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You didn't see the error in the bolded? lol

Toju200:
bro the JF17 dey bite you for body wait na
ABI na we dey bring am?

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Was just thinking same thing, but why do these guys keep sharing their own pics? I mean, someone took it right? and he pose for the camera
Very soon Prada go come dey recruit these guys for photoshoot

LTGEN:
Please block his face.I take God beg you

US special forces will operate in Egypt, all depends on the agreement made, the US just don't send their troops in without consent from the Govt, unless if they believe that Govt is complicit in the matter, other than that, it will be done in a low key way, in other words, if the US did this in Egypt, i guarantee you no one in the media will hear about it. These guys carry out such operations, we don't hear about half of them.
In the case of Egypt, they will insist it's kept secret, in other not to appear weak.

I just quoted you, now what?
Dude, use simple wisdom, it's like saying all Nigerians are armed robbers because some are.
There are bad soldiers and there are good ones, if you have any decency whatsoever, you'd know this and you won't soil the sacrifices being made by those soldiers with good intention and serving their country , in a country where people like yourself don't value those same sacrifices.
What an utter stupidity .
I'm not being sentimental, it's a fact. There are good soldiers, there are bad ones

EricBloodAxe:

Please don't quote me again with this sentimental crap. If any one is in the trenches it's not my business. It's his job and he signed for it. Don't come to me with this bullshit about me going to bed while someone can't shut his eyes. If they're tired of battle then they can go awol or resign and go home

Thanks, you too, before you sleep though, think it through and realize that it's idiotic to generalize, there are thousands of good troops out there right now in the trenches fighting for that same country, you are going to bed, they sleep in a ditch, if they can even get enough shut eyes that is, serving us.
When you wake up in the morning, say thank you to them.
Sleep tight Sule.

EricBloodAxe:
Please do. Have a goodnight.

I better go read my books then , thank you for your observation Chief . I wanna be smart like you when i grow up

EricBloodAxe:
You're not so smart. The Nigerian armed forces swore an oath to defend Nigeria and Nigerians and not to kill them. What we have here is d opposite. And please don't bring that sentiment of the army keeping BH from occupying maiduguri and the country...if the army was worth it's noise then BH/ISWAP wouldn't even exist as i reply this mention. Truth is bitter

So can you please tell us who is keeping BH and Iswap away from occupying the whole country? Who are those cowards that's been defending Maiduguri? I will like to hear your answer, since our soldiers are only good at killing and beating civilians.

EricBloodAxe:
I feel u bro. Na why i dey vex for all this cowards on this thread wey dey claim military. They have the power to kill harmless civilians but will jet off when ISWAP comes calling

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if only people would stop misinterpreting stuff, I'm sure i never said situation shouldn't be de-escalated, jeez. I tire for people on here, always twisting sheet. My comment was simply about who has authority in a nigerian communities, soldiers or cops, in an ideal setting, it's the police. Enough said.
And i also said in such scenario, there should be police commanders and supervisors there, not soldiers. It's a failure of the state, make una no bite my head off. Carry on

It's 10pm here, just tried calling a friend who send car home to sell, but he didn't pick up, he got ppl back home, they can send you the money and i give it to him here in dollars, god willing, let's see what happens tomorrow

Redemption1:
I don't know what venmo or cash app is,never heard of it, and i don't know how to get the money from you, i don't know if it's possible to send it through airtime, i can sell the airtime here in Nigeria , I think at 20% discount, there's mtn in South Africa and also in Nigeria, if it's possible to fund my mtn sim then I can sell it.




Thanks in advance sir

lol, might wanna calm down, is it today soldiers have tried dominating police officers in Nigeria? Get outta here dude, this is one incident, but there are hundreds more, soldiers inherently believe they have more authority than the police, and that shouldn't be the case.
The soldier clearly said "I will charge you" and i will also charge you to your force headquarters. Unless you have a different definition of charging someone for a crime, i take his statement as him arresting the cop and charging him with a crime, and i stand by what i said, a soldier shouldn't have such authority.
unless you have hearing problem.
But hey, carry on.
And stop quoting me if you are gonna be rude, i never said a darn thing to you.

kabe1:
It is not everything you nag and complain about.

Doesn't change the point i was making, chain of command, if those cops are there, in better countries, those cops will have commanders on scene, without soldiers getting involved, or deployed. So the issue isn't even about the poor cops, it's the fact that they don't have senior police officers there to lead those cops. Still, soldiers can't charge cops, i doubt that even happen in Nigeria, he doesn't have the power

Mulatta:
Alaye firstly if the police could do their work, why was the military involved in it. Secondly we all know any little chance the police will overuse it, the officer didn't do anything wrong correcting him. brutality isn't everything but dialogue, there are cases of nig police officers using dialogue to calm down situations.

And how did you know i would be the 1st? you don't know me.
I'm saying each branch of Nigeria's security apparatus should have a clear responsibility, under the law. You missed that part? That's why you have soldiers and cops always fighting in major cities, good luck with that though

LTGEN:
The Officer was right Firing teargas and live ammunition wouldn’t de-escalate the situation .
Let’s try something else .
Everything cannot be solved by bullets.
You would be the first to criticize the NA Officer if he didn’t intervene.

