead of emotions when arguing.

HandOfChukwu: 1.If you eradicated the apartheid as you claim there would be no major inequality problem, you fool. 2.Thousands of whites live off Nigerian oil? But all 3 plus million whites living in South Africa are living of your peoples blood and slave labor, which is worse? 3.The link to the top 10 African schools you posted doesn't even work but neither does your brain so I'm not surprised, and it is a well known FACT that Nigerians are the most educated people in the world, not just in Africa. 4. I never said South Africa is home to the second dullest brains, I said South Africa is home to the DULLEST of them all according to the world renown World Economic Forums annual data.
Don't test me, boy. You are not smart enough. Go and free your people from apartheid.

I will not text much, "A fool lives his life thinking he is wise, and a Wiseman lives his life thinking he is a fool", so go on gorilla man beat your chest with your smartness.

HandOfChukwu: Yes, it has definitely damaged their mental capacity to behave like normal human beings, that's why they are the least educated group of people on EARTH. They are also cowards for allowing the whites to keep the wealth they stole off of them while 16 million plus South Africans(all black) live in dirty shacks with out electric and have to sh1t in holes while the whites are sitting in big lush houses in the black mans land. I will never respect South Africans for that, I can't take anything they say serious.
Why do you black South Africans(yes that includes the wannabees aka coloreds) continue to post photos of the places where the whites live off your slave labor? Why do you not post the fact that out of a population of just 52 million people, over 16 million live in EXTREME poverty but the whites live in an African utopia even the large majority of blacks who can afford food in SA are still extremely poor....inequality in South Africa is unrivaled in anywhere else in the world..yet you say apartheid is done...okay...

Who has mentioned, in any instance, that we have no challenges? Apartheid was eradicated 20 years ago, and you expect us to have eliminated the inequality problem? Yes, white people endure luxury, so what? If one desires so he/she will achieve it regardless of skin colour. The irony is that, thousands of white people live in luxury houses and live fancy lives off money generated from Nigerian oil, what do you have to say about that? The other funny part is that, you and your source(questionable source) state SA is the second "dullest brains" but South African schools dominate the "Top 100 African schools", not even one Nigerian school is in the Top 10. http://www.stalbanscollege.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/The%20African%20Economist%20Ranking%20of%20Africa's%20Top%20100%20Schools.pdf

patches689:
400 dead seleka, it was a joint fight between mozambique, Sandf, Malawi and Tanzania.
No, just no.
The fear of the M23 rebel group was the beginning of wisdom for SANDF because they dare not go back to face them after receiving threats from them.
We defeated them and we are still there - the second Bn just got rotated in.
Seriously... are you drunk?
Or do you just have no idea what you are talking about?

I think he has no idea of what his talking about. Perhaps his confusing CAR with DRC Congo.

In all honesty, I think the communist system(with few refurbrished legislations) would be way greater and efffective than the democratic system. Those who support the USA, I suppose you also support the sect groups haunting Nigeria, Kenya and the middle east. During the period where Russia invaded Afghanistan, remember who trained the Al-Mujihadeen group with terrorist tactics? The USA. From the Mujihadeen, Bin Ladin departed to form Al-Qaeda, Maulvi Jalaluddin Haqqani departed to form The Haqqani network and due to opposing ideologies a group of youths in the Mujihadeen departed to form The Taliban. Decode the pattern of this tree, eventually you will realise the true father of all terrorists. The same US, that milks our treasures beneath our soil then leaves the crumbs for us to fight for, yet you still support them?

unapologetic: South Africans and their appalling lack of manners. I've gone through nearly all the comments and South Africans seems to be confused or ill-informed. Comparing the Nigerian army to the South African is a big insult.. It's so funny that the lazy black guys are actually the ones fighting on here when the Nigerian Airforce trained their forefathers. Am sure they can read it on their defence website if they are not blind.
Ignorant South Africans are busy using Boko Haram as a case study, let 200 members of this group visit ur country if they won't wipe it out within a few days.
Am not disputing the fact that you guys have awesome infrastructure and your Airforce fly sophisticated machines but that does not make them tough. South African Army are a bunch of spoilt brats but Nigerian Army are the real deal.
South African army can be compared to their bafanabafana football squad.

