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tokunboh: Sources privy to the goings-on in the counter-insurgency efforts in the northeast said the statement released by the Nigerian Military on the missing Alpha Jet may have served as an unintended bait for Boko Haram insurgents.

The insurgents having been made aware of the missing jet mobilized over a thousand men last night to attack Konduga with the belief that there would be no air cover for the Nigerian Army and CJTF. Alas, they met an element of surprise! The MI25-M attack helicopter! As we speak, hundreds of haramites have been reunited with their 72 virgins!

If just one helicopter could make a difference, imagine if we had at our disposal all the air assets we've been expecting. From the remainder of the 40 helicopters to the Super Tucanos (seems like this one hang for air and e no gree land for naija).

God bless our Military
God bless Nigeria

What a way to die

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You are a confirmed man

Let's be sincere, Boko Haram do not have such luxury of wasting over 100 lives just for testing the "microphone is working". They also don't have the luxury of dashing us their Shilka AAA gun.

Chad is already being hostile to them and so is Cameroon. Our military equipments have started arriving and soon we'll be on the offensive. Boko haram will be cornered and crushed. Their foreign mercenaries will abandon the fight and flee or they'll go back to guerilla warfare because there's no way in God's own earth will they defeat the NA in conventional warfare.

We should ve no fear for the Nigerian military will subdue these insurgents ruthlessly.

God bless Nigeria

Well, the op was right afterall .

neighy: Dx kain news wey i dey hear xo....
Nigeria Acquired Su_27, Su_30's nd JF_17 4GEN FIGHTERS.. Our NAF are gerrin DamN Equipped #KIP IT UP B0Yx

I also read about it too. But please let's wait for confirmation

centje: Too bad for our local companies. And that's how we keep losing faith in them and using whites to execute every major project.

Gbam!!!

Some part of the building collapsed that time

Well let's wait for a reputable source to confirm this news.

centje: I trust Chime will deliver another state of the art facility in this diagnostic centre but my worry is that it's taking ages to complete...I took these pictures today.

I think another big diagnostic centre is also being built inside UNEC.

The problem was that the local contractors who were earlier given the contract messed up big time.

Arab contractors had to be drafted in to rescue the project.

conyema12: Pls where can someone club in Enugu... I mean better club for grooving...

thanks

Try Xtreme & Orange both at ind layout. Also Castello in Shoprite. Trulounge is ok too. There are some other clubs so but this 4 should be the best.

Have fun

tonaydo: my brother am also in this sweet state called enugu and am telling you now that the cost of housing here na die.......its really expensive i doubt if you are staying in the town.......cos to rent a house here aint cheap at all.

Nwanne afuro onye akolu

Bryan12: Those whiteguys in those pictures.Does it mean we can't plant pineapple without the help of these white guys?nonsense

My brother as silly as it sounds, it is unfortunately true. We can't plant pineapples in such huge quantities without the help of oyibo people. At least for now till we acquire the technical know how and corruption is reduced to its barest minimum

Part of the reason it seems like our military is suffering at the hands of these insurgents is because this article. How a son of Arewa intentionally disarmed the military for fear of coup. Pls read this article.

Security situation is deteriorating—Sen. Saleh
But a member of the Senate Joint National Assembly Committee on Defence and an All Progressives Congress Senator from Kaduna Central, Senator Ahmed Saleh appeared to have dashed the hope of the military winning the war against terrorism even as he said that the situation was getting worse on daily basis.
Senators Saleh, a retired army general said, “What I am going to say is based on my experience as an insider. Our duty here as senators of the federal republic transcends the extension of state of emergency. Our duty of oversight should ensure that high standards must be maintained in addition to acquiring all necessary equipment required to maintain a strong force.
“When the Chief of Defense Staff was appointed in January this year, the service chiefs made a categorical statement that within three months they will crush Boko haram. But unfortunately, what we are seeing is a complete deterioration of the situation, so it is incumbent on us to find out why that deterioration. We have heard about our soldiers’ mutiny, it is also our responsibility to find out why that is happening.
“For us to understand why that is happening, we need to go back to the Babangida (Gen. Ibrahim Babangida) era. After the 1990 Okar coup, the Federal Government of Nigeria systematically and comprehensively disarmed the military.
“All the tanks, all the artillery guns were disarmed and locked up. All the aircraft were parked in Ilorin and other places, flying stopped, training stopped to ensure regime security not national security.
“All the good officers of the Nigerian army were hounded out of the military. And there was over concentration of power at the centre which was the army headquarters. Prior to that, General Officers Commanding used to have training and maneuver grants.
“They had the power and responsibility to train their troops and battalions and to ensure an efficient logistics and service support system. All that stopped. Everything was from Army headquarters, everything was from Air Force headquarters, everything was from Naval headquarters.
“The attendant result was decay. Training was no longer going on at the battalion level, soldiers lost their skills and since then, no additional military equipment was purchased for the Nigerian Army. Even things as little as machine guns were in short supply, ammunition was in short supply.
“An individual soldier’s professional skill was to be a matchman, to shoot and hit his target but can he do that if he has no ammunition? We have a duty to rebuild this army, to rebuild this armed forces, and unless we understand these basic facts, we are not going anywhere.
“Also, after some time the fighting doctrine of the Nigerian Army was changed. We were essentially British brought up. That means we knew how much materials we had, the tasks before us and so on. But along the line during the Obasanjo (Chief Olusegun Obasanjo) regime, General Obasanjo brought Americans here and our doctrine approach was change to warfare.
“I make bold to tell you that up till today nobody understands that. I know it is a strategic concept of warfare but in Nigeria we are applying it to the operational and tactical level. It has created a lot of confusion within our army.
“Apart from that, our involvement in foreign operations and the kind of training we give to our soldiers for operations was a kind of defensive posture. You don’t kill until you are killed, you don’t attack until you are attacked.