That's how things get muddy, a soldier threatening to charge a police officer, under what authority? Unless war was declared in that area or zone, the sole Authority btw those two men, is the police officer, not the soldier.
But of course in Nigeria who the fvk cares about such. In sane countries, soldiers have zero authority in civilian areas and on the street, unless they were deployed there under state of emergency

seankafor:
God bless this soldier educating this miscreants on police uniform


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T0zbWP8KtvE

Ain't that like $36? I'd help you right now, but have no clue how to get it to ya, I'm not back home, unless you have venmo or cashapp, not sure these work in naija

Redemption1:
Thanks i really appreciate it sir , may God bless you



Obinna emeka, zenith bank 2217467979, guys please i really need your help, I only have till Monday

Just saw a 1.37mins clip of a police officer lynched to death by peaceful protesters, that's sad, these killings on both sides won't end well

Then your family should get in line first, when you watch them all burn, come back and tell us how that made you feel, use your common sense.
Nigeria = The people, so if Nigeria burns, it's the people that will suffer the consequence

theenchanter:
it should burn, fvck Nigeria!!!!

To those saying Nigeria should burn, careful what you wish for, most of your leaders have more than one passport, how many Nigerians can say the same? What you are asking for is Anarchy, greater than whatever we have now. It's the ordinary people that will pay the price for it.
Chaos brings nothing but death, Ask Libyans and Iraqis.

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Here i thought you were just craving cheese burgers

FieldMarshall06:
No one understands. Smh. Those are pics of incoming assets for the NAF.

lol, that's why i get pissed back then when a soldier actually said this out loud, losing tons of troops in return, they were caught unaware, imagine that.

GeneralFarouq:
Caught unaware in a battlefield.

He made these two contradictory comments..

1) "Also one simple thing I will suggest plz make it a rule to burn down all bush / vegetation , remove trees / decrepit buildings etc along patrol routes / roads in terrorist prone areas. This will cut down by half the ability of bh to mount ambushes ."


2) So when I say clear all vegetation or obstruction with can facilitate ambush on patrols , it doesn't meant u literally go clearing vegetation , pulling down obstructions


So i didn't miss anything, but don't care, all good.

Odunayaw:
How did you miss this

calm down oga, jeez

And you are contradicting yourself, you said

"Also one simple thing I will suggest plz make it a rule to burn down all bush / vegetation , remove trees / decrepit buildings etc along patrol routes / roads in terrorist prone areas. This will cut down by half the ability of bh to mount ambushes ."

Now you are saying
"So when I say clear all vegetation or obstruction with can facilitate ambush on patrols , it doesn't meant u literally go clearing vegetation , pulling down obstructions on all the roads ( or all along the road ) u can find or expect to travel in a state. That's illogical to even assume so"

nemesis8u:
Ok now I get it

Well I nowadays keep to the point so don't elaborate too much or assume my pov to be clear enough not to warrant additional explanation.

I'm aware

Xbee007:
There are chemical sprays that can bee used to kill plants growing close to the road. USA used the spray during the Vietnam war.

Nemesis's point is to enable troops see clearly and deprive the enemy hiding spots, which is why it's common sense to do such clearing.
But, in an area of operation so vast with many access roads that troops ply, that will be a lot of work to clear bushes and vegetation .
Best bet, use drones, faster and possibly easier .
I said it last yr or so, when Military bases were having BH creep right on them without seeing them coming, in such instance, every single structure and vegetation around those bases should be history, so who ever is using those watch towers, can actually have clear view of their surroundings.
This way you see BH before they get close

lol, see how the few females in that video fvking up

bidexiii:
NAF obstacle training exercise




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

Read in the news about ISIS affiliates in Mozambique taking over a city, how true is this? If this drags on, South African troops might finally get busy chasing these low lives all over Southern Africa.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/aug/16/mozambique-army-surrounds-port-captured-by-isis-linked-insurgents

We need to wait for BabaOwen, he carries such news

demolition:
There's info that a soldier shot and killed an officer in Bama.
Any confirmation?

Not exactly an easy market to break into, that doesn't mean the jet isn't good, some poor country gotta go first and try it right? lol, jk.
it could simply be competition, most countries would buy from Countries and companies that have been around for decades, with a proven track record. So that could also be a reason

https://www.yahoo.com/news/she-flew-missions-against-isis-090601483.html

ABUJA, Nigeria—She was so young and daring, and a thorn in the side of ISIS-backed terrorists and bandits in north-central Nigeria. Her profile was rising fast and in her already extraordinary career she’d broken through the military glass ceiling. But the life of Tolulope Arotile, Nigeria's first-ever female combat helicopter pilot, was cut short on July 14 when she died in a strange and sudden accident.

According to the Nigeria Air Force (NAF), Arotile was “inadvertently hit by the reversing vehicle of an excited former Air Force secondary school classmate while trying to greet her” inside the NAF base in the northwestern city of Kaduna.