If the Nigerian military is the definition of a real military, then SANDF is a rag tag army. This means a real military lacks skills, equipment, political will, fighting will, co-ordination, morals and values, humanity and has a poor leadership. In that case, ''Who has the strongest military in Africa?'', Nigeria ranks number one, and South Africa with Egypt rank last.

HandOfChukwu: I'll tell you what an AFRICAN is, an AFRICAN is a man or woman who can trace all of their known history back to the African continent, which means you MUST be black, you MUST speak an AFRICAN language, you must not be the descendant of racist white Dutch settlers who came to rape, pillage and destroy AFRICA, in addition to refusing to embrace any form of AFRICAN culture to this very day, all while expecting the native Africans to respect and adopt theirs. In some of the police pics posted in this thread I see they have their afrikaan language written on buildings in large text with no Zulu or Xhosa wording to be found, if that's not disrespectful, what is?
The fact that 9% of racist non-Africans own your entire economy is EMBARRASSING, they own all of the SA arms industry you keep boasting about on our Nigerian forum, you boast about businesses such as MTN and Shoprite that have nothing to do with any Zulu or Xhosa people, you talk about your natural resources even though the government only own a small amount, you people are so stup1id you can't even run your own farms without the whites. South Africa is home to the highest crime rate in the whole of Africa, SA is home to the most annual r@pes in the world, SA houses the most child molesters in the world, SA is home to the most annual homicides in Africa, you have by far the most gang members in Africa, SA is also the most AIDS infested nation the WORLD, ...I find South Africa's situation to be extremely sad and shameful, your disgusting land is also home to over 20 million AIDS infested, uneducated shack dwellers, yet you say "I don't care" you would definitely make a great slave my friend.

They're still South Africans, they contribute to our own economy. Don't let emotions rule over logic, Nigeria barely owns 8% of its economy. They write in Afrikaans because many South Africans were taught to read and write in Afrikaans back then, not Zulu nor Xhosa. So, I see pictures of Nigerian buildings names written in English, and Nigerians driving cars, since cars and English aren't Nigerian does that mean the British are disrespectful? Afrikaans is an African language, so that makes Afrikaners Africans. Africans are black? What the Egyptians? Aren't they Africans?

How African is African? The Dutch came here 300+ years ago, through living and adapting to the environment of Africa, they developed a culture "Afrikaners" when translated is "Africans". All Afrikaners in South Africa were born in South Africa, hence they're Africans. What makes a European a European, is it his/her skin colour? Or his/her culture. There's something that our counter parts are forgetting, we just attained democracy and "freedom"(in 1994). This means the people responsible for change are those born in 1994 upwards, and currently most of them are doing their second year in tertiary. It doesn't bother me if the white population "controls 83% of our economy"(of which you cannot prove in any case), it doesn't matter whether the cat is black or white if it can catch a mouse, then it is a good cat. Although racism still exists in some parts of society, the majority(black, white, Indians, Chinese etc.) live in harmony.

agaugust:
We Nigerians are very proud of the fact that our nation is a 100% black nation built 100% black leadership.
South Africa's greatness was built by 100% Boer-White leadership of 5 million white-men apartheid wicked masters at the expense of a wasted black generation of 40 million mentally enslaved black people, most of whom will not achieve anything in their lives till they die.
See photos of those who enslaved you blacks to get a chance to build ALL the achievements you are foolishly 'proud of'....
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Now would you look at that, the pot calling kettle black. I bet 100% black Nigerians discovered oil, 100% black Nigerians own all those oil and gas resources, those top companies. When it comes to slavery my friend, no African country is free. Neo-colonialists are the masters of all economies Africa has to offer. So before you call others slaves, check your country's status first. With South Africa being with Brics, means that we are Neo-colonailists to Nigeria. So, who's the slave now?

Talk about a Hollywood army, just look at the pose

Thought I was dreaming