http://www.vanguardngr.com/2014/09/boko-haram-ibb-disarmed-military/

cjrane: When will the pilots be trained to expertly maneuver the chopper?
One hope for now they start with night missions to completely be invisible to the Boko haram fighters and spotters until such a time when it is comfortable to conduct daylight missions as pilots master their machines

I think our pilots have been training in either Ukraine or Belarus for sometime now

I personally know of 2 people working in ECOWAS Abuja ( I can't say if they're temporal staffs or permanent). One learnt french in Lagos the other learnt it in Alliance Francaise (hope I got the spelling right) in Enugu here.

Common guys irrespective of who you support,this is a big miss. Infact we shouldn't even be debating if this is a "miss or hit".

cellors: Nah from sleep you dey respond? Lol.

papiforreal: oga we take God beg you stop spamming this thread. You can start your own thread and be posting you alert pls.

naijanoni: 18yrs Old Isaac Success played 90 minutes in d la liga on sunday(Granada vs Elche).He was d Man-of-the-match,providing an assist.
Success and iheanacho's development have been very fast and impressive.
No way they're going to fade like chrisantus/okoro IMO.
Watch out particularly for Isaac success this season.I think presently,he is Granada's 2nd choice striker.
So expect him to play regularly in d la liga this season.

My brother I watched highlights of that match. That Success guy has all the attribute of a top 9. He's tall, strong and positions himself well. I hope he and all him mates develop well.

guente02: I saw the op online.
Thank God He's Alive but too bad he cant update us on the state of Bama.
Too many conflicting stories.

Thank God

Collynzo16: Enugu adigo mma!
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One guy who claims he's from that area told me that the farm labourers there are being paid 30k per month. I hope it's true

nzeBiddle: Damn great news. Can't wait to set-up/ kick-start my oil palm and cassava plantation/processing agro clusters within the various relevant hinterlands of the coal-city. The impending completion of the cargo airport is something one must start planning to take advantage of -hopefully in a few of years. #ProudlyNwadianaEnugu

You are a correct man

giles14: were did u get our source dat bama has fallen

Am sorry but I'm just seeing them all over the net.

LordMecuzy: I Miss @Sirusblack.

My source of Real Info

Pls pals who's in control of Bama

We all should pray for Siriusblack in particular and the military in general. I pray that dude is still alive especially with the gist that Bama has fallen.

God help us all

Jakpon: Bros stop deceiving yourself.

The only people that are presently in Bama are insurgent fighters from the Harakatul-Muhajirin and Ansorul-Muslimiin under the command of Khalid al-Barnawi and Abu Usamah al-Ansori

All the element of the 7th division of the Nigerian army in Bama have been completely routed. Maiduguri, Biu and Kukawa are the only places in Borno under government control.

With due respect sir, you sound like a Boko haram sympathiser. Sincerely hope and pray you are not here to spread fear which is the hallmark of these cursed insurgents.

All I know is that both Nato, Russia and Ukraine should dialogue. We don't want another world war biko.

SlyIg: Man and woman ...

Deceiving themselves since the days of Adam and Eve...

This has got to be the highest number of likes I've seen since I joined NL

Niseamaka: Do u know him?.

My brother everybody in Enugu knows him . Infact for Emenike to use him get a land may even mean that he got the land illegally. I suspect it's a government land inside enugu town and thers no way you'll get a plot of land for even 3 million inside town. If it's true he wants to build an academy, he should've gotten the land on the outskirts without any problem.

I suspect Ezeumuaga wanted to play a fast one by selling a government land to Emenike but he got busted. I suspect he wasn't duped intentionally. Chime may have decided to build something on the land.

However, Ezeumuaga should pay back the money to avoid further embarrassment.

Immediately I saw the name Ezeumuaga, I laughed

It makes more sense now. How can a whole battalion deserting (with our army uniform and guns) still be together if it wasn't tactical?

God please let this be a lie

Tonylyte: I dnt take this this worthless sh!ts criticising nigerian army on nairaland serious. They are not existing....they dnt knw they are dead and gone without the effort of the nigerian army. I'll gv my last support to them(n.a) in the midst of their triumph or defeat....

Correct post.

What I like is the fact that he confirmed the acquisition of new military equipments and said that the army is training with them. Just like someone confirmed that it will take sometime before we deploy our newly acquired air assets due to training.

To me the COAS spoke well

rollykotex: Come to think of it,is Nigeria really worth dying for?? Just thinking out loud

Just like Jesus died for our sins even though we don't deserve it so can it be likened the job of a military man ( ina lesser way though, as there's no basis for comparison between what Christ did for us and this).

Chucks father and his comrades who've lost their lives in the course of this our fight against insurgency are dead for our sake. They had an option to work in a bank, do business, etc but they chose to fight and die for Nigeria. They're HEROES.

Lets use this medium to ask about our fighter helicopters and super tucanos that have been ordered by the FG. Though I know it will still take some time or months for our fighter pilots to master how to fly those machines in a battle scenario but imagine if we had these helicopters now, it' they would've called for air support and maybe Chucks father would still have been alive now.

FG please hurry up