But not many in Nigeria are convinced the death of the 24-year-old was indeed accidental, especially because her nationwide fame as a talented combat helicopter pilot, and her regular bombardment of terrorist hideouts, had made her a target of armed militants. The manner in which Arotile was said to have died—from the impact of a reversing car—raised suspicion across Nigeria that she was murdered. The country's leading activists and politicians, including the outspoken former senator Shehu Sani, joined her family in immediately demanding an inquiry into the pilot's death. The NAF quickly responded by announcing a preliminary investigation into the tragedy.

Arotile had just come back from an operation in north-central Nigeria, where she was deployed in the fight to rid the region of ISIS-backed militants and other criminal elements by flying combat missions. The NAF said she served as a squadron pilot in what the military named Operation Gama Aiki and flew "anti-banditry combat missions to ensure a safer, more secured Nigeria.”

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Since last year, armed bandits and militants, including those with links to the so-called Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP), have terrorized a number of villages in north-central Nigeria, killing hundreds of villagers and displacing thousands from their homes. The military's response has been through airstrikes, many of which had been carried out by attack helicopters like those flown by Arotile and her fellow fighter pilots.

Arotile's last combat mission was devastating for the terrorists she targeted, a senior NAF official told The Daily Beast privately. She was said to have carried out airstrikes targeting bandits at Kasuwan Ango Community in Nigeria's north-central Niger State in late June. The Nigeria military had stated last month that strikes by the air component of Operation Gama Aiki at Kasuwan Ango on June 28 and 29 led to the "neutralization of some of the bandits" and the arrest of two foreigners, while the country's press release distribution agency, PR Nigeria, reported that corpses of bandits littered the area of the operation, an indication that the airstrikes killed numerous terrorists. Arotile herself was targeted by the bandits who shot repeatedly at her helicopter before she managed to overcome them.

"Much of our success in the north-central can be attributed to Tolulope [Arotile]," said the NAF official who didn't want his name mentioned as he wasn't authorized to speak. "She was extremely daring and fearless."

The manner in which Arotile was said to have died—from the impact of a reversing car—raised suspicion across Nigeria that she might have been murdered. The country's leading politicians and activists have joined her family in demanding an inquiry into the pilot's death.

The NAF stated on Sunday that its preliminary investigation found that three of Arotile's secondary school classmates—all civilians who live outside the Kaduna NAF base, and who were on their way to visit another friend living in the same vicinity—were in the Kia Sorento SUV that hit her. The driver, Nehemiah Adejo, recognized Arotile after passing her, and "reversed the vehicle, ostensibly in an attempt to quickly meet up with the deceased, who was walking in the opposite direction."

"In the process," said Ibikunle Daramola, NAF director of public relations and information, "the vehicle struck Flying Officer Arotile from the rear, knocking her down with significant force and causing her to hit her head on the pavement."

"The vehicle then ran over parts of her body as it veered off the road beyond the kerb and onto the pavement, causing her further injuries,” Daramola said while reporting on the NAF's initial findings on the pilot's death on July 19.

The three schoolmates were subjected to toxicology tests but no traces of alcohol or psychotropic substances were found in their systems, according to the NAF findings, which also revealed that the driver of the vehicle, Adejo, did not have a valid driver’s license. The trio are expected to be handed over to police, who are set to begin an investigation into Arotile's death.

The late pilot, who was commissioned into the air force as a Pilot Officer in 2017, made history last October when she was winged as the first-ever female combat helicopter pilot in the NAF after completing her flying training in South Africa. Arotile held a commercial pilot license and had undergone tactical flying training on the Agusta 109 Power attack helicopter in Italy. When Nigeria acquired an Agusta 109 Power early in the year, Arotile was asked to introduce the aircraft to President Muhammadu Buhari, during the induction ceremony in Abuja in February.

Arotile once said she joined the NAF simply out of "passion" for the military. In an interview with a local publication after Arotile's death, her father, Akintunde Arotile, recalled when she first developed a passion for flying:

“One day—when she was very small—she pointed to one small aircraft parked on a field and said, ‘Dad, one day I am going to fly that aircraft,’ and I said, ‘Amen,’” Arotile told The Punch newspaper.

Nigeria's leading politicians and institutions have paid tribute to her outstanding contribution to the country's long fight against terrorism. President Buhari recalled her "bravery" and "deft skills in manoeuvring combat helicopters" in a statement his office released shortly after her death, while the House of Representatives said she was “a heroine whose contribution in the war against terrorism and other criminal elements in the country cannot be wished away easily."

Arotile's death comes at a period when Nigeria is facing increased attacks from armed bandits and ISWAP militants in the north-central and northeast regions. A series of ISWAP attacks last month in the northeastern state of Borno killed close to 150 people, including 20 soldiers. The Islamic State-affiliated group suddenly became active in parts of the north-central region, where Arotile embarked on most of her missions, this year.

At a time when Nigeria needs its best hands to contain brutal terror groups like ISWAP, Arotile's death will definitely be a blow to its effort to defeat terrorists.

"I was heartbroken when I received the sad news," Nigeria's chief of the Air Staff, Sadique Abubakar, tweeted. "[Arotile] was one of our shining young stars."

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